The Space Animals put down the music for a rap tune this morning. Now
if there's anything stupider than middle aged white guys out in the
woods writing rap tunes, I don't know what it is. Fun though.
Essentially we went nuts in Acid, using the paintbrush tool and about
ten percussion loops and ten drum loops. Then Steve put down some
bass while I turned knobs.
Some fun sounds. I have a sync lead on scene one and a really buzzy
fuzzed out chord sound (using the BEF filter and saw tooth waves) on
scene 2. Switching scenes and morphing scenes got some cool results.
I was surprised at the sounds from changing the source of the
frequency modulation. You can totally trash a sound that way. The BEF
filter also sounds cool when you sweep it with the cutoff knob. Keep
the resonance down for a good pronounced effect. Also, turn the
filter all the way open and the resonance all the way up, then slowly
close the filter until the note starts to howl. Extreme sustain is
also fun.
We recorded two tracks of that, then I dialled up a string patch for
some real slow evolving textures. I was playing with the LFOs getting
the string patch to disintegrate into this buzz, play some rhythm on
the ribbon controller, getting the pmod with the mod wheel...
The AN1X takes some time to figure out, but most of the classic
synthesizer sounds are in there. I'm always surprised at the sounds
in this thing-from surreal to pretty to Alph Centurai.
Rainbow Jimmy
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