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| ORBITS |
| "Orbits"- The simplist orbit is a 1-click orbit. But hey...what is a click? Well...say you've got a sample...you can cut that sample into two by placing a click in the middle (a click translating into turning the fader off then on again clickly i.e. no sound instantaneously). A 1-click orbit would be when you play a sample and you click on both the forward stroke and reverse stroke. So you cut the forward motion into two and you cut the backwards motion into two. So you play the sample forward and click in the middle......change direction and click in the middle again....change direction and click in the middle again etc. etc. So it should come out something like this ye.ah-ha.ey-ye.ah-ha.ey-ye.ah Note you don't click at the end motion (like in a chirp), you move from forward to backwards without changing the fader position. Also there are 2-click orbits or 3-click etc. etc. depending on how many pauses there are in each direction. (i.e. 2 click splits the sample into 3, 3 click into 4 etc.) Clicking in the middle of samples can be a really hard thing to get your head round if you've got used to syncing your record hand with your fader hand (like in chirps and stabs). Just start really slowly and you'll start to get the rhythm of the skratch. The thing to remember is that it's to do with timing and not fader speed. You don't have to be clicking very quickly in a 1-click orbit. A 1-click orbit is an example of an illusion skratch. It sounds as if you are going twice as fast as you actually are. This is because you are basically cutting a single baby skratch into 2 baby skratches of half the length. Normally to get 2 baby skratches out in a standard time it takes you to do one, you'd have to double the speed your hand would be moving on the record, and this would in turn alter the pitch of the sample. But with a 1-click orbit the pitch remains the same but you have the impression of going twice as fast. |
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