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Whats your secrets when working with audio???
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ansolas
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Posted : Oct 7, 2010 19:25
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Plasmorh
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Posted : Oct 8, 2010 22:53
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synth1 is a massive weapon........ many noises it make...
omnisphere so good for atmos.... (aswell of atmosphere)...
trilogy for bass *.*
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mudpeople
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Posted : Oct 24, 2010 17:40
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Ive used Synth1 in most of my tracks since I discovered it. Usually it ends up being a backing element rather than a lead for me, but it does some great metallic sounds, nice arps, nice LFO settings, its free, the interface is easy to use.. etc.
Some other free ones I use a lot are Microgram (nice analogy panning drones), INTRO(one of the best free vsts for leads and atmosphere, lots of options), Crystal(if you dont have it, get it, play with it, its hard to describe but awesome), EVM Isotope, reFX Claw sometimes... Analog Warfare 3, Angular Momentum TB-30X (nice 303 emu that I like) and so on. Do a lot of searching through kvraudio.com and find your own favorites.
As far as outside of 4/4, Im pretty sure Ive heard someone's, forget whose, track that had a section that basically had the same 4/4 structure, but cut off the last 2 beats, but maybe thats just how I heard it... Temporary insanity perhaps... I like to throw in the odd partial measure or 2, little break thingy now and then so its not 1-2-3-4 the whole way thru.
Ive been messing around, mixing down stem WAVs. Ive been liking how it sounds when I duplicate some of the tracks, set each track with that instrument to their own panning settings, then tweaking their volumes so the instrument occupies its own section of the stereo field, but still has presence in other parts of the mix. It seems to add more width and fatness and gives precise control of where that width begins and ends.
Sometimes it sounds cool to put a bandpass on a backing element, say a Synth1 metallic scratchy sound. Renoise's 'Butterworth 8n' setting gives a very very sharp cutting of anything above or below the Q setting, almost a vertical line instead of a slow fading into the upper and lower freqs. I like how it sounds isolating just the metally sound's mid range. You can put a HP or LP farther down the chain and put some sweeps on it, Ive managed to make some nicely fading sounds this way that bring frequencies out that may be hidden otherwise without the BP, those little tiny peaks of the lower end just barely making it above the low cut, or vice versa w/ highs.
Ive started trying out how the bass sounds without an EQ, and so far so good. I generally dont use any compression at all, instead of sidechaining I usually tweak the kick so it cuts before the bass begins, or near enough (sometimes bleedover sounds good), and/or EQing problem frequencies. Usually my kicks and bass get sent to their own send that has a 3band EQ with a bit of a nudge up to the lows, bit more nudge to the mids, and a bit of a nudge lower on the highs if it needs it. If the kick is EQed, though, lowering the high is more of a formality  .
The track Im working on right now, I tried out how it would sound to do further effecting to the final mixdown, adding a dblue glitch (mix set no higher than 75%) now and then, and a few other one-time effects. I like how it sounds even though I only spent like, 20 minutes on it. Ive avoided the Glitch til now as I don't usually like how it sounds on the master channel. Maybe cuz its so common... But I like how it sounds accenting the end of a pattern now and then, or adding another trippy rhythmic element to breaks.
Ive also been liking how it sounds, mixing down stems, to put the bass/kick in 3 separate channels, one for the center, the other 2 panned to each side adjusting their volumes to mesh them better with the centered channel. Then I EQed the 2 panned tracks further, cutting out some of the lower-mid range, hopefully to give the bottom end a bit of lower-range presence at the 2 extremes. I think it sounds nice.
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elastic_plastic
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Posted : Oct 31, 2010 13:13
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On 2010-10-07 02:40, Maine Coon wrote:
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On 2010-10-06 19:50, aciduss wrote:
Hmmmm... psy-waltz... hmm...
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Sanathana produced a psy-waltz track. If I remember right, it's on his Soundcloud page. If not - look on YouTube: the track name has the word "waltz" in it.
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its not 3/4 though!! |
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Maine Coon
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Posted : Oct 31, 2010 19:55
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