This track started out life as a bit of messing around with a sh101 sequence.The sequence in the sh101 is triggered by LT trigger out from my tr606 with a bit of live building and the such.The sequence is then fucked with by taking the Ht trigger out from my tr606 and running it through […]
I have updated my soundcloud account so it now features most of my back catalogue of tracks. Its broken down into 3 sets, my commercially released tracks which are out through itunes and beatport, my self released tracks which I sell via bandcamp and unreleased tracks which form basis of my demo tracks for various […]
this was a quick (as in 24 hours) remix for Dan303’s new self released album.You can read all about it on Dan’s twitter account I took his stems and kept the big beat and some of the more ambient percussion and the hats.I resampled the ambient percussion and made a little dark tune out of […]
After watching a short video on http://www.dinsync.info/ blog about making percussion from the sh101 and mc202 I thought I’d give it a go but use the SH101 to make all the track elements. What I ended up with is an old UK bleepy techno style track, the sh101 has heaps of bass and I had […]
yes I’ve been on somewhat of a remix roll at the moment.The following remix is for a Melbourne based group called Backroom Reality.You can have a listen to the original version of the track on thier soundcloud page. I took the track, mapped it out and dropped a devilfish line over the track, using a […]
this is another remix I have just finished off.This is a remix that was started a while back and then got forgotten with one thing and another.Alka got back in touch and was asking what happened to it so dug out the files and lay down some new acid lines from the devilfish and cleaned […]
This is a new track I’ve been working on.I have used the composition technique Composition From a Different Angle: An Intro to 12-tone from instructor Jerry Gates. Its an interesting way of generating compositions, what it doesn’t give me is the timings but with the tb303 its pretty quick to change those to get a […]
this is a new track and not a remix competition entryagain featuring the devilfish and its screaming R2D2 acid lines and the fake 08 making it big timethis time using track mode on the tb303 rather than just one pattern – you may notice 😉enjoy Acid truqs  by DyLABs
This is my remix of the Lychee Martini – Through to Me trackFrom the track I took the main vocal sample “I’m too high” and used that as the pad sound throughout, both time stretching it and rerecording it in live whilst dragging loop points to make give it that endless feel but at the […]
not been having much time recently for writing tracks so just been getting into jamming with the devilfish and other bits of kitsthis is the tr606 and the devilfish in action and the sh101 making weird background noises.Enjoy the acid jams and both are freely downloadable this one is a fast one at 175 BPM […]
those plugin masters over at ohmforce are having a remix competionsyou can read all about it here.This is my take on the track.Its a bit of a dubstep vibe whilst keeping the lush synths from the originalEnjoy and if you really like it, vote for it! Derek Howell – Stride (3013 Restepped)  by DyLABs
I was playing a simple scale to my little girl which she was enjoying and from that came this little jamThere were some interesting things going on in the lower end of the scale so reworked the pattern and came up with thistb303 devilfish lead synth, sh101 on bassline duty, two tr606’s one doing kick […]
my track triad is out now on Acid cuts part two from SWISHCOtheque recordsits a free download so grab yourself a copy of some great acid tracks out now from SWISHCOtheque – Acid cuts part two. Hello acid friends. Here we bring youpart two of our acid cuts series, as youcan imagine its more 303 […]
if you remember back in 2007 I finished a track called Acid Sun if not – here is the link to it. I sent it to Acid All Stars and they were like , yeah we like it, “we want to release it”, and I was like “yay” Well it is finally out on the […]
a new track, smooth techno styles, layer upon layer of sounds builds up as the tracks progresses, then it slows back down again this one uses the sh101 but filter driven by the devilfish and the sound filtered via the devilfish,drums from the fake08 (novation drumstation)all mixed in ableton live 8 enjoy Smooth Devil by […]
here is another jam track from the devilfish, the sh101 and the fake08 (drumstation & er1 mk2)its an acid electro vibe with spooky synth lead line, lots of verb and delay from the TAL free plugs Elektro fish by DyLABs Enjoy
So i’ve had my devilfish about a week or so and I’m slowly getting to grips with it and how it sounds.It is a complete transformation of the way my roland tb303 used to sound and at first it was kind of off putting as I couldn’t get the sounds I used to be able […]
It was a sunny Sunday and we all went down the beach this morning, after a restful afternoon lunch I fired up the kit This is some mellow sunny Sunday afternoon acid, very ambient, drenched in reverb and delay, and with the devilfish’s accent button and accent decay it allows for a greater level of […]
the micro punk robot came from digitana today the devilfish you can see below is recently modified by robin this is mucking around with the devilfish, the micro punk robot and the fake 08 this is recorded into ableton live, the midi from live is converted to din sync using bitstream 3.xthis keeps the devilfish […]
today I picked up my post devilfish 303, its taken the 303 from a little acid machine to some crazy acid beastHere is a little demo of it in action, the pattern is on the devilfish, the accent out of the devilfish is running a sequence on the 303, also the cv out of the […]
I’ve reset my gear up and I am using the bitstream as a virtual desk – rigged to effects , verb, delay and overdrive all from TAL and EQs and stuff from live Here is a little live jam to enjoy or download, this is just sh101, tb303 and tr606.Not enough hands just yet to […]
continuing on with the sh101 experiments, this track gastrik uses the sh101 trick underneath a strong 303 bassline.Drums are from the tr606 exclusively. This is some dark acid that builds to get darker and darker. Gastrik by DyLABs
I was going over some old files and found this tip about sequencing the roland sh101, so using this trick I sequenced in a little pattern and using the tr606 to play it here is a little live track, just the roland sh101 and tr606, distortion from the boss OS-2 and a little phaser in […]
this is a a 90% live track, sh101 and mc202 and tb303 recorded down in one passthe tr707 and tr606 on a second passthen effects and extra percusion and automation followedits a slowly growing acid track, getting heavier and heavier, enjoy
here are a couple of quick screen capture videos of gate effects in liveThe first shows how to use a gate to send the accented notes to a delay then using a sidechained autofilter to filter the delay to the drum beat, then using effects rack and flipping the gate to have the notes still […]
this is a little live acid jam, tb303, mc202 and sh101 doing the synth work and tr606 and tr707 on drums – only 1 drum pattern and a little bit of synth play – plus a bit of VCF MOD – enjoy you can download it too
here is 16 bars of some old school acid house based on Sterling Void’s classic house track “Alright”This is straight out of the boxes, tr606 and tr707 on the drums, bassline tb303, the fill synth is the sh101 and the alright vocal substitute is from the mc202 enjoy
this is an acid track I started on today – made mostly from samples of the boss dr110 hence the name – doctor ten tenalso featuring the classic roland tr727 sounds – this is a slowish, old school style acid track – but there is a smidge of modern digital dirt in there – wanted […]
cleaned this up a bitstripped out some excessive bongospulled out one of the sh101 linesand pitched up the rising tone and octaveadded sub bass to the whole track
I was working on something slower and old school around the 125-130 mark this is mostly tr707, with some 727 aswellthe synth lines are all from the sh101its slower and more housey and definitely old school