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hevquip from a giraffes throat on 2001-11-13 21:28 [#00051624]



does anyone know of any good effects boxes or effects
processors. i need to get me some, suckas.


 

Murray from England on 2001-11-13 21:41 [#00051630]



Zoom RFX-2000
Roland EF-303 (i think)
Aleisis Nanoverb


 

c.smith from scotland on 2001-11-13 21:59 [#00051641]



watkins copycat echo . or for cheapskates like me a zoom
guitar fx pedal fed back on it'self through a mixer
channel.

any ringmod. even the diy variety are like nothing else on
earth (except other ring modulators.)

one of those space echo swords (spring inside a plastic
tube)with a mic at one end and a speaker at the other

zoom fx are cheep an cheerful.

fx are youre friend,
the more fx you have the less you need to spend on synths,
and the more original your sound.

on the other hand you can do a lot with no fx, try layering
sounds together with themselves to get phasing.
or programming delays in a youre sequencer.

try new things and don't listen to what you read in music
tech magasines, unless you don't know what midi is yet ;)
there good for tech knolege but when they recomend you spend
monney then look at all the adverts there getting paid to
print and then ask yourself if you can realy trust them.

look for diy synth projects on the net.


 

hevquip from a giraffes throat on 2001-11-13 22:58 [#00051662]



yes, how do i program delays into my sequencer? i've wanted
to do that, and rushes to, but without speeding up or
slowing down the tempo. i've been wanting to sequence a
sequencer, or sequencing many sequencers to and through each
other just for the sake of doing it.


 

hevquip from a giraffes throat on 2001-11-13 22:58 [#00051663]



yes, how do i program delays into my sequencer? i've wanted
to do that, and rushes to, but without speeding up or
slowing down the tempo. i've been wanting to sequence a
sequencer, or sequencing many sequencers to and through each
other just for the sake of doing it.


 

c.smith from scotland on 2001-11-13 23:51 [#00051673]



theres more than one way to do it,
way one, cubase and some others have a built in delay
module.
way two, many sequencers have a logical editor this is
complex and can be used as an arpegiator too but there a
bastard to figure out.

way three.
a delay is simply a sound repeated after a time interval
with a lower volume,and again and again.

so.....
just repeat the note after an interval of say 1/8note with a
lower velocity, and then again and then again.

understand? you can do arpegios like this too


 

Quoth from Lincoln on 2001-11-13 23:54 [#00051674]



Electro-harmonix - bass synth


 

Taxi on 2001-11-14 07:07 [#00051768]



You can program some really neat delay thingies using the
event editor in fruity 3 and multiple delay plugs.


 

Mutant Death Pengwin from Medicine Hat on 2001-11-14 07:20 [#00051772]



c.smith, you really know your shit! you da man, cool guy!


 

hevquip from a giraffes throat on 2001-11-14 18:06 [#00052009]



well, i hate software and don't use it.

arpeggiators. what's the deal with them? i hear about them
alot, but never understood too much about them. can they do
something more complex than just shifting the sound up and
down?


 

c.smith from scotland on 2001-11-14 18:18 [#00052012]



you can still program delays in a hardware sequencer,
hevquip.

i first figured out how to do that when i had a yamaha qy22
hardware seq. and no fx processor.

and you'r right software does indeed suck, esp on mac and
pc,

atari dosent suffer from so much suckage.
just look around a studio and you'll find an atari st
running a cracked copy of cubase, or a real copy of
notator.



 

c.smith from the dark side of the midi on 2001-11-14 18:52 [#00052024]



arpegiators are like realy stoopid sequencers. they were
around before sequencers becaue they were much easier to
make.

what they do is:
you play a cord your keyboard.

and your arp
plays it back to you one note at a time. repeating itself
when it plays the last note

so if you press the keys C D E F
then it wil play a sequence that goes
cdefcdefcdef.... untill you take you hand of the keyboard.

depending on your arp you can set it to play forwards,
backwards, alternating forward/backwards, randomly, or on
diferent octaves.

arpegiators also let you controll the speed thaty they play
the notes back at, normaly in 1/32, 1/16, 1/8 or 1/4 notes.

arpegiators make boring synth's sound cool, many "dance"
keyboards have arpegiators.
many of these synths would suck otherwise.
keyboard manufacturers have realised that if you stick an
arpegiator ( and some knobs) on an otherwise dull keyboard
then you can make it a pretty colour and sell it to yoofs
that want to make kool chewns.

dont get me wrongtheres nothing wrong with for example a
quasimidi raveolution (or a mc303) its just that used
unimaginatively they are capable of chorning out absolute
shite that everybody at record companies who listens to
demos has heard a million times before.

look how many crappy trance demos are floating about and
you'll get the idea.

and you don't even need a real arpegiator to get the
benifits.

you can just program your sequencer diretly with the
sequence of notes that would come out of an arpegiator.
voila cool synth sequences without ending up sucking.

why am i even bothering to perach to the converted though,
this is an aphex twin messageboard.


 


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