19 Feb
2004
19 Feb
'04
7:11 p.m.
At Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:23:39 +0100,
David Olofson wrote:
That said, it might be an interesting excercise to remix your song
using only or mostly script based sounds... (Modular synthesis,
basically.) Dunno if there's much point it trying to synthesize the
guitar riffs at this point, but I'll try all sorts of instruments
eventually. There are a few synthesis operators and features I want
to add first, though.
Writing a guitar sound synthesizer that sounds good is a very
difficult thing. The best one out there (the proprietary Slayer
generator) sounds pretty crummy. Since this song is industrial, and
the main gist of it is just a few guitar chords, using just a few
samples of the guitar sounds and some creative song restructuring
could produce excellent results.
So, if Audiality has or will have a sample player, I would use that
for the guitar sounds (I'd be happy to provide clips). Otherwise,
instead of trying to synthesize guitars, just come up with really
gritty in face-melting synth sounds and use some of the aforementioned
"creative song restructuring."
I don't know what your music hook up is like, but I would highly
recommend listening to the sounds on "Exiled on Mainline" by Chemlab
and "Edgecrusher (Urban Assault Mix)" by Fear Factory. I further
recommend comparing the Fear Factory song against the original version
to see how far "creative song restructuring" can get you.
Whew, that was long winded!
[pb]