KVR Audio

goldenanalog · Post by **goldenanalog** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 9:24 pm

From the grandiose to the absurd, what is the strangest noisemaker in your arsenal?

Pictures please!

robogone · Post by **robogone** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 9:26 pm

No pictures, but things like my dizi, and the process of putting a di-mo on it is unlike anything else I have.

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 9:52 pm

Casio VL Tone, sent through a flanger pedal to my keyboard amp.

Zombie Queen · Post by **Zombie Queen** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:28 pm

Unless you mean something not quite musical by 'instrument', it should go to everything else (music related) I guess...

some of my candidates from old threads:

Tricky-Loops · Post by **Tricky-Loops** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:43 pm

Record them, layer them, put a guitar amp on them - and your trance lead is ready!

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:54 pm

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 5:59 am

The weirdest "instrument" I can think of right now is this one:

That's my friend and long-time collaborator Aliciya Angel. There was a contest on another forum years ago to make a short ~1-minute track using granular synthesis in just a few hours time, so I recorded her saying "non-verbal communication" and used nothing but that sample (and several instances of Alchemy and Geist) to make every sound ("synths" and "drums") in the following track:

http://www.cryophonik.com/music/mp3/non ... phonik.mp3

So, yeah, she was my "instrument".....sorta.

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:17 am

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:38 am

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:21 am

ghettosynth wrote:
cryophonik wrote:So, yeah, she was my "instrument".....sorta.
Did ya play her like a cheap fiddle, well, did ya?

No, she was an "instrument" in the sense that I used her spoken word phrase to create all the instruments in the track I posted.

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Sun Jun 29, 2014 4:40 pm

Zombie Queen wrote:

Reminds me of "The Making of Myst"
"Chris Brandkamp produced most of the ambient and incidental sounds in the game. To make sure the sounds fit, Brandkamp had to wait until the game's visuals were placed in context. Sound effects were drawn from unlikely sources; the noise of a fire in a boiler was created by driving slowly over stones in a driveway, because recordings of actual fire did not sound like fire burning. The chimes of a large clock tower were simulated using a wrench, then transposed to a lower pitch." -Wikipedia

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Sun Jun 29, 2014 4:41 pm

ghettosynth wrote:I'm going to assume that you mean "commercially produced" instrument and not just the strangest thing sampled, because, I'm not posting pictures of my anus.

So, I give you the Synare 3.

Dang. That's amazing. Wish it were cheaper than $500 on ebay though haha.

Jace-BeOS · Post by **Jace-BeOS** » Sun Jun 29, 2014 5:50 pm

Zombie Queen wrote:Unless you mean something not quite musical by 'instrument', it should go to everything else (music related) I guess...

some of my candidates from old threads:

That's the spirit!! I'm trying to get back into sampling with my V-Synth XT, but summer arrived...

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Sun Jun 29, 2014 7:05 pm

A friend told me that two oranges can make awesome kick. Didn't try myself, but the kick was decent indeed.

sjm · Post by **sjm** » Sun Jun 29, 2014 7:14 pm

I have one of these:

Can't play it for toffee, and it's probably not the world's best, but it does look nice and exotic. Unless you're from the far east, in which case you probably think my guitar is a rare and exotic beast.

Show us your weirdest instrument!