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Genuine Soundware has got some really good effect plug-ins and instruments, all of them availible in both Mac and PC formats. What I especially like about this guy is that his goal is to recreate everything from the old machines. If there was a noticable hum or noise, any specific error for the machine, stuff like that, it’s also there in his plug-ins.
“WatKat is a digital “clone” of a Wem Watkins “Custom” Copicat. It sounds very lo-fi, noisy, irregular. When you turn it off and leave the tape loaded, the tape bends in proximity of the capstan, and this turns into a periodic pitch fall during echo playback; plus, it gets hot and the background hum gets worse in time… you should turn it off every now and then; the tape is never completely erased, and the capstan motor flutters… and it gets worse if you touch it while it’s spinning; heads tend to get dirty very soon, infact you should clean them often. This is true for the actual hardware unit, and for the digital simulation as well!”
Can’t get more hardcore than that, really.
Some are pay and some are free, check them out, you might find something really useful.
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1676 dub one shots 16-bit / 44.1khz .wav’s for you dubbing pleasure.
They’re all royality free, I got them off Computer Music #124 CD.
<3<3<3<3 I don’t want to be that bitch blogger that keeps talking about how his girlfriend dumped him last week and went lesbian; I believe blogs should be delivering shit other than diary entries! (yes, that was a joke)
Oh, and I know that the sub-folders are messed up… I noticed that AFTER I had uploaded the zip! It took forever! Blame Soundforge!
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Today I mastered my Death by Disco track, I think I’m getting better at this…
Considering it’s a 4 channel song consisting of 8 bit / 11.025 PCM waves the overall sound is pretty bad. Sooo… Ultra EQ and some limiting and my favourite trick, the stereo spread in logic 8… It really helps put the UNF in those bassdrums.
without further ado;
I think it turned out pretty good!
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Today in the car back to Gothenburg (I’ve been at a friend’s place in Lysekil, drinking beer and making holiday candy) I made some weird and nice stuff in LGPT, mainly delays / echoes and some sound design shit.
I remember someone “complaining” that LGPT was very limited in sound design aspects… I beg to differ! The shit you can do with just one sinewave osc … !
But I’ll write more about the sines later… Right now I want to write about my awesome delay effect. Yeah, it does sound pretty sweet! I’m obviously using the retrig command, with an automated table and some FCUT sweeping towards a FF amount with the filter type set to highpass (FF). Pan command is added in the phrases, with some sweeping… For that nice ‘n smooth pan! It’s very simple, but it sounds great… Mainly because it’s using 4 channels. The delays are layered on each other… And that’s the key!
Now back to the sinewaves,
With all the nice little things in piggy, such as downsampling, (bit-?)crush, weird fb tune thing… Oscillator mode… Tables… Filter shit… etc etc!! You can process those waveforms into alot of weird sounds… In this little loop I used only a sinewave osc loop to make quite a range of sounds… Bitcrushed to the max it becomes a squarewave and bitcrushed close to it it becomes a nice mixture of them both. And combine that with the filter fuckery and fb tune shit and alot more weird things you can make a shitload of versatile sounds!
I FUCKING LOVE PIGGY
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Highpass filter sweeps in LGPT is like sex on the beach (!?) when it comes to making that sweet filter house.
So… Having done my fair share of silly house tracks I present to you some nice tricks:
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The instrument settings for highpass is filter type on FF and the resonance around 50-70 for that nice overtone.
1. Long sweep
Let’s say that you want to make an intro that filter sweeps the key melody in that classic house manor… Programming that on a table or something like that with like hundreds of instruments with the same loop takes forever, so just take advantage of the fact that when LittleGPTracker plays an instrument specified; Like C3 - inst 00 and then C3 again but with no instrument specified it continues to play the same sound but does not retrig all the instrument parametres. So just begin that phrase with a “specified” note and continue on with “empty” instruments and put a FCUT command in the beginning of the phrase.
2. Filter parameters
The filter in LGPT can be more than just low and highpass, put the filter type to 7F and BOOOM, bandpass, baby!
Resonance is the key to really nice sweeps! Just pump that resonance!
I have nothing more to write!
Why the hell do I keep on typing!?
3. Slow up-down sweep
You could do the slow up and down sweep in the same way as slow intro sweeps, but I find it better to just use a automated table with FCUT commands going up and then down on every step that phases it according to notes played by that instrument.
THIS IS FEELING KINDA STUPID, OBVIOUS INFORMATION^
SO THAT TAKES ME TO DELAYS:
Let’s make a damn cool delay in LGPT!?
Retrig command, is what you’re looking for! Sadly, you’ll need a somewhat long sample, or just a sample with some silent space at the end of it. Anyway, smack that retrig command into the table, swith the automated option to ON and put on some filter sweep for that classic tape delay dubiness and rock away.
Another cool thing to do with this is to experiment with retrig offset and shit like that… Or even not use automation… You can make the retrig cut further and further into the sample… It’s a quite nice effect!
AND NOW… SNARES, BASSDRUMS AND… WELL THAT’S JUST ALL, OH MY!
A good way to beef up a snare or a bassdrum is to fuck mess around with the PTCH-command on a table… If your snare sample lacks that PSCHHAAAAAPPPP you can make a table like this:
00 PTCH00F0
01 PTCH0000
for a really quick SNAP. It doesn’t work on that many sample though… As most synthetic snares already has that snap, it’ll just sound silly… But for stuff like the CasioCrack compo this was a life saver.
And the bassdrum thing? Well, this is something I accidentally came up with during a 10k samplepack session… Which is by the way the best way to master the ways of the pig. Set your bassdrum sample to an octave higher than the original pitch and put this in the table:
00 PTCH02F0 (or 001F0… and so on… sound different on different samples)
Ooohohoo! PHAT!
And if the bassdrum sample is really shitty like the SK-1 … THING… put some retrig and further downpitch (perhaps?) and fade it out quick.. Yeah.. Cool..
That’s all for today… Oh, and… The PAN is inverted on GP2X compared to WINDOWS/OSX?!?!? I noticed this yesterday… I don’t use render that often… Anyway, it’s really strange… I wonder if my Gp2x is acting up.
<33~Simon
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Yesterday I got inspired by listening to some old .mod tracks;
I love when stuff doesn’t sound too clean or polished, especially in electronic music. If a certain sound is too ‘clean’ I usually just drive it through an amp plug-in or something similar. In my opinion that makes the sound feel more alive and interesting. I actually dislike music that sounds too clean and polished… I can’t stand it as a matter of fact!
Anyway, back to the .mod thing… Back in da old sk00l of ~90 they would (and still do) compress their little wav samples to low resolutions such as “8-bit / 11.025hz MONO PCM Wave”, which sounds obviously lo-fi and somehow warm? Maybe I’m just crazy, but I love the sound of 8-bit PCM’s.
This lead me to investigate a bit about compressing waves… I used Soundforge, and eventually I figured how to get a good sounding PCM sample. (Eventually = ~3 minutes)
“OH, so THAT’S how the 10k samplepack was made! GOLLY GOSH, BATMAN.”
Seriously though, I didn’t notice that the samplerate of those waves were 11.025, and NO, I DID NOT know that piggy could handle ANY SAMPLERATE. :(
What I got out of this is this song (+dat) that I made for Pnok’s MicroHorror Compilation 2 (by request) and a 1K samplepack consisting of: saw.wav, pu.wav, noi.wav
Yeppers, 1,018kB … It’s really fun to mess around with… We should have a 48 hour 1K compo on Hexawe!
Now I have an urge to make a music video of Death by Disco… Or the track’s going to be called Daterape Disco… I don’t know actually.
