Another tidalcycles track. This one uses a variety of audio effects I haven’t explored, including binshift, waveloss, real, and imag. I think all of those are based on spectral manipulation and I really love those sounds. Sometimes you can get that late 90’s low quality Napster mp3 download sound.

So I suppose this is techno, really messed up techno.

Oh and those times when everything stops and you hear a drone? Yeah my computer can’t keep up. I kinda like it so I’m keeping those in there. No editing for Septembeat.

As always, here’s the code:

bpm 130

p "s"
$ every 9 (within (0.25,0.75) (# waveloss 30))
$ whenmod 30 16 ( fast 0.5 . (# delay 0.7) . (# delaytime 0.007) .  (# delayfb 0.5) . (# scram 0.5) . (# crush 6))
$ every 7 (within (0.5,1) (bite 4 "{0 3 2 2 1 3 2 0 1 2 3}%2" . (# speed 0.8)))
$ whenmod 15 13 (fast 0.5 . (# room 2) . (rev . fast 4 . stut (choose[12,8,4,2]) 0.5 (fast 4 $ choose[(1/100),(1/70),(1/40),(1/20),(1/10)]) . (|* gain 0.9) . (# hpf 300)))
$ whenmod 17 16 (within (0,0.5) (# room 3))
$ whenmod 13 12 (# real 0.5)
$ (12 ~>) $ sb 0.3 (# roundpan 3)
$ (9 ~>) $ sb 0.01 (# bin "{1 1 7}")
$ every 5 (scramble 4)
$ every 14 (scramble 8)
  $ every 3 (down 16) $ stack [
  whenmod 19 16 (db 1) $ st "[t ~~ t]" $ s "kicks:24" # pan 0.6,
  st "{t~~}%16" $ s "kicks:1" # speed 2 # pan 0.1,
  st "[~ t ~ ~]" $ s "metal:2" # speed 1 # lpf 2000 # sus 0.1 # speed 0.8 # begin 0.01 # crush 8,
  st "[[t~~t]]*4" $ s "kicks:10" # speed 1,
  (0.5 ~>) $ st "[t~~t~~t~ ~~~~~~~~]" $ s "db:1" # sus 0.1 # speed 1 # gain 0.8 ,
  st "t*8" $ s "kicks:7"
              ] # real 0.9 # imag "{0.0 0.1 0 0 0 0.02 0.08 0 0 0.05 0 0}%4" # dry 0.8 # room 0.002 # size 0.003 # shape 0 # amp 0.8 # coarse (fast 4 $ range 1 5 $ rand) -- # hpf 400

-- custom functions
down x = plyWith ("{22 18 15 12 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1}%12") (|* gain 0.9)

bin x = binshift x

roundpan x = pan (fast x $ sine)