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Subject: Newbie needs help... Please!!!
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Original Message 1/7 04-Aug-00 @ 06:15 PM - Newbie needs help... Please!!!
I'm new to the whole dance music programming thing, and I need help in laying down beats and stuff for underground-ish trance music. I am currently putting together a studio. I have a Korg Prophecy, Pentium 2 PC with cubase, acid, sound forge, and I intend on getting a virus, supernova, and s3000xl. I need your help in how to do stuff like snares and breaks... anything, that will get me up and running in making good underground trance. Also how do I get whoooosssy sweeping sounds out of my Prophecy, does this involve the noise osc and filter.
Thanx.
Victor C
Message 2/7 05-Aug-00 @ 05:59 AM - RE: Newbie needs help... Please!!!
Message 3/7 05-Aug-00 @ 08:14 AM - RE: Newbie needs help... Please!!!
Whoooossy noises: Stuff like the very first sound in Tilt - Invisible and the kind of filter sweep things in a lot of Paul Van Dyke's stuff (but not for an angel). They sound a bit like wind blowing on a stormy night. Can u help with that? Please.
Thanx :-)
Victor C
Message 4/7 05-Aug-00 @ 08:41 AM - RE: Newbie needs help... Please!!!
Good luck anyways, it`ll all come together eventually if you stick with it.
Message 5/7 06-Aug-00 @ 03:59 AM - RE: Newbie needs help... Please!!!
I can't stress enough the importance at early stages of having a fun interface. Something that gives you immediate results. That means something pretty simple. Something that you CAN learn to program. Once you've figured that out, you can move on, cause you'll want too, because you've learned the sounds that you can make, and probably will want to make more better butta.
I know what I'm about to say is real dumb, but I'm getting an EA-1 from korg, which is like the cotton candy synth, just to have fun. I've been working with some tough synths, and really as much as I love making music, my studio has gotten to be quite a drag. I don't hang out in gyms or nuttin, but I bet there are a bunch of macho newbies who show up and try and lift a tun of weight, and hurt themselves, and don't feel good, and just give it up. If you wanna be a buff electronic music maker, build it slowly, and don't stop enjoying it. If you do stop enjoying it, figure out what has changed, and do whatever you have to do to get the fun back.
Footnote-> I learned alot about the architecural mechanics of synths (sound) by using instraments in reaktor (a software synth) and then studying their design (which reaktor lets you do). Great experience.
Message 6/7 06-Aug-00 @ 04:40 AM - RE: Newbie needs help... Please!!!
I've been thinking, if I crab some mixer map things for my Prophecy I can control the different parameters from whitin cubase (I think). I have the Prophecy Midi'ed up to the computer and am able to record keyboard parts and play 'em back on the Prophecy. But, when I move the virtual controls inside the cubase mixermap nothing happens.
If I was able to change all the parameters on screen it would be like having a synth with loads of knobs and sliders, but not as hands-on. Still it would be very good for learning purposes.
I believe the Orzic Tenticles used mixermaps with there Prophecy... read that on the Sound on Sound website.
BTW: R-tek, thanx for the addy for the SOS synth programming articles. I'm making my way through the Synth Secrets feature at the moment.
I also have a demo of reaktor thats teaching me about modular synthesis.
Thanx again,
Victor C
Message 7/7 08-Aug-00 @ 09:17 AM - RE: Newbie needs help... Please!!!
One quite good thing to do with it is to set up the knobs (called PE's I think) below the screen to control your standard synth functions:-
e.g.
PE1 - Filter 1 Cutoff
PE2 - Filter 1 Res
PE3 - Filter 1 Env Amount
PE4 - Env Decay
PE5 - Env Sustain
If you set up the oscillators for a standard saw wave, you then can program simplish analoguey sounds just using the front panel...
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