2,363 Forum Posts by "midimachine"
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Before I quit, I'd clocked ~4100 hours on Runescape.
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The channel pitch knob can go as far as 48 semitones either way.
There's a set of VSTs called "Uhbik" by Urs Heckmann; one of them (Uhbik-G) is pretty much a massive pitch shifting knob and it's rather fun!
"Hell I wrote a 3/4 house song with a 4 to the floor kick and a snare on 2 and 4 (thought really it was on 2 and 1) but the melody was 3/4."
That's just a polyrhythmic melody. Your song was still in 4/4.
So what? If a time signature contest goes ahead and someone submits a song that's written in such a way that the time signature changes aren't noticeable without sheet music then it can just be disqualified because it's clearly just some dickhead trying to be funny and not taking the contest seriously.
"Now thinking about it, the time sig change contest would be also pretty hard to judge, you will say a song wins based on what? How many times the time signature changes on a song? Or the song with the weirdest time sig? Hmmm...."
you'd judge this based on a ratio of overall listenability and catchiness to technical rhythmic wizardry. not difficult!
No worries
If you don't need to add effects to the dry signal you can just use channel routing and skip the send plugin. Also worth noting that with both methods the delay has to be 100% wet, otherwise the dry signals will mix and cause dreadful phasing.
Yeah you could use a fruity send plugin to do pretty much what jarrydn was talking about except in real time. Make sure the send plugin goes BEFORE any effects you don't want to be affected by delay, and that the delay goes in the SEND channel, not the original.
re: remixes.
time sigs are fine
anything is fine
just not really annoying remix contests
unless i can fucking DESTROY someone's song. that would be fun. I wish you could edit posts here wtf.
For most fruity plugins slides are definitely the way to go. Unfortunately if you're using a VST that isn't fruity native, slides won't work. So if that's the case, here's what I think you should do:
You can automate the pitch knob in the channel settings (it's up top near the FX bus setting) and that should work with most third party plugins. However I think you'd be better off just sequencing a pitch drop with the play mode on "legato" and a long portamento time. Make a bunch of overlapping notes going down in pitch and with a bit of adjustment in the portamento and the note length it should work well.
Yeah if we're going to do remixes like that we should pick which of the person's songs we're gonna remix. It could just as easily work with an odd number, even in your example of ABC (3 people) they all got to remix a different person's work.
Having said that, I think it's a lot more work than just saying "okay guys make a song that's like THIS".
Let's just stick to multiple time signatures.
getting in a post directly below decibel's so nobody else can claim brilliance ;)
The main thing you're missing out is layering. You just need to build the pad with more varied textures, and multiple instances of instruments. Spatial effects (verb, delay, stereo) are good to throw on once you have the overall sound design down pat but you don't necessarily need to use heaps of it.
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I don't have enough buddies on the AP to get any weekly tops :<
I hit the top 30 occasionally so I'm happy in that regard.
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At 4/26/11 12:46 AM, midimachine wrote: It's not a challenge at all, you just end up making an enjoyable/beautiful song at (roughly) 125BPM.
regarding 999BPM, didnt see the new page.
but SERIOUSLY time signature changes are not a big deal, if it ends up being the focus though i'll still make something cause it could be a fun brief for me.
It's not a challenge at all, you just end up making an enjoyable/beautiful song at (roughly) 125BPM.
Carillon e-Control 61 might be what you're after, it's basically a rebranded M-Audio Oxygen without the knobs and faders.
Amen break abuse contest, pleaaaaaase?
Time signature changes is a cool idea but i think it's a little too vague.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/3 76232 <- a little bit gay but i can certainly do stuff that's more gritty/punk than that
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meh, piano
usually when i do soft songs they tend to be loooong and contemplative... and ambient i guess!
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At 4/25/11 02:40 AM, Back-From-Purgatory wrote: As for specific VSTs, I couldn't really suggest much, as I've no idea what the neurofunk genre sounds like...
Look up Receptor or Xilent on youtube. Neurofunk is like drum and bass or darkstep with more syncopated and technical beats and often with heavier basslines.
:For everyone that reckons GB is shit, what about it in particular has held you back?
I haven't used GB in like 6 years so things may have changed, but I remember finding it either really difficult and counter-intuitive or even impossible to automate specific parameters of an instrument or effect e.g. cutoff frequency, compressor ratio/threshold etc.
Some synths had pre-determined CC mapping for the modulation wheel on a controller, but I couldn't find any way to change the routing, nor any way to map other controls to different parameters.
Automating volume and pan was piss easy though, so why did I find automating anything else so unworkable?
At 4/25/11 01:40 AM, Raymoclaus wrote: FL Studio (paid versions) allow you to save your work as either MIDI or MP3 however it is difficult to make good MIDIs in 'FL'.
Pretty sure the demo allows you to save mp3 files, but what do you mean by "difficult to make good MIDIs"... a MIDI isn't rocket science; there's a macro to convert all channels to MIDI outs and even so, if you intend to make midi files you'll be writing your track in a way that's condusive to MIDI format anyway.
UNLESS the reverb was in a send or something GOD FUCKING DAMN why cant i edit my own fucking posts like i can EVERY OTHER FORUM EVER.
sorry for the triple post
i think it would be on the delay rather than the reverb seeing as the reverb is after the delay in the fx chain
*...and putting distortion on the reverb at that point would put distortion on EVERYTHING
see what i mean by "not the right state of mind"? D:
At 4/24/11 09:38 AM, Chris-V2 wrote: A slow attack piano synth sound - maybe some low passed saw waves? Add some white noise. Then a diffuse reverb.
Is there possibly a slight hint of distortion on the reverb? I could hear some automated in and out at some points but it's hard to say!
i think it would be on the delay rather than the reverb seeing as the reverb is after the delay in the fx chain. the two delay plugins i mentioned can both do pretty distinct feedback and distortion and it feels like there's a little bit of both but idk... i'm not quite in the right frame of mind to be too analytical.
