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Posted by krivi on Jan-23-2005 18:21:

Any tips on making killer FXs?

Is there any vst or something? Or it's done with vst synths...

Posted by DickieThijssen on Jan-23-2005 18:44:

you can make your own fx with antares filter, very powerful vst

Posted by Shahar on Jan-23-2005 18:56:

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Originally posted by DickieThijssen
you can make your own fx with antares filter, very powerful vst

where can I get this filter from?

Posted by RiCo on Jan-23-2005 20:26:

You have to buy it. Antares products are great...I have a few of them and even though they're expensive, are highly worth it.

Posted by UphoricNitemare on Jan-23-2005 21:45:

with Triange 2 (free), you can do some things with white noise.

Posted by Derivative on Jan-23-2005 21:51:

mate you can make killer FX with pretty much any virtual analogue synth. especially ones like vanguard which have specific waveforms (noise, white noise, pink noise, r2d2) which seem to specifically for this purpose. set up your filter envelopes, your cutoff and resonance. a bit of distortion on the amp section. set the oscillator to one of the aforementioned noisy waveforms then modulate the oscillator pitch on the lfo for some crazy crazy effects. then gate it or arp it to make it even crazier.

Posted by nec on Jan-23-2005 21:51:

You can do some cool things with common effects on white noise like delay, reverb, flanger and stuff. NitroPSP is also cool.

Posted by Derivative on Jan-23-2005 21:53:

yea. or you can take any conventional synth sound and run it through a phaser to warp it into something totally alien.

Posted by UphoricNitemare on Jan-23-2005 21:57:

speaking of filters...are there any good ones for cheaper than 200 dollars? Call me old fashoned, but i just don't have the money

Posted by h.vox on Jan-24-2005 09:27:

Re: Any tips on making killer FXs?

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Originally posted by krivi
Is there any vst or something? Or it's done with vst synths...

try these freeware synths:
EVM synths
Crystal
KlangLabs freebies
GTG synths

also, m42 nebula is great for spacy atmospheric sounds (there is a preset with the exact sound astral projection used for their last album).

if that is not enough, you can use some vst plugins like anything from ohmboys (www.ohmboys.com i think) or use the weird freeware plugs like the ones from tobybear (www.tobybear.de).

Posted by h.vox on Jan-24-2005 09:29:

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Originally posted by UphoricNitemare
speaking of filters...are there any good ones for cheaper than 200 dollars? Call me old fashoned, but i just don't have the money

ohmboys quad frohmage, ohmygod! (included with every issue of computer music), klanglabs filter.

Posted by nec on Jan-24-2005 13:43:

W4R3Z PPL

Posted by h.vox on Jan-24-2005 13:55:

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Originally posted by nec
W4R3Z PPL

huh? everything i mentioned, except m42 nebula and quad frohmage, is freeware. quad frohmage is 150 euro (less than antares) and m42 nebula is only 50 euro.

Posted by nec on Jan-24-2005 18:01:

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Originally posted by h.vox
huh? everything i mentioned, except m42 nebula and quad frohmage, is freeware. quad frohmage is 150 euro (less than antares) and m42 nebula is only 50 euro.

I didn't mean that. I just keep "don't buy music software until you sell it" in mind.

Posted by krivi on Jan-24-2005 18:07:

vanguard really helps

Posted by cgranber on Jan-31-2005 23:59:

Re: Re: Any tips on making killer FXs?

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Originally posted by h.vox
also, m42 nebula is great for spacy atmospheric sounds (there is a preset with the exact sound astral projection used for their last album).

yeah... and what patch would that be? i couldn't find it...

Posted by h.vox on Feb-01-2005 09:03:

Re: Re: Re: Any tips on making killer FXs?

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Originally posted by cgranber
yeah... and what patch would that be? i couldn't find it...

dunno exactly. browse through them and find out.
i dont really care which patch is that, all i know that it is great synth for such sounds.