there's a sexy serenity to this here synth jam

there's a sexy serenity to this here synth jam :)

Dang that Gm7 hitting at 0:59 is super effective / restrained. I think that moment is my favorite, like a mini epiphany about "oh there'll be departures." I really like how adventurous this is, and the grooviness.

Randoms: 1. What's the flute-likes at 3:15? 2. I like the kick drum, and love the shaker in the section until 3:56.

Dang that Gm7 hitting at 0:59 is super effective / restrained. I think that moment is my favorite, like a mini epiphany about "oh there'll be departures." I really like how adventurous this is, and the grooviness. <3 Randoms: 1. What's the flute-likes at 3:15? 2. I like the kick drum, and love the shaker in the section until 3:56.

The flute is a patch from the ob6. It's a triangle + noise + maybe a barely audible square an octave higher than the triangle. The shaker is just noise from Massive with modulated envelope and filter + tremolo for bonus feel.

Oh! I still want to know how you make your drums so tight, any clever chain processing on the drum bus? Or something like that?

[quote=ilzxc]Dang that Gm7 hitting at 0:59 is super effective / restrained. I think that moment is my favorite, like a mini epiphany about "oh there'll be departures." I really like how adventurous this is, and the grooviness. <3 Randoms: 1. What's the flute-likes at 3:15? 2. I like the kick drum, and love the shaker in the section until 3:56.[/quote] The flute is a patch from the ob6. It's a triangle + noise + maybe a barely audible square an octave higher than the triangle. The shaker is just noise from Massive with modulated envelope and filter + tremolo for bonus feel. Oh! I still want to know how you make your drums so tight, any clever chain processing on the drum bus? Or something like that?

I'm really vibing to this, the sparse lead feels so good.
- Devieus

I'm really vibing to this, the sparse lead feels so good. - Devieus

You make such beautiful collages of synths, flourishes and clusters of lovely comforting journeys, I really admire your sense of style and control over your medium.

You make such beautiful collages of synths, flourishes and clusters of lovely comforting journeys, I really admire your sense of style and control over your medium.

Sorry for not responding sooner. I think my order from most to least important for drums: tuning, sounds, mix/levels, bus. (I know you have to pick sounds to tune, but if you tune the sounds well, it's going to be good even w/o "best samples" -- changing sounds after tuning one is time consuming so I usually pick sounds first and don't click around thru my sample library trying to find "the right snare" because they'll all be good if I'd just tweak the pitch knob.) The tuning part is critical, because something weird happens and it "locks in" and is easier to work with and mix because "fits." For the snappiness / sound in the "whirl" track that you asked about -- one-shot compression to exaggerate the attack (pretty liberally applied threshold, then tweak the attack and release for snap) is what I used for the samples (which were old samples and are kind of very generic and unremarkable). It's kind of a pain to compress individual sounds, but maybe it's worth it given your comment -- the reason for that trick is because I was young and got BATTERY2 which had compressors in it and I had no idea what I was doing so I just slapped them on everything trying to understand why you'd put a compressor on individual drum sound instead of a mix... Oh and, obvious as it may be -- decay and hold envelope parameters.

My drum bus is conservative -- I just have an EQ for the upper end and Waves IMPusher for its "low end" knob w/ a little saturation that is tunable to a note (it also compresses rather well, but the UI was designed to overdo it). When I feel I need compression I also like BABY AUDIO A Heart NY (they have a fancier compressor, but I like the simpler "spank - mix - output" 3-knob thing because it's simple AF and often is all that's necessary for "glue").

I'm happy to send you multitrack of drums & all the samples I used, if interested.

[quote=???]Oh! I still want to know how you make your drums so tight, any clever chain processing on the drum bus? Or something like that? [/quote] Sorry for not responding sooner. I think my order from most to least important for drums: tuning, sounds, mix/levels, bus. (I know you have to pick sounds to tune, but if you tune the sounds well, it's going to be good even w/o "best samples" -- changing sounds after tuning one is time consuming so I usually pick sounds first and don't click around thru my sample library trying to find "the right snare" because they'll all be good if I'd just tweak the pitch knob.) The tuning part is critical, because something weird happens and it "locks in" and is easier to work with and mix because "fits." For the snappiness / sound in the "whirl" track that you asked about -- one-shot compression to exaggerate the attack (pretty liberally applied threshold, then tweak the attack and release for snap) is what I used for the samples (which were old samples and are kind of very generic and unremarkable). It's kind of a pain to compress individual sounds, but maybe it's worth it given your comment -- the reason for that trick is because I was young and got BATTERY2 which had compressors in it and I had no idea what I was doing so I just slapped them on everything trying to understand why you'd put a compressor on individual drum sound instead of a mix... Oh and, obvious as it may be -- decay and hold envelope parameters. My drum bus is conservative -- I just have an EQ for the upper end and Waves IMPusher for its "low end" knob w/ a little saturation that is tunable to a note (it also compresses rather well, but the UI was designed to overdo it). When I feel I need compression I also like BABY AUDIO A Heart NY (they have a fancier compressor, but I like the simpler "spank - mix - output" 3-knob thing because it's simple AF and often is all that's necessary for "glue"). I'm happy to send you multitrack of drums & all the samples I used, if interested.

Thanks man

[quote=PieBaron]You make such beautiful collages of synths, flourishes and clusters of lovely comforting journeys, I really admire your sense of style and control over your medium.[/quote] Thanks man <3

Whoa thanks for the insight!!!

[quote=ilzxc][quote=???]Oh! I still want to know how you make your drums so tight, any clever chain processing on the drum bus? Or something like that? [/quote] Sorry for not responding sooner. I think my order from most to least important for drums: tuning, sounds, mix/levels, bus. (I know you have to pick sounds to tune, but if you tune the sounds well, it's going to be good even w/o "best samples" -- changing sounds after tuning one is time consuming so I usually pick sounds first and don't click around thru my sample library trying to find "the right snare" because they'll all be good if I'd just tweak the pitch knob.) The tuning part is critical, because something weird happens and it "locks in" and is easier to work with and mix because "fits." For the snappiness / sound in the "whirl" track that you asked about -- one-shot compression to exaggerate the attack (pretty liberally applied threshold, then tweak the attack and release for snap) is what I used for the samples (which were old samples and are kind of very generic and unremarkable). It's kind of a pain to compress individual sounds, but maybe it's worth it given your comment -- the reason for that trick is because I was young and got BATTERY2 which had compressors in it and I had no idea what I was doing so I just slapped them on everything trying to understand why you'd put a compressor on individual drum sound instead of a mix... Oh and, obvious as it may be -- decay and hold envelope parameters. My drum bus is conservative -- I just have an EQ for the upper end and Waves IMPusher for its "low end" knob w/ a little saturation that is tunable to a note (it also compresses rather well, but the UI was designed to overdo it). When I feel I need compression I also like BABY AUDIO A Heart NY (they have a fancier compressor, but I like the simpler "spank - mix - output" 3-knob thing because it's simple AF and often is all that's necessary for "glue"). I'm happy to send you multitrack of drums & all the samples I used, if interested.[/quote] Whoa thanks for the insight!!!