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"Mystical" Feeling?
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| kadomony |
Hey, I'm wondering if anybody has some insight on what creates a mystical sound. I'm sure it's just me, but perhaps someone else gets the same feeling from this kind of sequence.
Hard to describe as it's a feeling, but I want to say it's like an ancient mystical temple in the future or something. (yeah yeah, i know abstract .) I only had this sound one time before, unfortunately its stuck in an flp and I dont have FL installed anymore.
So, I'm looking for a way to make some alternate ways of creating this sound. However, I'm trying to determine if it's based in the particular note sequence, the note length, the effects (delay-->reverb), or something else.
Notes are: A# C# D# F
Interestingly, I don't get the same feeling when I transpose to any other key. I think it's the C# D# A# in particular that is contributing.
Download: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1734626/mystic.mp3 |
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| KeenOnSheen |
| quote: | Originally posted by kadomony
Hey, I'm wondering if anybody has some insight on what creates a mystical sound. I'm sure it's just me, but perhaps someone else gets the same feeling from this kind of sequence.
Hard to describe as it's a feeling, but I want to say it's like an ancient mystical temple in the future or something. (yeah yeah, i know abstract .) I only had this sound one time before, unfortunately its stuck in an flp and I dont have FL installed anymore.
So, I'm looking for a way to make some alternate ways of creating this sound. However, I'm trying to determine if it's based in the particular note sequence, the note length, the effects (delay-->reverb), or something else.
Notes are: A# C# D# F
Interestingly, I don't get the same feeling when I transpose to any other key. I think it's the C# D# A# in particular that is contributing.
Download: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1734626/mystic.mp3 |
Delay seems to be the trick... And it's a pretty common sequence, IMO. |
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| J.L. |
It's probably the timbre of the sound you are using, it's envelope and effects...
You can make any 4 notes make like an ancient mystical temple in the future (which is sorta an oxymoron) |
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| meriter |
| I really feel like I should contribute something in this thread but that sample is so far removed from what I'd call 'mystical' i'm just left sort of confused. |
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| sako487 |
| quote: | Originally posted by meriter
I really feel like I should contribute something in this thread but that sample is so far removed from what I'd call 'mystical' i'm just left sort of confused. |
i second this notion |
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| 112268 |
| two major chords not fitting together. see prodigy - break and enter for example. those might be minor when i think of it. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| first chord is minor, second is major. Tritone relation. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
if I where to score something mystical, I would use whole tone scales. That is pretty much the standard way to sound mystical. Of course I don't really think the OP means mystical just like people throw the word uplifting around without knowing what they are trying to describe.
Scriabin had a chord later to be called the mystic chord but that has more to do with his religious nuttery than how it sounds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic_chord
to the op, i know it is rather pedantic but you should spell that chord Bb db f with an added 4/11. Also, unless you are using a mean tone or similar non equal tuning on your piano/keybaord/daw, changing keys will not make it sound different. IT is all in your head. |
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| tehlord |
| Buy any wavetable synth, find a preset with the word 'temple' in it and hold down any key for seven minutes. |
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| kadomony |
Hey thanks for the input guys.
I think it comes down to 3 things, the delay and the timbre, and perhaps personal preference for those notes. I took off the delay and it lost some of the effect, but the 32nd notes still gave me a little bit of the sound. I changed the sound I used, which lessened the effect. I'm pretty sure the other project also used plucky virus sounds and would venture to guess that sequence used the same notes.
And yes, by "mystical" I don't mean any concrete idea, I'm just using it as the description of the feeling/picture I get from it. |
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