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Originally Posted by Taybot  So I really don't understand why everyone keeps mentioning a kick sound.
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The kick sound is
silent, it's output is inversely sidechained to the gated signal. This allows you to use the kick solely to control the volume of whatever signal its sidechained to (without hearing the kick in the track). For example, when the kick drum is at its maximum volume, the signal is at its minimum volume. This is good for you because you can use the kick to create the trademark "holes" in the trancegate sound.
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Originally Posted by Taybot Also, you said to "put a gate on my trance sound." I don't know what that entails, nor do I know how to do it. Everybody keeps telling me to put a gate on my pad sound but it'd be nice if someone explained what that means. |
A gated patch is not a unique type of synth patch, it's usually an ordinary patch with either a volume LFO or a gate on it. So you can use anything as the basis for your gate sound...a lead, a pad, FX, whatever.
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Originally Posted by Taybot
Finally, I take it that sound is a pad? I thought it was a synth or something but if it is a pad, I will start calling it that. I'm trying to learn the correct terminology.
Thanks for your help I know that is alot of questions.
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It is a synth and a pad. In fact, its a synth pad, but not a pad synth (that probably wouldn't be too practical)
. There are many categories of typical synth patches: pads, leads, fx, keys, gated, arpeggiated, perc, etc...