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Posted by Dickie-T on Jun-14-2005 10:03:

Randomizing presets

Anyone else in here who uses this technique? Some vst's generate crappy presets in 99% of the time when randomizing, but there are some which give awsome & original presets in like 20% of the cases...

These are the vst's which give good randomized sounds:
- Synapse Hydra (be careful not to blow up your speakers!!)
- FL Drumsynth Live (some original perc sounds) (not a vst)
- Synapse Scorpion
- Imposcar (be careful not to blow up your speakers!!)
- Polysix (part of korg legacy collection)

Of course you can tweak the sounds afterwards to fit them to your tracks

- Do you guys know any more synths in which this technique succeeds?
- Do any of you guys do this too?
- Is this cheating?

Posted by Freak on Jun-14-2005 11:01:

The sysex editor i use for my FM (frequency modulation- yamahas) synths and modules has a randomise function.... hit or miss but it can often give a good basis for some further editing of the random.

I think they put it in as most people dont have a clue how to program FM

Posted by itsamemario on Jun-14-2005 18:27:

Re: Randomizing presets

quote:
Originally posted by Dickie-T
Some vst's generate crappy presets in 99% of the time when randomizing, but there are some which give awsome & original presets in like 20% of the cases...

Did your mom teach you math?

Posted by cybernetica on Jun-14-2005 19:08:

Linplug Albino achieves some good results when randomizing, it even has an integrated randomize-button you can make rather small random changes... But you have to watch out for your speakers as well, sometimes it exceeds the limits.

Posted by Dickie-T on Jun-14-2005 20:03:

Re: Re: Randomizing presets

quote:
Originally posted by dj_alfi
Did your mom teach you math?

no i am just a genious

Posted by *InVeRs3* on Jun-14-2005 20:16:

BTW.

Do you guys think presets are cheating?

I'm sure this has been done over and over many times and i used the searach function so haha.

Posted by Noction on Jun-15-2005 11:12:

I think many people uses presets as a base, and then tweak them as they want or need to get away from that basic preset sound.

I rarely use randomize though, it never produces anything good for me so I say screw it I'm not lucky enough

Posted by Spad on Jun-15-2005 12:25:

I ususally randomise Crystal to get wierd background noises. Have to do it about 50 times to get anything to work with and tweak it from there.

Posted by Dickie-T on Jun-15-2005 13:09:

quote:
Originally posted by Noction
I'm not lucky enough

Hehe yeah, i must admit its a lottery.

Its not likely Armin van Buuren opens 40 instances of V-Station, Pro-53 and Z3ta and randomizes all their presets and notes and comes up with Shivers...