Turn orphan DB-01 patterns into full themes

video upload by Richard DeHove

"If you have any sort of sequencer then chances are you have banks full of orphan patterns, promising 16 or 32-step riffs that turned into dead ends. For DB-01 owners, here's one (pretty obvious) way of reviving them and hopefully making them into something more useful: MIDI them up to a polyphonic synth. Here the DB-01 is MIDIed to a DSi Prophet Rev-2.
Not only is it fun just to flip through presets on your poly synth looking for 'matches', but they can turn into things which are completely different from the source mono sequence. A dirty bass pattern can sometimes even become a delicate polyphonic high melody.
By also combining these experiments with some manual playing and arpegiator fun the theme can thicken out into something which sounds like it's been multi-tracked.
Record all this into your DAW in one long take, align it to the grid, then use 'snap to grid' and chop out loads of new loops. Now your orphan pattern has now produced a big family ready to arrange. I think this is one of the most entertaining ways to create longer themes.
No other effects, layers or tweaks used here except what you see.

0:00 Intro blather and setup
0:48 The awful starter pattern
1:20 The arp on top
2:18 Gate length quirks
3:50 Playing over the top
4:38 Add Space Echo
5:20 DB-01 off
6:20 Scale problem?
8:10 Pattern 2 - DB-01 only
8:35 Pattern 2 - Rev2 only
9:07 Added arp
10:22 Filthy original
10:50 Sweet new version
11:00 No more talk

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