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Posted : Nov 7, 2013 10:16
sounds really cool, is the bass line from xox ?
i really prefer that to the "in your face" bass lines , the lesser low end let the mix breathe better, i like that, more space for me . the timbres are all there and the mix is lighter, more enjoyable imho
keep digging man
PsiloCybian
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Posted : Nov 7, 2013 10:52
Nectarios
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Posted : Nov 8, 2013 11:10
Cheers, funny thing is that I said I will just work against what I usually do to make tracks...i.e. there will be a glide bassline that will overlap with the kick, instead of a snare I will just put fingers snapping and then instead of layering a mono clap, I will layer a big stereo one that wips across the stereo image. Instead of a dry kick, I will make Ultrabeat sound like a deep 808 kick, but with some more mid thump.
Then I grabbed Maschine and experimented with drum sounds, small swings and odd hat patterns, tapping each drum hit with the pads and not click one note in, then put the Phatty through the foogers for some blips and ring modulated percussive clangs into the cluster flux doing a resonant chorus and generally trying to keep things grooving with as few sounds as possible.
Sometimes I do something completely random to breakaway from the stuff I normally do, so that I can reboot my brain and then go back to the stuff I normally do and maybe try a few things with a fresh approach...just so that I can tell my self that I am not confined to doing one thing.
I don't know how to classify this track...its not trance, not techno, not prog...not by today's standards for sure. And it can't be released as the intro is one big chunk from a new sci-fi movie Last Days On Mars. Started watching that with my missus, stoned of our heads and when she heard the intro of the movie, she dragged me into the studio to sample it and start throwing sounds that would fit the intro.
Basically created the basis to program one massive acid line on the x0x, and listen to on repeat without recording it, just jamming on it for hours. One thing I've discovered is that it is impossible to glide on the MIDI editor from a muted note to an un-muted one, or trigger the accent on a muted note, Logic just doesn't pick that up. Whereas on the x0x's analog sequencer it is possible to have a muted step, but trigger glide and/accent that changed the way the note right after, sounds.
Great little thing that for making expressive acid lines.
TimeTraveller
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Posted : Nov 9, 2013 01:19
Like it too. Sounds very own. All the little details in hats,claps,blips in groove etc are pretty fresh. Maybe you could repreoduce the intro in a similar way and release it could be great for dancers Wonderig how much could cost the rights for using a sample of this lenght in a psytrance relase.Probably not that much as in an more commercial genre.
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Posted : Nov 13, 2013 15:13
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On 2013-11-13 15:13, PsiloCybian wrote:
my x0xb0x is in the mail !!!! cant wait to twiddle it when it arrives
do you guys favour the 303 clone one, or the modded ones? I like the sound of it, as much as the idea of using that kind of sequencer on other devices now that it's got midi. who cares if someone with tb 303 tattoed on his forearm swears to god (roland I mean) that no clone even comes close to this devine entity of a filter? XD
best 303 sounds I have, besides plug-ins of course, are the Virus and Korg Prophecy, that's got the 303 preset used on Smack my Bitch Up (amazing that this guys didn't even bother to edit the sound themselves, no?). Far from the original sound, both of them, but nice acid tones non the less.
do you guys think a cheaper thing like volca bass would be totally off? (this xoxbox thing is priced at somewhere near 300€, while the korg is like half of that)
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the track sounds like real dope. we spend so much time making things sound perfect, that when we go the other way and actually profit from some instabilities, it sounds like dope! sounds alive, each and every element! be sure to continue this kind of production! you may just as well hit the spot! I guess there's plenty of people out there that would love this kind of approach (again!)
