lol Maybe I need to get a recorder. I'd like to hear or try some of your V-Synth patches - they sound interestingmorphex wrote:aMUSEd - There has always been a particular sound source that I like to start with for making pads and otherwordly noises...water, either running water, the sound of the ocean, water drops in a room with a lot of ambient reverb, even flushing the toilet...okay, maybe that's a bit too far, but you get the idea. Another is the sound of radio static, kind of like when you're almost tuned in to a station but not quite, and you get a combination of stations and frequencies all at once (even though none of it makes any sense).aMUSEd wrote:Thanks - yeah it's an idea but I would prefer not to start with a synth patch already but with something more "natural" and then transmogrify itmorphex wrote:I don't see why you couldn't program something in Absynth, Vokator or Kontakt, then bounce down the results as audio and import the audio into your V-Synth for further processing and editing.
I'll start out with one of those and cut, chop, edit, reverse, run it through some effects (both software and hardware), then 'glue' it back together and load it up into a sampler where the results can be used as pads, ambient backgrounds, or special effect noises for a dramatic part of a track. The V-Synth is awesome for all of this type of 'experimenting', especially when you can play back the audio using the D Beam and the Time Trip Pad...it's endless madness ahhhhhhhh...okay, I'm better now. I just get a little excited when talking about the V-Synth and sound-designing possibilities. Vocoded ocean waves are really dreamy though, so try it out if it sounds interesting.
I've accumulated a wide range of 'real world' samples by using a portable recorder and a microphone, hopping a bus to downtown (too hard to find places to park, plus I'm being 'earth-friendly'), and walking around town recording things, especially at construction sites...you can find some machines that keep such good timing, I've used them for backing rhythm tracks several times. Oh, it's so much fun being a musician/sound-designer during this time of cutting-edge software and hardware. I hate going to sleep because I usually think of a new idea while I'm just laying there...then I get fidgety and restless. No wonder I have bags under my eyes today, I spent most of the night processing the sound of running water through the effects in both of my Virus synths. I even created a vocoded pad using that sound source, and it sounds great in the track I'm working on right now.
Well, I'm getting a little off topic so I'll stop here. But try using water as a sound source, you'll be amazed at what sounds that along with the V-Synth can produce. Happy Programming!!
Peace - morphex
p.s. - maybe I should switch to decaf...'ya think?
