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Crash With Extra Long Decay
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| DayTrader |
In many trance songs, I've noticed that they use crashes with a very long decay - it can trail for up to 3 or 4 bars. I especially like the higher pitched crashes, which to me resemble a splash type effect. I have many samples, including Vengeance Club Sounds Vol 1, and I cannot seem to find a crash with a such a long decay on it. I've experimented with reverb, but to me it sounds like in these songs, the decay is in their dry sample and not in an added effect. Am I correct in this? Does anyone have a crash that sounds like what I've described? I'd be willing to trade many of my samples for just one crash like this (is trading samples allowed here?).
A good example of a crash I like can be heard in the opening beat of the following song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsxLawBMFvs |
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| RyanVice |
My advice would be to make your own..
Throw the audio file into a sampler of your choice
Decay to taste
Bus to reverb
gate as needed
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| floyd741 |
| quote: | Originally posted by RyanVice
Throw the audio file into a sampler of your choice
Decay to taste
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this is basically the easiest way to do it |
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| DayTrader |
Thanks for the replies. Now the true state of my newbishness shall be revealed: How can I add decay to a sample? I'm fairly familiar with sampling, but adding sound where no sound exists, this is beyond me. Can someone explain how this can be done, please? Thanks :)
P.S. I'll be using the Edison Wave Editor in FL Studio. |
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| ken_lee |
| let it loop in the middle of the sample, like you import the sample twice. first is the hit. TCH! second you loop the middle of the sample CHHHHH, then fade out. lol simple yet hard to explain. |
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| ken_lee |
| or use a sample. a long sample. |
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| Zombie0729 |
| if a crash isn't long enough, a lot of times i'll do what everyone said above but another tip i do is in ableton there are two buttons below the clips bpm that allow you to collapse the sample into half time (say the sample was 128bpm now it's 64bpm) or double time (from 128 to 256). Sometimes i'll half time it multiple times until i get the length i want and on complex mode with more white-noise-esk samples, there is very little granulation. try it :) |
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| DayTrader |
Thanks for all the helpful replies! Some of the methods seem a little above the scope of my experience, unfortunately.
Ken_lee, the method you describe seems achievable for me, but I think I'm not understanding correctly.
What I've tried to do, based on your explanation is to select some portion after the initial "TCH" and then copy and paste it to duplicate/extend the "CHHH". The problem is, no matter which portion I copy and paste, it always results in a second peak sound. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your explanation? |
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| ken_lee |
| yeah there will be a little peak difference. but if you play it forward,reverse,forward,reverce (in Reason this can be looped automaticly), and then squashed through a limiter the peak will be almots gonne. |
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| DayTrader |
| ah ok cool. i'll give a try. thanks! |
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| ken_lee |
| add some reverb on it too to cover the faults. btw this effect is very funny to use on vocals. |
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