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Old 11th January 2007   #7
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for a true 'industrial' sound go pull some metal out of the dumpster & run it thru some guitar pedals. waldorf & access virus are popular with the metropolis band set. if yer aiming for wax trax era you really need to get under the hood & start programming your own sounds, also that era was alot of lower bitrate to analog outboard gear. full digital vst are typically too clean, digital distortions are also going to be very steril sounding.

i saw cevin key hanging @ the NI booth @ namm a couple years back so i'd take that as an endorsement if you like sound of the recent Skinny Puppy albums.
there are some sonic decimator & glitch friendly programs out there but if you really want that warm grit you need to wire up some outboard gear & tweak some knobs.

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probably the biggest thing missing now from that era is the layering of different styles of synthesis. FM, LA, Vector, Analog, Modular, multiple bitrates of Sampling all create a more lush combination of texture than everything coming from the same digital engine.

Last edited by Stevil; 11th January 2007 at 06:37 PM.. Reason: afterthot
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