baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
There was a fascinating discussion that was unfortunately a bit buried on the (equally great) funky thread, about the value of using presets and setting down inventive tunes, versus taking "four days to find the right snare sound".
I loved this comment: "I've heard people tapping out more interesting riddims on tables than I hear in a lot of tunes recently." How true.
As someone who loves timbres but who also holds dear the rave aesthetic of democratising music so that anyone can make tunes in their bedroom, I am a bit conflicted in this debate.
I have spent a while trying to get to the bottom of sound design, which I do find fascinating, but the process of creating sounds from scratch still eludes me. My personal conclusion is that I favour tweaking presets to get the sounds I want, and then to concentrate on getting a song down.
The geekiness surrounding drum sounds in genres like dubstep particularly annoys me - who the fuck, aside from fellow geeks, really hears the difference between snare #701 and snare #702? Far more interesting is to use a distinctive and startling palette, a la Shackleton...
Because it's the software I currently use, I was also interested to read the comments (mostly positive) about Reason - what do people here think about its merits?
I loved this comment: "I've heard people tapping out more interesting riddims on tables than I hear in a lot of tunes recently." How true.
As someone who loves timbres but who also holds dear the rave aesthetic of democratising music so that anyone can make tunes in their bedroom, I am a bit conflicted in this debate.
I have spent a while trying to get to the bottom of sound design, which I do find fascinating, but the process of creating sounds from scratch still eludes me. My personal conclusion is that I favour tweaking presets to get the sounds I want, and then to concentrate on getting a song down.
The geekiness surrounding drum sounds in genres like dubstep particularly annoys me - who the fuck, aside from fellow geeks, really hears the difference between snare #701 and snare #702? Far more interesting is to use a distinctive and startling palette, a la Shackleton...
Because it's the software I currently use, I was also interested to read the comments (mostly positive) about Reason - what do people here think about its merits?