Broken Beat & Hauntological Grooves: Noah Pred’s Trifecta Jam

In this stream, Noah Pred sculpts a broken beat journey using Trifecta, Data Synth, and Granulator III. Watch as generative MIDI sequencing, hauntological textures, and auto-hocketed rhythms converge into a hypnotic jam packed with modulation and surprise.

Noah Pred returns with another signature deep dive into advanced generative production, this time pushing broken beat swing, hauntological textures, and MIDI-driven experimentation through the Manifest Audio toolkit.

Starting with a re-release announcement of his Sol Void project, the session is rooted in a tempo of 142 BPM and swings heavily into broken beat territory. Using an acoustified kit, he transforms Simpler devices into Drum Samplers, beefing up weak kicks with sub oscillators and layering carefully crafted hat patterns, Shakers, and FM-brushed textures.

Noah explores vocal textures by dragging vocal samples into Granulator III, creating smeared ambient pads from short loops, further randomized with Mod Squad’s LFO-X. Subtle transformations using filters, reverbs, and tempo-synced modulation add depth to these cinematic elements.

He introduces auto-hocketing — an ancient technique revived using Ableton’s follow actions — to switch between clips and inject unexpected rhythmic shifts. Drums become skittery and alive through stochastic behavior, random filtering, and saturation.

The core of the jam is driven by Trifecta, a generative three-lane MIDI sequencer with probabilistic note and gate control, paired with Data Synth. From randomized waveforms to carefully drawn oscillators, Noah sculpts pulsing tones that evolve dynamically with chaos and count modes. Using X-Relay, each Trifecta lane is routed to a unique synth (Data Synth, Drift, and Operator), enabling parallel melodic lines to emerge in auto-hocketed interplay.

Further textures are layered using Electric and captured with X-Looper, allowing for expressive MIDI looping, remixing, and probabilistic modulation of notes, tones, and timing. He captures takes in real-time, printing unpredictable generative runs directly into the arrangement.

This is not just a beat-making session; it’s a demonstration of fluid, modular, MIDI-centric creativity — one where sampling, synthesis, sequencing, and modulation fuse into a living, breathing track.