NI Massive Tutorial - Hendrix meets the Monkey
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:12 am
Alright new tutorial and i bet your wondering wtf the titles all about.
Basically we're going to create something a little different here using a scream filter and the freq shift effect amongst other things. Here's a little demo of what were going to make starting low down on the keys (you'll see what i mean by the weird ass title) then going higher up into something that sounds more like a demented hawk.
SCREAM MAIN.mp3
Alright pretty fuckin nuts
Now start off with the default patch in massive. This patch is just one oscillator (believe it or not) a saw wave tuned to -24
Couple of simple things first.
Add some vibrato manually in the OSC tab
Change the synth to monophonic and pan position to mono
Now the raw sound is sorted onto the filter.
The scream filter's up first and i was wanting a sort filter cut off sweep starting from low to hi. I did this with an envelope controlling both filter cut off/scream parameters. The filter also self-oscillates in a very horrid way completely changing the sound fed into it, even with small amounts of resonance.
Now the envelope i set up so it comes in a bit quicker than linear by getting rid of the attack phase (by reducing the attack gain and time to 0) and using the decay parameter to create a convex attack like this :
I've also done the same with the amp envelope which is env 4 but with a faster decay so the volume comes up a bit quicker than the filter sweep and less release ( but still enough to give it a verb style sound):
Here's what it sounds like so far:
1. SCREAM filter 1.mp3
Pretty tinny so i send this in series to a bandpass filter which will accent the sweet spot:
now sounds like this:
2. SCREAM both filters.mp3
Was tinny now a little thin so some FXs to beef this up a bit.
First is the classic tube with drive and mix up to about 50/50, then the old dimension expander:
The frequency shifter effect is going to add that resampling sort of detuned effect you get as the key played goes up by having the mix @ 50/50 and the pitch set slightly off the 12 0'clock position (shift and drag helps here to find a nice amount).
You can also stick a slow lfo controlling pitch with a very small range to create some interesting movement.
This is routed to the output of the scream filter in INS 1 and the parabolic shaper INS 2 is going to mash all the signal after the filters.
routing looks like this
and now sounds like this
3. SCREAM all FX.mp3
Basically we're going to create something a little different here using a scream filter and the freq shift effect amongst other things. Here's a little demo of what were going to make starting low down on the keys (you'll see what i mean by the weird ass title) then going higher up into something that sounds more like a demented hawk.
SCREAM MAIN.mp3
Alright pretty fuckin nuts
Now start off with the default patch in massive. This patch is just one oscillator (believe it or not) a saw wave tuned to -24
Couple of simple things first.
Add some vibrato manually in the OSC tab
Change the synth to monophonic and pan position to mono
Now the raw sound is sorted onto the filter.
The scream filter's up first and i was wanting a sort filter cut off sweep starting from low to hi. I did this with an envelope controlling both filter cut off/scream parameters. The filter also self-oscillates in a very horrid way completely changing the sound fed into it, even with small amounts of resonance.
Now the envelope i set up so it comes in a bit quicker than linear by getting rid of the attack phase (by reducing the attack gain and time to 0) and using the decay parameter to create a convex attack like this :
I've also done the same with the amp envelope which is env 4 but with a faster decay so the volume comes up a bit quicker than the filter sweep and less release ( but still enough to give it a verb style sound):
Here's what it sounds like so far:
1. SCREAM filter 1.mp3
Pretty tinny so i send this in series to a bandpass filter which will accent the sweet spot:
now sounds like this:
2. SCREAM both filters.mp3
Was tinny now a little thin so some FXs to beef this up a bit.
First is the classic tube with drive and mix up to about 50/50, then the old dimension expander:
The frequency shifter effect is going to add that resampling sort of detuned effect you get as the key played goes up by having the mix @ 50/50 and the pitch set slightly off the 12 0'clock position (shift and drag helps here to find a nice amount).
You can also stick a slow lfo controlling pitch with a very small range to create some interesting movement.
This is routed to the output of the scream filter in INS 1 and the parabolic shaper INS 2 is going to mash all the signal after the filters.
routing looks like this
and now sounds like this
3. SCREAM all FX.mp3
oh and 1st 
