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Unk's
Creative Rut Destruction Kit Ok -
so, to get around the old Creative Rut (no pun on
company intended) as far as sounds goes, try this -
it's worked for me: Unk's
Creative Rut Destruction Kit ---------------------------------- [[SECTION
A]] - PUMP YO' SELF WITH GNU 1)
sample a bunch of snippits you find cool; ie, snare
hits, bas drumms, guit loops, keys - wot
evah. 2)
send em all to PADS and tweak to your liking. Now,
you should have a RAM kit with some decent
material. Give it a name, like "OS4 Bite Me" or
something Creative (haha) 3)
load in more sounds - got any nifty Roland patches?
Non-stock X sounds? Akai disks? Load in anything
you find cool; keys, basses, vocals, etc. Need some
some more sounds? 4)
Goto Soundcentral.com and download *ALL* the
Ensoniq sounds; there are some good ones that'll
trigger something, for sure, and some cheesy ones
you'll trash, for sure 5)
now, once you have your X chock full of yummy
goodness, save this as an all SESSION file. Give it
a name, dammit, like "JonDL's Site is Tasty" or
something Creative 6)
Jam on it. Set up each track to contain your new
one Sounds - 16 tracks, no Stock Sounds allowed.
Guaranteed you'll come up with something cool, just
by having this session loaded. When done a jam,save
the Sequence; give it a name, dammit, like "TACO
Should be a RockStar" or something
Creative. 7)
when you've got something laid down on that jam,
copy the Seq parameters to another Sequence, and
try another jam, using the same sounds - 16 tracks,
and no Stock Sounds allowed. I've
done this, for example, with a Session called
"Thugg It"; I loaded a bunch of Bone Thuggs-type
sounds, and experimented in that genre (R+B/hiphop
with double time overtones). I came out with 4
really cool jams. Ok, I wound up laying a *couple*
of stock sounds over at the end, like Poppy Piano
going thru the cool 60's phaser effect. But
otherwise, it sounds pretty phresh. [[SECTION
B]] - THE X HAS SOME PRETTY COOL
FX This
is so simple, even I can't believe it. Take those
tired old shitty internal sounds and crush the
bejesus outta them thru insert FX. Personally, I'm
too lazy for alot of this resampling business, so I
try and have one cool effect on the insert when I'm
just jamming thru a track (if I want to go further
later, I'll re-sample the line to free up the
effect again). 1)
take a stock sound - Poopy Piano, to continue along
the same thread. Program a simple little line or
chordal thingy. Hit play, let it loop, and scroll
thru *all* the insert effects (make sure the Track
effect is set on Insert). But wait! Don't just try
the first Preset, fool! Hit Edit, then YES - each
insert effect has at *least* 4 or 5 presets that
can sound pretty funky. 2)
wanna go further? Ok - here's an example of a sound
I made called "Phazeloop" - listen: http://www.lanset.com/shansen/freek.ram Ok,
so, hear those tired old "Ol' Skool Kit" drums?
They come in at the start; then - oh my! what's
that nifty Phaseing-panning loop that comes in
later? Well, that's the tired old old skool beat
from the first 4 bars resampled thru the insert
effect twice: once thru the rotary speaker effect,
and one thru Phaser/ reverb (I think). Anyhow, I
could have gove even further, but as this was just
a jam idea, it never did -but the point is, you can
get some nifty sounding loops from resampling more
than once. Combinations of effects can be great
when resampling [[SECTION
C]] - INTERNET BAY-BEE check
this out: http://www.lanset.com/shansen/bond.ram (alomost)
all sounds downloaded from the internet from
various sites. My fave recent is one that was
posted by John Dougherty awhile back: http://www.2xtreme.net/mhat/drums.html I
spent an afternoon and downloaded all 500 loops
(mahahaha). I
recommend you do the same - well laid out page,
fairly fast dl, decent quality loops (all copyright
infringing, of course) The
point is, the Net itself can be a great source of
sounds - if you know where to look. You'll soon be
able to weed out the crudd from the pro-sounding
stuff (stay away from WAV trading pages etc -
unless you want Simpsons and South Park samples,
which can be funny..) Another
good one is http://www.partnersinrhyme.com Check
them out for loops and effects. [[CONCLUSION]] Try
a new venue, a new room, a new brand of coffee.
Change is good. Floss. Try taking your X outside on
the balcony with a cold brew on a hot day. this
thig is portable, man! So, port it. A change of
view can often lead to a change of creative juice.
This is the *true* dilemma, which no amount of new
sounds can cure. It must come from within, not
without. But
hey, the Gayspansion board and a bunch of new
sounds can't hurt right? :) Make 'em! Download em'!
Resample 'em! SEND
TO PADS, Unkhakook. Contact
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