Hey
Sorry about the boring headlines this week.
I seem to be fresh out of wacky things to lead off with.
Anyways...
The last couple of days I've been messing with my laptop, trying to programme some noisy tekno silliness.
But I've been finding it frustrating trying to create the right Kick drum sound.
Ideally I'd like a big, booming distorted gabba kick sound. Refer: any ATR record etc.
But even if I take the 909 preset kit on Cubase and run it through a the stock plug-in set at the most ridiculous levels, the best I will get is just a lousy belch, sort of an 8-bit bottom-burp.
Messing around with some of that stuff I've managed to make a few loops of Merzbow sounding stuff (for those who don't know, Merzbow is a Zen-looking longhaired Japanese chap who spits out CDs of the most terrifying noise at an insane rate).
But Merzbow stuff isn't what I'm trying to do. At least not right now.
In any case, when I try to export the loops as WAV files so that I can drop them in and out, I run up against problem B: pushing the levels as hard as I have to get the right sound sounds okay when it is just MIDI, but when I try to push it into a WAV file it results in an irrititating popping sound at the beginning or end of the loop/sample.
Gadzooks.
I'll figure out a solution. It shouldn't be too hard.
Yesterday I tried trawling the interweb for a public domain sample of a Gabba kick, but the best thing I could find was under the Burping Kick column.
The grand irony was that if I wanted that kind of kick sound in the past what i would do was select the Hip Hop Kick from my SR 16, plug it into my sampler and run it through my Metalzone pedal. The sampler managed to play these thing without popping or clicking, and the overloaded input could actually create a nice distortion on its own.
I'll ask around at Sick and Twisted tonight to see what other folk use. Playing the numbers there should be somebody who has had the same trouble.
Over and out.
J
I seem to be fresh out of wacky things to lead off with.
Anyways...
The last couple of days I've been messing with my laptop, trying to programme some noisy tekno silliness.
But I've been finding it frustrating trying to create the right Kick drum sound.
Ideally I'd like a big, booming distorted gabba kick sound. Refer: any ATR record etc.
But even if I take the 909 preset kit on Cubase and run it through a the stock plug-in set at the most ridiculous levels, the best I will get is just a lousy belch, sort of an 8-bit bottom-burp.
Messing around with some of that stuff I've managed to make a few loops of Merzbow sounding stuff (for those who don't know, Merzbow is a Zen-looking longhaired Japanese chap who spits out CDs of the most terrifying noise at an insane rate).
But Merzbow stuff isn't what I'm trying to do. At least not right now.
In any case, when I try to export the loops as WAV files so that I can drop them in and out, I run up against problem B: pushing the levels as hard as I have to get the right sound sounds okay when it is just MIDI, but when I try to push it into a WAV file it results in an irrititating popping sound at the beginning or end of the loop/sample.
Gadzooks.
I'll figure out a solution. It shouldn't be too hard.
Yesterday I tried trawling the interweb for a public domain sample of a Gabba kick, but the best thing I could find was under the Burping Kick column.
The grand irony was that if I wanted that kind of kick sound in the past what i would do was select the Hip Hop Kick from my SR 16, plug it into my sampler and run it through my Metalzone pedal. The sampler managed to play these thing without popping or clicking, and the overloaded input could actually create a nice distortion on its own.
I'll ask around at Sick and Twisted tonight to see what other folk use. Playing the numbers there should be somebody who has had the same trouble.
Over and out.
J
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