trying out some new stuff, namely messing around with vibrato, swing and WAV column wubs, tell me how it sounds (other than the fact that i need to add an intro)
http://chipmusic.org/aeros/music/cygnus
Last edited by Aeros (Jun 17, 2012 10:39 pm)
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You could add a heavier kick and cut the sidechaining at some point. What you have where it starts is a good enough intro. I'd say build it up with a rising pulse instrument, and then go to a no percussion little chordy part with no sidechaining, then drop a hard kick for a chorus and go from there.
Good programming though.
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Yeah, the sidechaining is a little too aggressive for my tastes, especially since there's no kick underneath it to fill the space. Pretty good start otherwise.
Last edited by VCMG (Jun 17, 2012 11:12 pm)
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What they said about the sidechaining and kick. But I really like the overall feel of this. I really like that opening arps melody. Great start. 
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yeah i already knew by the time i recorded it the sidechain was horrible, but i wasn't sure if it was just me or not. kick issue's probably the sidechain as well, i have go from M00 to M77 in 8 ticks because of constraint and the vol increases only in time for you to barely hear the end of the kick.
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Knowing your kicks though, they're barely there anyway haha. Not a bad thing if that's your style, but overall I think your tracks would be 10000x times better with a strong percussion base.
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i just really can't make a kick worth a damn, honestly. 
gotta go search for some heavy kicks once i get working again. it's the noise percussion that really gets me though.
Last edited by Aeros (Jun 18, 2012 1:10 am)
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It's tedious and time-consuming, but you could go in and instead use individual E commands in each channel except the wave channel to get the sidechain effect and still have the kick.
Or you could use 2 DMGs or record the wave channel separate from the other ones.
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VCMG wrote:
Or you could use 2 DMGs or record the wave channel separate from the other ones.
fuckin'...
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Hmm try this wav kick.
A triangle waveform set to manual I believe clipped a bit like a 90 volume and in the table do a PF0 then a PE4 and on 8 do a P02 and kill on the C.
If you want to get fancy, edit the first wave of the form to have 5 or six dots go to the bottom at the beggining and 5 or so dots go to the top after the drop in the triangle wave. Then add an F01 after the PE4.
This kick works well with a C-6 or C-7 Cooshinator showed me this method.
Last edited by dsv101 (Jun 18, 2012 1:16 am)
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Frostbyte wrote:
Or you can just use a sidechaining instrument
that's actually what i'm doing. call me stupid, but i actually have a kick which doubles as a sidechain instrument.
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dsv101 wrote:
Hmm try this wav kick.
A triangle waveform set to manual I believe clipped a bit like a 90 volume and in the table do a PF0 then a PE4 and on 8 do a P02 and kill on the C.
If you want to get fancy, edit the first wave of the form to have 5 or six dots go to the bottom at the beggining and 5 or so dots go to the top after the drop in the triangle wave. Then add an F01 after the PE4.
THis kick works well with a C-6 or C-7 Cooshinator showed me this method.
can't quite use WAV column, it's being absolutely ABUSED in the chorus parts and i can't really add much else
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Aeros wrote:
dsv101 wrote:Hmm try this wav kick.
A triangle waveform set to manual I believe clipped a bit like a 90 volume and in the table do a PF0 then a PE4 and on 8 do a P02 and kill on the C.
If you want to get fancy, edit the first wave of the form to have 5 or six dots go to the bottom at the beggining and 5 or so dots go to the top after the drop in the triangle wave. Then add an F01 after the PE4.
THis kick works well with a C-6 or C-7 Cooshinator showed me this method.
can't quite use WAV column, it's being absolutely ABUSED in the chorus parts and i can't really add much else
Well I hope that its good for future reference then 
lol. I suck at Pulse kicks, If i do them i usually have a simultaneous noise channel or wave kick to make them sound better
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Trust me, you can use the wav column. You can trick the brain by making it think a note is there. And you have enough notes in there for nobody to notice one of them going away. You can add a note there the step after and nobody will be able to tell.
And yes I will call you stupid for using a sidechain/kick patch xD It defeats the purpose. Just make a silent sidechain instrument, and a regular kick. Sidechaining the entire song sounds a little silly.
Mind sending me the sav? I wanna take a look at what's going on here, maybe I can help you a bit.