Spent last night making weird noises with the other half of the Space Animals. He had Reason, I had the AN1X. Here's fun things to change live for interesting effects. Playing with the type of LFO and the speed of the LFO can generate some very interesting sounds, lots of machine type beeps and boops up to this awful wall of out of key distortion. The square wave works well for the robotic repetitive stuff while the sine and triangle give that nice sea sick sound. Of course use sample and hold for the computer sound. Vary the noise and the ring mod. Ring mod is really apparent if you turn Osc 1 way down (4 octaves) Vary the Osc sync depth. Vary the FM. Moving the fm and the LFOs can lead to some outrageously rude sounds. Effects send. Set the ribbon controller for echo and reverb. Polyphonic portamento. Nice and weird. Try it with drum sounds. Try both synths playing unsynched arpeggiators. Can get some real interesting changing patterns. I was(am) extremely covetous of Reason , but the AN1X held its own. A bit of ditortion and some judicious knob twiddling and the AN1X can be as rude as anything. Rainbow Jimmy http://www.spaceanimals.com
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son of weird noises
2003-12-05 by spaceanimals