Hey all! Trying to learn how to make more interesting sounding lead tones and I was wondering if anyone could guess how to make the lead instrument that comes in at 0:20 in this song: https://shadynastyiscool.bandcamp.com/t … r-scissors
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Los Angeles, CA
You might try adding some hop gated tables so that your lead tones kind of evolve over time. Also it's hard to go wrong with a detune of 1 or 2 on just about any instrument.
Btw, this song kicks ass.
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Bristol, UK
Try pulse width modulation. Have a table set up with W commands or there are some tutorials on here about how to do it with the wav channel.
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Seattle, WA
Totally read this as lead instruments like, the metal.
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Tallahassee, FL
Mrwimmer wrote:
You might try adding some hop gated tables so that your lead tones kind of evolve over time. Also it's hard to go wrong with a detune of 1 or 2 on just about any instrument.
Btw, this song kicks ass.
Could you explain how to do hop gated tables? I'm just starting with tables. Newbie here haha
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Los Angeles, CA
So, in a table, the H command's second digit tells the table what row to hop to, and the first digit tells it how many times to do that, with 0 being infinite.
So:
00 - 00
00 - 00
00 H 20
00 V 53
00 H 04
Would bring in some vibrato after the note is held for a little while. It's a very powerful tool.
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Winter Haven, FL
There isn't anything super-insane about the "lead instrument."
IF this was done w/LSDJ I'll agree that it sounds like nothing more than some PWM--maybe..25 or 75 percent.
There MAY be a 50% on the 0 tick directly followed on the 1 tick by the 25 or 75. There is a ton of "L"egato going on. Maybe that's part of what you are referring to?
And as far as spicing up your leads...V and O commands in the table can do wonders.
-good luck
Last edited by Nestrogen (Apr 16, 2015 7:50 pm)