Cover of track Milkiest Cowbell by Inavon
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Milkiest Cowbell

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Made using only one Beatbox "808" machine with a cowbell hit every 1/2 bar. Composition is sloppy because I put this track aside, and by the time I came back to it, I was no longer used to the setup. And yes, that's a cowbell-headed cow being milked by the Centroid.

I used Rasselbock stutter to get the 1/2 bar cowbell to repeat at 1/4, 1/8, and 1/16 for different instruments.

My first idea was to use the perfect 5th interval of the cowbell to create Major and minor 7th chords by pitching it up Major and minor 3rds, respectively. I did this in the bell "synth" that has a recognizable cowbell, and in the pad.

Hats and other noisy sounds were created by the reducing the bits per sample.

Using slope bandpass resonance, I created sine wave tones at the same frequency, which would be used for the kick, bass, and lead. I did the standard Rasselbock stop for the kick. To change the tone of the bass and lead, I used Rasselbock scratch to pitch them down, and distortion to add harmonics.

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