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

2006-05-10 by Tarekith

They are also mono, where as the sample in Cubase might be stereo.

On 5/10/06, Ville Gustafsson <villeg@...> wrote:
> 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@...> 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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