http://jfm.fileave.com/I%20remember%20chords%20mid i.mid

here's the midi chords - bring it on

Here's my reproduction http://drop.io/hiddenharvest/asset/dm-chords-mp3

Note that in the tune, there's three parts I can make out, and for all you naysayers it's very well made!

There's the main chords that I've reproduced, and they have an 1/8th note stereo delay on them. Then there's the 1/8th note reduced voicing da-da-da chords that "meld in" with the stereo delay, creating a wonderful effect. Finally there are some soft pads with a choir like tone that sits behind and glues the sound together.

My chords patch was: 2 saw oscillators, one at -1 octave. I've got a 2 pole LP filter with a filter envelope. The envelope's got a decay to match the source sound and the sustain is sitting at about half way. In my demo you can hear the chords gradually rising in timbre, that's just velocity linked to the filter envelope level. The patch has a soft release too (for the amp and the filter env).

I've added little "character" modulations, small pitch changes and waveform changes - but they're not integral to the sound.

FX wise, you'll want a smooth sounding stereo chorus to widen the sound, and some tube warmth and compression to fatten it up a bit. I've also EQ'd it a bit, shelving the highs down, dropping the low mids a bit and boosting the low.

Two send channels, one for the delay and another for a church style algorithmic reverb.

I'm studying chords here:
http://www.8notes.com/resources/notefinders/piano_ chords.asp
But i can't see there chords like this in this midi file. What's that chords?

All those sound too digital still. Not exactly the same. The original is way more warm sounding and phat.



Minimonsta would probably come closest to acheiving the original sound or better.
Last edited by BASSDRIVE on Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:27 pm; edited 1 time in total

The chords are: B B7susBm7 Bm Ab7sus Asus Bm

The reason people are angry at such questions is that they're on par with asking, "How do you get pizza to be delicious and gooey? " Well you put cheese on it. That's how. It's simple and everywhere just like the sounds that inhabit Deadmau5 tracks.

The real answer is this:

Buy a VSTi. synth. Almost any will do but you'll probably do best with one like Gladiator. Go though the presets making sure you try the mod wheel. Find a similar sound. Tweak to taste. It's not very hard. The sounds are very generic.

Well, the thing is of course that this some of the best pizza on the market. You need special cheese for that.

Speaking from a purely sonically perspective, BTW, as far as the music is concerned Deadmau5 doesn't do anthing for me.

I never thought Deadmau5 was anything special until I met him, and his Mom one summer at an electronic music conference.
Very down to earth, open minded and helpful guy. They are super good peoples .
He'd help any of us with our music endeavors if he could.
This is why I can't understand when ppl try to down the guy .
In my books, Deadmau5 is TOPSHELF + 1 on all levels!

Anyhow, with regards to this produc...
I think almost the same sound can be achieved by adding 5ths to the chord progression.
With regards to the effect, it definitely sounds like a rhythmic multi-effect with a gate a LPF is being used.
Try something like CamelSpace to see what I mean.

hth

show us then mate...

http://www.sendspace.com/file/h6h82k
pack of presets.
sylenth for the chords and sylenth, twin2, imposcar, tal elek7ro for the pluck.

I don't know, I've yet to hear anything from the man that did if for me sonically or musically.

Agreed, plus the content he did for Guru is pretty fun to mess around with. I'm going to purchase Xfer as a result of that. And speaking of, does Duda not post here anymore? I haven't heard anything from him in a long time.

Not correct. Most of those chords are add2's, with some in different inversions. Badd2, Aadd2, Bmin, etc.

He commented on something about Nerve software maybe two months ago. I wonder what's up with that now..

He commented on something about Nerve software maybe two months ago. I wonder what's up with that now..[/quote]

Haven't heard anything about that... I'll have to do some digging.