Controlled Chaos

Feb 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Len Sasso

           

STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS

Use Clip Envelopes to automate Stylus RMX's AllPlay button, placing the On event just before bar 2.

Assign each used Stylus track to a separate output and set levels and pans to their defaults.

With all Chaos Designers turned off, record one full pass of each loop. You can also drag in the slice-triggering MIDI files from Stylus RMX if desired.

With all Chaos Designers turned on, record multiple passes of each loop, thereby getting several different Chaos Designer patterns to work with. Duplicate the recorded clips and set each copy's loop to a different pass.

Audition each pass and delete the undesirable ones. Create an arrangement by dragging or recording clips and scenes to the Arrangement view.

Here, Follow Actions were used to create fills at the end of each chorus. The third chorus was then overdubbed with different Follow Action settings to create an alternate take.