Metallic sounds / Weird Chords

rayfields · 2015-02-25T09:43:15.000Z

Hiya guys,

A4 owner for a short while now. Absolutely LOVE it. It has changed my sound immensely.

One thing I’m having a bit of a problem with is making metallic sounds and beyond normal chord sounds. Do you guys have any advice for this A4 newbie?

Cheers

XponentOne · 2015-02-25T10:32:51.000Z

What kind of metallic tobes are you after -crunchy basses, percussion etc?

XponentOne · 2015-02-25T11:28:14.000Z

And chords too - what are thinking? Big pads, stab one finger chords, organ sounds?

vos · 2015-02-25T11:55:04.000Z

""rayfields"":

Hiya guys,

A4 owner for a short while now. Absolutely LOVE it. It has changed my sound immensely.

One thing I’m having a bit of a problem with is making metallic sounds and beyond normal chord sounds. Do you guys have any advice for this A4 newbie?

Cheers

Hi,
For metallic sounds - experiment with AM. This parameters you’ll find one step down at the Oscillator 2 menue.( pres Osc. 2 two times to get there ).and from there you could sync. the oscillators in different ways.
Putting a feedback-loop in Osc. 1 instead of a wave is very useful and try different pitches and volumes for both oscillators.
An other way to achieve metallic sounds is by using very high settings for the LFO’s ( as they go in to audio-rates ).
As for chords i see 2 possibilities ::: 1 - programming different pitches for the oscillators and sub’s or actully playing chords in polyphone -mode ( this can be set at track-level ) in this mode you’ll loose voices.
Ciao ! And enjoy your toy !
For metallic sounds using high resonant values and elemenating low Frequencies with a high-pass filter can be a way to go… ( i sometimes make the pitch off osc 2. float a little - with a very slow rate and intensety >>> as metal sounds (in reality) often have slow-moving frequencies in their tails - )

XponentOne · 2015-02-25T13:03:37.000Z

^^ those were basically the suggestions I was going to make XD

I try to make a tone with lots of inharmonics using noise, am, sync and pitch mod, then filter it and add movement with envs and lfos. Even modulating the modulations can be really nice - is fun because you can kind of go crazy with it then bring back down to earth.

XponentOne · 2015-02-25T13:06:37.000Z

Oh also if they are percussive sounds, it can help to turn of key tracking on the oscs, so they sound the same across the keyboard - can then use filter tracking by sequencing notes without messing with the initial tone.

vos · 2015-02-25T14:04:34.000Z

""vos"":

[quote=“rayfields”]Hiya guys,

A4 owner for a short while now. Absolutely LOVE it. It has changed my sound immensely.

One thing I’m having a bit of a problem with is making metallic sounds and beyond normal chord sounds. Do you guys have any advice for this A4 newbie?

Cheers

Hi,
For metallic sounds - experiment with AM. This parameters you’ll find one step down at the Oscillator 2 menue.( pres Osc. 2 two times to get there ).and from there you could sync. the oscillators in different ways.
Putting a feedback-loop in Osc. 1 instead of a wave is very useful and try different pitches and volumes for both oscillators.
An other way to achieve metallic sounds is by using very high settings for the LFO’s ( as they go in to audio-rates ).
As for chords i see 2 possibilities ::: 1 - programming different pitches for the oscillators and sub’s or actully playing chords in polyphone -mode ( this can be set at track-level ) in this mode you’ll loose voices.
Ciao ! And enjoy your toy !
For metallic sounds using high resonant values and elemenating low Frequencies with a high-pass filter can be a way to go… ( i sometimes make the pitch off osc 2. float a little - with a very slow rate and intensety >>> as metal sounds (in reality) often have slow-moving frequencies in their tails - )
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HI, Exponent One +++ for modulating modulations - I’ts possible to modulate the rate of LFO 1 in such a way that it go’s from the lowest rate. to the absolute highest rate - but you’ll have to surch for a while. ( from rate 1 or -1 at x1 >> to 2 K )