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martiu · Post by **martiu** » Wed May 10, 2023 8:55 am

El°HYM wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 8:41 am DRON-E is your very best pal.

yes, i love experimenting with it, often i will make my own samples using additive and fm synths and mix those samples with some field recordings and the results are often very interesting

Jac459 · Post by **Jac459** » Wed May 10, 2023 9:02 am

martiu wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 8:55 am
El°HYM wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 8:41 am DRON-E is your very best pal.
yes, i love experimenting with it, often i will make my own samples using additive and fm synths and mix those samples with some field recordings and the results are often very interesting

Have you tried novum for pads?

El°HYM · Post by **El°HYM** » Wed May 10, 2023 9:02 am

Additive and fm plus field recordings, want to be run through a Tegeler Creme.

This is important.

martiu · Post by **martiu** » Wed May 10, 2023 9:04 am

Jac459 wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 9:02 am
martiu wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 8:55 am
El°HYM wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 8:41 am DRON-E is your very best pal.
yes, i love experimenting with it, often i will make my own samples using additive and fm synths and mix those samples with some field recordings and the results are often very interesting
Have you tried novum for pads?

yes i have the demo, it is great, i like it better than Abyss

martiu · Post by **martiu** » Wed May 10, 2023 9:05 am

El°HYM wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 9:02 am Additive and fm plus field recordings, want to be run through a Tegeler Creme.

This is important.

yes compressor or saturator on the FX chain is a must to glue the shit together

martiu · Post by **martiu** » Wed May 10, 2023 9:06 am

the good thing is that i dont like clean sound, i like lo fi and sometimes bit crushed sound, so the mastering is not that important haha

El°HYM · Post by **El°HYM** » Wed May 10, 2023 9:09 am

Do you know Digitalis, its very digital (good) but when added in micro-doses it suddenly adds warmth.

martiu · Post by **martiu** » Wed May 10, 2023 9:12 am

El°HYM wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 9:09 am Do you know Digitalis, its very digital (good) but when mixed in in micro-doses it suddenly adds warmth.

i have their SketchCassette II plugin (i began using it often for my ambient recordings) but i dont have Digitalis, i always though Digitalis is more towards rhythmic genres that i dont do anymore

Jac459 · Post by **Jac459** » Wed May 10, 2023 9:13 am

martiu wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 9:05 am
El°HYM wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 9:02 am Additive and fm plus field recordings, want to be run through a Tegeler Creme.

This is important.
yes compressor or saturator on the FX chain is a must to glue the shit together

A very good way to "glue the shit"

is also to side chain one part of the pad with the other. Let's say you have a substractive pad mixed with some cracking field recorded sounds. Every time there is a crack, you sidechain to open the pad filter slightly, maybe with a delay or something. This way the 2 parts interact with each other.
Love that.

ATS · Post by **ATS** » Wed May 10, 2023 9:28 am

Of course you don't NEED to pay for anything with software to make good music. If it is your job you will probably want to buy some stuff but for a hobby there is a TON of great stuff for free; you never have to spend a dime.

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Wed May 10, 2023 9:41 am

I have seen absolutely nothing in CLAP that interests me even slightly.

Jac459 · Post by **Jac459** » Wed May 10, 2023 9:59 am

BONES wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 9:41 am I have seen absolutely nothing in CLAP that interests me even slightly.

Nothing wrong about that.

To me the capacity to have polyphonic modulations from the DAW impacting the plugin is a game changer. It allows to have sound patches AND modulation patches. I love the idea.
Many won't give a s.... about it

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Wed May 10, 2023 10:07 am

To what end? Show us something that makes that a thing worth having.

Jac459 · Post by **Jac459** » Wed May 10, 2023 1:13 pm

BONES wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 10:07 am To what end? Show us something that makes that a thing worth having.

You are asking the question like if I was trying to convince you

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I am not at all. Do what you want.

These capacities has been discussed at length in Bitwig and CLAP part of the forum...

First you need to understand (or have in interrest) in polyphonic modulations.
If you have, modulations can become very complex. Having to reprogram them each time can be a shore. Omnisphere for example allows to change presets without changing the modulation setup. That's very handy because you can circulate timbre and sounds without changing the dynamic of this same sound.

CLAP allows to do that on steroid. In particular, in my use case (and I insist, it is my use case and feel free to not give a shit about it), it allows to use the polyphonic modulations of Bitwig in any CLAP synths. Without CLAP, if you don't like the modulation options of your synth, you are f**ked, you can only change synth. With CLAP, if you are comfortable with the modulators of your DAW, you can apply them to any external synth, polyphonically...

El°HYM · Post by **El°HYM** » Wed May 10, 2023 2:38 pm

martiu wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 9:12 am
El°HYM wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 9:09 am Do you know Digitalis, its very digital (good) but when mixed in in micro-doses it suddenly adds warmth.
i have their SketchCassette II plugin (i began using it often for my ambient recordings) but i dont have Digitalis, i always though Digitalis is more towards rhythmic genres that i dont do anymore

Its the hidden king of digital textures, the rhythmic thing is just on top of that and for the humanoids who are still using drums. Digitalis is a Cookie Monster and will give you all that heavy crunch if needed, or just some subtle crispiness to warm up your Drones. Trust me brother, buy now.

Synth overload?