How to hesitate (like Rival Consoles)

Let's create beautiful hesitant layers of sound. Starting from a strong musical motif, we curate the best of randomly generated derivative layers. The overall end-result is nuanced, spatial, hesitant and delicious to the ears.

Contents:
0:00 Why hesitate? What's that about?
1:07 What do you need to pull this off?
2:09 How to hesitate with Curated Randomness
3:30 Recommended VST plugins for granular warping
4:10 Committing to audio to create options
4:50 Curating the result into a composition

[pikzel]

Love this style. Rival Consoles - Recovery hit me hard back in 2015. I was inspired for months.

[johntilelli]

I think the perfect example of this is Neon Pattern Drums by Jon Hopkins. One of my favorite tracks of all time.

[larsegholmfischmann]

I've made electronic music since 1995 and I still get inspiration for new things watching your videos. Interestingly enough, I've actually always done something similar to this process without really having any intention other than just goofing around.

[etherealbonds]

I do this in every track as well. I am just using two random LFOs controlling different parameters of Delays and Beat Repeats, send the audio through it that I want to fuck up, record everything and then pick the parts that fit the best. If you do this to almost every layer in your track you'll create a fuckton of glitches you can then use in every way possible to make the track way more interesting. It's actually the most essetial tool for my workflow as a glitch producer.

[dj_kaits]

This concept absolutely blew my mind! As a very green producer, I’ve been exploring how some of my favorite producers manage to give me goosebumps and this is absolutely something I plan to start playing with in Ableton. Thank you!🙏

[AUTOSAD]

Oh shit. My man is doing one of my favorites! Thanks!

[Dellidell]

Great concept! Rival consoles approach to this is actually to have different send groups with loads of fx and then just automate the send level. Source: Rival Consoles

[nebukad]

Nice. Really nice. I need to try with next song

[f]

this sounds a lot like the background music/ambience in mirror's edge, awesome tutorial

[AKAtAGG]

Great subject for a tutorial right here. Love this - max cooper is one of my favourite artists and part of that is his use of this technique. Smashing it on this channel as always, love it man.

[to_theFlow]

In astrology, the concept of the Gemini-Sagittarius axis is studied as an exploration that involves asking questions and finding firm answers, and hesitating by questioning them again. In other words, it's about oscillating between playing with questions (exploring) and finding answers that channel a direction. This is how the axis of learning is represented.

I swear I'm not on drugs, haha. It's just that I identify a lot with the "random" nature of this process, and sometimes I hesitate and need something clearer to guide me for a while before questioning everything again.

Your teaching style really catches my attention, Oscar. My respects to you. And thanks for sharing the names of interesting people to listen to, even though I must admit I'm getting more and more lost when it comes to genres, haha. But well... the idea of exploring is to search until we find what we feel fits us, and sometimes putting labels on things makes us miss out on searching in places due to prejudices...

Anyway, too much philosophy for today. I send you a hug, and down with labels! But if you could explain what genre the musicians you recommended are, it would help me a bit with the missing Sagittarius, haha.

[claudiomalz]

a nice way to not get bored of making music

[Bittamin]

I’m hesitating to get into my DAW TODAY 😂😂😂 thanks for the inspiration 🎉

[kylewilson]

lol cirez d full stop comes to mind immediately. it is painfully aware of its hesitance

[smallalien]

You are so good at what you do. Brilliant teacher.

[ClaudeYoung]

I Always enjoy your tutorials, you always take a topic and make it really accessible for people making music!! I took your Techno Start to Finish Course as well. A lot of fun!! Cheers!!

[theenglisharmy]

this is a cool approach, i think he just plays with lfo on lfo, cutoffs, and then plays parts out quite a bit. I myself automate a ton to do these kind of things (i.e. automate turning on portal, automate wet/dry portal, etc.. and so on)

[sgsrules]

Great video as always. I'm sure you have tons of ideas for future videos, but I'd love to see a tips and tricks tutorial on building Groove. I'm looking forward to your Foundations 2 course. Keep up the great work Oscar!

[MuslimShortanov]

Perfect teacher ❤cool advice. Simple and fast. Love it !

[OlegDyac]

Bedankt Oscar,
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