_________ _______ __________/U U U U U\ _____ /\ U U U\____/ U U U U \________/U U U\___________ / \ ___ U U U U U U U U_U U U / \ / /\ ________________ _________________ / /\ / O \ / / \ | . . . | | . . | \ / \ / \ \ \ / | . | | . . . | \ \ \ o o \ / \/ | . . | | . . | / \ / / O \ /____ |________________| |_________________|_/__ \/ / O \ / __ /\ ________________ ________________ / _\_ / o O |/_ \\ \ | . | | . / __/ / / |/ \/ \/ | o | | . o / / /\ / \ /O o O | ____ | . o | |__ . / / / \ // |/ \ |___-------______| | \____-------\/ ____ \/ / o O / ___ \ |________________| |________________/ \_---_______ | / \_\____________________________________ /_ ---__ ___ \ |_----___----____ ||\/ o o \/. .\ __| _ ____ __ _\ ______________________||_____________\/| | o\_/o o \/ -\ / |_____/ ___________////////////////// / _____________\/__| _____________/ // / / / / / / / / / \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ _________________ \----------------/_/ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \\ \_________----------------- ------------------' \ S h_a d o w _ _ W o l f_ _ \ _-----__ _ ___| |_ _ _ __| (_) ___ | |_(_)_ __ ___ \ / ----- / __| __| | | |/ _` | |/ _ \ | __| | '_ \/ __| / \ \__ \ |_| |_| | (_| | | (_) | | |_| | |_) \__ \ \ \ |___/\__|\__,_|\__,_|_|\___/ \__|_| .__/|___/ \_____/ |_| CREATE GROOVE WITH DELAY - use any delay effect to add polyrhythmic i exotic grooves to a rhythm or riff. Try to find a good wet/dry mix on the delay so it doesn't encompass the whole sound but leaves enough of the original sound spectrum. Its good to add some kind of EQ before the delay maybe -> cut the low EQ a bit to taste - so it doesn't get too muddy and the focus will be on the mids and highs i.e. the snares, hihats, percussion instead of the bass drum. If you are using a hardware mixer use the AUX send to feed the delay and let it come back on a channel with EQ (and not the 'normal' AUX return as some mixers have - letting it return to a normal channel gives you the power to EQ and even sweep the effected signal!) Set the delay time manually with the sync off to get weirder exotic grooves. PRO TIP: Try using 2 different delays on different rhythmic elements. LONGER CABLE - You need a long cable but you don't have one - use two shorter ones and connect them together with a pedal with the bypass on. Don't worry about degrading the sound quality, the music you are making most probably doesn't need any hifi sound anyways ___ cable 1 |o o| cable 2 ___==-- --===_____ _____ __===| o |===______-----____-- ---__- -__- | _ | |___| any pedal CREATE OLD SCHOOL AMIGA TRACKER SOUND: why do a lot of those old early 1990s techno jungle rave records sound so choppy and tight? Because a lot of them were made on 'Tracker' sequencers on Amiga and PC computers. An Amiga tracker only had 4 channels of audio and each channel was monophonic. If you would play the next sample on the same channel the other one got cut off by the new one - instant choppy staccato rhythms and melodies! Its easy to emulate this sound in your sampler. In SIMPLER,the Ableton sampler, for example - set the polyphony to 1 so the channel becomes monophonic - use the glide function to make interesting portamento effects. FILTER EFFECTS ON SAMPLER WITHOUT FILTER - a little l33t trick people used to do back in the day on trackers on the Amiga computer to make acid riffs: You need a sample of a squelchy acid/synth sound with a strong filter envelope - starting with a sharp high filter cut off and a gradually slope to a calmer lower filter setting like "Pwiiioooooooaauaauauauauauauau" or almost any acidic synth/synth bass sound. Now the Amiga didn't have a filter (YEAHYEAH it did but not a real time tweakable filter) but you could get crazy filter effects by just changing the starting point of the sample - the later it starts the less cut off you hear - the earlier you start it the higher the cut off! If you change the starting point on every note played you get this unique filter tweak effect. This is easily emulated with any sampler, For example, in Ableton's SIMPLER just set a controller on the START parameter. Set the sampler polyphony to 1 and turn the glide effect on for more FREAKINESS! I would also do this on my Roland MKS100 sampler just tweaking the alpha dial while set on the sample starting point function. | | | ||| |||| | |||||||||| ||||||||| |||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||| __|||||||||||||||||||||||||___ ____||||||||||||||||||||||____ |||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||| | |||||||||| ||||||||| | ||| |||| | | (a) normal starting position (b) starting point later in sample sharp filter sound starts at point were filter cut "Pwiieiieiieieeuuoooeee" off is lower. - will sound like filter cut off is turned down "ieieieieuuuoeoeoeoe" COAT RACK AS A CABLE WEEPING WILLOW - Need serious cable management use a standing vertical coat rack to put your cables on. Different arms can have different size cables. \_____||______/ ||| || |||| ||| || |||| ||| || |||| | | || | | | || | || || __||__ HEADPHONE TRIGGER OUTPUT A very short but unique tip from Gerald Brunson who says 'When I doubt try using the headphone output as a trigger source" PORTABLE LED MAKE-UP MIRROR TO LOOK BEHIND GEAR - A cool tip from David Vunk: Get one of those portable make up mirrors with build in LED lights. This will give you a handy tool to look behind gear (Rack Modules, FX units, patchbays etc.) when you need to insert or take out cables. No more putting yourself in impossible positions and getting a hernia just to insert that MIDI thru cable! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- . _______ . . . /__ - \ ____________/ \_____________ . \________ ________/ \_______ _______/ . . ----/ \ / \---- . . _ / \ / \ _ . . / / | \ \ / / / \ \ \ . . \\\\ / \ //// \ / ________________________ / \ ____________________________ / \ ______________________ /__ _ _ _ \ __________________________ / / \ \/ | \| \ \ ____________________ / / / / | || \ \ ________________________ /_/ / / __|_/| \ \ /__ __ ______ \ __________________/ \| | | \ \ \ _____________________ / || / | | | \ \ / ||_/ | | | \ \ / |\____/ __| | \ \ _____________ / \ _________________ / \ / \ ___________/_____________________________________\_______________