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Starts at 4:33 here:



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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Maybe LFO controlled by mod wheel?

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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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I was having great fun attempting this before my battery died :x

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!
"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"

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Trying the LFO-Mod Wheel, but the whole sound is effected (since the LFO has to have a minimum value).

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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:
bleh

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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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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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@ OP: Do you mean the bubbly sound that continues several times or the percussive one-off that starts around 4:33?
"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"

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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. :)
bleh

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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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