Friday, February 18, 2011

Poizone Project

This project contains a total of 5 poizone synths, two of which are layered together. The drums are very straight forward, drums + reverb + EQ = drum loop. The song starts off with two synths. The simpler of the two is actually from 3xOsc, its just using one oscillator. The other is poizone, I used the trance gate, the LFO on FRQ A and the velocity tracking is all the way up, but im not so sure its doing a whole lot. The cutoff and resonance knobs are facing eachother, the PW of both oscillators is about 45%, and the unison is at 4 with a little detune. Oscillator B is tuned down a bit too. A few seconds in the 3xOsc keeps going and a two layer synths come is with this stupid little thing mean to keep it from getting TOO boring. These two synths are also very straight forward. Only oscillator A, no noise, keyboard and velocity tracking are at about 65% for both synths. The main difference between the two is cutoff and resonance. One is at 40% and 70% while the other is at half that. A little later thigns change and what your hearing is a cymbal played in reverse a couple times with some pitch change (automated). The original synths come back in here. The 3xOSc synth sounds different at parts due to cahnges in the filter settings (fruity filter). Things start to get busy again and the only snth I like here come in. Poizone again, all osc A, 100% PW, cutoff at 100, resonance at 0, no traxcking (I know, I did nothing). I played with the amplifier (fade in, resonate out) and set the LFO (destination = cutoff, very high amount, very high rate, and sine wave shape). I ran it through the stereo enhancher (one of my new favorites)and obviously the delay bank. I have a synth play a note in the background at the end, its alot like the very first poizone synth in the song, just different filter settings. I found it difficult to use the velocity tracking since one one of my riffs really utilized different velocities enough to make a noticable difference.

2 comments:

  1. I like it a lot. Have you considered changing the hi-hat on beats 2 and 4 to a clap or some other sound? The high frequencies in the hat are a bit much. Maybe just bringing it down in the mix a bit would help.
    I love the pitch bend work. Excellent!
    Good job with the 3xosc as well.

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  2. I do agree, the hi-hat is a little, eh... Its kind of like listening to a metronome through the music. It is definately too high in the mix, and the reverb doesnt help either. I ran all the drums through the same EQ, so I think that i overlooked the hi-hat when trying to get the right sound for the snare underneath it.

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