Post an interesting sound you have made thread

[Ataxia]

https://rapidshare.com/files/1363785380 ... roject.zip

There's the RapidShare .zip of the whole project.

I'll just give a quick rundown of what went on just to clarify;

Started out programming a Reese Bass in Operator, really just trial and error, as I don't know dick about FM synthesis, but it's still fun.

I bounced the bassline out, then did a bit in the way of distortion: lots of compression, saturation, and then I limited it (for some reason).

I set up a quick sub-bass patch in Operator, so I could combine my Reese with the sub-bass in the next step.

After bouncing the Reese and sub combined, I added the real heavy distortion. At this time it was sounding pretty gritty. I split the track into 2 audio tracks, one for the lo's and mid's, and one for the hi's.

I phased the hi's and bitcrushed them to high hell. I then bounced the lo-mid's out to another track, and the hi's to another separate track.

I reverbed and vocoded both tracks to taste, then bounced the 2 tracks to 1 new track. Lots more compression, a tiny bit of delay for (as someone else said in this thread) a "metallic" sound, and a bit of reverb.

[dubesteppe]

https://rapidshare.com/files/1363785380 ... roject.zip

There's the RapidShare .zip of the whole project.

I'll just give a quick rundown of what went on just to clarify;

Started out programming a Reese Bass in Operator, really just trial and error, as I don't know dick about FM synthesis, but it's still fun.

I bounced the bassline out, then did a bit in the way of distortion: lots of compression, saturation, and then I limited it (for some reason).

I set up a quick sub-bass patch in Operator, so I could combine my Reese with the sub-bass in the next step.

After bouncing the Reese and sub combined, I added the real heavy distortion. At this time it was sounding pretty gritty. I split the track into 2 audio tracks, one for the lo's and mid's, and one for the hi's.

I phased the hi's and bitcrushed them to high hell. I then bounced the lo-mid's out to another track, and the hi's to another separate track.

I reverbed and vocoded both tracks to taste, then bounced the 2 tracks to 1 new track. Lots more compression, a tiny bit of delay for (as someone else said in this thread) a "metallic" sound, and a bit of reverb.

I like the effects chain. There was one thing however that you forgot to do. You didn't add the notch filters. I just added a step 5 to your project with notches. http://www.mediafire.com/?uquudcppzkhf59o

[Artie_Fufkin]

@blinkesko: I was expecting a hoover

lolwut

You said a vacuum sound so I thought you had made a hoover/mentasm synth.

[Augment]

@blinkesko: I was expecting a hoover

lolwut

You said a vacuum sound so I thought you had made a hoover/mentasm synth.

ahhh, lol

[Ataxia]

I didnt add notch filters on purpose, since it was meant just to be a sample someone could throw into simpler. I'll check out your updates tomorrow morning, while I was waiting around I made another reese using resampling, take a look if you want
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I have the .ALS for this, too.
EDIT: Actually, I'm pretty sure I deleted it after I got the sample.

[Gewze]

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nothing amazing but i made it like 20 mins, its weird and i like it.


thats the original sound in massive then it was sampled, it was pitched down then up again and resampled with some delay 2's at 0.12ms delay with a long delay.

[E-T-F]

if anyone could recommend some plugin effects (preferably free ware) that they're using to get these re sampling pieces of sex, i would be very grateful

[dubesteppe]

mostly stock ableton fx and camel crusher

[Oversteer]

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did this with lots of fx in ableton live 8.1.1

[Ataxia]

if anyone could recommend some plugin effects (preferably free ware) that they're using to get these re sampling pieces of sex, i would be very grateful

What dubesteppe said. FM synthesis by itself makes very gritty sounds, shapers, compression, and ableton's amp effect in particular makes some very bassy sounds. Chorus, and small amounts of reverb are good too.

[cmgoodman1226]

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i dont know remember what the hell was going on in this one but i will gladly post the preset if anyone is interested. I find cmgoodman`s sound interesting, maybe we could threaten/blackmail him to post the preset or whatever...fuck being nice.

HAHA! I have no problem posting the preset... only The original reese I made in reason (so if anybody uses reason, i can send the combinator patch) and was resampled so many times (in FL Studio that it sounds nothing like the original). But I will up load a bunch of notes from the original reese and make them downloadable on my soundcloud. Also keep in mind I know nothing about using rapidshare or dropbox of any of that shit. So If anybody would like to school me, I have no problem uploading samples of sounds and patches and presets and all that.
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That's the original reese with a random assortment of notes for any who would like to use it. And to anybody who thinks I'm avoiding allowing my sounds to be gathered by people on the forum, I can assure you that's not true at all. I made the original patch a while ago and unfortunately the song that goes along with it is so unorganized that I kind of got lost in the resampling process and havent paticularly been able to create anything similar since. That being said, I just turned on the downloadable thingy on the patch I originally posted:
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Anybody who has any further questions about that sound or any other sound on any of my soundcloud page, feel free to ask.
Salakim Salaam.

[E-T-F]

so cmgoodman, you're resampling tactics would be to play a bunch of different notes and note lengths? then just pick the best from the bunch and work on them?

[cmgoodman1226]

so cmgoodman, you're resampling tactics would be to play a bunch of different notes and note lengths? then just pick the best from the bunch and work on them?

No. I apologize if my statement was confusing. I posted the original reese to show everybody that a preset wouldnt do much because the preset (really the combinator patch) does not sound much like the resampled version. But I posted a bunch of different notes just so that if by chance somebody liked it, They could have a bunch of different notes to use and do with as they please as opposed to just uploading one note and having to throw it into a sampler (where if you tried to use a sample like that an octave up the sound quality would deteriorate).I don't normally just play a bunch of random notes (that was just for anybody who wants to use that particular sound). Unless I'm just working on sound design though, I personally write my bass line first, before I even know what the synth is gunna sound like. I'll play with my midi normally just using a standard saw wave. Then once I have something I like, I go to work on a sound or a patch. Once I have that down, I eq and roll off everything under 150-200 hz, THEN I resample. But I try to beef up my patches a lot before I resample, particularly when I'm working in massive. But for a lot of my reeses I use thor in Reason 5. Then I'll bounce the patch out and import it into FL studio and I'll start with effects. So no, normally I don't just work with a bunch of random notes. I create a melody or line of some sort that I like, and then work from there.

[cmgoodman1226]

and to E-T-F, I can't recommend many freeware plugins but some vst's I have found indespensible are camel phat and camel space. I use both of those for almost every sound that I make.

[E-T-F]

so cmgoodman, you're resampling tactics would be to play a bunch of different notes and note lengths? then just pick the best from the bunch and work on them?

No. I apologize if my statement was confusing. I posted the original reese to show everybody that a preset wouldnt do much because the preset (really the combinator patch) does not sound much like the resampled version. But I posted a bunch of different notes just so that if by chance somebody liked it, They could have a bunch of different notes to use and do with as they please as opposed to just uploading one note and having to throw it into a sampler (where if you tried to use a sample like that an octave up the sound quality would deteriorate).I don't normally just play a bunch of random notes (that was just for anybody who wants to use that particular sound). Unless I'm just working on sound design though, I personally write my bass line first, before I even know what the synth is gunna sound like. I'll play with my midi normally just using a standard saw wave. Then once I have something I like, I go to work on a sound or a patch. Once I have that down, I eq and roll off everything under 150-200 hz, THEN I resample. But I try to beef up my patches a lot before I resample, particularly when I'm working in massive. But for a lot of my reeses I use thor in Reason 5. Then I'll bounce the patch out and import it into FL studio and I'll start with effects. So no, normally I don't just work with a bunch of random notes. I create a melody or line of some sort that I like, and then work from there.

ahh i getcha, thanks for explaining, and my last question, as your cutting everything under 150-200, you would need to add in the sub somewhere, how do you go about making the sub harmonize with the mid range re-sampled shizzle? i wouldn't normally grill someone this much its just you seem to know what you're on about, and you clearly don't just talk the talk!

[cmgoodman1226]

so cmgoodman, you're resampling tactics would be to play a bunch of different notes and note lengths? then just pick the best from the bunch and work on them?

No. I apologize if my statement was confusing. I posted the original reese to show everybody that a preset wouldnt do much because the preset (really the combinator patch) does not sound much like the resampled version. But I posted a bunch of different notes just so that if by chance somebody liked it, They could have a bunch of different notes to use and do with as they please as opposed to just uploading one note and having to throw it into a sampler (where if you tried to use a sample like that an octave up the sound quality would deteriorate).I don't normally just play a bunch of random notes (that was just for anybody who wants to use that particular sound). Unless I'm just working on sound design though, I personally write my bass line first, before I even know what the synth is gunna sound like. I'll play with my midi normally just using a standard saw wave. Then once I have something I like, I go to work on a sound or a patch. Once I have that down, I eq and roll off everything under 150-200 hz, THEN I resample. But I try to beef up my patches a lot before I resample, particularly when I'm working in massive. But for a lot of my reeses I use thor in Reason 5. Then I'll bounce the patch out and import it into FL studio and I'll start with effects. So no, normally I don't just work with a bunch of random notes. I create a melody or line of some sort that I like, and then work from there.

ahh i getcha, thanks for explaining, and my last question, as your cutting everything under 150-200, you would need to add in the sub somewhere, how do you go about making the sub harmonize with the mid range re-sampled shizzle? i wouldn't normally grill someone this much its just you seem to know what you're on about, and you clearly don't just talk the talk!

Woah woah woah. I wouldn't go so far as to say I know what I'm talking about... This is just how I typically do it (there are probably many out there who do it differently . But normally rather than highpassing the mid range stuff like a lot of people do, I use EQ with a more gentle slope so in the mid range stuff so you still get just a pinch of the higher end of the bass in it. After that, I compress the two seperately and EQ to taste one final time, then get the volume between the 2 how I like it (not the volume they will necessarily be in the final mix, just the volume of each relative to each other). Then I send both of them to one channel, and MAYBE add just a bit of saturation or exciter which seems to help them mesh better, but a lot of times at this point I find that they already seem to fit pretty well. Keep in mind that most of my mid range stuff is pretty frequency rich, so it's not like I have a sub bass hitting at 40-90 and then a mid range synth hitting at 2k +. So a lot of times I don't really need to do anything to the both of them to make them fit. I only do it because of what I've learned, that when I used to use one synth for both bass and mid to high range, and add a lot of effects, the sub would sound like shit. Either it would just almost overpower everything or it would sound muddy and too harmonic. Also, unless I am trying to use a straight sub for a certain effect, I like to automate the sub to match the mid range, in terms of gating or filters or envelopes. So if I'm using an envelope to control the frequencies on my mid range, I'm gunna do the same thing with the volume on the sub bass as well. This is obviously just one way of going about it, and they're are many on this site and others who know loads more than me, seeing as I've only been doing this for a bit over a year and am still very much learning. Anyways, I hope this helps.

[Artie_Fufkin]

I resampled a reese i used the 99 reese preset in massive
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I did this a while ago, but I think it was an interesting experiment(I find it interesting anyway):
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I took a 909 Crash and low passed it and then put reverb with all wet signal and no dry signal after that and then boosted it. I was surprised that, even at really low levels, there was some sub content in the sample. Then I high passed it because it had some dc offset

[jrisreal]

Just playing with vowels and reeses and whatnot and I think I cracked the skrillex bass:
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What do you think?

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@jrisreal
The last one there was über nice!
Would be interesting with details

[E-T-F]

@jrisreal
The last one there was über nice!
Would be interesting with details

+1