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Posted by mastercongo on Jun-25-2002 21:04:

Techno?

hey guys i been here a while and i see how you guys give tips on how to make trance, like what synths to use etc. and i was wondering if you can give me any tips on what to use if i plan on doing techno> i mean in software and hardware wise, techno like what chris liebing and umek do, i love the synths umek uses, any idea what equipent does he have?

thanks

Best Regards

Posted by Pjotr G on Jun-25-2002 21:35:

I don't know about chris liebing or umek, but generally techno is more based on samplers/drumboxes than synths. I do hear a yamaha an1x sound come by frequenctly tho. I guess most important parts are TR-909/other x0x-es and for the acid-y stuff TB303

Posted by mastercongo on Jun-25-2002 22:01:

so software wise i should give a try to rebirth?

Posted by attacc on Jun-25-2002 22:27:

I don't think there's a problem making techno in either fruityloops or Reason. I wouldn't go for rebirth because it's a bit limiting.. but if you got Reason I think you can rewire rebirth with Reason (or visa versa) then you have 808, 909, 2 x 303 plus a complete software studio

I'm thinking of getting a laptop with Reason while I'm in the army so that I still can make music

Good luck with the techno.
Sorry I don't know any tips

Posted by mastercongo on Jun-25-2002 22:37:

thanks the thing is i want to be more hardware based, i wan to touch things hehe rebirth came just as an option but i guess i will need some kind of sequencer so yeah reason could be there

Posted by cyrus2k2 on Jun-26-2002 14:46:

Ok, that's a topic i like.

if you want to produce hard techno tracks in the style of liebing, umek, rush and speedy j. (just to mention a few) then i would prefer fruityloops.
it's so easy to produce some complex rhythm patterns with it, so thats why fruity is my first choice
then you need some fx like a compressor and a distortion-plugin (very very important!!!)
as a synth i recommend NI's pro52 or JunoX2. you can get some cool hard&ill sounds out of them.

if you are interrested in more, just pm me.

Posted by mastercongo on Jun-26-2002 18:56:

what fx and compressor do you reccomend? i will pm you since im really interested

Posted by cyrus2k2 on Jun-27-2002 14:06:

Well, the Fruity Blood Overdrive is good, it's simple and easy to use. There are some other good Distortion Fx like 'MDA Overdrive' or 'BJ Overdrive'. The best is, they are all for free!
Some very cool sounding fx are 'Ohmforce Predatohm' or a vst called 'Dominion'. They act like a compressor/distortion/eq thingy.

As a compressor i mainly use the 'Fruity Compressor'. But if you can get your hands on these, try 'Waves C1 Compressor' or 'Steinbergs ME Compressor'. But again, there are so much freeware plugins out there.

I cant remember any url right now. but i'll post a list of them here, soon.

Posted by mastercongo on Jun-27-2002 15:27:

hey thanks a lot for your tips

Posted by Joi Lamusic on Jun-28-2002 18:22:

Try to find those plugins from this site. it is really really good!!

http://www.thepluginlist.com/