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Okay, I think I have almost finished arrangement in my first tune. I just need to do a couple of cool fill sounds I think.
Could you tell me how to do this sound?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk9XYQMRiLY starts at 0:57 - the stretchy one
This will be my first tune so I don't really know how to fill it up. I came up with a nice pad for an intro, but all pads I make doesn't seem to get along with my bassline very well.
Many artists seem to fill up their tunes with a decent ammout of "random" noises. Do they generally design them or do they use sample packs? If they use samples, could you give me links to some cool "fill-out" packs?

White noise in the drop, wide pads, make sure the drop is in the same key

Aerandir wrote:Okay, I think I have almost finished arrangement in my first tune. I just need to do a couple of cool fill sounds I think.
Could you tell me how to do this sound?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk9XYQMRiLY starts at 0:57 - the stretchy one
This will be my first tune so I don't really know how to fill it up. I came up with a nice pad for an intro, but all pads I make doesn't seem to get along with my bassline very well.
Many artists seem to fill up their tunes with a decent ammout of "random" noises. Do they generally design them or do they use sample packs? If they use samples, could you give me links to some cool "fill-out" packs?

I like to design my own, or record little things with my voice then kill them with reverb!

Another thing is try to have things sit at the same level, and nothing too much higher than the other, or nothing will blend well, reverb and delay also helps to blend things but not too much or it'll sound shit.

Samples are cool if you find a few that go with the song, but I generally wouldn't use sample out of some pack often, unless there was a sound that would really go well with my track! It's funner learning, and designing it all yourself!

I don't really have a preference for sounds. I either make them or find odd little noises in samples and either use them dry if it fits or process them if it needs to happen. The 'mindset' i take really is very much more about the nature of the track and what it needs. I'll flick through different sounds and get inspired by them or I'll hear something in my mind that i feel will fit and go through a series of different methods to try and find that sound.

A lot of the time it's about experimentation, after a while you sort of fall into patterns of how you go about adding elements to your tune. Different people have different workflows, I wouldn't worry too much about how you go about doing it, just sort of reach out to what's available to you right now, listen to whats there and apply it creatively in the way that works for the moment, it's an organic process and really not something that can be rigidly explained. Eventaully you'll get used to your way of doing things and the more you do it the deeper your understanding of it will become and you'll slowly become more experiemental with it, widening your aproach to the process.

/ramble...

Aerandir wrote: Could you tell me how to do this sound?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk9XYQMRiLY starts at 0:57 - the stretchy one

That sound is a record scratch sample.

Pads, fx, white noise sweeps, just make music buddy!

Turnipish Thoughts wrote:I don't really have a preference for sounds. I either make them or find odd little noises in samples and either use them dry if it fits or process them if it needs to happen. The 'mindset' i take really is very much more about the nature of the track and what it needs. I'll flick through different sounds and get inspired by them or I'll hear something in my mind that i feel will fit and go through a series of different methods to try and find that sound.

A lot of the time it's about experimentation, after a while you sort of fall into patterns of how you go about adding elements to your tune. Different people have different workflows, I wouldn't worry too much about how you go about doing it, just sort of reach out to what's available to you right now, listen to whats there and apply it creatively in the way that works for the moment, it's an organic process and really not something that can be rigidly explained. Eventaully you'll get used to your way of doing things and the more you do it the deeper your understanding of it will become and you'll slowly become more experiemental with it, widening your aproach to the process.

/ramble...

Great post