Innit

I've been doing weeklybeats 2026 almost entirely on the Dirtywave M8 -- often on a Sunday night, in bed, on an actual hw. This was before Tim went and elevated a hardware abstraction layer into a proper iOS App (which I still very much recommend). This particular tune though, "Innit", is an oddity for me: it lives on the Analog Four, a box I got from a friend ages ago for an absolutely irresistible price. It mostly collected dust. I'd make a few tunes here and there but never really dug into the stuff that makes it unique. Other than having individual channels ready for effects pedals and exposing the Elektron sequencer via CV for your eurorack addiction (stuff that I for sure will never use).

I've been putting off learning about the performance macros forever, and I hate myself for it. Luckily the amazing Ivar Tryti revealed his mastery on Youtube which helped a lot. The concept is simple: you bundle up to five track parameters onto a single macro knob. Ten of them live on the performance page making is far less stressful of a navigation when performing. There's a setup cost, you need to precisely tune the parameter interactions, but once that's locked in, live performance becomes a far less stressful affair. You can also live map any or all of these ten mappings onto a single encoder for otherwise physically impossible twistings. This is easily remappable during the performance.

I'm still a noob at this, but the point is the same as always: there's real joy in performing and building up energy for the drop in real time -- way more satisfying than preprogramming the whole sequence.