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| aeonpush |
Hey all,
This is probably a generally simple sound to make but yet so effective in it's implementation. Taking a listen to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li6m6k5Txso is the one shot style sound that starts filtering in around the 1 minute mark and then again around the 3.35 mark.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to arrive at this sound, I am assuming it is through a synth; a single note or layer of a short chord, looped repeatedly with appropriate filtering on it's introduction?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions here :) |
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| Vector A |
| Saw waves in unison with a high detune setting. And pitch bending, obviously. |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by aeonpush
I am assuming it is through a synth; a single note or layer of a short chord, looped repeatedly with appropriate filtering on it's introduction? |
Very intuitive. It's actually the piano wave in Maelstrom but a synth was a good guess. What you'll need to do is take 32 Maelstroms and put them in to a Combinator with the 16:4:2 Mixer. Plug each of the Maelstroms into single inputs on the back of the mixer. Make sure that the stereo inputs connect to one Maelstrom for each side. Lower each fader by 50%.
In each of the Maelstroms, load the Piano Wave for both oscillators. Keep one oscillator pitched to its default. Raise and lower the others for every other Maelstrom. Lower pitches should be going to the left channel. Higher pitches to the right. In the filter section, set it to parallel and assign bandpass on the first filter and a comb filter, on the second. Make sure spread is set to full. You'll want to go through each of the Maelstroms and offset the pitch of each oscillator, incrementally. Just small adjustments, like +1 or -1 for each successive Maelstrom oscillator. Just make sure to do this evenly so that you maintain the psycho-acoustic beat frequency.
Hopefully, you've figured out that saving each time you finish your workflow per Maelstrom, you can reload and make successive adjustments instead of having to start from scratch, each time. Try playing a couple of notes. You may have to make some adjustments but that should be exactly what you're trying to achieve, right there. If you're not using Reason, use 3Osc or Zeta and load a sine wave in one with a square wave into the second of two oscillators, as that's a pretty good approximation of a piano wave. Again, you'll need thirty-two instantiations of these, each given their own channel. You'll want to pan those individual mono channels, hard left or hard right. If you can't assign them all to the same MIDI channel, you can just record the line and copy it to each successive MIDI track. Unless your computer relies on an old 486 processor, you should be able to play all thirty-two channels with a substantial track count outside of them (probably between 53 to 68 tracks)
This should get you that sound you're looking for. Please, when you're done, post results. |
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