This one goes out to the music nerds and people who like to use machines to make things mostly, but anybody might be interested to know about a new blog you can read at http://www.thesmallisbeautiful.com/makenewsounds.
It's basically going to be a regularly updated post where I make a new sound, either though recording it, or synthesizing it or processing something etc... I will talk a bit about how it was made and post an mp3 and a link to a high quality file and everyone is free to use it 100% royalty free.
Thought I'd let you guys know.
THE SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
Here we go.
makenewsounds
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Re: makenewsounds
by jamie on Sat Dec 13, 2008 2:22 pm
To elaborate a little, the point of this newsounds thing is to continually describe new processes for sound creation and manipulation. If I was just trying to post sounds by themselves, I could just use one process (say, granular synthesis) and produce sound after sound, each one different from the last. The idea, however, is to describe the process itself, and to find a new way of producing the sound each day.
I have a few basic tools that will be used a lot, among them supercollider, my nord G2 synth, sampling, recording, ableton live, etc.. but I want to see how many different routes I can take to making a sound. It's the sort of thing that should force me to think about what I do more and more seriously as time goes on. The first, say, hundred or so should be easy, but what about 3 years from now? Will I still be able to continually come up with a totally new way of producing a sound? My guess is yes, there are endless ways. It just happens that people get stuck on one way to make sounds (like, pressing piano keys) and I want to figure out every possible way.
I kind of messed up the first one by involving so many layers of processing. I was so excited to get it started that I made something too complicated to explain very well, which defeats the whole purpose.
Luckily it's early on, and the only people who know about it are you guys. The next ones will start to be more about explaining how the sound came about than just making something that sounds weird or cool.
My hope is that people will read it and develop an interest in sounds themselves that goes deeper than an appreciation for their ability to be organized into music. I know i said it's for the music nerds and the electronic musicians out there, but I really think it's for anyone who wants to start thinking about what sound is, and that should hopefully be everyone.
I have a few basic tools that will be used a lot, among them supercollider, my nord G2 synth, sampling, recording, ableton live, etc.. but I want to see how many different routes I can take to making a sound. It's the sort of thing that should force me to think about what I do more and more seriously as time goes on. The first, say, hundred or so should be easy, but what about 3 years from now? Will I still be able to continually come up with a totally new way of producing a sound? My guess is yes, there are endless ways. It just happens that people get stuck on one way to make sounds (like, pressing piano keys) and I want to figure out every possible way.
I kind of messed up the first one by involving so many layers of processing. I was so excited to get it started that I made something too complicated to explain very well, which defeats the whole purpose.
Luckily it's early on, and the only people who know about it are you guys. The next ones will start to be more about explaining how the sound came about than just making something that sounds weird or cool.
My hope is that people will read it and develop an interest in sounds themselves that goes deeper than an appreciation for their ability to be organized into music. I know i said it's for the music nerds and the electronic musicians out there, but I really think it's for anyone who wants to start thinking about what sound is, and that should hopefully be everyone.
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Re: makenewsounds
by Super Destroy on Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:17 pm
Please delve into the world of arpeggiators, I need to verse myself as well as possible for future shows
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Re: makenewsounds
by jamie on Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:10 pm
Sound #2 is up!
Also, SD, is there something specific you need to be able to do with arpeggiators? The thing with those beasts is that they are usually pretty different depending on what you're using.
Maybe I should do a prototype of the tutorials section sometime soon and mess around a bit with different arps.
Feel free to ask any questions you have, anyone.
Also, SD, is there something specific you need to be able to do with arpeggiators? The thing with those beasts is that they are usually pretty different depending on what you're using.
Maybe I should do a prototype of the tutorials section sometime soon and mess around a bit with different arps.
Feel free to ask any questions you have, anyone.
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Re: makenewsounds
by Super Destroy on Sun Dec 14, 2008 6:44 am
I'm looking to try and make some super analog sounding arp sounds with my micron, also I want to learn how to try and overlap them in a really tight and cohesive way if you know what I mean
think like
weird 80's music that featured crazy arps all over the place, I can't think of anything off the top of my head but I can imagine it (if that helps at all)
think like
weird 80's music that featured crazy arps all over the place, I can't think of anything off the top of my head but I can imagine it (if that helps at all)
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Re: makenewsounds
by jamie on Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:42 pm
#5 is up! and it's in depth messing with some dude's rapping.
As far as the Micron is concerned, I have no real experience. But I'm doing a video about the arpeggiators that I have in my synths and software, hopefully it will be of some help.
As far as the Micron is concerned, I have no real experience. But I'm doing a video about the arpeggiators that I have in my synths and software, hopefully it will be of some help.
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Re: makenewsounds
by Super Destroy on Wed Dec 17, 2008 3:02 am
jamie wrote:#5 is up! and it's in depth messing with some dude's rapping.
As far as the Micron is concerned, I have no real experience. But I'm doing a video about the arpeggiators that I have in my synths and software, hopefully it will be of some help.
Yeah that's perfect, I don't think it has to do with what synth you have but how to utilize the power of the arps
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Re: makenewsounds
by jamie on Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:48 pm
I ended up trying to do a really complex arp thing for the makenewsounds, but it wound up being extremely annoying (even by my standards, which allow a fair bit of obnoxiousness in). I would like to ask if you're going to be tempo syncing the arps to whatever else is going on. Do you have drums playing or drum machines etc...?
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Re: makenewsounds
by Super Destroy on Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:06 pm
no, I'd probably throw some ambient looping stuff in there and just have arps either in the background or be the main part of the song
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