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

DAMN THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! serioulsy sounds legit man. would you mind posting the project file?

E-T-F wrote:

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

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mmmkay, dont remember exactly how I did it, but here you go:

1. Make a reese
2. Chorus, Camel Crusher, 2 instances of your favorite eq, fruity love philter, phaser, vocodex, blood overdrive. In that order on the insert track in the mixer.
3. On the first eq, make a manual formant shape and automate the position of each point. Make sure they stay in the same order, though.
4. On the second eq, do typical neurofunk notching automation to get the reese to morph even more.
5. On love philter, make a low shelf and turn the gain up enough to get a big distorted sound while not being too overpowering, modulate the cutoff. After that, make a highpass and modulate the cutoff in the same way.
6. Make the phaser move at around .7 Hz
7. Setup vocodex so that it captures the movement well and also turn the Male/Female setting all the way to male. turn the mix of the vocodex down to about 30%
8. Don't use alot of preamp in blood overdrive, make it subtle, but play with the coloration knob to see what you get.
9. Replace the reese patch with something that pierces more and make it run through the same processing.

If it sounds too airy, play with the mix on the chorus. If it sounds weak, shrink the bandwidth on the notches. Hopefully this gets you somewhere, even if you don't have FL.

@dubesteppe I deleted the project file after bouncing the sound............

@jrisreal Nicely explained, gonna try something similar later Thanks

did anyone try make my sound?

hutyluty wrote:did anyone try make my sound?

no, but I thought it was really interesting cool stuff.

hutyluty wrote:did anyone try make my sound?

waaaaaaayyyyyyyy to complicated for me to try

I just had another shot at some neurofunk stuff. tell me what you think guys.

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edit: the skrillex thing is INSANE, jrisreal!

bRRRz wrote:I just had another shot at some neurofunk stuff. tell me what you think guys.

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....go on

E-T-F wrote:

bRRRz wrote:I just had another shot at some neurofunk stuff. tell me what you think guys.

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....go on

you mean like describing what i did?
well i just took a normal reese, automated some notch filter sweeps (some fast, some slow), automated the filter cutoff of a bandpass filter and then threw on distortion, reverb, a very fast delay and multiple eqs, compressors and sent the signal to two more different mixer channels which I panned (one to the left, one to the right). the last step was adding a sine wave under it. the amp automation of the sine basically just followed the bandpass filter of the reese.

noo :'( this thread is no longer on the front page :'(. everyone post some more great sounds so we can move this thread back up!

dubesteppe wrote:noo :'( this thread is no longer on the front page :'(. everyone post some more great sounds so we can move this thread back up!

Cubase has been opened! lets see what mechanical wreckage i can come up with

dubesteppe wrote:noo :'( this thread is no longer on the front page :'(. everyone post some more great sounds so we can move this thread back up!

noone wanted my sounds

just kidding

E-T-F wrote:

dubesteppe wrote:noo :'( this thread is no longer on the front page :'(. everyone post some more great sounds so we can move this thread back up!

Cubase has been opened! lets see what mechanical wreckage i can come up with

thats the spirit!n

Fused Productions wrote:

dubesteppe wrote:noo :'( this thread is no longer on the front page :'(. everyone post some more great sounds so we can move this thread back up!

noone wanted my sounds

just kidding

i do!

An engine sort of sound I made. Sorta has a jackhammer/lawnmower sort of feel to it.
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The exact chain I have put together in Ableton is: NI Razor -> Vocoder -> Waves Maxxbass -> IK Ampeg SVX -> IK Classik Studio Plate reverb

Near the end of the demo I automate the glide time most of the way up to get that slower "power down" sort of effect.

A couple of basses I made just for this thread as it is awesome and people are coming up with some great things.. Think I'll make some sort of granular atmosphere next

Numero uno:
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Numero two:
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Figured I'd contribute something.... Not sure if any of the sounds I've made are really that complicated, but some of them might be interesting if you're a beginner I guess.

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Pads @ 1:36 -> 2:30

I used fruity loops for this, no reason why you couldn't do it with something else, but I worked with the 3xosc, for those of you who don't know what it is it does what it says on the tin really. 3 oscillators each an octave apart from the last, which you can set to a few varied settings, sine/saw/square/ramp or a sort of half square half saw wave thing or white noise - I think those are all the options. It's pretty basic but easy to quick to use. you don't really have to use the 3xosc, you can mess around with more complicated synth set ups to get a similar or probably better effect.

Open a 3xosc, leave it as sine waves, write a short 4 chord sequence that will work when it's played backwards, make all the notes legato slide to each other to get that weird liquidy feel out of it.

Open another 3xosc, program in the same notes, again, use that legato slide, but use detuned saw waves, cut the low end - all you want is the high-mid/high end grit. Send both of the 3xosc to the same channel, apply a small amount of chorus and maybe put a flanger on it to make it sound a little more wet and juicy.

Open up yet another 3xoc, again, program the same notes in, set it to square waves, don't detune it, send it to a new channel and filter out the low end and the high end, should sound kinda like when you listen to music on a bad 80s radio, it's missing a lot, but it sounds pretty smooth, add a little chorus.

Sine wave 3xosc should be the loudest of the three, the saws are just to add high end color so they should be pretty quiet, the square wave osc should be in the middle somewhere.

Now export it as a wav, bring it back in, process it a little more if it needs it, then reverse the entire thing.

Write some simple piano riffs, plaster them in delay and reverb, then export, bring it back in, reverse it, and layer it in. Do the same with lots of other instruments that have a sparkly high end to them.

'Snare' Sound Layer a shit load of claps over each other, but don't let them all hit at the same time, have some of them hit slightly before where they're meant to (in this case the 2nd beat) and some hit slightly after where they're meant to. Layer in the sound of a running tap. Layer in lots of junk sounds from the EGOLESS sample pack (I highly recommend it)

4 minute mark onwards = Paul's Extreme Time Stretch. Great tool. I use it to slightly better effect in this track, where it kicks in around the 1.17 mark:

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Hopefully some of that is useful to somebody.

Kaiori - That first track you posted is absolutely mind boggling.. I think the tips you gave will be helpful to producers of all abilities and personally, you have definitely inspired me to write a song like that for my next piece - I was quite proud of what I posted above yours and hearing that has humbled me! Haha

After hearing that I have a few questions:

I managed to track down the Egoless sample pack (here if anybody wants it - http://www.freesound.org/packsViewSingle.php?id=6255) - Can you recommend any more?

Also, there are two instruments playing the melody in your track "If I Could Live In That Moment" that I would like to know more about. They both kick in at 28 seconds.. One playing a more prominant melody and is more up front in the mix, the other playing more sparsely and sitting further back - Sounds like a Japanese string instrument of some sort. What are these and what software are you using to play them?

Also, there is a downward transposition at 37 seconds of a pad type sound... Did you make this pad in key, bounce and transpose down? Please tell me more about that sound.

Thanks,
Alex

Ascian wrote:
I managed to track down the Egoless sample pack (here if anybody wants it - http://www.freesound.org/packsViewSingle.php?id=6255) - Can you recommend any more?

A pack called "ToneScape Animato" was posted on this forum a while ago for free, not sure who put it together, or where you'd find it, but it has a lot of really cool natural sounds.

I'd recommend more but a lot of the samples in my collection are labeled incorrectly, because I'm messy lol.

You just kinda accumulate good samples over time naturally anyway.

Ascian wrote: Also, there are two instruments playing the melody in your track "If I Could Live In That Moment" that I would like to know more about. They both kick in at 28 seconds.. One playing a more prominant melody and is more up front in the mix, the other playing more sparsely and sitting further back - Sounds like a Japanese string instrument of some sort. What are these and what software are you using to play them?

The one right in front of the mix is a few intruments layered, it's a kalimba with some percussive hits layered in to give it more punchy attack and I think I layered in a couple of pitched african instruments too.

The higher plucked string sounds that come in there are sampled from Pipas & Guchins. I didn't actually program the notes for those, I just cut out notes, from an audio sample of them being played, that were in the right key, then laid them down and moved them around till I had a bit of a melody line going that sounded kinda natural.

As for software, I just dumped the audio files onto fruity loops arrangement screen and started chopping and moving them around there.

Ascian wrote: Also, there is a downward transposition at 37 seconds of a pad type sound... Did you make this pad in key, bounce and transpose down? Please tell me more about that sound.

I drew a chord, think it was like an inverted minor flat 6 or something, in the 3xosc then used the portamento note tool to make the whole thing slide down so every note moves by the same degree at the same time, I think. You could do it by bouncing and transposing too though.

Hopefully that helps :s