Making a beat with Photoshop + Photosounder

[premium518]

amazing



[TheSnub]

In the future we'll be drawing music.

[Photosounder]

@TheSnub I'm already in the future then ;). Everyonce in a while I draw short loops in Photosounder in a few minutes with drums and usually some weird kind of instrument. One of these days I'll take some time to demo how I do that in a video.

[Tubeuserthefirst]

this is amazing!! Great job!

[ALXXMaXX]

Reminds me a bit of NIN's "Closer"

[nikhilesh93]

How do you control harmonics? To get tone instruments (like synths etc.)?

Really fun stuff BTW! Although I'd do beats by the more 'conventional approach (sampling et al), I'd love to do some funky synths like this. :-)

[DEO541]

WOW

[ewillyp]

i want to hear the mona lisa

[ewillyp]

this totally has useful applications, if you are intimidated by traditional methods of making music, this opens the door for people to create in a way that maybe will be more comfortable for them, love this!

[MichaelKhanTV]

lol this is pretty neat.. what is the purpose of this though.. sound design?

[Photosounder]

Yep. It's not practical to put the whole beat together this way, but for designing the instruments themselves it's great, because you can create a drum sound from scratch that sounds like nothing else and you can tweak how it sounds.

[CtrlAltEgon]

@Photosounder Hey, that gave me a great idea! :D I'm already decently good at Photoshop now I can make NEW instruments so I won't be bound to the presets so much. Thanks! :D

[Photosounder]

@CtrlAltEgon yeah that's what Photosounder is for basically! Btw you should try learning Photosounder's image editing tools too, Photoshop is good but it lacks the tools that that type of editing really needs.

[rockhills]

And 3 hours later you have a loop. haha This is pretty ill. How long did this particular loop take?

[Photosounder]

I think the recording of the video took 45 minutes. But with more experience and knowing better what I'm doing it could take a lot less. People are often turned down by how long it might seem to do things with Photosounder, but the truth is with more practice you can get pretty efficient (like anything else really).

[drugsarekool1]

thats one way of making it harder.

[Photosounder]

What you lose in easiness you gain in control/range of possibilities. And there's already a plethora of programs and machines out there that consist in turning 2 knobs and pushing 3 buttons to make a beat... ;-)

[RL82]

cool

[thisguylikecraig]

what clipboard?! photoshop plugin!

[takeda64]

As you might realized it's a pain to save a file, and then load in your program. What about adding a (image) clipboard support?

Just a suggestion - I never used the program.