Is there an unusual sound design technique you would like to share?

[elte]

Maybe not that unusual but sending pads on return track with trancegate and autopan which something i love to do. I would like to know if theres something new and bizarre i could learn.

[CrystalWizard]

Hmmm, doubt anything i do is new and bizarre any more. How about using a sample of raindrops to sidechain a gate with a pad running through. Not new but fun.
Looking forward to more posts in this thread.

[Forgotten]

Take field recordings, loop them and then process the shit out of them until they sound nothing like the original sound.

[Scrubbing Monkeys]

If you can get access..... Place a piezo electric pickup on a bowling alley lane floor somewhere in the middle. Record a ball rolling at different speed. Mutate to taste.

Poor man version. Use a an old buzz speaker from some broken device. Connect some wires to it. Use it as a mic. Tape it to a table and roll different objects around o the table. Record the result. Mutate to taste.

[Googly Smythe]

Back in the day, I shoved a bit of sponge (not cake!) under the strings of my Les Paul, wrapped more of said sponge around a couple of old toothbrushes and hammered the strings. Pushed through a flanger and a long delay it sounded quite ethereal.

[Richard Andrew]

Granulator one love. There are so many ways inside to make it sound really dope.

[Googly Smythe]

Granulator one love. There are so many ways inside to make it sound really dope.

Detail one?

[mschenkel]

Try to crack your lfos working at insane bpm and see if anything good happens. Most of the times it doesn’t.

[Septimon]

Not exactly new, but: to create rhythmic patterns i connected a cheap Guitar eq pedal, that produces a lot of noise when pushing the faders, to a Wah Wah And a delay pedal.
I also plugged in a cable in to the pedal and just touched the cable to Produce noise (the Tone generated was an „E“

In ableton live: Extract melodies or rhythmic content From Field recordings old vinyls etc. via Audio to MIDI.

[DJ Warmonger]

Run percussion through Ableton Corpus (or another physical-modelling resonator) to produce bass. Works well with tube resonator.

[elxsound]

Play aggressively with knobs and record everything (then put on that audio editing hat and find the gems).

Definitely could be taking out of context there, but yeah... that works.

[Richard Andrew]

Granulator one love. There are so many ways inside to make it sound really dope.

Detail one?

I use M4L Granulator 2, usually tweak Spray knob to 200ms and Grain to 3-4 Hz, works very good with any samples, gives this Flume, Quiet Bison kind of sound.

[cybilopsin]

Convolution using foley samples, musical instruments, etc. as the impulse response instead of a real impulse response.

[GRUMP]

Static Frequency Shifter around 1200 Hz with 1,2,3 % Mix and you'll get well known SR-Reduction Artifacts to wrap Drums, Bass, even Pads.

Off-Label uses of FX are a very interesting Topic in general, as well as layering Dust/Noise/Air.

And don't underestimate Band Splitters.

[cron]

The famous reverse reverb effect is only one possibility within the huge [any reversible transformation][any effect] space.