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Breaking out of the preset rut
February 24, 2006 by Andy
Michael Weeks has written a useful article: Ten Ways to Break out of the Preset Rut in which he offers hints for getting away from a synth’s presets and creating original, signature sounds without a huge headache.
His ten points (read the article for more information) are:
- Read the manual
- Look at the presets, analyse, and disassemble
- Start simple and then go crazy
- Randomise
- Effects
- Chaos as structure
- Using a sequencer to define a sound
- Outboard vs. software – out of the box and back in again
- Outboard vs software part two – run your mothballed keyboards through fancy VSTFX
- Simplify and diversify
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