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Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygène (Part IV) (Drum Pattern No. 40)
🕑 Added 2021-11-20 07:01:01 +0000 UTCThanks to our Patron Albert Pauw for recommending this one! We finally got to use the Quijada in a transcription ;) I have to admit that this one was a bit harder to crack than I expected...
I know, it's just a single one bar pattern in 1/8 triplets, but the Korg Minipops 7 has a surprising amount of instruments that kind of blend into each other and they're hard to decipher under that carpet of synthesizers. The Minipops 7 is a preset machine and cannot be programmed, but you can press two rhythm buttons at the same time to create hybrid rhythms (it sounds like "Beguine" and "Slow Rock" were combined for this track). Jean-Michel Jarre of course uses a few effects on the drum track all the while riding the Tambourine volume fader of the machine, which gives the pattern a bit of variation.
I couldn't find a complete set of usable Minipops 7 samples, but Full Bucket Music has created a free VSTi plugin called Bucket Pops that actually synthesizes the sounds. It needed some tweaking (more resonance on the Tambourine, more decay on the Quijada, less resonance on the Hi-Hat and some overall volume level tweaks) but I think it's a pretty usable simulation.
Difficulty rating: 🐇🐇
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Comments
Benjamin K
No one shots, but I have some Minipops 7 loops I got from here http://www.dubsounds.com/mp7.htm and it's easy to slice one shots from it.
Captain Pikant
Polymetry and polyrhythms are on the later roadmap of DM101, but seeing as how insanely time consuming the episodes are to produce (because of the stop motion animation), I think it's going to be a while before we arrive there. I hope we can tackle the next DM101 as soon are we're through with the upcoming DPE episode. And that TR-6S review has been brewing for a bit too long now ;)
Albert Pauw
Are there more drum 101 in your (busy) planning? E.g. polyrhythms, or as Steve Reich did, slightly out of sync rythms, with two drummachines?
