Share your techniques for Sound FX & Ear Candy in your music

[Basic A]

Just listen to fucking Gana White Night, and incidentals will all make sense.

[Karoshi]

vox - pitch shift, timestretch, glitch repeat syllables. thanks to argh forget his name on here the kerovee and revee plugins which are freeware.

Got a link for them?

Some good good tips in here! cheers guys.

[deadly_habit]

vox - pitch shift, timestretch, glitch repeat syllables. thanks to argh forget his name on here the kerovee and revee plugins which are freeware.

Got a link for them?

Some good good tips in here! cheers guys.

http://www.g200kg.com/en/software/kerovee.html
first hit on google

[netrik]

resample a basic synth sound soaked in reverb then add tons of delay, reverb, chorus, sometimes distortion ( gets interesting if placed after the reverb) and whatever else. Then mess around with the pitch, timestreching, reverse etc. then repeat this multiple times and maybe add some eq, volume automation, panning, or whatnot for great tripped out atmospheric pads. Also, this works great with accapella's or pretty much any vocal type sample..

[Karoshi]

vox - pitch shift, timestretch, glitch repeat syllables. thanks to argh forget his name on here the kerovee and revee plugins which are freeware.

Got a link for them?

Some good good tips in here! cheers guys.

http://www.g200kg.com/en/software/kerovee.html
first hit on google

doh, i searched 'erovee'

C+P fail..

cheers

[boko91]

I'm not a great lover of Whoosh's and the like!

Sometimes i find it annoying when people make massive tunes and put a casio keyboard bomb drop before the bass comes in!

I'm a firm believer in using your existing elements for your transitions. especially the melodic parts.

Audio comes in very handy for this. For example if i have a 4 bar melody, I like to bounce down the first 2 bars and stretch them to cover the 4 bars. Sit it in the background behind the original part with lots of verb. Automate Vol/Pan/Fx.

This serves 2 purposes. 1 it adds warmth and depth to the original part and 2nd it can work well when you drop the original melody.

I also lile to reverse the Part and use that for my transitions. Sounds sweet just like the reversed cymbal on the drums!

Another tip is to introduce a new note before you introduce a new element. If your melody is going D# A F G# then whack in a C just before the new element. This will create Tension

[SunkLo]

I agree about using cheesy whooshes and effects. Using bits that are already in your track will give it a sense of cohesion. There's many ways you can alter a sound so it has a different character yet still fits the track.
Cool trick from Four Tet:
Stretch a clip to half its length, then chop it up based on eigths, sixteenths, whatever. The duplicate each slice so each one is playing twice, one after another, resulting in the clip being back to the original length. Then reverse every second clip. Can be layered underneath the original part because chord changes and things will still line up.

[JFK]

Cool trick from Four Tet:
Stretch a clip to half its length, then chop it up based on eigths, sixteenths, whatever. The duplicate each slice so each one is playing twice, one after another, resulting in the clip being back to the original length. Then reverse every second clip. Can be layered underneath the original part because chord changes and things will still line up.

That sounds cool. Im gonna give it a go!

[SunkLo]

He shows you how to do it in his video from Future Music 227 in case anyone doesn't understand my explanation. Shouldn't be too hard to find online.
Pretty good video as well, man's a genius.

[apastrat]

I'm not a great lover of Whoosh's and the like!

Sometimes i find it annoying when people make massive tunes and put a casio keyboard bomb drop before the bass comes in!

I'm a firm believer in using your existing elements for your transitions. especially the melodic parts.

Audio comes in very handy for this. For example if i have a 4 bar melody, I like to bounce down the first 2 bars and stretch them to cover the 4 bars. Sit it in the background behind the original part with lots of verb. Automate Vol/Pan/Fx.

This serves 2 purposes. 1 it adds warmth and depth to the original part and 2nd it can work well when you drop the original melody.

I also lile to reverse the Part and use that for my transitions. Sounds sweet just like the reversed cymbal on the drums!

Another tip is to introduce a new note before you introduce a new element. If your melody is going D# A F G# then whack in a C just before the new element. This will create Tension

nice ones!

[SesG]

Latest one I'm working on has an indian theme going on it - tiger roar (cheesy as fuck but sounds awesome), traditional indian instruments for a bar at a time - keeps the entire theme of the song rolling

[fudge-1337]

ive heard this before but cant remember were, but to get a drum sample (works well on the kick) and create 4 or 5 of em, then change the pogo on them and scroll down or up.
also works nice with very short delays (0.01 00.3 00.5 etc), cud also be used in a synth

[tintala]

I love Indian Music , I have studied INdian Classical music for over 15 years. I have learned tabla from some of the great masters, recently I wanted to incorporate it into producing some Indian/Bhangra dubstep.

BTw here is a clip from DAVID STARFIRE, i recently discovered him and love his version of indian dubstep, there is also an interview with him and how he got his Indian influences.

also my debut will be called "BINDIYA SOUNDSYSTEM"

here is David
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrHyDlzW ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_v7v09q2ms

[crunkedxup]

One I like to hear occasionally is those crowd horns, and quick blasts of a dub siren.

Making a dub siren is easy.

1> Get a synth and set the oscillator to square wave.
2> Tie the LFO to the oscillators pitch.
3> Set the LFO shape to a square wave too.
4> Tweak the LFO to pitch depth and the LFO rate to taste.
5> Add a very short amount of delay to the whole sound.

You now have a dub siren and can play a short bursts of it occassionally throughout your tune!

no that shit needs to die, i'd rather hear noise makers from childhood comeback
hip hop, r&b, mixtapes and mtv ruined the airhorn/dub siren
bring back the old synth stabs!

dub siren is a electronic noise-making device, that they use in dub music and certain famous sounds they make get sampled in bare dnb, garage tunes etc. but every dub siren is different. its called a "siren" because they make noises that sound like police sirens etc. also that beep you hear at the beginning of every dub song ever made.

it's not an airhorn like the dancehall one your thinking of haha, but now i think about it thats a pretty easy mistake to make.


iphone equivalent. i'm sure youll recognise a lot of the sounds

[nowaysj]

iphone i = biggest laugh today

[makemerich]

chop that shit up like a samurai on crack.