fluctuating BPM

can really add a lot to a track




was listening to this song i made years ago - wondering how i acheived the groove.. then i remember how the BPM is constantly changing by about 5orso bpm throughout the track.. im sure you'll be able to pick it up

try it out, its kinda cool!

O DAMN theres some 1 bar sequences in there too..... and a 3 bar one i think

and another note -

mixed JUST on the 1k using mostly HP/BP/LP filters... and u can catch that 1k delay in there too

probably a mastertrack EQ added and overall compression aswell - all on 1k with JJOS and vinyl.... sounds better than a lot of the stuff im making these days on the computer with all sorts of EQ and FX

DOPE BEAT.

feeling the vibe of it! Dope beat for sure

nice tune...how you manage to keep the drums synced in with the sample, quantize off ?

Dope track. Did u time stretch all the samples everytime you switched up the bpm?
That would be hell getting it done on an MP.
Tracks crazy.

temetrepo wrote:Dope track. Did u time stretch all the samples everytime you switched up the bpm?
That would be hell getting it done on an MP.
Tracks crazy.

Nah just played it out I dunno man.. I kno I recorded without quantize and did no timestretch at all. Im pretty sure I just qlinked the bpm and my chops wrked with the changes?

That shits live.

es-k wrote:

temetrepo wrote:Dope track. Did u time stretch all the samples everytime you switched up the bpm?
That would be hell getting it done on an MP.
Tracks crazy.

Nah just played it out I dunno man.. I kno I recorded without quantize and did no timestretch at all. Im pretty sure I just qlinked the bpm and my chops wrked with the changes?

dopeee, need to try that sometime

temetrepo wrote:

es-k wrote:

temetrepo wrote:Dope track. Did u time stretch all the samples everytime you switched up the bpm?
That would be hell getting it done on an MP.
Tracks crazy.

Nah just played it out I dunno man.. I kno I recorded without quantize and did no timestretch at all. Im pretty sure I just qlinked the bpm and my chops wrked with the changes?

dopeee, need to try that sometime

yea def do it... im pretty sure i didn't play along with the BPM changes and it was JUST in the q-link while i was tracking the beat out.. if that makes sense?

i know in the middle when the beat drops out there's a bpm change thats PROGRAMMED in the sequence change.. but a lot of the changes were live w/ the q-link if i remember correctly

Dope bro. That whole Beat Treats album is hot. I would have never thought it had a varying tempo. What in the world gave you the idea to do that?

es-k wrote:
yea def do it... im pretty sure i didn't play along with the BPM changes and it was JUST in the q-link while i was tracking the beat out.. if that makes sense?

i know in the middle when the beat drops out there's a bpm change thats PROGRAMMED in the sequence change.. but a lot of the changes were live w/ the q-link if i remember correctly

As I listen...Now that you mention it I can hear it but it's so subtle that if you hadn't said anything I would not have know what gives it the human feel that it has.




On a side note: It's good to know that there are still cats on this forum that like to talk deep about production.....so tried of all the retarded e-beef that been sweeping this place lately.

Upright wrote:On a side note: It's good to know that there are still cats on this forum that like to talk deep about production.....so tried of all the retarded e-beef that been sweeping this place lately.

no doubt! thats the only reason im still here... actually compared to most message boards ive been on there are STILL cats here who like to talk production in a NON EGOTISTICAL way.... which is nice


(but then again... you doo have a lot of that "e-beef" lately)

that is dope, did you change it form a whole 5 bpms sometimes or did you mean by .5 bpms?

it sounds sick to me, but i could never really pick up on the fluctiations myself when i was listening for them.

es-k wrote:can really add a lot to a track



was listening to this song i made years ago - wondering how i acheived the groove.. then i remember how the BPM is constantly changing by about 5orso bpm throughout the track.. im sure you'll be able to pick it up

try it out, its kinda cool!

damn this is a nice track. any way you could let me download and throw it on the ipod? really nice production right there es-k.

thanks guys

its part of this 7 song sampler

http://www.mediafire.com/?9xvjallj2iqpq9y

also, the changes were probably between 3bpmup and 3bpm down during the changes.. all done on the q-link except those weird bars in the middle.. JJOS gives qlink a new set of features if im remembering correctly