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Drum Pitch Modulation Tips

Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 10:32 pm
by dynamat
Alright production forum gang.

Anyone got any good tips on pitch modulation and similar processes. Im trying to get a nice high quality swoosh on a loop similar to a timestretched sound without the digital crunch/loss of clarity. Best example i can find it EDit, EG - <iframe src="/forum/video.php?url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWemXNsSl10" frameborder="0" style="overflow:hidden; height:auto; max-width:540px"></iframe>

Working on it getting better slowly, using ableton mainly, env modulations on pitch and what not, tried that Dblue glitch but sounds so generic. Apparently he uses MAX DSP but there must be a way of getting close to that kind of sound without a programming degree and years on MAX.


Anyone got any links, tuts or what not, would be apreciated.

Shafe

Re: Drum Pitch Modulation Tips

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 4:01 am
by tripaddict
drop/raise the octave by one ?

Re: Drum Pitch Modulation Tips

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 7:48 am
by coolshaps
omg i LOVE this song!!! thanks for the post even though I can't answer your question, I got sumpn out of it lol! :)

Re: Drum Pitch Modulation Tips

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 2:34 pm
by dynamat
tripaddict wrote:drop/raise the octave by one ?
Yeah seems the obvious thing but it just doesnt sound any good. Practice Practice i guess

Re: Drum Pitch Modulation Tips

Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 11:12 pm
by AnalGangstaHo
There's a thread on here somewhere about follow actions, dunno if that'll be any use. Can't link cos I'm on iPhone, soz.

Re: Drum Pitch Modulation Tips

Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:58 am
by deadly_habit
if you wanna render em before hand try akaizer http://akaizer.blogspot.com/

Re: Drum Pitch Modulation Tips

Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 2:45 pm
by gravity
try the time machine thing in kontakt.

or if your feeling brave reaktor should be able to do that kind of shit really well. check out exile for examples.

Re: Drum Pitch Modulation Tips

Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 2:52 pm
by dynamat
deadly habit wrote:if you wanna render em before hand try akaizer http://akaizer.blogspot.com/
Go on Mr habit give us a paragraph on the creative benefits on that thing :wink: :P

Re: Drum Pitch Modulation Tips

Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 2:54 pm
by dynamat
Reaktor i bet would be perfect actually just need to spend another 6 months routing on it before i attempt anything worth using :u:

Re: Drum Pitch Modulation Tips

Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 3:31 pm
by gravity
as i say, try the time machine setting in kontakt, its basically a granular setting, and its NI so it sounds quite similar to the reaktor granular stuff too. obviously its not as configurable but you have pitch, grain size, amount and speed, which should be more than adequate.

Re: Drum Pitch Modulation Tips

Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:58 pm
by dynamat
Nice one, will give it a shot. Nice tracks btw, didnt know anyone in watford made music :lol:

Re: Drum Pitch Modulation Tips

Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 11:44 pm
by yamaz
I love this album! Not sure how he does half this shit! very impressive.

Re: Drum Pitch Modulation Tips

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:41 am
by acid2
Hrm, I think for this you could go a few ways. There's the way I know in Reason about playing a sample over and over as fast as possible in the DAW sequencer, and automating the start point of the sample. The other way would be to switch DAWs entirely, and move to something tracker based. My favourite is ReNoise, but there are others out there - essentially the interface you get to your samples makes this sort of stuff the cake, I believe.

Generally speaking, I think you could get the effect you want by time stretching anything that does it in a granular way, if I've understood that type of synthesis correctly. Hope this is somewhat helpful, and that I haven't missed the point!

Edit: remembered the name; ReNoise

Re: Drum Pitch Modulation Tips

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:23 am
by antics
In FL there is a 'Pogo' option on the sampler, which basically shortens the begining and lengthens the end or vica versa, thats pretty good for making laser ish sounds.

Your best bet is probably gonna be from reversing a sound, try having a short reverb on a snare, then rendering and revesing it, that normally makes a swoooosh type sound.

Re: Drum Pitch Modulation Tips

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 1:46 am
by deadly_habit
dynamat wrote:
deadly habit wrote:if you wanna render em before hand try akaizer http://akaizer.blogspot.com/
Go on Mr habit give us a paragraph on the creative benefits on that thing :wink: :P
classic akai timestretching sound on drums
why write a paragraph old jungle and akai samplers go hand in hand for a certain sound :wink:

Re: Drum Pitch Modulation Tips

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:57 am
by magma
deadly habit wrote:
dynamat wrote:
deadly habit wrote:if you wanna render em before hand try akaizer http://akaizer.blogspot.com/
Go on Mr habit give us a paragraph on the creative benefits on that thing :wink: :P
classic akai timestretching sound on drums
why write a paragraph old jungle and akai samplers go hand in hand for a certain sound :wink:
Goldie wouldn't have been Goldie without an Akai. Love that sound.

I'm gonna corner you for a geeky chat one of these days, Matt. :D