Saturday, April 4, 2009

a thing i made

Posted by alex at 3:10 PM

6 comments:

  1. tudikas wayneApril 4, 2009 at 6:37 PM

    that's mean. i can't for the life of me figure out how to do grime bass like that. props.

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  2. IannnnnnApril 4, 2009 at 7:39 PM

    Well that's damn beautiful. Additional props.

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  3. sqrt (Brian)April 5, 2009 at 5:16 AM

    yeah bro, the bass is knockin like a 15" sub in the trunk of a 1982 Caprice Classic. Is that a noise you made out of that Red outboard keyboard thing you have, or in some software wizardry?

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  4. alexApril 5, 2009 at 6:01 AM

    wow thanks. i did most of this in live. the bass sound is two separate tracks. i made a straight-ahead square-wave-ish bass sound in massive. on a second track i had a sampler playing a plain sine wave with quick attack and release, and a bit of a pitch envelope. i routed the midi from the first track to the second so they play the same notes. the rest is tweaking compression, playing with filter envelopes and such. everybody post more music!

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  5. tudikas wayneApril 5, 2009 at 8:29 AM

    yeah..live is indispensable. i use that massive synth sometimes too, but i don't take much joy in programming it. native instruments has incredible and innovative signal path setups but terrible gui design, in my opin onion.

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  6. alexApril 5, 2009 at 8:48 AM

    i would tend to agree in most cases, but i think massive is an exception. massive is one of my favorite synths right now. it's pretty tough to make a patch that sounds bad, and pretty easy to make a great-sounding one. i think the gui is pretty accessible; considering how flexible the routing is and the fact that it all pretty much fits in a single screen is pretty impressive. the oscillator and filter mixing and routing could use some improvement though. the massive gui is way easier than absynth and fm8 and the like, imo.

    while we're nerding out on synths, i've been trying to decide lately between two programs/bundles or whatever.
    korg legacy collection analog edition: the audio demos and whatnot sound pretty good, but getting a demo license to try it is a huge pain, so i'm not sure
    ...and..
    gladiator 2: this thing totally looks like a toy, but i downloaded the demo and it sounds pretty great (even if it's geared a little too much towards trance).

    has anybody used either of these? opinions?

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