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Xenos · Post by **Xenos** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:16 pm

After spending a lot of time with Hive, I immediately saw a similar fundamental architecture: 4 oscs, 2 LFOs, 4 envelopes. The similarity largely stops there, though. No way in Hell can Hive ever pull of the sounds Bazille can make, and vice versa. Hive is better for more typical sounds, but Bazille wins hands-down for soundscapes and cinematic effects. I'd say the same for hard dubstep basses, but really, if you want that kind of stuff, Zebra is a better choice.

The thing about modular synths and working with patch cables is that they're designed to be ENJOYED from a synthesis perspective. It's a different mentality. I'm not after a specific sound, just a general outline in mind. Sit down, grab some pizza and a beer, then _explore_ the possibilities, giving the middle finger to supersaws, wob wobs, subs, and everything else. Though my personal listening preferences are deep/dark dubstep and trap music, when it comes to sound design, I enjoy doing soundscapes, atmospheric pads, drums/percussion and cinematic sound effects the most. You are free to do your own thing, and your target audience expects that. Bazille's interface really encourages that kind of mindset and intellectual approach.

I grew up on digital synths with a clean interface, and am fairly new to working with patch cables. Hopefully my factory patches in Bazille haven't made that too obvious lol. Definitely gotten a lot better with it since then. Here's a small sample of 8 sounds from the upcoming Bazille set "Mindhacker's Notebook":

https://app.box.com/s/y9fm8pz40eypfwppptt9ts0krurciv4z

Patch List

Arctic Paradise
Broken Warp Drive
Drone - Zeta Ophiucci
HR Geiger Hellscape
HR Geiger Nightmare
Horror Movie Sweep
Moonlight Dream
Transhuman Abomination

As I sell commercial soundsets, I'm always interested in ways to provide better content for my users. Synths like Bazille and Aalto are excellent choices for a good creative kick in the butt, and I love that. Every single time I sit down with it, Bazille teaches me new tricks/ideas that can be applied on other plugins. Synths with a mainstream design/workflow simply aren't even on the same level in accomplishing that.

ho66it · Post by **ho66it** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:43 pm

Thanks Xenos! Look forward to playing with these

Xenos · Post by **Xenos** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 11:04 pm

ho66it wrote:Thanks Xenos! Look forward to playing with these

Ya welcome

. Definitely let me know what you think. That project is still a long way from finished.

aaron aardvark · Post by **aaron aardvark** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 3:08 am

Xenos,
Thank you for the patches, I'll try them in the future.

2ZrgE · Post by **2ZrgE** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 8:54 am

I hope the patch descriptions also contain those short story snippets like in "Extraterrestial Origins" - love that.

Xenos · Post by **Xenos** » Sat Jun 20, 2015 7:49 pm

Ahh yeah...Extraterrestrial Origins was a combination of my 2 main passions - writing/prose and sound design. Thanks a lot for the compliment, 2ZrgE

. Really glad to hear you liked those story snippets. The thought of doing the same in Bazille DID cross my mind. If I don't do it this time around, it definitely WILL happen in the next Bazille set.

Arrested Developer · Post by **Arrested Developer** » Sun Jun 21, 2015 1:33 pm

Xenos wrote: HR Geiger Hellscape
HR Geiger Nightmare

Are those references to HR Giger?
(because that would be Giger instead of Geiger

2ZrgE · Post by **2ZrgE** » Mon Jun 22, 2015 8:18 am

Xenos wrote:Ahh yeah...Extraterrestrial Origins was a combination of my 2 main passions - writing/prose and sound design. Thanks a lot for the compliment, 2ZrgE . Really glad to hear you liked those story snippets. The thought of doing the same in Bazille DID cross my mind. If I don't do it this time around, it definitely WILL happen in the next Bazille set.

At least one can do that in synths like Massive or the U-he synths where extensive patch descriptions are available for editing.

I really appreciate it when sound designers put some extra efforts into preset naming and especially descriptions (and I hate presets named like "Bass 01, Bass 02"...)

Omnisphere factory, Joseph Hollo and Skippy Lehmkuhl come to mind, Mikael Adle does a very good job with his preset descriptions too.

aaron aardvark · Post by **aaron aardvark** » Tue Jun 23, 2015 3:13 am

I marked 3 of the freebies as favorites; the others were too scary for me! Thank you!

Xenos · Post by **Xenos** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 1:29 am

aaron aardvark wrote:I marked 3 of the freebies as favorites; the others were too scary for me! Thank you!

LOL! I definitely have horror and sci-fi movies in mind for this project. Sounds like the scary ones had the intended effect

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