another experiment

cartesia · Post by **cartesia** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:25 pm

mucking around,

trying to make a synthesiser sound like scratching

also trying to produce some more 'commercial' sounding dance music. .

mk.1 prototype alpha zero one

http://www.zshare.net/audio/1513247207ad740a/

crumbsucker · Post by **crumbsucker** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:28 pm

Itsa nice start and powerfull groove- Id be moshing to this if it cought me on the flooo, yes I would.

balazs · Post by **balazs** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:21 am

nice tune man. What kinda synth is that?

drewzle · Post by **drewzle** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:26 am

this sounds like a really nice upbeat track . i like the hats and cymbals, gives it an energetic danciness. the synth sounds great, what parameters did you tweak to get the scratch sound?
is that bass a square wave? sounds super electro

cartesia · Post by **cartesia** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 7:59 am

any synth should do, (I used alphakanal automat, a free au plugin)
the trick with the scratching sound is to use white noise in place of a regular oscillator

then just apply a bandpass filter with high resonance. . that brings out the tone. .

I used filter envelope with a short decay so it sort of sweeps the dominant frequency down as it plays . .the combination of the noisyness and the falling tone give it that sound..

linking the note velocity to the envelope depth lets you play different pitches, and holding the note longer/shorter (in a range similar to the decay time of the envelope) gives you some varied sounds too.

there was a bit of distortion afterwards, but thats basically it.

The bass is mainly 2 detuned squares, with a bunch of processing / eq / compression / reverb

drewzle · Post by **drewzle** » Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:54 am