September Chill - Live Hardware Acid Techno

DaCaVa · 2013-09-22T21:14:56.000Z

Edited below:)

DaCaVa · 2013-09-23T23:24:26.000Z

I wasn’t 100% happy with the last take, so I did another. I think this one’s a little more focused. Cheers:)
https://soundcloud.com/doktor-fibonacci/september-chill-live

Barfunkel · 2013-09-24T04:40:36.000Z

Nice stuff! What’s doing the drums, MD? Sound nice, crunchy and old school. If it’s MD, is there any processing on them?

As a minor criticism, and I rarely say this, it sounded maybe a bit too dry. Maybe try adding some reverb and delay here and there?

What’s doing the strings, A4? Very old school (in a good way) sounding, how did you make those, if they’re A4?

DaCaVa · 2013-09-24T11:25:39.000Z

Hey man, thanks for the listen.
Regarding the drums, they are from the machinedrum. This kit is predominantly a layered kit using Goldbaby Tape 808 wave samples. Since the machinedrum makes all sample 12 bit, they get a little crunchy. The layered kit template is from one of Moritz’s posts, quite brilliant actually… it really fattens up the sound of the machinedrum, it’s a joy to program (leads to much improvisation). As far as processing the signal, there’s nothing done outside the box. I use a little reverb on the SD, CP and I use the internal compressor as sort of a limiter. I also use just a touch -6DB of a low cut, as the kicks tend to over-dominate the mix.
All synth sounds are A4. This is the first track I made, where all of the patches are completely my own. I’m normally a preset tweaker, but I really want to learn to make my own sounds from scratch… so I tried. I’ve much to learn.
Regarding your comment about the mix… I would agree. I usually use a little to much delay and verb… so I’m trying to get away from this, maybe to much so. I want to eventually put together live sets, so I’m trying consciously to keep the reverb to a minimum;)
Thanks again:)
Mike

dubathonic · 2013-09-24T16:28:36.000Z

Nice jam! Enjoyed this one

DaCaVa · 2013-09-24T17:10:40.000Z

Thank you Sir:)