Once you’ve recorded some Reese noodling, it’s time to throw the audio in a sampler…

1 Here’s an audio take from our Reese rendering tip. We’ve dragged it into Ableton Live’s Sampler (although any decent sampler will do the job). The first thing we do is set up a backand-forth loop within the sampler, then scan this loop range throughout the audio to find a suitable section.

2 Once we’ve got a nice section looping, it’s time to jam in some MIDI over a beat and see what works. In this scenario, our Reese sounds good when we play a high note followed by a low one. Once happy, we render this two-note section to a new audio track.

3 To create more variations for our track, we head back to the sampler and move the loop range within the audio to find a different segment of the Reese that will complement the first bit. After a few goes at this, it’s fun and easy to build up an audio collage of complex Reese chunks that all work together to form a more complex pattern.