Industrial experiment with Hexdrums, Xenodrive & the Echolocator

video upload by Richard DeHove

"This is an experiment. It started with the thought: "What if I took just two voices from Hexdrums and feed them as individual outs left and right into the Xenodrive?". That felt a little raw even for me so I then added the Echolocator after the Xeno. After hooking it up I had a joyous 30-minute "jazz odyssey" of which this is the still-very-long-for-pure-drums cutdown version.

All three machines are tweaked as a single control surface and I don't think any machine here is the star. They all do their bit. Since there's no unaffected sound keeping things stable the Xeno work is quite restrained compared with the complete destruction of which it's capable, and likewise the Echolocator stays reasonably tame.

Was there a lesson from all this? Perhaps it's just that trying odd combinations is fun. On a more practical level I can certainly see that various sections could be usefully sampled as loops. To that end I've put together a pack of 16bit 44KHz loops at 110bpm that are on my Patreon page. Many of them can be usefully split left and right for further processing.

As usual there is no DAW processing and the volume has all the ups and downs of the original.

0:00 Setup blather
2:05 Drums start. No more talk
3:45 Gritty
4:11 Bass synth
5:00 Noise & shimmer
6:10 TransEurope
7:40 Growler
8:32 Pitcher
9:40 Feeder
11:20 Droner

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