Entries for August, 2008
One of the questions I see turn up on music boards all the time is “How do I get that acid house sound?” or “how do I make a 303 sound?”. So I thought I’d show you the basic settings I tend to use.
Firstly I still find that the Subtractor gives a more authentic “acid” [...]
One of my favourite styles of sounds for percussion is the IDM style glitches and buzzes you often hear in a lot of current electronica. There are many ways to make such sounds with VSTs that involve audio buffer manipulation various styles of bit reduction and distortion. Here’s a quick reason tutorial on how to [...]
Ok so many people have big collections of snare samples or even the Reason Drum Kit Refill so why bother creating a snare sound using a synthesizer?
Well for several reasons:
Its fun
Its educational. You need to know about using the noise oscillators and applying filter envelopes to them.
Ive always had a soft spot for [...]
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