Edit that preset!

Well.. after gotten som inspration on youtube, i wanted to check out how the korg z1 would do the vangelis lead used in chariots of fire and blade runner (you know.. the yummyha cs80 lead )..

anyway.. here is what i got after probably a hour work

Korg Z1 - Vangelis lead

2 OSC using saw, with a slight detune from each other.
vibrato LFO on the patch to get it swinging. filter envelope and amp. envelope.

using serial filter in the z1. maybe i will try the same on the nova, to se how it does the sound.

Yepp.. yesterday i tested out the vocoder, after reading about it in the rfx-32 manual. I am not in desperat need of robotic voices, but its nice to have the function. But the real fun started when i used (break beat) Drumloop as carrier, then a rez bass as modulator.. i also tested with AHH sound as modulator. Where i made the drumloop as a non-transpose.It worked almost like a gate on the modulator, blending in sound from both parts. Sounds sweet. I will without doubt add that in my next track to spice up the beat :).

There might be a sound example later

Here is a patch example of an emulator patch made by sampling down 3 position of Waldorf microwave2 chorus2 wavetable, and crossfading between them.

 There are some filtring there aswell.. but its very easy to spot whats filtring and whats “wavetable cycling”

Download the mp3 here:
E-mu Wave (mw2:chorus2)

 Listen to a short jam here: E-mu Oberheim patch 

Well.. i guess i have made it pritty clear that i have fallen totaly in love with the sampling techniqe.   So i thought i could share my progress in learning the lost art of sampling :).

Few days ago, i needed a kind of a lead pad.. a pad that sticks a bit out.  so i turned to my nova.. found a preset.. tweaked it a bit.. and made it fit for the track.. it sounded ok.. but too mellow and rnb’ish.. so.. i turned to my emu..   i sampled a 5 sec clip of the sample down..  copied it up and panned the two similar samples in each direction.. then i fine-detuned the one sample to around +6, found a very good looping point and made crossfade between the loopingpoint to avoid too fast transition,  applied amplitude envelope, a 4-pole low-pass filter, with an filter envelope.   I also did some dsp threatment on the sample like, normalizing.    First the result was a bit flat.. but after working with the filter envelope.. and amp envelope i found the right curve.. and it made miracles..

 the pad got a more edgy characteristic sound, and fitted my dnb track even more.  and that emu-filter actually kicks the bottom of the nova filters.. i am almost sad to say.. but its a killer!!!

I am going to apply a slow lagged random lfo on the fine-tuning on both samples.. so they can drift to get a more analouge feel..

With a slow lagged random lfo, i mean a LFO that is feeding out random values, with a lagproessor smoothing out the transition between the values.. giving it a kind of smooth “sample and hold” modulation.  Since its random, the two samples will not be modulated to the same value. Which will ensure it sounds more natural.

 The emu have revealed it self as a superb padmachine.   emu together with some va/analouge or softsynth turns out to be a killer combination!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac 

It should be elementary for all human beings to know about this amen break.  its used by sevral artists.  

Check out the link.. another proof that SAMPLER IS KING!

A good tricks to get sweet phat sound on the trigger of a bass is to add a quick envelope which decays fast and rout it to the pitch of oscillator 2 this will make sure that the sound are more detuned on the start but quickly catches up on the default settings.  Controll the decayrate to expriment with diffrent phatness.

But remember!..  SAMPLER IS KING