Druggy, hypnotic pad chord sounds

David · Post by **David** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:23 pm

Thats what I'm looking for...

What you all using for weird 'petit mal' pad chord type sounds?? Hardware boxes or software and FX recommendations both welcome.

Best!!

David

jethrosipho · Post by **jethrosipho** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:42 pm

Absynth, Reaktor, Reason: Malstrom,
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icedsushi · Post by **icedsushi** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:42 pm

What is petit mal?

I've been taking some of the simple "synth sounds" in garageband, playing the pads, rendering it and loading it into Live for some mangling with pitch shifter, mild saturation, filtering and chorus effects. I also apply subtle clip envelopes. Get's pretty trippy.

Some of the sounds in garageband sound good but are too nice and typical. I wanted to see how I could turn them into something else trippy and weird as an experiment and have been pretty pleased with the results. It got transformed into where it goes in and out of sounding almost like people's voices...eeerie.

Nod · Post by **Nod** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:57 pm

David wrote:Thats what I'm looking for...

What you all using for weird 'petit mal' pad chord type sounds?? Hardware boxes or software and FX recommendations both welcome.

Best!!

David

Dude I have absolutely no idea what 'petit mal' pad chord sounds are but if you want some druggy, hypnotic pads then check these out:

http://www.hgf-synthesizer.de/ - STS21, STS17, Protoplasm etc
http://www.greenoak.com/vst.html - Crystal
http://www.cortidesign.com/ugo/ - Motion (and check out Rez - awesome filters)

and for full on weirdness

http://www.audiobulb.com/ - Sophia & ABVST - soundscape FX

then chuck the whole shebang through FX like:

http://www.devine-machine.com/minion/ - Minion
http://www.devine-machine.com/Mokafix/ - Mutine
http://www.u-he.com/mfm/mfm11.html - Feedback Machine

Should be suitably trippy

controlvoltage · Post by **controlvoltage** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:35 am

I use a Roland Jupiter-6 synth and an RE-301 tape delay. Does it every time.

When I'm confined to software, I use Audiomulch (PC only I think, sorry Mac ppl) and its granular synthesis effects with long grain durations and smooth envelopes... by automating the parameters you can get smooth cohesive lines that subtly break up into lysergic sound-granules and then coalesce again. Fun stuff!

Oh and petit-mal is a minor seizure... as opposed to grand mal, which is a whopper of a seizure (loss of body control, blackout etc.)

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:13 am

Interesting... petit mal is the name I used to make music under in the 80s... somehow I don't think you're referring to me though.

Anyhow, absynth is a great pad machine, also based on my demo of it I'd say Linplug's Cronox3 is a fantastic pad synth... then there's always Spectrasonics' Atmosphere.

suburbanbather · Post by **suburbanbather** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:05 am

Using Live's Grain Delay on Absynth pads or pads from any synth gives interesting results, especially when you play around with different X-Y combo's and move the dot around randomely.

Overloading the signal of an Electro Harmonix Bass Micro Synth is great fun. Pluck the string(s) too hard and just let it go. The tracking goes in and out and gurgles, spews, pops, whines out all kinds of fuzzy psychedilic noises.

David · Post by **David** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:09 pm

Thanks for all your suggestions! Several mentioned such as reaktor and Absynth I already have. Either I am getting complacent with them or I have to push myself to get more out of them...probably the latter is true.

About the petit mal thing. Basically as some of the previous posters mentioned it is a mild form of seizure, characterized by a brief loss of conscious awareness..kinda like a day dream you cant quite snap out of on your own accord. I feel that some sounds and music can produce a similar effect. Personally I like music for its hypnotic properties, plus its the more healthy option.

I'll check out those other recommendations.

Cheers,
David

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:36 pm

David wrote:Thanks for all your suggestions! Several mentioned such as reaktor and Absynth I already have. Either I am getting complacent with them or I have to push myself to get more out of them...probably the latter is true.

About the petit mal thing. Basically as some of the previous posters mentioned it is a mild form of seizure, characterized by a brief loss of conscious awareness..kinda like a day dream you cant quite snap out of on your own accord. I feel that some sounds and music can produce a similar effect. Personally I like music for its hypnotic properties, plus its the more healthy option.

I'll check out those other recommendations.

Cheers,
David

Take any operator patch and slap 7 reverbs on it with a bit of autopan, filter delay and grain delay.....

It's not exactly very musical. But it'll take you higher

Sinjin · Post by **Sinjin** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:21 pm

for petit mals, i tend to do a synth stack combinator in reason, splittign several channels thru spiders and delays, verbs, and filters out the wazoo.

for tonic/clonic, you want reaktor or electronik instruments 2

if its just a small headache, then pro-5x or oddity works nice.

also may i HIGHLY recommend flatpack2 by lapjockeys for reason3. holy moly.

Johnisfaster · Post by **Johnisfaster** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 7:11 am

personally I think operator with some delays and reverbs and graindelay can get some pretty crazy pads

Johnisfaster · Post by **Johnisfaster** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 7:12 am

but I'd have to say absynth 3 and reaktor 5 take the cake probably

Sinjin · Post by **Sinjin** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 5:31 pm

im still learning my way around operator. good god it uses a lot of cpu...

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