Éclat Part 158

Avatar eclatcrew | February 10, 2026

This week's challenge is a personal one... I've put together a sample pack of the sounds I haphazardly collected during my time back in Aotearoa New Zealand. There's some nature field recordings captured on my lovely Tascam stereo recorder, some phone recordings of a musical jungle gym, and my friend Instant Fantasy's INCREDIBLE space bass.

It's a very random collection of sounds, but the challenge this week is to make a track of ± 2 minutes long using ONLY sounds from this pack (plus your voice if you're a singer). You can manipulate, warp, and chop the samples as much as you like; they don't have to recognizable.

Download the sample pack from here.

Upload your track to this dropbox folder by 20:30, and rejoin the zoom call at 21:00 for our listening session!

For ideas on using samples in your tracks, check out the tutorials below!

 

Chopping Samples in Ableton with Underbelly
Chopping Samples in Ableton with Underbelly

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Chopping Samples in Ableton with Underbelly
Chopping Samples with Ableton Simpler
How To Create & Process A Kick Drum From Any Sound
Novation // Start Making – House
Creating a Kick Drum from Scratch (Logic Pro X)
Advanced Sample Flipping with Andrew Huang
Creative ways of using Loops & Samples in your productions
Logic: Chop and Reinvent Loops in the EXS 24
Ableton: Making Vocal Chops
Ableton: Adjust Pitch in Simpler using Pitch Envelope
Drum Hacks from Maike Watson
How to make a Vocal Chop track
Ableton: Make your samples sustain in Sampler
Bwana: Creative Ways of using Vocals
Novation // Start Making – Techno
Bitwig: Creative Ways of Manipulating Audio
Ableton: Using Reslicing as a Creative Sampling Tool
Bwana: Sampling from Youtube
Logic: Sampling in Logic with “How to sample like Kanye West”
Ableton: 10 Tips To Help You Master Live’s Drum Rack
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