sunwarper - Invidious

Weekly music production tips and tricks focusing on dawless gear like SP404 MK2, Koala Sampler, Digitakt and synths. I'll show you ways to go beyond the typical lofi beats/house vibes on these machines and use them for sound design, ambient, idm and guitar based music.

A little about me:
Sunwarper is a Los Angeles based project creating warped, atmospheric electronic music. Sun soaked melodies, warm analog synths and dusty samples meet cinematic landscapes to create nostalgic soundtracks for places that don’t exist. With his mastery of live instruments and samplers, Sunwarper creates a wide range of sonics between Ambient dreamscapes, lofi chillout and Synthwave bliss.

With releases featured on the likes of KEXP and Bandcamp’s “New and Notable”, Sunwarper has established himself as an integral a part of the independent electronic scene.

If you want me to cover your synth or sampler & for 1 on 1 coaching for music production/dawless gear, contact me: info (@) sunwarper.com

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Just wanted to say happy holidays to everyone here.

This year has been a big one for the channel, and I’m incredibly grateful for all the support, comments and conversations along the way. It’s been awesome getting to talk music, gear and workflow with so many of you.

I’ve got a beat compilation with some of my favorite beats from the year coming out this Saturday. Hope you enjoy it, and hope you’re all having a great end to the year.

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What sampler are you currently using the most?

After using the SP to make my newest live set, and feeling some serious G.A.S. for the MPC Live III, I decided to go back to the PO-33. It is definitely limited, but the sound and quick workflow make for some awesome ideation.

Watch how it went here: https://youtu.be/9QUK55nw-kE

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Making live sets on the SP404 is one of the most fun ways to use this sampler.
Over the last few years we have gone over a bunch of different methods here on the channel, but for my newest live set I ran into my biggest challenge yet. I wanted to combine ambient tracks, odd time signatures, and live guitar performance on the SP404 all at once.

To make it work, I had to come up with some new performance methods I have never used on the channel before. These completely changed how I approach playing live on the SP404, and I break everything down in this video here:

https://youtu.be/5CE7vmknA9Y

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How far can you go with just a sampler and a guitar?
I made a full live set to test it out:
https://youtu.be/TiezZzHk_QU

I had to come up with some new performance methods on the SP404 to make this work, so I’ll be posting a full breakdown of the techniques I used this Saturday.

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What’s your favorite part of the beatmaking process?

I’ve got a new SP404 live set out tomorrow, and whenever I’m building a new set, one of my favorite parts is figuring out how to translate each track into a live setting. Whether the song was made with a DAWless setup, the SP, or even a DAW, there are so many ways to reinterpret it for performance.

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