I remember an interview with Trent Reznor where he was talking about spending countless hours and CPU trying to compose a synthetic music passage to sound like a marching band performance. And when all was said and done he was left wondering why he didn't just go and record a marching band to get the same result?
Do you have any tales of long days and nights of figuring out how you can take 30 oscillators to run through 50 pedals and then resampled, reversed, chewed up, swallowed, and pooped out so that you can get that wonderful gem of a sound? Or worse, when you do all that work and still end up with garbage?
I had a sound once that I wanted to use to close out a track. I wanted a sound that happens when you run a vocal through a filtered delay where the filter has a little bit of resonance in it. Turn the delay feedback all the way up and let the sound repeat again and again and after 20 mins, the original sound is gone and all you have are these rhythmic squeeks that maintain whats left of the original sound inside the filter rez.
So rather than just spending an hour or two playing with this to try to get the sound I wanted, I spent two months building a Reaktor ensemble that could maybe fast track this process and get me more control over whats happening in the feedback chain. All of this additional control had no purpose toward my original goal. After everything was said and done, I got my sample and never finished the song anyways.
Do you have any tales of long days and nights of figuring out how you can take 30 oscillators to run through 50 pedals and then resampled, reversed, chewed up, swallowed, and pooped out so that you can get that wonderful gem of a sound? Or worse, when you do all that work and still end up with garbage?
I had a sound once that I wanted to use to close out a track. I wanted a sound that happens when you run a vocal through a filtered delay where the filter has a little bit of resonance in it. Turn the delay feedback all the way up and let the sound repeat again and again and after 20 mins, the original sound is gone and all you have are these rhythmic squeeks that maintain whats left of the original sound inside the filter rez.
So rather than just spending an hour or two playing with this to try to get the sound I wanted, I spent two months building a Reaktor ensemble that could maybe fast track this process and get me more control over whats happening in the feedback chain. All of this additional control had no purpose toward my original goal. After everything was said and done, I got my sample and never finished the song anyways.
What is the hardest you've worked for ONE sound?
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