RawShock
(RawShock)
March 27, 2010, 2:23pm
1
So I got a bunch of pads and various instruments that sound good in their own rights, but I don’t feel comfortable using them straight out of the box, as it feels kinda cheap to do so.
What I usually end up doing is tuning them down and applying various effects.
Any other nifty little things that can be done to change them up a bit?
Thanks in advance.
Make an interesting figure, record it, make that a new instrument. Repeat.
RawShock
(RawShock)
March 27, 2010, 3:05pm
3
Don’t think I understand what you mean. Could you elaborate?
td6d
(td6d)
March 27, 2010, 3:11pm
4
If you just use those samples and someone elses techniques you’d still not be using your own style
RawShock
(RawShock)
March 27, 2010, 3:27pm
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Vital parts of my brain aesploded after you revealed the paradox here.
I might have used the wrong term, but by samples I mean just sounds, not prewritten melodies or anything like that.
tode
(tode)
March 27, 2010, 9:19pm
7
Any affecting of sound could spicen up sound?
The point is, sometimes the effect is undesired.
The Lo Fi mat is the best way to spicen up sound with that 4 bit flavour.
The EQ is very delicate in use, very spicy, apply with care with the 300-800 Hz overspiced pressure presence EQing.
Chorus just makes spice from anything that doesn’t taste.
Flanger will give you the imagination things are spicy.
Phaser has the taste of a spice from outer space.
Ring Modulators are mostly roots of spice, not that tasty.
Reverb has a very good aftertaste for a kind of spice.
Delay leaves less room for other spices, a very powerful spice thus.
Sugar, cheese and brick walls are not spices. Those are ingredients.
This was what I cam here to write + a few other things.
td6d
(td6d)
March 29, 2010, 2:35pm
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Any affecting of sound could spicen up sound?
The point is, sometimes the effect is undesired.
The Lo Fi mat is the best way to spicen up sound with that 4 bit flavour.
The EQ is very delicate in use, very spicy, apply with care with the 300-800 Hz overspiced pressure presence EQing.
Chorus just makes spice from anything that doesn’t taste.
Flanger will give you the imagination things are spicy.
Phaser has the taste of a spice from outer space.
Ring Modulators are mostly roots of spice, not that tasty.
Reverb has a very good aftertaste for a kind of spice.
Delay leaves less room for other spices, a very powerful spice thus.
Sugar, cheese and brick walls are not spices. Those are ingredients.
Great, now I’m craving for spiced food
BotB
(BotB)
March 29, 2010, 5:06pm
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Sugar, cheese and brick walls are not spices. Those are ingredients.
Ontopic: don’t forget the FX column!!
09XX can turn any sample into something completely different.
01XX and 02XX can add various flavours, from simple octave drops, to tremolos
0FXX is insta-flavour, its power is sometimes tricky, but applied correctly and it brings life to the dullest sines.
0B00 a simple reverse, in combination with other flavours, can give great inspirational insights, do not underestimate it!
RawShock
(RawShock)
March 31, 2010, 1:07pm
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Shit, that didn’t even cross my mind. Thanks, bot!