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Help with a couple sounds
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| TyeDynamite |
What's up guys, I'm having some trouble getting a few sounds and was looking for a little help.
First in this track I am trying to recreate or get close to the bass instrument used. I'm having trouble getting my synth right (I have been using NI Massive). Also the last note of each measure seems to fade out, and I'm not sure the right way to do this. I'm thinking a filter sweep? Or maybe it is just the note not being hit and the carry out of the release time.
Comes in at 2:16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMmpeCYYplw
Secondly, I hear a lot of these sounds that are like Arp'd percussion. I have tried loading percussion hits into a sampler (or in Ableton into Simpler) and adding some effects but again I just can't get a familiar sound.
They become prominent in the intro around 30 seconds and at the second break around 3:10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vHzxPvcUwc
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! |
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| sicc |
First question,
sounds like a basic saw form bassline, with some pumping compression, sidechained with glide on hitting a lower note at the end of the phrase.
SECOND and i love doing this myself. in ableton, just drag in a cornucopia of percussive samples into DRUM RACK...very important...into drum rack not simpler. You can locate any .wav files using abletons browser on the left hand side and drag them into drum rack in an available pad slot. Drag in 3-7 percussion's and then make a scene in that channel and simply click on a note to each element in your drum rack, make ALL the notes play for an entire bar or two. solid red. then drag in the Arpeggiator from Midi Effects and play with it, endless possibilities there. and then you can get crazy and start adding effects such as grain delay, flanger, or just do some simple filtering.
YOU COULD EVEN THEN freeze and then flatten that track once your satisfied with it and chop it up as a wav file and wreak all sorts of havoc. that is some fun right there, thats one of the main ways ive created some of the most interesting sounds, rythms and even textures in my music. |
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| TyeDynamite |
| ^^ Sounds like something fun to try. I'll have to give that a shot. |
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| sicc |
| it works superbly well for getting some crazy fast percussive lines going that sound other worldly. |
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| Juan Paulino |
| Oh i love the second track. |
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| Emvy |
Secondly, I hear a lot of these sounds that are like Arp'd percussion. I have tried loading percussion hits into a sampler (or in Ableton into Simpler) and adding some effects but again I just can't get a familiar sound.
They become prominent in the intro around 30 seconds and at the second break around 3:10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vHzxPvcUwc
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! [/QUOTE]
Thats not arped percussion. Its just a plucked synth. Many vst come with it preset, such as nexus 2. Nexus 2 should also have the sound that you are looking for for the first track you posted. It has a lot of similar sounds..the end is just pitch bended |
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| dj_alfi |
ok. havent read the whole thread.. but here's my 2 cent on the "differet last note"...
sometimes when I want a slightly different sound from my synth, say the last or first hit of a sequence, and it happens too often for me to be arsed to automate it, i duplicate the synth (create another instance) and do whatever tweaking that needs to be done, and just move the note i want to be played diffrently to the new synth...
might eat some cpu/ram, but i havent met that problem in more than 5 years, and I just recently upgraded from 1gb RAM... so yeah... won't do much drainage of your resources, and it's about THE easiest way you can do it imo. |
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| TyeDynamite |
Emvy
Ahh thanks I will dig around Nexus a bit and play with the pitch bend.
And Alfi
Thanks I will have to try that. I'm assuming you do it so this way you still have your original sound on your main line and just a few tweaks on your ending (or beginning note) right?
Also, just recently upgraded to 1 gb of Ram? haha dam I'd be overloading mine left and right if I had less than 1 gig. Props to you. |
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