If you’ve spent any time with Live’s Vocoder, you’ve probably noticed that in it’s default state, it tends to lend a snare drum like quality to anything it touches. That’s because it’s default carrier is Noise – a key component to any synthesized snare drum sound. Unlike using a straight noise generator, however, the vocoder […]
VOCODER: THE SNARERERIZER, pt. 2
Who knew there could be so much to shaping a little blast of noise? What’s the story with that X-Y controller? This guy is a character control for the noise. For most sounds, it works just great in the upper right hand corner, but you can move it around to make the sound more lo-fi. […]
RANDOMIZING WITH VELOCITY ZONES
We’ve had randomness on the brain over here at LiveTips HQ lately. This tip comes from my friend Pat Cupo, the Director of Curriculum and Instruction over at the Dubspot. It’s a fun way of randomly switching between several different synth presets, or different synths entirely! First, load several chains of an Instrument Rack with […]
RANDOMIZING W/ VELOCITY ZONES: ADD MIDI FX
Another fun modification to the velocity zone randomization trick is to get some MIDI effects into the picture: For example, you could place an Arpeggiator in each chain… …and change up the parameter settings in each. My suggestion would be to first spend some time finding a setting that sounds good for the part you’re […]
