I was working on a new song and while doing so I experimented around with a sample and turned into something rather different. And I’d like to show you this process a little bit. I recommend listening with headphones.

To start off, this was the sample I’ve used.

Ages ago, I had already downsampled it, meaning I turned it from 44100 Hertz to I believe 16000 Hertz. That means the frequencies stretched and therefore the whole thing becomes slower and deeper. That sounds like this:

That was the sound I started with within this song. However, I decided to stretch the sound more. Through downsampling we went from a length of just one second to four seconds. By stretching it again, I went to roughly 14 seconds (the following audio file is a bit longer since there are small pauses at the beginning and end). In addition to stretching I also pitch-shifted it down a whole octave.

There is also a slight distortion and reverb in this already. Regarding the sound itself, this was already it. “Restructuring” the sample a lot, and then only two effects. I then simply took parts of this sample and ended up using three different parts of less than a second each of those 16 seconds.

The song itself is 130 bpm and has mostly straightforward drums. Meaning a bassdrum at each beat, four times a bar and that’s it. Here and there, there’s a hi-hat added. From a bassdrum, a hi-hat, and this sample I got this.

I find it a very interesting beat which I have no clue about what’s going on there, but I hope that, eventually, the song will be finished and I have something new to upload to Soundcloud.