Stuff to try thread

[legend4ry]

Agreed, too! I got a SP808 off a mate for free, so ive been taking advantage of that, its really fun to get away from a computer screen sometimes and to just rock out, pushing pads

[nowaysj]

sp collective

[th@-pu$$y]

do a load of smack, punch a hooker in the vagina, tell your mum she's a whore then fuck your dad in the ass

Sounds like a normal friday night to me.

[upstateface]

I paid $40 for my akai s2800 and $30 for shipping, best purchase ever.

[ogunslinger]

get cracked out and rob a gas station

[Karoshi]

Big post Kaiori! will look into parts of that!

not tried vocals in granliser yet, will have to try it

[street_legal]

So I'm going to give you all something a little different. I'm guessing most people here will be giving production tips. So instead of that, I'm going to drop some theory in here. Yes, I said, theory, stop yawning and just read, I'm going to drop some pretty interesting ideas that nobody ever talks about.

Big ups to you sir! Definitely be devoting some grey matter to these suggestions. Nice one!

[EDN]

STRETCH!!!!!
Take drums/synths/piano/your cat/anything, sample them, and stretch them, use different stretching algorithms, pitch them up and down and slice them left and right and pan them until they are a massive mess of stretchy goodness.

[kejk]

Choose random sample, stack lots of random notes on top of eachother, loop it, speed up to 999 bpm, add effects/filters and export. Crazy ghostly vibes! Reverb after the filter is awesome!

[victor w]

Its really not . You get artifacts mainly but on the odd occasion you get some GREAT sounds.

A year ago, I imported iTunes into audacity. I was wearing my headphones turned up pretty loud...I nearly shit my pants.

dont try this at home kids!

[-[2]DAY_-]

mixing technique to try:
-create 2 aux tracks (mono or mono to stereo) assign to each of their inputs one half of a stereo bus (i.e. mono bus 1 and mono bus 2).
-Insert a reverb on 1, and a delay on 2 (both mono, or mono to stereo) ...
add a stereo send to some of your tracks, for example, each of your drums. Assign the send's output to stereo 1&2.

Now you have a send routed to a verb and a delay, and you can use the pan knob to find your own special balance between the two effects. Automating the pan pot on the send is cool too. The send is post-fader in this rig. interesting to try with pre-fader as well, but depends on the effects you're mixing with.
You could try with other combos of effects too, of course.

I dunno if you folks already do this, or not... but i have a lot of fun mixing this way.

[rawali]

in ableton (probably can be done in other software),

this trick works well on snares, vocals, pads... can be adapted to just about anything

say we do this on a snare... put an audio effect rack with two chains, one is completely dry, the other has effects of your choosing... idially some reverb or echo or anything that will make the sound go on after the dry snare is done playing. Side chain compress the effected chain to the snare channel pre effect. Play around with the attack and release of your comp and voila... The most basic use of this is to keep the impact of your snare with and only have the reverb come in once the dry snare sound is done. Obviously there is a whole bunch of creative stuff you can do when you start chaining a bunch of effects and using this rack on different channels and perhaps mess around with panning

[-[2]DAY_-]

^^ combining this technique with the pan pot technique I described above

[bananafarmer]

Load a .exe, .wmv or a .dll into audacity

Hey man nice idea, but you can also do it with any type of file you want.
Just click:
Project -> Import Raw Data, then browse to your file
Normally it just seems to be mostly static but I guess every now and then you get some nice glitch type sounds you could cut out and sample.
Also the same file will give different results depending on which settings you use when importing

[buttock]

use all types of single cycle waves in a convulution Plug In. A lot will sound pretty boring, but some waves give you a nice subtle coloring

[mta7388]

sp collective

love my sp303

run your percussion through the Vinyl Sim compressor
run your synths through Filter/Drive

delicious

[staticcast]

Listen to Dream Theater

or not

[3za]

use all types of single cycle waves in a convulution Plug In. A lot will sound pretty boring, but some waves give you a nice subtle coloring

Never tried that, will give it a go

[glottis5]

Listen to Dream Theater

or not

Yeah, don't do that

[Brisance]

Listen to Dream Theater

or not

no, you should really do it.