Resampling more in depth

[thor_beatz]

I have been making music for about 3 months now, and really want to learn how to make that crazy wide sound that Skrillex/Datsik and blah blah blah use. I dont want you to say that there are thousands of things that cover this, becuase I have been trying to learn some methodology behind it all for about a week now. there are really only a handful of youtube tutorials on how to do it, and they really dont give enough info on how to set out for the sound, achieve it, and use it. Im not trying to be a troll, but i know there are people on this forum that could show an example. im looking for a sound like between 0:13 and 0:18 in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0MIxoM_o_8. And what really bothers me about this forum is, i cant ever sift through anything because it is just one comment after another ragging on people, and its hard to find threads of use. Im getting on this forum becuase i feel that youtube tutorials just arent cutting it for me anymore. Plz dont hate. Im just trying to gain as much knowlege as I can, im not trying to become one of them, but as they say imitation leads to inovation.

This is a rough beginner guide I did last week that might help.

Resampling, in a nutshell, is taking a sound and processing the fuck out of it. Then taking that processed sound, loading it back into your DAW and then fucking with it more, so eventually you're ending up with a unique sound that couldn't have ben generated from the original source.

In FL, for example, say you take a bass note generated by 3xOsc. If you route the sound into a mixer channel (i.e 1), then you can make the sound split across into 3 more channels by clicking on the arrow below each of the 3. So you'd have the sound coming into channel 1, and playing out on channels 2, 3 & 4.

This would make quite a noise as it's effectively the same noise three times, so each of channels 2, 3 & 4, you put a Multiband compressor and split the frequencies so 2, 3 & 4 become low, mid & high (this video explains it better than I can here for the fine details).

You'll now be able to manipulate each of the individual frequency bands seperately, with their own mixer channel. Try putting some reverb on the mid, flange on the highs (the Moving Distortion preset on Fruity Flanger is a good starting point), just play around making different sound and effects chains.

Put a copy of Edison on the Master and record a few notes out onto it. Then take the notes you've just recorded, and save them somewhere. Change the 3xOsc generator to a Sampler, but don't change any of the routing in the mixer. Then load the recorded notes into the sampler and repeat the whole process again.

You'll be gradually changing the sound each time you do this. Some times (and believe me, this will happen a fair bit when you're first starting), it might sound like utter wank after one or two run throughs. But practise with it, see what works and what doesn't. Eventually you'll start finding ways to make sounds that are unique, and sound good. Again, record all of these with Edison and you're build up a sound library of noises that are yours and no one elses.

Take a look at this thread collection. Lot of resources, but it should give you an idea of different things - http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.p ... 4#p2206342

Read everything, watch everything, practise everything.


EDIT - Once you've got the routing setup so that it works, it's worth saving the project file as a template (Save As > Templates subfolder > create folder Resampling > Resampling.flp) so that you can load it up straight away without going through the above.

Does rely on you using FL though I'm afraid.

Here's one for Ableton (splitting to 3 out on 1 channel) http://durkkooistra.com/2011/03/24/spli ... eton-live/

Instead of splitting the frequencies using an EQ, wouldn't it be easier just to use multiband dynamics? I'm pretty new at this, but that's what I've been using when I want to split frequencies, and it works like a charm

Well if your multiband dynamics plugin can host vst's per band yes. Otherwise, in the effects rack you can load a multiband and solo per chain. Just a matter of prefference -i like to have some extra control with EQ

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