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Programs for manipulating a real instrument's sound
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Ascension
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Posted : Jul 29, 2009 20:19:07
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So, my clarinet that I haven't played in a long time has been collecting dust at my parents house and I was thinking it would be something fun to relearn and play during some live chill sets.
I'm looking for any programs or general tips for processing the sound (for live playing as well as recording in the studio). Any and all info you guys can give to me would be wonderful as I have no idea what I could do with this and want to be able to do a lot  . I would like to have the freedom to manipulate the sound significantly as well as have it sound like a nice normal clarinet. Thanks!
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shellbound
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Posted : Jul 29, 2009 21:42
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ableton (since that's what you are going to be using anyway).
you can record a few bars and once it starts to loop, you can mangle the sound with some fx (delays and phasers should be good.... maybe some kind of glitch fx, but since it's chillout, maybe that won't be a good idea for that). just prepare your fx chain before hand and assign your midi controller's knobs to something fun. since your arms will be busy playing the clarinet, you will need a foot pedal to control record/play/delete (in case you fuck up). you can pick up a used behringer fcb1010 for about $100 on craigslist. you can probably set this up without a footcontroller, but it just won't be as flexible.
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geekhorde
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Posted : Jul 29, 2009 21:44
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During a live chill set? You could always go the ol' Miles Davis electric era route, and route the clarinet through a wah-wah, maybe a touch of distortion and phaser, then some delay. Always a good treatment for dubbing out a sound.
Ridiculously easy to do in Ableton Live, by the way. |
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geekhorde
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Posted : Jul 29, 2009 21:45
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Don't forget dummy clips either. Those are really good for controlling automation when you need your hands free. |
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Ascension
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Posted : Jul 29, 2009 22:30
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Yeah I was thinking something with a pedal would work best for real time sound alterations. My initial thought was that I could send it through some sort of vocoder, but I guess the possibilities are actually endless as to what I can do, just need to find out what actually sounds good.
I hope Colin reads this since he plays live instruments with OOOD. Would be good to hear what he has to say . I know some other people that play live instruments routed through instruments so I'll probably ask them to. http://soundcloud.com/ascensionsound
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Disciple
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Posted : Jul 29, 2009 23:18
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chaos pad? |
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Ascension
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Posted : Jul 29, 2009 23:22
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Freeflow
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