FIELDWORK / 008   ·   RIFF FIRST / FOUNDATION SECOND

Good riffs.
Better company.

A low-end writing room. Eight ways to put a kick, a bassline
under your favourite riff. Keep its identity.

01 / BRING THE SPARK

Start with a riff.

OFFLINE · YOUR FILES STAY HERE
or
Or use “Open in Pocket” inside Orbit. MIDI carries notes; an Orbit link also carries the patch, effects and chord path.
Make a riff in Orbit ↗

02 / FIND THE RELATIONSHIP

Same spark. Eight different feelings.

03 / MAKE IT YOURS

Velvet rope

BAR 01 / 16

The harmonic floor

Orbit links keep the original chord path. Melody-only MIDI gets a harmonic proposal. Switch to “My chord path” to override it.

Feel, then fine-tune.

Put your fingers on the bass.

Two bars, repeated through the phrase. Click to cycle root → fifth → octave → rest. Edited steps stay locked when you generate.

● Written note▣ Your edit16 steps / bar
0BASS NOTES / PHRASE
0%COINCIDENT KICK ATTACKS
0%BASS NOTES UNDER THE RIFF
0RIFF ANSWER GESTURES

These describe timing, not musical quality or audio masking. Some overlap is the groove. Use Riff alone and the part buttons to hear the relationship.

04 / TAKE IT FURTHER

A phrase, with somewhere to go.

  1. 01–04 / EstablishThe foundation establishes its relationship to the riff.
  2. 05–08 / AnswerThe same bass motif supports the next phrase.
  3. 09–12 / Make spaceSecondary bass notes recede; the riff stays intact.
  4. 13–16 / ReturnThe established foundation returns.

Choose 16 bars to hear all four sections. Your riff remains intact throughout.

05 / INTO YOUR SESSION

Keep the feeling.

Separate parts. Actual timing. No mystery.

MIDI follows part mutes; “Riff alone” is an audition mode. Sub and character are separate tracks. Browser sound, ducking and delay are in WAV, not MIDI.
Build this sound in Ableton / Serum 2

THE CRATE

Worth coming back to.

Ideas are saved on this browser. A session file is your portable backup.