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I like putting a reverse crash cymbal into a high hit sample (one that you've pushed up all the hi frequencies on) at the same time as a snare beat so you get a sssssssSSSSSHHHHHTING
all veh low in the mix.
Also rolling out chords with the arpeggiator on so you get the crazy WAGGAgagagaDADAdagaawag effect.
You are very creative
with your words! haha
I used to sit for hours
putting recordings of the rain hitting a plastic panel through the granular delays in Audiomulch. Some lovely sounds. </loser>
I am obsessed by
sidechain compression right now. Not necessarily super strange or anything, but I'm using it on most of the music I'm making right now anyway.
It's the secret
to all successful dance music. If done correctly.
what is it?
im very interested by this thread.
please people explain what stuff is and what for
It's a technique
used to create that 'whumph' whumph' in-out-in-out sound you get in dance music. Most people who don't master it and put it in sound like noobs. Lol.
How do you make that noise?
Is it a function? Or is it the result of messing around with all the nobs?
Apparently it's a new feature in Ableton 7
You sort of had to work it out before, but this looks good: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmv15hgFlpY
Yeah...
The new one in Ableton works alright. My 3630 rack compressor looks really pretty when sidechain ducking with a 4 on the floor bass drum. All those lovely flashing lights
I could listen to that guy talk forever
I love American accents like that so much.
How...
can you get sidechain ducking wrong, though? It's the easiest use of a compressor to get right.
I'm informed
that to do it right takes a bit of skill and work. Like, actually properly good, not just plugin-crank-a-knob-away-u-go-can-u-hear-it good. It depends on all the music around it and whether or not you're just using some lame-ass coffee table pads like in the video above.
what programs are you using?
all i have is audacity, a free program from the internet. not very good
i like to record the low moan made by a dying bear as he is punched in the gut, then compress, reverse and distort the sound til it sounds liek cereal falling into a bowl
Cubase sx3
with some ace VSTs - like this one:
http://www.interruptor.ch/vst/wow_n_flutter_1_0.zip
(free, I Should add, and excellent for Boards of Canada esq analogue wobbles!)
Sidechain compression:
You can use one sound to compress another sound. If you use a kick drum sidechained to compress a bassline, or sample then it gives the pumping sound heard in most French House and electro tracks as the bass ducks under the mix whenever the kick drum hits.
That's not a very technical explanation, but if you googled it, I'm sure that there would be a really good tutorial somewhere. Also there are a few good videos on You Tube which explain how to do it on various software programs.
cool
sounsd good
erm, i just distort and reverb everything extremely heavily
i'm not that creative yet.
N00BZ
Bitcrusherrs
Transprotos
etc etc
Dont sell out like Mertzbow ;)
explain
pretty basic
sound modulator types, huge variaties, can be used on any programme.
Mertzbow is a japanese noise artist who got accused of "selling out" when he started to use computers in his work, as it was considered too easy by the majority of noiseniks.
Yes
Bitcrushers aren't for noobs at all </sarcasm>
I mainly use Ableton
for sounds and programming, with a bit of Cubase and Reason thrown in, and then edit it arrange it all in Cool Edit.
I'm sure you could 'acquire' most of these, but I got a brand new copy of Ableton for £40 on Ebay.
STEVE HOLT!
BECAUSE OF THIS THREAD
i just bought reason 3.0 on ebay for 45 p+p free.
i bet its ace. but i bet i dont have a sodding clue how to do it
Ableton Live
is the only thing people should use.
well i bought it now
y'bast'rd
I really want this
But can't afford it right now really.
I really like
Reason 3.0 - its fun, I can't play any instruments, but just bought a midi keyboard, and Reason 3, and I while away an age making one key drone music. Great.
I like the following...
Plugging my Synth keyboard into my Bass synth pedal, into my laptop. Once I have done this I plug my headphones in and record the lovely sounds that come out when I tinker with the various settings.
I usually get bored after about 15 minutes though :(
Sidechaining?
Does Flying Lotus use that in 'Tea Leaf Dancers' if anyone knows? It sounds so odd.
I discovered feeding your computer signal from the headphones-out into a guitar amp then making reverb, distortion, and EQ tweaks to get some awesome fidelty madness. Sounds especially good if you record a whole track then crossfade the 'wet' one with the dry one.
© Copyright you bastards!!
I have had to miss my lss course this weeekend
I haterrr theeee.
Massive trial and error
its obviously a really long and drawn out process when you dont exactly know what youre doing, but i find just adding and subtracting things in Ableton 7 can turn up some nice results. Unfortunately its all I fall back on too.
Music 2000
Oh yeah!
use something like
music mouse to control midi cc and notes.
or scribblesynth. You scribble on the screen to creat wacky sounds