# Remixing Beethoven

**URL:** <https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/remixing-beethoven/4643>\
**Category:** Creations & Ideas\
**Created:** [November 18, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/remixing-beethoven/4643 "2020-11-18T14:01:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![emlyn](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/in-thread.sonic-pi.net/emlyn/32/1460_2.png) [@emlyn](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/emlyn)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 2:01pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/remixing-beethoven/4643/1 "2020-11-18T14:01:18Z")

</div>

I saw Sam tweet about the BBC releasing some samples/stems for remixing of the National Orchestra of Wales playing Beethoven’s 5th [here](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/QVTzwXLyn32x7zjVspcJhx/get-creative-with-beethoven-remixed).

I thought someone might like to do something fun with them, possibly for the [Monthly Challenge](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/sonic-pi-monthly-challenge-2/4565).

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![xavierriley](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/in-thread.sonic-pi.net/xavierriley/32/9_2.png) [@xavierriley](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/xavierriley)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/remixing-beethoven/4643/2 "2020-11-18T15:43:56Z")

</div>

It’s fun! The quality of the samples is really good. Here’s what I came up with when playing around yesterday. Using `onset:` can give some interesting material to work with.

https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?visual=false&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F931536907&show_artwork=true&maxheight=166

```ruby
# Welcome to Sonic Pi
use_bpm 125

beet_path = "/Users/xavriley/Downloads/Beethoven5_stems_wavs"

live_loop :cellos, sync: :kick do
  with_fx :lpf, cutoff: 90, amp: 1.5 do
    with_fx :slicer, probability: range(0.7,0.8).choose do
      sleep -0.05
      sample "#{beet_path}/CELLOS - STEM.wav", onset: 1, pitch: -12, amp: 5
      sleep 4.05
    end
  end
end

live_loop :kick do
  sample :bd_haus, cutoff: 100
  sample :sn_dolf, cutoff: 90, on: [0,0,0,1].tick
  sleep 1
end

live_loop :pad, sync: :cellos do
  8.times do
    sample "#{beet_path}/VIOLINS 1 - STEM.wav", rate: [-1,1,2,0.5,-0.5].choose,
      onset: range(0, 5).choose, pan: range(-1,1).choose, amp: 0.5
    #sample :bd_haus
    sleep 0.5
  end
  sleep 4
end

```

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![robin.newman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@robin.newman](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/u/robin.newman)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://in-thread.sonic-pi.net/t/remixing-beethoven/4643/3 "2020-11-18T15:46:21Z")

</div>

I’ve just been trying exactly the same sort of thing using onset with these samples. As you say lots of fun here.  
EDIT  
I put in an entry, and just got an email to say that it was going to be played on BBC Radio 3 during the program ‘In Tune’ on Monday 14h Dec sometime between. 5pm-7pm (GMT) Created in Sonic Pi, with the aid of Audacity to trim silences at the beginning and end of the samples I used.

WOW it was great to hear my entry being played in Radio 3 last night.  
It is here for 29 days(track 4) about 17:50 minutes into the broadcast.

> **[In Tune - London Mozart Players String Trio and Tama Matheson, Jennifer Pike...](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000qb89)**
>
> Sean Rafferty with music and conversation with some of the world's finest musicians.

I have uploaded my original to SoundCloud

https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?visual=false&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F948001042&show_artwork=true&maxheight=166

I will see what I can do to publish the code later. However I did use SP 3.3beta as I wanted to utilise one of the new commands in it, so you need that version. although I have a temporary hack for two files in version 3.2.2 to get it to work there too.