Some silly ideas to spice up music-making

[Doug1978-OLD]

Greetings!

1) DAW click tracks connected to rumble pads (with built-in electric shocks for straying too far from the click).

2) Audio track humaniser plug-in mimicking various levels of substance misuse.

3) A vocal track extractor based on word spelling/pronunciation recognition.




Please feel free to add your own...

[Chopper]

bounce stuff on tape, then resample.


vocals as impulse files in convolution reverbs (cpu hingry...)


learning how to play

[stk]

Trying to play the drums after imbibing suspect fungi on a Sunday afternoon

[robogone]

Pull people off the street who have no musical experience and get them to play

Play your instruments with the opposite hands to the correct way

Record noises you can make with items you find in your kitchen

[deaf dunderkwac]

Record noises you can make with items you find in your kitchen

done that many times lol

remove your shoes and soak your feet is soapy warm water while holding a tube condenser microphone (er... maybe not)

[fliffo]

listen to music backwards... lot of fresh ideas (and some satanic messages, sometimes )

[skipscada]

Record noises you can make with items you find in your kitchen

done that many times lol

The next level: move on to another room.

Make a mechanical rhythm machine. It's not that hard to make something similar to a music box with bicycle parts and percussion instruments.

[emdot_ambient]

Record two complete songs at the same tempo in the same key. Slice quarter note, 8th note and 16th note length sections from one song and replace random sections of the other song with these slices.

Then record two more songs in the same tempo/key and repeat the process.

Take the two songs with inserted slices and repeat the process with randomly selected slices.

Do all that again.

Buy a full Kyma system and then morph the two songs together controled by a mix of the songs that had slices removed from them.

Check into rehab because by now you will have gone completely insane.

[SWTrex]

Route a drum groove midi track to a tonal synth.

[emdot_ambient]

Route a drum groove midi track to a tonal synth.

Then modulate a vocoder with the synth, processing the audio output of the original drum track.

[SWTrex]

Route a drum groove midi track to a tonal synth.

Then modulate a vocoder with the synth, processing the audio output of the original drum track.

Gotta try this...

[emdot_ambient]

Route a drum groove midi track to a tonal synth.

Then modulate a vocoder with the synth, processing the audio output of the original drum track.

Gotta try this...

Make sure you automate some filter cutoff on the synth, doing sweeps and things...and then post the results here

[Doug1978-OLD]

Route a drum groove midi track to a tonal synth.

Then modulate a vocoder with the synth, processing the audio output of the original drum track.

Gotta try this...

Make sure you automate some filter cutoff on the synth, doing sweeps and things...and then post the results here

Sounds like genius!

[danbroad]

Make a mechanical rhythm machine. It's not that hard to make something similar to a music box with bicycle parts and percussion instruments.

Spectrasonics did this already, then sampled the hell out of it...

My suggestion, and it's a simple one; render your track to audio, then copy the render to 10 different tracks. Wind down the volume on 9 of them, then apply choice FX to the back 9. Then, using crossfades, bring the back 9 in and out under your main audio track.

[deaf dunderkwac]

change the tempo of the tracks every measure by odd values