EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Atmosphere will never go out of style.... you should definitely get it.   
There are so many textures to pick from, it'll make your head spin!

Soundsonline.com also has a few atmospheric libraries, and you might also 
want to check out sonymediasoftware.com as well, for loop libraries -- they have 
a couple interesting atmosphere-based ones (ACID-ized loops will work through 
Logic's loop browser, just like apple loops).   There's also the Liquid Cinema 
series that Jeff Rona put out, I think through MOTU's website.    Break out 
the credit card and start shopping!

Kerry

One tip about Atmosphere: while you may find that many of the pads  
have a more happy or neutral character than scary/horror, you can  
make any pad creepier by playing a dissonant combination of notes,  
like a dimished 5th (6 semitones), a minor 9th (13 semitones), or a  
plain old minor 3rd (3 semitones). If the sound is too muddy because  
the pad is very thick, simply play one of the notes an octave higher  
or lower than the other.

Ned




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On 12 May 2007, at 15:20, Ned Bouhalassa wrote:

> One tip about Atmosphere: while you may find that many of the pads
> have a more happy or neutral character than scary/horror, you can
> make any pad creepier by playing a dissonant combination of notes,
> like a dimished 5th (6 semitones), a minor 9th (13 semitones), or a
> plain old minor 3rd (3 semitones). If the sound is too muddy because
> the pad is very thick, simply play one of the notes an octave higher
> or lower than the other.
>
> Ned
>
> ___ Ned Bouhalassa ___
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> Chat: nedstarfx@...
> ::::: ned@... ::::
>
> 

You can make it really creepy, by dissonantly LucyTuning it.

Get the microtuning codes for Logic Pro 7 free from here:

http://lucytune.com/midi_and_keyboard/pitch_bend.html

and then choose your dissonant intervals;-)

In LucyTuning the intervals which are closest on the spiral of  
fourths and fifths are more consonant than those which are separated  
by more steps.

e.g. C to A# (10 steps) is much more dissonant than C to Bb (2 steps).

Therefore choose remote notes on the spiral to produce very dissonant  
intervals.


Charles Lucy lucy@...

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