_ _ _ | |__ ___ | |_ _ __ _ __ ___ __| |_ _ ___ ___ _ __ | '_ \ / _ \| __| | '_ \| '__/ _ \ / _` | | | |/ __/ _ \ '__| | | | | (_) | |_ | |_) | | | (_) | (_| | |_| | (_| __/ | 0 |_| |_|\___/ \__| | .__/|_| \___/ \__,_|\__,_|\___\___|_| |_| 0 0 _ _ o | |_(_)_ __ ___ o | __| | '_ \/ __| 0 o | |_| | |_) \__ \ 0 \__|_| .__/|___/ ___, |_| \ \ \ o _______________ o o | | | /\ | __________________________________ | __/ \ _____ | | o o o o o o o o | | \/ | | o o o | | | | | o o o o o | |_______________| | ____________________________ | _________________ | || | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |Amiga 3000 ____ | | || ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! |----------|_________________| |____|===========================|_| __________________ /:::::::::::::::::/ /:::===========:::/ '----------------' Some more tips from the world's freakiest studios: -=*=- HOW TO GET RID OF A SMELLY ODOR ON SYNTHESIZER Did you acquire a secondhand synthesizer that smells funny? Or you just don't like the chemical weird fumes of your brand new one? Here is a tip to make it smell all fresh and natural! Put the synthesizer in a plastic garbagebag, it has to be entirely enclosed, if possible with some small horizontal space for a small bowl. If it doesn't fit in one just tape 2 garbagebags together. Put an (open) bowl of ground coffee in the bag, hermeticly seal the bags and wait for a couple of days. When you take it out the faul smell should be gone! -=*=- MONO MIXTIP A cool usefull tip from Jimi Elektrovolt: When mixing down a track on a DAW put a MONO fuction VST on the master, this is a plugin or function in the DAW that will let you hear the mix in mono. It will be much easier to make a good mixdown now, and you can tackle phase cancellation problems and what not more way easier. For example in Ableton you can use the UTILITY -> MONO. -=*=- A PSYCHOLOGICAL MENTAL INSPIRATIONAL RITUAL From S.Hadowwolf This is a strange tip that might actually work when you are producing or working on tracks and you feel its not going so well...It could be writer's block, just plain laziness or even just lack of skill. Get rid of those mind states with this semi-magickal mind trick: Have a record player with a random record running somewhere in your studio while you are working, no sound just have it somewhere in the corner of your eye and occasionally look at it while you check your own song (If the sound of the needle is too loud still just lift the arm over the record but let the record keep turing). This will make your perceivement of the music you are working on different, You trick your mind because your unfinished track is transposed to you seeing a finished format in action and this might give you some more inspiration and motivation..This might sound weird but try it…it might work for you! -=*=- SAMPLER OPERATING SYSTEM FLOPPY TIP A handy tip from DJ Overdose for all the old sampler freaks: If you use one of those old samplers where you have to load the operating system each time you turn it on from a floppy (Ensoniq EPS, ASR, Akai S2000, Roland W30, Ensoniq Mirage etc.etc.etc.) get a piece of string or wire, put it through the read/write protect hole and attach that string or wire to the sampler (you can use the rackears or use a piece of tape or find somekind of screw) Now you never loose that Operating System floppy! -=*=- A COOL VOLCA BASS PATCH "COMMODORE JAZZFUNK" From S.Hadowwolf The Korg Volca bass is a cool little analog 3 osc synthesiser, playing the touch keyboard with a detuned 3 oscillator patch instantly gets u 70s ArpMoog Jazzfunk freakiness…and with a little bit of imagination u might think u are playing a Buchla Music Easel! Anyways here is a cool patch, it sort of emulates the Commodore 64 SID arpeggio by using a square wave LFO that modulates the pitch so it quickly emulates a 2 notes arpeggio. The oscillators are detuned in a chord...be sure to put the OSC on EG: Attack 9 o'clock (or whatever u like) Decay/Release 5 o'clock (till the end) LFO RATE = slightly over 2'o clock (just listen to what sounds ok) INT = wait with setting this after u set the LFO WAVE below VCF: Peak = 1 o'clock Cutoff = 12 o'clock VCO: pitch 1 = 12n pitch 2 = 5n pitch 3 = 10n And the settings for the touchpad keys: VCO Group: M3 LFO TARGET: PITCH _ LFO WAVE: SQUARE ( | |_| ) now set the LFO INT to your liking, depending on whatever interval you want for this "fake" arpeggio. You can also choose the Sawtooth LFO Wave and put the LFO INT just at 8 o'clock for a more conservative lead sound. VCO WAVE: Whatever you want, can be a combination of different waves Sustain: ON AMP EG: ON Put some delay (and a tad of reverb to your liking) over it and you are ready to go...slide your fingers over the keyboard and tweak the Octave key for some extra freakyness Sun Ra cosmic explorer freejazzzz style! -=*=- AUTHENTIC DUB ECHO Your echo delays will become swirling splashy wow & fluttery if you add some phaser before the delay signal (or after it to personal taste). Use a nice "soft" silk modest phaser like the MXR or Mu-Tron Phaser. Twiddle the rate knob occasionaly for those magic warbles wieieieieieuueepepeppepeppeeppiwwueueieeueuue! -=*=- CHEAP XOX 606/808/909 STYLE SEQUENCER For drum sequencing, it might be obvious but the old Korg smaller Electribes, the ES1 and ER1 send MIDI out and are great hardware XOX drum sequencers for any MIDI gear - hook up your drum machine, sampler or module and you are in business! The Electribe sequencer works even better then the original XOX sequencer in many aspects as you can save your pattern while playing (like only the TR606 does) and you have stuff like mute and solo buttons, among some other more fancy bits! -=*=- OLD KORG SYNTHESIZERS FREE LFO You want a free extra LFO for pitch and filter for your Poly 61, Poly 800, DW6000, 8000, DSS1, DS8? Basicly any korg that uses that weird multidirectional joystick for pitch/modulation. Just open it up and take out the spring that bounces back the joystick. Now you can set the joystick in any position and it will not bounce back giving you a free 2nd LFO you can program on the filter and cutoff!