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Springy Synth : Shponglese Spoken Here
Monib
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:10 pm reply with quote
Starts at 4:33 here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEe2uJEIrkg

Its sounds like a rubber-band stretched and brought back to its normal length. To me that sounds like pitch bending, but its so fluid (I couldn't draw it or play it in)... Suggestions?

Thanks!
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:21 pm reply with quote
Maybe LFO controlled by mod wheel?
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:28 pm reply with quote
The initials one's are pitch bends. Maybe I'm hearing something different due to the other effects in there. Will play with it more.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:15 pm reply with quote
I was having great fun attempting this before my battery died Mad

Anyway, I got very close with an LFO attached to the mod wheel (as previously suggested).
The trick was approximating a rubber band as the OP mentioned.
If you release a rubber band, it wobbles initially very quickly before slowing down (ie the curve is exponential).

With that said, assign mod wheel to LFO speed (-ve), set LFO to 1/64, draw an exponential curve in the mod wheel automation lane and sequence. Viola!
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:07 pm reply with quote
Trying the LFO-Mod Wheel, but the whole sound is effected (since the LFO has to have a minimum value).
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:23 pm reply with quote
it's probably a guitar (got neat overtones to chug at) with some automated LFO (how you control the cc/midi is quite extraordinarily irrelevant) assigned to pitch/playback speed.

you can get less obvious rubber effects preserving tonality using FM synthesis Love
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:12 pm reply with quote
qa2pir wrote:

you can get less obvious rubber effects preserving tonality using FM synthesis Love


Can you explain this more? I've just started looking into FM and I don't see how pitch bending will preserve the tonality?
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 2:38 am reply with quote
It's almost certainly an effect added afterwards, and in all likelihood from the eventide processor they use, but you could possibly use a combination of a pitch shifter and LFO type tremolo plug in to get the 'type' of same effect...

they also use smartelectronix plug ins, but I don't think for this sound.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 2:52 am reply with quote
@ OP: Do you mean the bubbly sound that continues several times or the percussive one-off that starts around 4:33?
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 3:41 am reply with quote
Monib wrote:
qa2pir wrote:

you can get less obvious rubber effects preserving tonality using FM synthesis Love


Can you explain this more? I've just started looking into FM and I don't see how pitch bending will preserve the tonality?


oh I mean fiddling around with FM parameters instead of pitch. no pitch bend involved! you can have a melody with stable tonality while altering the timbre with FM index, cutoff, resonance, distortion etc. fun stuff! nothing to explain really, just a hint. Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:11 am reply with quote
Mushy Mushy wrote:
@ OP: Do you mean the bubbly sound that continues several times or the percussive one-off that starts around 4:33?


The one that sounds like a guitar. Like the whammy bar is depresses on a sustaining note and it bounces back up.
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