I got a few more tips for creating noisescapes:

Puremagnetik Metalsphere
http://puremagnetik.com/index.php?o...=125&Itemid=143

NI FM8 is also pretty much unlimited in sound design, I remember I did some sick Ambient Noises with it.

Absynth would be my next pick for dark, metallic, distorted ambiences.

And of course Reaktor. There are a lot of FX and synths for Reaktor that are dedicated to unusual/ambient sounds, its like heaven for any experimental producer

Will check out your new tracks now.

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I love Reaktor. Even some of the more normal-looking synths in there can turn out some great twisted sounds.

Then maybe this is a nice teaser for Ezerbee:

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9 minute Ezerbee randomizer jam-session. :P



Do you have any favorite Synth for experimental sounds?

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Originally posted by cybernetica Do you have any favorite Synth for experimental sounds?

I love Gaugear and Skrewell in Reaktor. But for the most part I like to take general purpose synths and play around with extreme settings, like really high FM and LFO modulation, really low or high octaves, etc., or take "normal" synth noises and do some manipulation like extreme EQing, pitch manipulation, or weird vocoding.

Gaugear was one of my favorites too. I dig how you can use this fucked up ambience synth musically with a little effort.

So youre more of a FX guy? I remember there was a VST FX called GRM Frequency Warp or something like that. I used to love destroying any sound with it, but it was a little unstable.

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I was just about to mention Gaugear, one of the coolest synths anywhere IMO. Theres some great stuff in the granular sampler department if you look in the user library. But I'm not gonna tip my hand completely by giving names I really like any ensemble where you can scroll through a waveform with the mouse, its great for effects.
Sometimes it really helps in modern music to forget about musical conventions and analyse a track in terms of feelings and "noise", rather than the traditional intervals and chords. Sometimes its better to look at a track as simple noise, and evaluate how that noise makes you feel, rather than looking at the way the different elements interact musically. It seems to do the track more justice than a traditional analysis sometimes. Traditional analysis would have no terminology for noise sweeps and other effects for example, which are incredibly important in some (very musical) tracks.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles I don't have any soldering skills, although I guess I could try to learn. I might search for circuit-bent synths on EBay. On the software front, I got Max/MSP recently, which should open up some new possibilities for weird sounds.

ONE GOOD WAY OF MAKING NOISE IS BY MAKING YOUR OWN SAMPLES[ie find a mic and record real life noise.

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Originally posted by airwalker1 ONE GOOD WAY OF MAKING NOISE IS BY MAKING YOUR OWN SAMPLES[ie find a mic and record real life noise.

Wow, that was a lot of noise.

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Reminds me of some of those weird Aphex Twin songs...

As well as Revolution #9 by the Beatles.

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Originally posted by kitphillips I was just about to mention Gaugear, one of the coolest synths anywhere IMO. Theres some great stuff in the granular sampler department if you look in the user library. But I'm not gonna tip my hand completely by giving names I really like any ensemble where you can scroll through a waveform with the mouse, its great for effects. Sometimes it really helps in modern music to forget about musical conventions and analyse a track in terms of feelings and "noise", rather than the traditional intervals and chords. Sometimes its better to look at a track as simple noise, and evaluate how that noise makes you feel, rather than looking at the way the different elements interact musically. It seems to do the track more justice than a traditional analysis sometimes. Traditional analysis would have no terminology for noise sweeps and other effects for example, which are incredibly important in some (very musical) tracks.

I found this usesful!

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Processing a highly structured and complex pattern of sensory input as a unified percept of "music" is probably one of the most elaborate features of the human brain.....understanding how music is perceived and how it may elicit intense sensations is far from being understood.