jimmyklane wrote: ↑16 Jul 2018
What machine(s) are these samples taken from? Is this actual hardware or is this a software sampler (
not that it matters in the least)? Interested in your method and equipment/software used here,
...As it stands it has that “80’s analog” sound for many of the patches...
...Hope you have the time to reply with your process!
Lol, I hope I'm not going to disappoint you, but my process is super embarrassingly simple, and the way I pick my drum sounds is even more simple.
In this track, it looks like I used a DMX snare from Addictive Drums' Reel Machines pack which is weird for me because I usually just go to my 707 folder and drag and drop a snare from there. Or I'll use a basic Linn or DMX snare. Must have been messing around with Addictive Drums. I have no idea what KICK I used, but again, it's a sample - most likely from the Linn or the DMX - I have zero idea, lol. No, I don't have the hardware, these are just samples I downloaded from the internets. Same goes for all the perc and the toms. All drag and drop onto a sequencer track - except for the TOMS and those I have loaded into Arturia's Spark so that I can "play" them in. No specific reason for choosing Spark over the NNXT, I just felt like it. And there are no effects on any of them, except for maybe some slight channel EQ (and some gated verb of course).
I've also never touched a real analog synth before (I REALLY would like to get my hands on one though!) so I'm afraid I don't really know what one sounds like (other than from what I can hear on the internet) so my sound design is what I THINK analog sounds like. Who knows if it really does (I guess you would).
And then as far as my process - super simple again. I just load a preset of whatever (usually brass or EP) and just make shit up until something sounds good. Once I have something I'll lay down a base chord track by playing it in (I play the piano so that's how I record my parts) and then play each individual part in. Obviously knowing music theory speeds things up and makes things super simple (as I'm not entering notes into the piano roll with the pencil nor am I using any kind of matrix-like sequencing device to play notes for me). Playing stuff in is just faster. And as you can see from the Sidewinder screenshot below, I like to keep my track count down.
I don't layer, I don't create massively complex combinators, I use minimal automation, I don't run anything through analog gear, I have hardware synths but I don't use them, I'm not anal about the drum samples I use, the instruments in my rack have maybe one or two insert effects (MAYBE), I play everything in, I use mostly Waves plugins (in Reason), and I probably use Reason more like a tape recorder than a DAW.
And as far as making things sound 80s - I don't really have any method behind that. I just like listening to 80s music and I guess I picked up a few things here and there. I only started doing 80s music 5 months ago, so I'm still learning.
See? Very simple!
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