Members veracohr Posted August 28, 2008 Members Share Posted August 28, 2008 Good timing, I was just listening to a song today and trying to figure out a sound. This one is kind of difficult, because it's not at the forefront and is in a busy arrangement. This song is "Intergalactic Fluoro Funkster" by Cosmosis. For the first half of this 1-minute section of the song, it comes in every four measures starting on beat 1 of the second measure, then in the second half it comes in every other measure, alternating octaves. It rises in pitch in a sort of gliding step manner, pans back and forth, and has some reverb on it. http://www.veracohr.com/audio/Sample.mp3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members idiotboy Posted August 29, 2008 Members Share Posted August 29, 2008 FM Programming tips: See this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members idiotboy Posted August 29, 2008 Members Share Posted August 29, 2008 BTW, and FWIW, I understand the thinking behind not making this thread sticky, but, when I want to post something in it, a sticky thread is a lot easier to find than this was today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yoozer Posted August 29, 2008 Author Members Share Posted August 29, 2008 Put the link in your signature. I'll lead by example . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Howard Scarr Posted August 30, 2008 Members Share Posted August 30, 2008 1. the erasure sound is a simple one. the amp is modulated with an env with an attack at roughly 20% time slope. the filter is opened at slowly with the same envelope but is only allowed to open to 70% maximum (adjust cutoff to around 50% and use positive envelope amount to boost slowly) basic wave is some saw waves with very minimal detuning this was probably made on an arp 2600 as it's vince's favorite however it's an early song so maybe a roland sh series. For a start the source is unlikely to be ARP 2600 or SH-something because those synths are monophonic. Also, stating percentages is useless because different synths have different parameter ranges. Naaa... I reckon this is synth+drummy>vocoder. Here's that link again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDKioRMxj1c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sprech_stimme Posted August 30, 2008 Members Share Posted August 30, 2008 Naaa... I reckon this is synth+drummy>vocoder. Here's that link again.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDKioRMxj1c Yes, sounds very vocoder-ey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Whop Yo Jaw! Posted August 30, 2008 Members Share Posted August 30, 2008 This is the beginning of what could be a great thread I hope you experienced folk will continue to contribute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members polar69 Posted September 4, 2008 Members Share Posted September 4, 2008 Wondered where this had gone Anyway nearly got the cars intro sorted. now moved onto the organ from "Won't get fooled again", I can get the sound in Reason using a tute of the youtube but I'm sure I've seen another clip of Pete Townshend saying he used sample+hold. Now the reason version uses a sample of a b3 an modulates it with a sq wave , not using sh at all. So which is right ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yoozer Posted September 4, 2008 Author Members Share Posted September 4, 2008 It's not sample & hold (coincidentally, I don't get why it's such an often-asked question for this song). Sample and hold (which is not equal to random either) samples from (generally) noise, holds the value for a while, and then samples again. So, if I have a row of random values like this: 1-7-4-2-5-4-3-8-9-4-2-2-5-6-8-7-3-1-6-3-2 the "rate" of the S&H means the speed with which it picks out a number. If my rate is set to max speed, it'll pick every number, but the duration of the "hold" is of course, small. If my rate is set to half of max speed, it'll do this: 1-1-4-4-5-5-3-3-9-9-2-2-5-5-8-8-3-3-6-6-2 It samples a 1, then holds it for 1 step. It samples a 4, then holds it for 1 step. If I set the rate to 1/3rd, it does this: 1-1-1-2-2-2-3-3-3-4-4-4-5-5-5-7-7-7-6-6-6 (what a coincidence - but that's what can happen with random numbers). If I had a triangle wave: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8- and I would put that through sample & hold, with careful (insanely precise, actually) timing, I could sample only the 1s and the 9s. That's nice - but not useful when you also have a square wave. You either play the organ by playing the chord repeatedly, or if you're lazy, you put a square-wave LFO on the amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Carey M Posted September 4, 2008 Members Share Posted September 4, 2008 's Pete explaining how he did the sound... No sample&hold as far as I can tell, just square LFO modulating the filter. - CM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members polar69 Posted September 4, 2008 Members Share Posted September 4, 2008 cheers guys, my mistake ...PT was talking about the filter from the ems going through s+h Some good info there Yoozer ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Deven Mistry Posted September 15, 2008 Members Share Posted September 15, 2008 Hi, Can anyone tell me how to emulate those famous synth bass sounds found in the songs like Berlin's "Take My Breath Away" & Commodores' "Night Shift"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members urbanscallywag Posted September 15, 2008 Members Share Posted September 15, 2008 Sample and hold (which is not equal to random either) samples from (generally) noise, holds the value for a while, and then samples again. From what I can remember from stochastic systems a sample of white Gaussian noise is still a random variable. [note: terminology and facts may be incorrect, that is a difficult subject, especially when its not fresh in your head] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SaxMachine124 Posted September 17, 2008 Members Share Posted September 17, 2008 Ok. Paranoiattack, by The Faint. The first thirty seconds or so, the intro synth sounds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members macfesto Posted May 25, 2009 Members Share Posted May 25, 2009 does anyone know how to make the patch used in 'human' by the killers on a nord lead 2? I have an additional request: the patch from 'sam's town' as well! Thanks all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chando Posted May 26, 2009 Members Share Posted May 26, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7tbddRS8lQ I'm curious how to make the simple arpeggio lead. Seems like my JD800 could nail that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Howard Scarr Posted May 27, 2009 Members Share Posted May 27, 2009 Hi,Can anyone tell me how to emulate those famous synth bass sounds found in the songs like Berlin's "Take My Breath Away" & Commodores' "Night Shift"? There was quite a long thread about this a year or so ago. Strange as it may seem, that sound is FM... with VERY meticulous programming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StompBoxLover Posted May 27, 2009 Members Share Posted May 27, 2009 just a little bit of info I came across while reading SOS that I'd like to share:That 'Pheeeooow!' Sound In Full Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This... With drums, bass, acoustic guitar and a guide vocal on tape, it became obvious to everyone that the verse of 'If You Tolerate This...' needed something else - but no-one knew what. "Eventually," says Eringa, "James decided that something should be going 'pheeeooow', and then just left me and Nick Nasmyth, their keyboard player, to see what we could come up with!" What Nick and Dave came up with was, in the end, almost unrecognisable as a keyboard part. "All the reviews of the single said 'there's this spectral guitar effect in the verse'," he complains, "but it's actually a Wurlitzer electric piano, put into my Korg MS20, distorted beyond all piano-ness and filtered live using both the low- and high-pass filters, with resonance set really high to get that extreme distortion. It was a live, kind of organic thing - him hitting the chords and me turning the knobs! Because the filters would sweep back too far, we had to record chords one and three, and then go back and do chords two and four. We disciplined ourselves to do the whole thing live. It's too easy just to go into Pro Tools and take one good one and copy it, and then it doesn't sound as real or earthy." - SOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mikelpanky Posted June 7, 2009 Members Share Posted June 7, 2009 Anyone know anything about the brassy pad sound that Richard Wright uses in "Wish You Were Here" as well as some other Pink Floyd classics? Skip foward to 2:40 to really hear the sound I'm talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members augerinn Posted June 7, 2009 Members Share Posted June 7, 2009 Anyone know anything about the brassy pad sound that Richard Wright uses in "Wish You Were Here" as well as some other Pink Floyd classics? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdNnw99-IcSkip foward to 2:40 to really hear the sound I'm talking about. http://sparebricks.fika.org/sbzine28/WrightGear-rev156.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members i.Am.Me Posted June 8, 2009 Members Share Posted June 8, 2009 Wondering about the sound on here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX9D2pIiacs for 2:04 to 2:50. (it on the rest of the song too, but it's heard the most at this part) I know it's a Korg MS-20, but maybe I could achieve something similar with Alesis Micron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tomkeen Posted July 1, 2009 Members Share Posted July 1, 2009 My new band does a cover of Rosanna by toto. Fairly easy song to play, only thing is there are so many sounds in the solo that it's almost impossible to play with two hands on two keyboards and having to switch sounds all the time.. But whatever.. I would like to recreate that butterfly-y sound in the solo. at 3:15 here: and 2:58 here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq4ychrRkQA I noticed David Paich never plays it, so I guess they sampled it and simply play it back. The whole sound is kind of a mystery to me. Anyone know how to recreate it on say, a blofeld or TR-rack.. (kurz is to difficult lol)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yoozer Posted July 1, 2009 Author Members Share Posted July 1, 2009 But whatever.. I would like to recreate that butterfly-y sound in the solo. Are you ready to get even more depressed? Open the mp3 in Audacity and slow down 35% or so until you get around the middle C. It sounds like it's comprised of several sinewavey monosynth lines - no neat thirds or fifths, e.g. nothing you can cram into a single patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tomkeen Posted July 5, 2009 Members Share Posted July 5, 2009 Hmm thanks Yoozer... I thought it would be difficult.. I'll see if I have some FX-patches that sound at least a bit similar and just settle with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sad Darwin Posted July 5, 2009 Members Share Posted July 5, 2009 This thread is a fantastic idea. That is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.