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Remaking from scratch ㅣIGORㅣ08.PUPPET
🕑 Added 2023-08-21 13:51:19 +0000 UTC3:01 808
The first sound that came to the puppy was an 808 bass, and it stands out with a punchy, hard head. also give a compact low-end when playing a long note. So I started with three different octaves of sine waves. set the filter cutoff to 124 Hz, reso to 0.268, and KBD to 0.5. For that punchy head, I modulated COARSE with a short decay envelope. it gave a short kick effect in the sound's head intentionally, and I modulated the cutoff with a medium decay envelope on the cutoff. that just make it more elastic. In the VCA's ENV, I set decay to 236 ms, sustain to 0.85, and make the sub part more suble.
6:04 - HVAC Piano
The first melodic sound that came in was a lofi plucked/struck sound. I recreated the patch with a comb filtering the air conditioner nosie to make it sound like a piano.
A comb filter is where a delayed version of a signal gets added back to the signal itself, creating finely-spaced peaks and troughs in the output. If you set the filter right, you can get frequencies that are distributed according to a certain sound's harmonics. So when you have a sound that fills the full spectrum, like noise, you can filter out anything that's not within the harmonic series and keytrack the filter to apply to the note we're playing. So what we're left with are frequencies in the harmonic series, which makes the sound a melodic instrument.
So I start with the noise. I set the filter mode to comb; I didn't make any changes because the default setting does most of the work. and add another Low pass filter, set the cutoff to 3160 Hz, reso to 0.23, and full KBD. In the ENV VCA, set the decay to 800 ms and sustain 0 to make it plucky. and modulate the volume with ENV 2 (390 ms decay). Then add a tremolo effect to the LFO to make it more realistic.
In the end, I used Decapitator and Devil-Loc to add distortion. and a bell-shaped EQ to fillter out the high and low make it super lofi with the Tape MELLO-FI.
14:22 - Vocal PAD
The sound shares a similar idea to the pad we made in EARFQUAKE: creating a vocal-like sound by modulating the format filter. But this one sounds more like a word than a vowel because it's faster. So I just modulate the filter between the results "i" and "a" by a 1/8 beat tempo LFO, and the modulation makes it sound like "ya". and I add a high-pass filter around 389 Hz and some chorus. Then add a few details, like a vibrato to the pitch, a tremlo to the valve, and a fade-in envelope to the LFO. Just make the sound more like a human voice.
