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James Orvis
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 19 ส.ค. 2013
Welcome to the James Orvis TH-cam channel!
Your destination for electronic music production, sound design, and live performance tips. I’m James Orvis, a UK-based music producer, live act, and educator with over 15 years of industry experience. My work has gained support from renowned artists like Boris Brejcha, Dave Clarke, and Helena Hauff, with features on BBC Radio One and Spotify Official Playlists.
This channel is dedicated to helping electronic music producers-whether you’re into techno, electro, or house-create professional tracks. From hardware tutorials to sound design deep dives, I share insights to elevate your music-making process.
🎛 Courses & Resources:
Mastery courses for Hydrasynth, Syntakt, Digitakt II, and Dreadbox Typhon.
Sample packs & preset packs for instant inspiration.
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Your destination for electronic music production, sound design, and live performance tips. I’m James Orvis, a UK-based music producer, live act, and educator with over 15 years of industry experience. My work has gained support from renowned artists like Boris Brejcha, Dave Clarke, and Helena Hauff, with features on BBC Radio One and Spotify Official Playlists.
This channel is dedicated to helping electronic music producers-whether you’re into techno, electro, or house-create professional tracks. From hardware tutorials to sound design deep dives, I share insights to elevate your music-making process.
🎛 Courses & Resources:
Mastery courses for Hydrasynth, Syntakt, Digitakt II, and Dreadbox Typhon.
Sample packs & preset packs for instant inspiration.
Subscribe for tips, tutorials, and updates.
👉 Explore More: jamesorvis.com/
🔥 Distortion & Feedback: Digitakt, Modular, & Pedals! 🔥
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Video Description
Get ready for some gritty sonic exploration as I dive deep into the world of distortion and feedback! In this session, I show how to craft raw, characterful drum textures using the Elektron Digitakt, modular gear like the Gotharman Tube Filter and Plague Bearer, and pedals like the Fairfield Hors d'Oeuvre.
Distortion feedback takes centre stage as I layer chaotic yet musical textures with feedback loops, tube distortion, and creative routing. This approach opens up endless possibilities for transforming beats into something truly unique.
Whether you're into raw techno, industrial, or experimental sound design, this video is packed with tips and techniques to take your drum sound to the next level.
For courses, presets, and sample packs, check the links in the description below!
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Video Description
Get ready for some gritty sonic exploration as I dive deep into the world of distortion and feedback! In this session, I show how to craft raw, characterful drum textures using the Elektron Digitakt, modular gear like the Gotharman Tube Filter and Plague Bearer, and pedals like the Fairfield Hors d'Oeuvre.
Distortion feedback takes centre stage as I layer chaotic yet musical textures with feedback loops, tube distortion, and creative routing. This approach opens up endless possibilities for transforming beats into something truly unique.
Whether you're into raw techno, industrial, or experimental sound design, this video is packed with tips and techniques to take your drum sound to the next level.
For courses, presets, and sample packs, check the links in the description below!
👉 Check Out All My Courses, Presets & Sample Packs: jamesorvis.com/
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Awesome stuff, yet again. Have you ever thought about selling these projects on your site? I’d love to work backwards through this and other projects of yours, pull them apart, put them back together…
I love love love anything distorted. Great video. Just a word of warning: in your video the Rabbit Hole has some really nasty resonances that go up into dog-whistle territory. Please watch out - for those of us who can still hear those upper frequencies it's really painful to listen to. It's like one of one of those old CRT monitors, only way way louder and more piercing.
🔥 ❤your music and videos great stuff mate thank you
Glad you enjoy it! 🙏
Tip for ya tri & sine lfo mod wibbling. Shift the phase of either by setting the value to either 32 or 96... now those shapes will always modulate from the highest of lowest stage of the shapes phase when modulating both of the 2 particular shapes. Both shapes wobble rather than ripple or bubble, when shifted in phase 90° or 270°
Noted!! Will try 🙏
Why in my dikitakt 2 in usb config there isn't the overbdrige usb? I have download all the firmware ecc and i don't understand why
I’m not sure! It should show, have you tried contacting Elektron support? You can create a ticket on their website if you believe there is a fault with the unit
Wow !! This was amazing !! Truly is a masterclass. Besides being an awesome patch, reminiscent of some Alan Parsons Project - Sirius or something. I LOVED just following along and make the patch on my own HSD (This is probably my most paused video on TH-cam, ever haha). I learn so much more from that, than watching someone just explain what every button does. Thank you James ! I'm looking forward to watching the rest of these videos !
🔥loving these longer form electro posts
This sounds immense! Great work. I've got some single cycles but I didnt really like how they sounded - this changes my mind. Which ones are you using, it's from a pack? TY
More Electro oriented videos please !!!
Thanks for the incredible digi content 🙌 🖤it
sick
Great tips
Love your videos mate. 👍
Glad you like them! Thanks 🙏
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Thanks for tuning in 🙏
I got one of these. Never played it hahahaha.
You should!! It’s great bit of kit!
@ sounds good. I had the Behringer td3 which I liked and I have a monotribe which I love dearly…
Great set 🙌🏽🙌🏽
Fantastic video and inspiring results. Take this request or leave it, but could you slow down your workflow a tiny bit, or talk a little more about what you’re doing *before you do it? Sometimes you move through the settings and make adjustment at what seems like 2x speed, which is impressive in and of itself (!), but it can be impossible to follow as a viewer. It’s why I gave up on your Digitakt course pretty early on. Not a criticism, just feedback - still grateful for your output.
Thanks for watching 🙏 Pacing and speed, It’s a tricky topic! Before Digitakt II I made a survey, majority said pacing was perfect, some said I go to slow and some said I go to fast. It’s very difficult to get it just right and thought I had the balance of DT2 course spot on after testing. Only thing I can say at this point is to try slowing or speeding video speed, I often watch content at 1.5 but you can go down slower too. As for these videos I agree the pacing is super quick, as it’s not an instructional video more of a free flow against the clock session to explore. Will do some more slower step by steps soon though and take your comment onboard when I’m moving around the machines 🙏
Amazing session thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it 🙏
Tediously long and ill informed…
There is a TH-camr out there who will cater for you I’m not your guy
Another banger! I learn something from each of these videos, thanks James.
Glad to hear it!
Nice!
Thank you! Cheers!
Great session once again, I pick up so much from these, keep em comin!
Glad you like them!
Absolutely Brilliant dude. Saved this to my favorites to try on my own. More like this video would be great 👍
Thanks! Will do!
Great stuff, thanks 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
These digi videos really helpful to follow along too. Learning a lot. Keep em comin ✊🏽
More to come!
Great stuff! I want you to explore it more!😁
Already filmed!! Electro bass one using this next week
This is great! Very creative use of modulation. Using an LFO on the VCA or VCF could also be a nice workaround to get 32nd note retriggers on sequencers that don’t offer it, like the key step pro.
Very good idea! I do this with Expert Sleepers FH2
How were you sequencing the LFO to the filter on the K2/Pro-1 ? Using a modular unit or some other way like Ableton cv tools? Super cool technique!
Expert Sleepers FH2 in eurorack il do a video soon!
@ that would be cool. Was scratching my head for a while after about how I could achieve it on my Pro1. Alas, i don’t have the audio interface or a modular setup for it but would be cool to see how it’s achieved. May open Pandora’s box on the modular for me though 😅
Very cool!
Thanks!
Very inspiring stuff, that squelch is proper
🙏
Thanks
No problem
Would this training apply if I have a Hydrasynth Explorer?
They all have same OS with some exceptions so the teaching applies to all :)
Sound james
Thanks for watching 🙏
FIRST because I’m a fan but also a knowledge freeloader
Thanks for watching 🍻
yes!!!!
🍻
how are you pasting without holding function at the same time?
Trig + STOP will paste
Wicked 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks for watching 🙏
Thank you! Great track and tutorial, if you press func+settings button, its saves the project;)
I always just save individual patterns and then save project at end of sessions 🙏
@@jamesorvis_mixhackers haha i was thinking you should know it:D for me with the short cut seems more simple and faster but cheers:))
Electro goodness there beauuutiful
🙌
Octatrack vid showing how to use it with either the Syntakt or Digi or both. Nice stuff as always!
Coming soon! Already uploaded 👌
Nice one sir. Electro enjoyer here.
Will do some more 🪄
Hi James, are you dropping Digitone II Mastercourse aswell any time soon? Thanks for this short and usefull tuts.
Not in the works yet! I still haven’t bought one yet
The reso boost is primarily designed for use with the VCF FM mod as it gets really squelchy and disgusting at really high resonances. Then if you disable the VCO, with the filter in self oscillation you get a FM modulated resonant tone that tracks the VCO CV, if that makes any sense? Or just set up a constant self oscillation tone with the reso boost and the filter lock engaged and use one of the FM sources to modulate it for some classic flatulent radiophonic workshop action. The filter lock was originally designed so you could actually use the external VCF input without having to retrigger the envelope with midi, and without having the 303 envelope permananely applied to the cutoff when you trigger it. It just locks the filter and the envelope open, so if you turn off the VCO then you can just use it to filter external signals properly. The added bonus of that being the weird drone thing it does with the VCO on. Try it with the accent turned up. The attack of the accent with the filter lock on is really weirdly organic. I've always found a 303 distorts best if you drive it through an overloaded mixing desk channel. Other than a RAT, distortion pedals seem to make things a bit flabby or just lose the top end due to the limited bandwidth and the circuits being a little too smooth and 'nice'. The drive switch is basically just overloading the output stage similar to how you'd drive a mixer channel into distortion. The 303 kind of does this already with the volume on maximum, but the drive is just 'more of that' ;-)
Thank you!!! Will do another video soon for sure maybe exploring the FM and high res side of things 🙌
Also massive thanks for doing these mods!
gotta get mine modded, great video!!
You should! Really took it to the next level, very happy with it! I paid an extra 15 to get the filter pot upgrade, he will put a more sturdy filter pot on the PCB because the original ones often break
James , there's a problem with this video , as soon as it started , my leg and arms starts moving , don't know why ..... must be a bug lol Great one !!
Just gotta ride the bug out and shake those arms 🕺🏻
Great video, and fun track! This is my first exposure to step locking a filter, thanks for that.
Happy to help! Step locking filters always sounds great!!
Nice one James!!! Defo for more mb33 - digitakt videos if you’re up for it.
Sounds good!
Wow, used value of these has gone way up.
Aye weren’t they super cheap on release?
@ €100?
@@Nick-kb6jd Around €100 new, and then literally 2 or 3 months after MAM discontinued them because they couldn't compete with Behringer, the MB33 suddenly became 'vintage' and people started trying to sell them for €300+. It was absolutely ridiculous! We used to sell them fully modded for £220-£250 or so. Now you'd be lucky to buy a secondhand unmodded one for that, and they were only discontinued a couple of years ago.
Think I got mine for about £200 but I remember at the time there was a guy on reverb asking for 600 😂
@@circuitbendershanging on to mine then. I had the unmoved one and I traded it for the modded one plus some cash. Haven’t even used it yet.
I agree but unfortunatly there is a lot of noise leaking through in this vid.
Analog dust 🪄 😂 I actually don’t even know what you mean? From the mic?
name of songs?
Haven’t given it a proper name yet, just 303 Workout which may become its actual release name! Gonna work on it tomorrow
Sounds like ground problems.
I have a lot of distortion modules and tubes etc that were running into Ableton I must of left a channel open that had some hiss or feedback loop