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TPF Beat Cypher

Good morning, everyone! It is time for Week 4 of the TPF Weekly Beat Cypher. Just post in the thread below that you're joining the Cypher and download the samples, follow the simple rules posted below, and spend the next 7 days working on a 1 minute beat. Private message me with a download link to your beat by Saturday, July 2nd at midnight Pacific Time (UTC -8:00), and come check out the thread Sunday morning around this time for the results and next week's Beat Cypher!

THE BORING PART - THE RULES (there's only two)

• You must use both samples provided, and you must compose in the BPM provided. One sample will be a transition sound you place at the start and end of your track, and the other is the featured sample for your beat.
• You have to both post in this thread that you are joining AND private message me with your track in 32 or 24 bit, 44.1 kHz WAV or AIFF file format before 11:59 PM PST on Saturday for your submission to count.

If you're unsure of how the beat cypher works, here's an article describing it, a video that touches on it, and lastly here are all the Team Supreme cyphers, so you can hear how they did it:


Here’s last week’s cypher:

Here’s the Beat Cypher playlist:
Now, onto the fun part: This Week's Challenge!

Our first sample is a live recording I grabbed on the streets of San Francisco of a street performer playing on a homemade drumkit. Quantized and ready for chopping!

Our transitional sample is a sweep I created out of some noise and the sound of a mechanical knife sharpener.- Place this at the start and end of your 1 minute beat so I can blend them all together at the end!

Our tempo is 122 Beats Per Minute, so you need to write 32 bars of music to complete this week's challenge - well, a little bit less but let's make it even.

Challenge starts now, so get to beatmaking!

REGISTERED CYPHERS:

• Mussar
• Lydian
• eidolon
• ScottCampbell
• Aric James

Maybe they don't wanna pay the money, maybe they don't like the new UI, maybe Apple changed features they liked, maybe they're using 32 bit plugins and don't know about 32 lives, maybe they're worried about new bugs from software changes (this is a big reason you'll see people on old as hell versions of Pro Tools, btw).

Plenty of reasons people don't wanna update, bro.

Sounds like the dubstep bass to me, or maybe the phase mod in massive (which is just digital FM, cuz digital FM is technically phase modulation).

Second episode is ready. Sorry for the delay on this, school got in the way. Today, we're going over thirds!

Thanks! That's what I thought - Just struggling with the right combination of waveforms and frequency ratios. I'll mess around some more, and hit you up if I run into a wall.

Well, a large part of it is the actual notes in the chord.

I might be wrong about it being multiple layers, and it might just be one very slightly detuned supersaw playing a very full chord, but through a phaser with no rate and around 40-50% depth. Looking at the spectral view of the chord, it looks like it's modulating between two C minor chords - a Cmin9 and a Cmin#13. (note: my theory chops aren't perfect, so i might not be 100% accurate) Experiment with adding Cs, Ds, and A#'s above a C minor chord and see if you can find it.

Saws and noise, put through a phaser. Put your saw waves at different octaves (I got fairly close with 3 saws - one at pitch, one an octave lower, and one an octave higher), and mess with the phaser parameters.