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I thought it'd be a good idea to have a thread with a bunch of helpful pictures and such related to production. I've seen a few posted around but it's a bitch to try to find them so this would be a good spot to post anything you have. I, like I'm sure some of you are, are visual learners so charts and pictures and anything like that really help more than reading paragraphs saying the same things

i'll start with one i actually saved
too large to post, musical theory cheat sheet!

Circle of fifths:



Scales:












Interactive Frequency Chart: http://www.independentrecording.net/irn ... isplay.htm

why on earth would you need chromatic scales in all 12 keys? it's a simple enough pattern.



you really want F3 too, but that would be a little too complex for a chart

taught me everything i know.

take notes... feel free to site me as your resource.

narcissus wrote:why on earth would you need chromatic scales in all 12 keys? it's a simple enough pattern.



you really want F3 too, but that would be a little too complex for a chart

Can you explain this? I just tried making a U sound by playing two sines. One at 200 and one at 700, and pitch shifting them as one and distorting them etc and they don't sound like a U.

no no no, the idea is take a harmonically rich sound to begin with, like a saw, and then apply bandpass filter banks at both the frequencies.

And then like record that waveform and use that? I'mma mess around with it, thanks.

when i posted that, i was assuming people would be familiar with the theory behind formant filtering.. make sure your filter banks are in parallel, not series.

Well I've never bothered with formant. But it'd be tight if I could make vowel sounds on purpose >_>. What do you mean in Parallel and not Series?

ChadDub wrote:Well I've never bothered with formant. But it'd be tight if I could make vowel sounds on purpose >_>. What do you mean in Parallel and not Series?

signal comes through each filter seperately then merge in a bus in the end = parralel. side-by-side... one signal, split to 2 filters, bused to a final single signal.

signal comes through one filter, then through the next filter = serial/series - chain of filters on one signal

Well what I did was I just had a saw wave and put an EQ on it and set up two BP filters at those frequencies, and still nothing happened. whateva goin to bed.

ChadDub wrote:Well I've never bothered with formant. But it'd be tight if I could make vowel sounds on purpose >_>. What do you mean in Parallel and not Series?

could you just fuck off and die please? do you need me to hold your hand as you cross the street?

ChadDub wrote:Well what I did was I just had a saw wave and put an EQ on it and set up two BP filters at those frequencies, and still nothing happened. whateva goin to bed.

What they mean is: take your signal. Saw wave, Reese bass whatever. Split the signal into two signals. Take one of the signals, set up a band pass filter, and make it peak at whatever frequency (you can also do this with an EQ, since you can make formants with those). Then take the 2nd signal. Make another bandpass (or EQ) and make it peak at the other frequency in the formant. Now you have a formant shape. Merge the 2 signals. Done. Automate the two filters or EQs for vowel effects. I'm not sure what DAW you're using, but in Reason the spider merger and splitter can be used to split the signal as well as merge it, and in Ableton, there are EQ presets for different vowel and diphthong formants.

narcissus wrote:

ChadDub wrote:Well I've never bothered with formant. But it'd be tight if I could make vowel sounds on purpose >_>. What do you mean in Parallel and not Series?

could you just fuck off and die please? do you need me to hold your hand as you cross the street?

Don't forget the modes

narcissus wrote:

ChadDub wrote:Well I've never bothered with formant. But it'd be tight if I could make vowel sounds on purpose >_>. What do you mean in Parallel and not Series?

could you just fuck off and die please? do you need me to hold your hand as you cross the street?

Particularly in light of above ( )

haha love this, good input erbody