Hive Sound Library #5 - Dark ambient techno beat

Every day or maybe should I safely say, every so often, I launch my iPad and explore the sonic possibilities of sound design and music using a growing collection of apps that I own. Sometimes I may come up with a set of audio files, maybe a complete track or as in the case of today just one longer piece of audio.

This is what I would call minimal dark ambient techno! Ok that's a bit of a tongue twister, let's just say it's a sparse but interesting drum pattern that is derived from Playbeat, an intelligent drum machine that makes it possible to vary patterns a great deal. It is very playable, great for live manipulation.

Add some effects to the chain and I had even more fun. Once again I used Other Desert Cities the multi-talented tape delay from Audiodamage which has turned out to be a favourite of late.

This is a bit of an experimental beat to be honest, it's good to try different ideas, which is the aim of this project overall.

Name	Type	IPFS Link
New sounds	Track	Link
We love Hive	Drumloop	xxxx

Listen to the audio recording IPFS

Playbeat 3

Each of the red dots represents a beat but these can be programmed on the go to play at different speeds to eachother, the density of notes played increased to perform note repeats. Each hit can be panned individually, the pitch can be adjusted along the way. You can set the probability of each note played plus there is a function to gradually decay the pattern, so in other words it will slowly break down, one track at a time until it stops. I used that feature to finish off the recording, it just naturally fizzles out as opposed to abruptly stopping on the beat. This description only scratched the surface, I'll use it again in future #hivesoundlibrary posts and videos.

Audiodamage/OtherDesertCities

A tape delay machine that can be used in various different ways. In this instance I used it to produce a delay effect, that I can slow down and speed up just by adjusting the spool speed of the tape. This is one I'd like to a deep dive on but right now, since it's a new tool in my toolbox, I need some time to write up notes on it's features, how I plan to use them for my productions.

Audioshare to upload to NFT Storage

The app I use for exploring the files I've saved to my iPad, playing them back and then sharing to online services. Very useful app that all iPad musicians should own.

Listen to the audio recording IPFS

About the Hive Sound Library

How to download the samples?

I'll be honest that I'm not sure, I am learning on the-fly regarding how IPFS works and especially NFT Storage which uses the technology to host a fully decentralised file store. We can access the content via HTTP or IPFS if you have the tools installed to do so.

This section will be repeated as a regular piece of footer content for all future posts in this series and I'll update it as the project unfolds.

UPDATE: 2rd March - I did find a way yesterday on the desktop version of Chrome. If you see a play transport that looks like this

You can click on the vertical elipsis to reveal a download link but on some other browsers, it's not presented this way.

Will these be minted as NFTs on Blocktunes?

Yes, absolutely, that is all part of the plan. I am in the process of building up my $MUSIC layer 2 tokens in order to be whitelisted and then shall gradually mint the sample loops and full tracks. The details I will reveal in due course.

How often will the library be updated?

In theory, daily, that is the aim. I tend to post no more than two posts a day and for these, I would post one a day. However when other people join the project, you can of course post one each a day and gradually this process will gain momentum. We could later introduce run curation posts. If you've been following me in the past you may know that I've written some #followfriday posts much like #steevc is famous for! Contributors to the #hivesoundlibrary will be featured in those posts when I start them up again.

Can other people add to the library?

Eventually yes, not just yet but please let me know if this interests you. I might invite some people to begine with.

Will there be a community of it's own?

Probably not, Blocktunes works well for us.

What sort of sounds are we looking for?

Here are a few suggestions:

• Electronic sounds derived from synths, drum machines, chord progressions, sequenced or composed, samples maybe but have to be our own creations, not from existing sample libraries. Otherwise copyright becomes a huge problem.
• Accoustic instruments, guitar licks, riffs, chord progressions
• Found sounds, one of my favourite things and this is where samples are ok. Makes drums out of old pots and pans, record and boom!
• Sounds of nature
• Sounds of the city
• Exotic sounds

Tagging posts

All posts will be tagged with #hivesoundlibrary so that we can find stuff again

Useful tools, apps and the things I use for creating these sounds/loops/seqeunces etc

• NFTUp for uploading files to NFT.storage
• AUM
• Cubasis 3
• Other desert cities by Audiodamage - the tape delay effect I love plus many more
• Sunrizer synth
• Playbeat 3
• Audioshare

I'll add to this list with each post, lots of great apps

Posted using BlockTunes

Name	Type	IPFS Link
New sounds	Track	Link
We love Hive	Drumloop	xxxx