Nice work w "attitude"Lunatique wrote:So happy to see that you guys are having fun with them. I just might have to start doing more sound design from now on if people actually enjoy them and want more.
I think the only preset where I intentionally thought of a source/inspiration was the System Shock 2 one ([ARP]Shodan's Corridors). I was shaping the preset and the moment I got something that reminded me a bit of SS2, I almost jumped out of my seat for joy. Man, it made me want to boot up my Win98 legacy machine (PII 400Mhz, 128MB RAM) and reinstall SS2 and do nothing but play it for a whole week.
My only real goal in mind when I design presets is that they must first and foremost be musical and playable, or at the very least are interesting in terms of expressiveness, sense of motion, texture/timbre...etc. I don't really concentrate on any specific genre of music like trance, funk, acid jazz, IDM, electro, ambient, industrial, or whatever--I listen to such a wide range of styles and compose such a wide range too, so any genre to me is just music. I sometimes imagine a certain mood and just go for it (for example, mysterious, dreamy, anger, shock, melancholy...etc). More than anything I'm just enjoying the process. I think of sound design as sculpting with sound--it's a different mentality to composing and arranging, and I really love it so far. After I get more experience under my belt, I'd like to explore even more powerful synths that have more parameters I can utilize. As good as Synth1 is, it still has lots of limits you can't work around (for example, I'd love to be able to bind the modwheel to any parameter(s) I want--kinda like that X/Y pad kind of control.
and nice audio demo too.You might want to put a bed under your chair to minimize the risk of accidents though
All the best with this one. Deserves a cool BuMp
LtZ