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Filling up empty backgrounds
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Akbal
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Posted : Dec 31, 2009 02:05:18
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Ok, another topic..
Curious to hear how each of you fill up those empty backgrounds.. Wooshes.. Fx.. Voices.. Samples / vst's.. What-ever..
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sideFXed
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Posted : Dec 31, 2009 10:02
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I love bleeps and blops 
try mr. alias 2 free. It does something quite different than most other vst's. It forces aliasing ^^
Loading up a patch and trying different notes can yield a whole range of strange sounds.
I like to record a sequence pretty dry, record another one with different velocities, adsr shapes and so on. At the end I pick the best sounds, reload them in a sampler, duplicate and reverse sounds, use reverb and reverse reverb and lots of other fx chains and voila, a whole world of sounds...
hope that helps...
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SineFreq
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Posted : Dec 31, 2009 10:27
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thank you sideFXed this is a really cool plug and great creative technique  |
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sideFXed
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Posted : Dec 31, 2009 11:27
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heh, you're welcome
if you're working in ableton, I often use follow actions and dummy clips to fill up my background - and spice up my main parts. I use follow actions on the clips that actually play sounds, aswell on dummy clips that automate effects on sounds.
This gives variation I'd have to invest hours and hours of tweaking. But ableton does this automatically, if you set up some proper rules for follow actions.
Let me describe the process. In electronic music, it's quite some work to give your sounds variation, a bit of a human feeling. You got your patterns, but you'd have to duplicate the patterns and draw in new notes and so on, place them in the timeline etc.
What I do is set up some copies of a clip. I make variations to these clips with different drum hits, or chords or whatever.
Now I set up my follow actions so that they make sense. You have total control how random or how stiff you want the variations in the endresult.
Also look into effect chains that you can automate with dummy clips. Something that I always felt was missing in other daw's or let's say, the configurability was missing.
A good video to watch is for example tom cosms take on dummy clips. or http://www.thecovertoperators.org/
This can give you alot of variations in conjunction with my first post in this thread.
Ah, I'm totally in love with this stuff for quite some time now. Try it if you got access to ableton
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TimeTraveller
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Posted : Dec 31, 2009 14:17
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I like to play in soundforge with the plug in chainer and process some files - make a few variations from same samples and some cut them to bits , some reverse ,transpose ,maybe double them short parts a fewtimes ina row like a fast roll and use the effects sometimes etc.
Plug in chainer there is a great tool.Recently I like much pitch shifting and very much buffer override .
Bit crushing automatization and DFX Buffer override are my favourites this times for such things.
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vision dream
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Posted : Jan 10, 2010 08:38
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i gotta a files from libraries sound, and use it, in my way edit,play with file and then put into backgrounds of the tracks.! there are millions of sound libraries. or een extract from a movie...
ihope this can help you.
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zebu connection
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Posted : Jan 13, 2010 19:09
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most of them are from sample pack (my backgrounds)
i add some crazy fx, do some eq and panning
delay and reverb (smooth and harmonic please)
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minddoctorsmakeacid
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Posted : Jan 15, 2010 02:01
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I use loads of resources but my favorite one is my microphone.
I just do crazy sounds with my mouth and sometimes process them with reverse, distortion, phasing etc...
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zebu connection
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Posted : Jan 18, 2010 07:31
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nice man,
i would try out rec some atmospheric sounds...
here in brazil we've got a lot of them
birds, ocean, lot of wind, forest |
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Trip-
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Posted : Jan 18, 2010 09:22
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keep it minimal, yo
Crackling universes dive into their own neverending crackle...
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jizy
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Posted : Jan 18, 2010 10:27
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Sidechain sum fuked up delays and pan those bitches!
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Shiranui
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Posted : Jan 19, 2010 15:22
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Stereo echo/delay and stereo reverb (just don't go too heavy on them or your track will sound crowded, especially if played in an indoor venue).
BACKWARD as well as forward! (if you don't have a plugin/tool to do this, then just reverse your sound, run through the echo/reverb and then reverse it again) |
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