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pattycakes_

pattycakes_

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A few people I know have sound design sessions where they sit for hours and just make banks of sounds for use during their writing sessions. Keep meaning to do this. Really love sound design, but most of the time if I get one nice sound going I immediately want to make a track with it.

One really good thing you can do though, is go through the presets in your main synths and delete all the ones you know you'll never use. Did this and now have less than 100 bass sounds broken into 6 or 7 categories so if I know I want something dubby or something more ripping it takes all of 5 seconds to pick and tweak a patch that's pretty close to what I hear in my head
 
linebaugh

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My synths got a mode where each individual key triggers a new patch, so you can sit there for hours designing drum machines/sample packs without actually making any music.
 
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@pattycakes_ Its a novation bass station 2, the mode I'm talking about is AFX mode (as it was supposedly AFX's idea). Novation was kind enough to add it in 6 years! after initial release.

I have nothing online I just like to noodle. Haven't even been messing with electronic gear too long- I only got the synth by lucky circumstance and its been a nice creative outlet as writing guitar music alone has become increasingly joyless for me.
 
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Yah its alot of fun, particularly with that AFX mode in the mix. It was also updated to include a paraphonic mode around the same time.
Only other piece of gear I got is a korg electribe mkII sampler, which despite having universal effects is pretty cool too.

You have music online?
 
woops

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version

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You've previously talked about working with presets. There's a producerly orthodoxy that you should steer clear of the presets. But that doesn't seem to worry you so much.

I don't want to sit there with three sine waves making little envelopes all day and then end up having some really boring synth sound. I mean, some people are really good at it—producers who make sounds that are more synth-based. I think my sounds are more sample-oriented. Even the synths that I like a lot are more sample-based. It's almost like with digital graphics: it's raster vs. vector. I'm more raster when it comes to sound.

Another thing I did on this record: with Ableton Live and with Max For Live there's lots of great ways to control the parameters using different types of LFOs and randomisers and envelope followers and stuff like that. There's a couple of tracks where I had a VST with like 30 parameters to determine what kind of sound I was making. I'd make all these LFOs that were sort of indeterminate, with a lot of jitter to them. And then I would assign that to different parameters on this preset, so when I start playing each parameter is slowly degrading in a certain direction. So the sound is sort of wobbling over time. When I'm working like that I just have to record everything. Sometimes the synthesiser will go in some really interesting direction and you'll have to record it really fast.
 
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Linebaugh said:
Think the idea is that capital is only interested with new means generating old ends. Paired up with an end of history situation like were talking about with music, the problems even blurrier. If were out of places to go sonically, development in listener relationship to music -how/when/why- is the place to go, but were not equipped for that type of change.
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''So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left. It's terribly exciting. But on the other hand it doesn't matter if you think it's exciting or not; it's what's going to happen.''
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