foosnark wrote: ↑Mon Oct 22, 2018 7:57 pmanttimaatteri wrote: ↑Mon Oct 22, 2018 7:20 pmi rarely have the patience to do sounddesign on a particular synth.
For the kind of music I make, sound design is 100% a part of the composition process -- it's as important to me as choices of frequency and rhythm.
Also the more sounds you build yourself, the easier it gets. To me, it's faster than auditioning dozens or hundreds of presets.
When I build sounds myself, I feel like I can commit to them. If I choose a preset, even if I tweak it, I'm going to second-guess that and go try other presets, or even other plugins.
Sometimes I do like flipping through presets and inspiration-hunting. Usually all I do is jam though. I'll find a funk bass sound, play a couple of basslines, grin and move on because I don't have any use for that sound in my recordings. I will zip past a hundred wobble basses and whatever. I'll find a DX7-like piano, jam on that for 10 minutes and move on. I'll find some spacey pad and play with it for a while and my spouse will say "that sounds nice" and I'll say "yep" and move on. I'll load up drumkits in Maschine and do some finger drumming, and it's a lot of fun, but I know it is not relevant to the kind of music I write anymore. But in a sense, this is a kind of practice -- working on live playing and improvisation skills -- and it doesn't feel like a waste of time.
Part of my bias away from presets is simply using modular (and Microbrute) a lot. Maybe 10% of my synth usage is software now, and it tends to be LuSH-101 or Aalto or Buchla Easel V, which I feel are relatively simple to work with from a blank slate. (I do stick to one, monotimbral voice in LuSH-101 though; I've never really liked the idea of multitimbral plugins when I could just load multiple instances instead.)
yep, and why not so?
i hoarded so much synths, i always find something energizing my brain to start a piece of music. there are so much presets for sounds, the synth1 alone has thousands of presets from all these cool soundfiddlers.
i praise them all for their efforts hereby.
i have just one rule i follow on any synths presets^^.
its just the good old "turn off reverb, echoe..." ^^. sometimes even chorus flanger phaser or any other effects at once. i can´t stand these effect overkills, and sometimes the effects section of synths is simply useless
.and i never use readymade sequences. theres is a barrier for me. i dont like using readymade rhythmic or melodic structures made by other people. or readymade samples. i mostly resample evrything or make my own. i dont draw into pianorolls, i always manually PLAY anything and record it.
its a thing i recommend to anybody: PLAY YOURSELF AND RECORD EVRYTHING
.(and dont give a shit if u are not a vurtuoso of your, or any, instrument^^.)
