Please note: I had this video on Youtube for a long time but I replaced it with this version because I wanted to clean up the editing a bit. This was the first tutorial I ever did, so the sound and...
Please note: I had this video on Youtube for a long time but I replaced it with this version because I wanted to clean up the editing a bit. This was the first tutorial I ever did, so the sound and delivery are definitely not representative of my more recent free tutorials as well as the ones I sell at my site. Regardless, I chose to keep the video up because the previous version has gotten a lot of positive feedback and people seemed to be learning from it.
Here's the description: ----------------------------- In this video, I take the sound of my thumb moving around on the microphone (shure sm57) and turn it into an atmospheric pad sound.
The most important step in this process was scanning through the recorded sound and setting the loop points in such a way that the source sound became more interesting. After that, things like filters, envelopes, FM, etc. can be applied to really give it life. All manner of found sounds contain individual waveforms that are far more exotic and complex than the basic waves found in synthesizers. Sometimes this is desirable, sometimes it is not. I will continually revisit this theme in my future videos.
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how would you go about making the pad pitch specific (not the best phrase ever..) i mean so that if you were to play C3 on your midi keyboard, its pitch would infact be C3 rather than some other pitch depending on the width of your sample? is there an obvious way to do this or would you have to get a more advanced sampler?
I think ralome is not talking about the mixing volume of the track but the master volume of your sampler which is set to -12db on the filter/global page.
I see what you're saying re: device volume, but my answer above is the same. It's done out of habit for helping the mixdown later on. The gain change can be done anywhere and it all has the same effect, but again I should have explained that in the tutorial.
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awesome video by the way, really helpful
I think ralome is not talking about the mixing volume of the track but the master volume of your sampler which is set to -12db on the filter/global page.
I see what you're saying re: device volume, but my answer above is the same. It's done out of habit for helping the mixdown later on. The gain change can be done anywhere and it all has the same effect, but again I should have explained that in the tutorial.