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Re: [elektron] Re: Machinedrum bottom end lacking...

2006-05-10 by Ville Gustafsson

That's not strange at all, the machinedrum samples are converted to
12-bits and gritty-sounding on purpose. That's the whole point. If you
want them hi-fi, keep them in Cubase.

Ville

On 5/10/06, Patrik Rydberg <rydan@cutpaste.org> wrote:
> Yes, well, what's annoying me isn't that my bass drum sounds bad in a
> mix. What's annoying me is that the same sample of a kick, played
> straight from cubase (with no effects of course) sounds different than
> if i send it to the machinedrum using the C6 utility, and then play it
> from there.
>
> Feel free to compare the two:
>
> www.cutpaste.org/temp/mdtest/Sample.wav
> www.cutpaste.org/temp/mdtest/MD.wav
>
> (also, if opened in a wave editor, you can clearly see the difference)
>
> This is a bit strange, I think...
>
> /Patrik
>
>
> tahvenaine2002 skrev:
> >  >From my experience, getting deeph oomphs is a matter of mixing sounds
> > together. It's easy to alone, but when you start to add different
> > sounds to it, overall impression loses it. The trick is to make stuff
> > dynamic, it got me year to understand this. So try to start with huge
> > headroom and then work your way through. If you want huge oommphh, you
> > cannot have huge everything else. It is the little sounds that make
> > another sounds big.
> >
> > Toni.
> >
> >
> > --- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "rydan" <rydan@...> wrote:
> >  >
> >  > Hello there!
> >  >
> >  > I have been experimenting quite a bit with my UW, and I really love it,
> >  > especially for creating weird percussive loops and strange sampling
> > effects
> >  > using the ram machines. However, I feel the kick drums are a bit
> > lacking. I
> >  > can't really put my finger on it, but they sound a bit thin I think.
> > They
> >  > may be loud and cutting through, but it seems hard to get that
> > extra, deep,
> >  > round oomph out of them.
> >  >
> >  > So, well, my other favourite for drum sounds is Attack, så I created a
> >  > really mean-sounding trance style kick, added some unmild
> > compression (UAD-1
> >  > rocks!), and exported to a wav file. Transfered it to the
> > machinedrum and
> >  > Tada!, eeeh oh, no, wait, the ooomph was gone again...
> >  >
> >  > Is it just me, or is anybody else experiencing this?
> >  >
> >  > /Patrik
> >  >
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