Strange Delight - Diodes asking for directions
Channel: Strange Delight
Date: 2019-07-08

Percussive track with a modular "analog" drumkit I created in Voltage Modular. I got a bit tired of the regular drum modules (modelling 808 & 909).
I decided to make my own percussion kit with a noise generator and two oscillators and mixing them where appropriate. This is only a kick drum, snare and hi-hats. 

I added some effects, filtering and modulation and got this evolving repeating but always slightly different sounding pattern. I tried to put some bass and melody on top of it but it just obscured the effects that makes the drumkit so cool... so this was clearly destined to become a percussive track.

The pitch of the snare is continuously modulated. The filters on the hi-hats are opened en closed and can create a gentle high-pitch hi-hat sound or a very deep and low hit that sounds like timbales.