made entirely with Massive, some reverb and a limiter
only WT used in Massive was Modern Talking
anyone ever do weird "experiments" like this one limiting yourself to nothing but a single synthesizer and make a whole track or little arrangement from scratch with it just for the hell of it?
I love these kind of experiments, sometimes you can really hear the characteristics of a synth (hardware or plugin) with experiments like this, or listen to the sheer power of them.
It's good practice to scale back every now & then and provide self-imposed limitations in an age where people can walk with a 48 track studio in the backpack. "Your Audio-Fu is strong young grasshopper"
I love that FabFilter EQs/Limiters, your link has me almost ready to pull the trigger on a Twin2, lol. Too bad Im in need of a itb reverb first.
Thank you, I don't own very many plugins, but I do have their "creative suite" (Volcano, Timeless and Saturn) and absolutely love those, I use them in every song (taken with a grain of salt because they are the only 3rd party filter and saturator I own lol!)
The neat part about Twin is that if you have a vst3 compatible host you have direct access to its filter and delay section through audio-in. While the delay section is not terribly full-featured, the filter section is. In fact aside from the mid-side capability it's almost identical to Volcano. So Twin is an awesome value in my mind for that reason alone.
All the filtering (even on the sampled elements) was done through Twins filter section. Same goes for the delay.
FWIW, here is another 100% Twin song to show a bit more of it:
If you pay close attention you'll notice a very accoustic-pianoish type sound through some of the "verse" sections, the fact that Twin has enough modulation capacity to manage a patch like that in spite of its otherwise "simple" subtractive architecture is a huge boon in my opinion.
definitely an excellent way to inspire, a favorite method of mine
every sound in this arrangement was sourced from a doepfer dark energy (which is now no longer in my possession)
and this one recorded recently was entirely with ableton's operator as the source - funnily enough after I listened back again I actually had to go and check the project file to make sure that statement is true
I'm what you might call "bad at this", but gave it a shot in Diva just now (certainly didn't do it justice). Limited myself to the single DCO/HPF/Bite filter and 8 tracks. No outside processing, but I used the Diva FX. Was fun.
anyone ever do weird "experiments" like this one limiting yourself to nothing but a single synthesizer and make a whole track or little arrangement from scratch with it just for the hell of it?
if so then post what you have!
sure
I did a demo for a Rob papen Synth some years ago.
This one is 100% Predator (except drums)
I think it's still somehwhere on the offical website.
This one I did with only SubBoomBass (except for Vocals and some of the drums)
I had a track entirely with Synth1 and another with entirely Oatmeal on an album years ago, but I don't think those tracks are online anywhere (they were'nt very good anyway .g.)
This is 100% Massive apart from drums. It's a demo I did for a dubstep soundset and was my first real attempt at the genre, but the set did make it pretty easy.
And this was a little demo I did after buying my JV1080 last year. Just two patches iirc played live into Cubase with a little Artsacoustic reverb.
made entirely with Massive, some reverb and a limiter
only WT used in Massive was Modern Talking
anyone ever do weird "experiments" like this one limiting yourself to nothing but a single synthesizer and make a whole track or little arrangement from scratch with it just for the hell of it?
if so then post what you have!
You did a really good job with the recording..it sounds nice and clean...What do you mean by modern talking though?
You did a really good job with the recording..it sounds nice and clean...What do you mean by modern talking though?
I meant the wavetable used in Massive like my original post says (WT= wavetable)
I used this wavetable because of Knife Party's "100% No Modern Talking" EP which goes against the common use of this wavetable in Massive for Dubstep sounds
back in the day (me included) everyone thought that the Skrillex growls were made with the Modern Talking wavetable in Massive (when, in fact, they were made with FM8), so word spread all over the place and the poor wavetable was abused on countless Dubstep tracks
so when Knife Party (two ex member for Pendulum) came and named their EP "100% No Modern Talking" showing that you could sound like Skrillex without using Modern Talking, the poor defenseless wavetable became an outcast
I made this just for fun, not trying to show anything, but I guess (apart form the idiotic use of it on drums) it shows what the wavetable was intended to be used for, and that is funky 80's bass patches which is probably why it's names after a cheesy 80's group
I'm what you might call "bad at this", but gave it a shot in Diva just now (certainly didn't do it justice). Limited myself to the single DCO/HPF/Bite filter and 8 tracks. No outside processing, but I used the Diva FX. Was fun.
definitely the best way to learn or get used to a new synth IMO
sounds great btw, makes me want Diva even more! I have the demo installed right now and it's amazing but I other thing I need to buy first
I mean, if you told me that demo was analog, I'd probably believe you
here's another clip I made forever ago, made this one when I fist got ACE a couple of years ago, that time I did use other effects for the processing (mostly Logic's EQ and PSP OldTimer probably)
Good stuff. Have not tried ACE yet myself. My plan is to use Diva for a very rough and bassy Portishead style of music that I want to work on. For your music style, you may want to try Lush-101, if you have not yet. Might be a good match for you. It might still be on sale, or likely will be again. Maybe not so popular yet, but I think it sounds great and makes a nice laboratory for certain types of sounds.
Just to mention it, the secret to Diva might be in the Trimmers page. So if you go from INIT, keep in mind setting the trimmers is probably an important part of that. I just open a preset and reset everything but leave the trimmers alone, since I don't understand it yet.
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