Dub Techno

ELP2 · DUB01 Live Record Until recently, I treated the Elektron Digitakt as an addition to Ableton. I liked it, but I could never really figure out how to use it in my track-writing workflow. Whenever I disconnected it from the laptop and sat down with it on its own, I could never get past a single loop. Something always felt missing. I kept thinking in terms of producing a finished track, which meant I immediately ran into arrangement problems. I felt uncomfortable, got lost in patterns, and eventually gave up. As a result, my Digitakt spent several years collecting dust. ...

ELP2 · ELP2 - Passing Bansko Clouds A preset for Operator called “passing clouds” somehow appeared in my Ableton setup. A minor chord, followed by Valhalla Delay and Blackhole Reverb, turned into a nice dub-style pattern. What I liked most were the reverb tails - they felt less like reverb and more like delay echoes, sitting separately in the center of the stereo field. When I realized I was stuck listening to the loop for many minutes and really enjoying it, I decided to turn it into a track. ...