Why is it that my phone has no problem figuring out how to convert certain words to "duck" or mistakenly adding regularly typed mistakes to my autocorrect dictionary, but it hasn't figured out I type Reaktor more often than Realtor?!
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Ambient/Post-Rock/Textural bass playing thread
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Same here, there where reviews of the synth one they had and everyone had "a mind blowing creative life revelation" and that you should buy it now......
Me....meh....not really.....here's the synth in my DAW.......
Synth effect pedals for bass guitar have always been a fail in my experience, and I'm convinced they will be for the remainder of my lifetime.
I agree 100%
I always get grilled in the fx forum when I say they sound like little toys.
Imo daw synths sound sooooooo much better. Not even close.
Only "synth" type one I like is the oc2.
My 2¢
Jeez....if you don't want to play keys.....you can load some synth sounds in a sampler even.....options are endless....
I suppose it all depends on what you're trying to achieve. If you're looking for something that's like a synth to use in a live setting, it probably isn't a bad way to go. If you're looking to record a specific sound in your head, then use the right hardware and software for the job.
I do find the interface of playing a bass Doesn't really translate into how I would play a synth .
I've had a lot of luck with using the Enzo and the Mel9 as my base for sounds, especially once they go through the other things. I had a great jam last night with my synth duo, and used the pedalboard for the first time (as opposed to the hard/soft synths), and it came out pretty good. My goal all along has been to get those fat polypads out of my board, and I'm actually getting there.
In regard to the "doesn't really translate", I actually had to alter my approach to bass once I got into the pedalboard thing, it's why I went to a 6. Very little of what I do on it sounds like bass playing, but I just am much more fluent on bass than any other instrument, so that's why it works. It has also helped my conventional bass playing a lot, because I'm getting better at playing chords and slow melodic approaches.
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I've had an Enzo for quite awhile and have gotten some really fun results. Meris stuff in general is kinda tweaky though. So many secondary functions that have to be memorized. Which I will never do
I use my Enzo more with synths than I do bass and it's pretty great, but Meris stuff in general can be a real pain to deal with. I keep mine around and it's unique and cool, but not sure I'd recommend them
Really? Huh...interesting. I've had a Bananana Matryoshka for a couple weeks now, an Iron Ether FMeron for ~3 or 4 months now, and a Korg G5 for going on ~25 years now (!) and I can't imagine not having some synth widgits in my rig. I would almost give up all my fuzz/distortion pedals before I'd give up the synths
...almost.
Hey, it's never too late to change my mind.
But I'm getting old , new things scare me.
I am a synth pedal addict.
For me the dynamics of bass playing don't appropriately trigger the synth widgets I've tried. I want to have a different control over the sustain and release than what a bass can tell the pedal to do.
I also like the "effects" part of many synth patches, so having just the oscillator in a pedal format leaves me wanting.
This is just my experience, and I'm fairly sure I've ignorantly used good gear and gotten bad results
Tried to keep it under 3 minutes. I'd like to have been under 1, but it's a slow moving piece.
Starting around 1:30 you get some obvious clock rate adjustments. Not exactly how I'd opt to "perform" it but more as an example of what the machinery is up to.
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The sequence is running into layered Massive and Absynth synth patches, which are being sent through a Waves A-H Stereo Delay (worth checking if you work "in the box").
I was out drinking absinthe last night and listening to french music, so there's my inspiration.
This is an area I'd like to get into, although I'm not now going to be moving back to the city I used to live in where I have friends in this style already, and I just discovered there is one here, but I'm moving to Scotland.
Between a Pod XT, Behringer V-amp, and Zooms B9, B1on, B3n, GK3B pickup and MIDI convertor and outboard synths I should be fine for sounds unless I split the GK output into a four input interface and use a laptop. I'm wary about how robust laptops are, but I could rebuild the guts of one with a touch screen into a rack mount, but I prefer to have two of things just in case.
The B9 allows me to play synth with my feet, but again I'd want a spare.
Between a Pod XT, Behringer V-amp, and Zooms B9, B1on, B3n, GK3B pickup and MIDI convertor and outboard synths I should be fine for sounds unless I split the GK output into a four input interface and use a laptop. I'm wary about how robust laptops are, but I could rebuild the guts of one with a touch screen into a rack mount, but I prefer to have two of things just in case.
The B9 allows me to play synth with my feet, but again I'd want a spare.
I started with an Ibanez sb7 which was really a fuzz with a crappy filter and not very synth like at all... currently have a digitech dirty robot that yeah it has volume drop issues and can sound a bit blah but with distortion and reverb the long filter sweeps behind a LONG bass note are PERFECT!
For all the more experimental or programmed I think soft synths are pretty awesome... been using Helm a lot which with two oscillator plus sub virtual synth plus its reverb/distortion/filter/LFO can get some pretty nice sound effects.actually semi turned me off hardware cos even a semi decent 500 dollar one won't have all those effects etc too
For all the more experimental or programmed I think soft synths are pretty awesome... been using Helm a lot which with two oscillator plus sub virtual synth plus its reverb/distortion/filter/LFO can get some pretty nice sound effects.actually semi turned me off hardware cos even a semi decent 500 dollar one won't have all those effects etc too
Cool, what French music??
It can go from Debussy to Brassens to Felix Leclerc to Edgar Varèse....
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if you're into french stuff, i heartily recommend dutielleux, messaien, murail, pesson, grisey and denis cohen
the last four are some of the french spectralists from the late 20th/early 21st centuries. they incorporate a lot of electronics (mostly max/msp stuff) into their work. most worked at ircam.
the last four are some of the french spectralists from the late 20th/early 21st centuries. they incorporate a lot of electronics (mostly max/msp stuff) into their work. most worked at ircam.
