That said- I was not expected to be taken with Shakermaker.
The trick is simple as to what it does: it makes anything you send thru it sound like a "shaker" instrument. That simple description alone does not do it justice and exactly how it does that... that may NOT be as easy to explain! Regardless, I felt compelled to bring some attention to this little dealie
I've created a couple of examples to illustrate what can easily be done in 10mins or less.
this example is 4 drumloops cut (roughly) together so that they're changing from one to the next and back again, etc. First, dry and then I toggled the Shakermaker effect off and on. I have not even tweaked the first preset on the effect. You can get all sorts of effects "within the shaker neighborhood" depending on the input you feed it and your Shakermaker settings
this second example,
drumular loop (thru another cool DC challenge entry: compressive)
the same 4 loops running thru a tweak of a Shakermaker preset
and the obligatory Lazysnake thru one instance of de la mancha's truc
not that this is an elaborate illustration, but that is the point: it might *sound* like I took pains in creating the shaker rhythms, but it's really just the (roughly cut) 4 drum loops that are driving shakermaker.
Really nice one, Musicrow!
