Beat collective creative challenge March 2024

Tram and foley sounds provided by BC member River.

Image by Ralf Pilz from pixabay.com

The Next Stop Is

Beat Collective challenge April 2024

Samples provided by Jacki-e @jackiepalmer

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Only Eight Minutes

SUN (Jacki - E Remix)

BeatCollective Creative challenge July 2024

This track introducing the Scooter Lindley Trio

Challenge samples kindly provided by @gairaigo

Illustration by Adobe AI.

Yes On One And No On Two

This is my entry for the Beat Collective Challenge for 16th Feb 2025 in which participants are given three samples and the challenge id to incrporate those samples into a new piece of music, any genre.

This time the samples are from Senor Picante and comprise:-

Sample 1 - Synth Pad
Sample 2 - Glitchy Drums
Sample 3 - Rolling Snares

I incorporated all three samples in the two breakdowns and in addition I sliced the Rolling Snares to midi and made separate hits from them which I used as fills at various points un the track.e.g 1:20 & 2:50.  I wanted to do a lot more with them and create fill patterns and extra percussion from the Glitchy Drums too but I haven't had time. I also used the Synth Pad as an added ambience sound which plays throughout the track. (edited)

Snake Bite

This is my entry for the Beat Collective Challenge for May 2025 in which participants are given some samples and asked to incorporate them into an original track.

This month's samples are from the Ableton May newsletter's featured artist quickly, quickly and are called entertheroom, loopme & urfreakingmeout

entertheroom I used the first part of the sample as a riser at various places in the track.
loopme I converted the melody to a new midi then used that melody with a Serum patch to create one of the lead instruments
urfreakingmeout I used in both breakdowns as a drone sound and also at the end of musical phrases.



Jacki-E - Rave Quickly (Beat Collective Challenge 25052025)

Beat collective creative challenge June 2025.

The challenge is to create a track using the free samples provided by beatcollective.net each month.

Flower Image by Vogue0987 on Pixabay

Passion



This is my entry for the Beat Collective Challenge of 29-06-2025 in which we are given two samples and invite to incorporate them into an original track.

This month the samples are :-
Sample 1 - Guitar chords in G minor
Sample 2 - Lofi Rhodes piano in G minor (or B flat major)

I used sample 1 as a rhythmic element throughout the track, pitching it down two semi-tones.

I put sample 2 into Ableton's Simpler and played a melody with it, then created two additional melodies for the breakdown. and the second half of the track.


Jacki-E - Lose Your Senses (Beat Collective Challenge 29062025)

Upside Down - production notes

Participated in a challenge by Matt Tinkler to create a track using only one sound for everything. (One sound source, so no converting to MIDI and then applying a MIDI instrument allowed.)

My starting sound was a sample of a gong recorded by Nathan DeVries (Berlin) during a coworking session over video call 28 July 2025. We each spent 1 hour trying to make something with it. 

I've subsequently spent another few hours since developing it to this point. 

I made a synth part using a chopped part of the gong and also used Corpus and Spectral Resonator (as per Matt’s instructions in part 3 of this video https://youtu.be/tVckTEehujA). 

also chopped up bits of it to create a drum rack for hit sounds etc.

relied a lot on automation and panning for this to make it interesting

used Space Blender reverb tool for ambience

also slowed the tempo at the end combined with using some Valhalla Supermassive parameters to create interest.

  The title is inspired by a conversation Nathan and I had in our coworking session about the weather being an almost perfect mirror image between Berlin and Melbourne.

Beat collective challenge aug2025 samples by Leo Abrahams

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