Trifonic: Making Pads with Spectral Dronemaker from Next Step Audio on Vimeo.
Brian of the music production team Trifonic completes his two-part series on synthesizing sounds with Native Instruments Massive (which shows nicely here, though you could also translate these techniques to similar semi-modular synths). Part one from May covers oscillators, filters, and other features, further processed with a third-party plug; part two this week covers the performance editor and filters “to make sweet bass sounds.” (I like sweet and sour bass sounds, myself.) Check out the videos below.
What I love about Brian’s videos is that they’re very much connected to his way of working – more master class than dry curriculum – while still giving you a taste of the features you need to know in the tool. And since they are more compact, they’re a good way to tickle your creative sound design bones for a few minutes, then set you on a project, ideal for launching this weekend. You can follow them here:
http://nextstepaudio.com/
Massive is cool, but Mac users won’t want to miss the gems of plug-ins he mentions in the video at top. (I know I missed them — MacBook, boot!) Michael Norris’ SoundMagic Spectral is a collection of completely free-as-in-beer, Universal AU plug-ins which, true to the name, cover real-time spectral processing:
Included in SOUNDMAGIC SPECTRAL are the following plug-ins:
Spectral Averaging • Spectral Bin Shift • Spectral Blurring • Spectral DroneMaker • Spectral Emergence • Spectral Filterbank • Spectral Freezing • Spectral Gate and Hold • Spectral Gliding Filters • Spectral Granulation • Spectral Harmonizer • Spectral Partial Glide • Spectral Pitch Shift • Spectral Pulsing • Spectral Shimmer • Spectral Shuffle • Spectral Stretch • Spectral Tracing • Chorus • Comb Filter Bank • Grain Streamer • Idee Fixer • Mr Filterbank
http://www.sinevibes.com/experimental-audiounits/
Brian makes use of that DroneMaker, at top. Enjoy some production this weekend, folks! On to Massive…
Trifonic: Synthesis with NI’s Massive – Part 1 from Next Step Audio on Vimeo.
Trifonic: Synthesis with NI’s Massive – Part 2 from Next Step Audio on Vimeo.
Credit to Michael Norris for SoundMagic Spectral – not Sinevibes – http://www.michaelnorris.info/soundmagicspectral/…
Nice tools!
Indeed the Michael Norris stuff is truly wonderful. One of the little secret wonders of sound design. Oh well, thats one less secret weapon ,-)
hahaha your secrets are mine now 😉
folks should definitely peep the trifonic tutorials. i'm a former student of his and the man is no joke!!
Great stuff homie! Going to enjoy the vids this afternoon.
>zero ref
A Michael Norris Plugs ex-secret tip: try using spectral dronemaker and others of the more drone-y MN plugs as FX returns like you would use a long hall reverb on short notes – acoustic guitar is great for example – if you filter off the sometimes brittle top end and add a little real reverb aftewrds to smooth things out, you can get a sort of eno-ish tuned ambient wash that is really rather special …
Martin: That's actually one of my favourite tricks. You can also mix it up a bit by applying some glitchy effect like DestroyFX Scrubby before the SoundMagic effect on the return chain. Works wonders 🙂
Michael Norris's OS9 SoundMagic plug-ins worked with Alberto Riccci's SoundEffects – still my fave sound design program. The envelope removal plugin was brilliant. Wish there was an OSX version
I've been using Spectral Drone Maker on nearly all my tunes these days.
Thanks for the kudos guys. I'm quite keen to get that envelope remover working again…
M
Oh well, so much for thinking this was my little secret 😉
Big thanx to Michael Norris ! I've waited these plugins for a long while.
Lot of Inspiration.
Best Regards
Mtc
Mister Michael Norris, thankyou for some truly wonderful plugs, I too was doing the OS9 SoundEdit thing back then, so retrospective big thanks for your stuff for that too …
Whoa cool to see Michael Norris chime in! I hope something develops with the envelope substitution/remover. I still have my OS9 computer with Sound Maker and all the fx in the studio.
I hope to unmask more of my personal (and probably other producers as well) "secret weapons" in the coming months 😀
Michael Norris Spectral blurring has been my highly secret weapon last year. But I knew there would come a day everyone would get their hands on it… 😉
It is starting to look like that about half the people on here have been keeping this same dark secret ! 😉
Maybe we should think about sharing some others …
i'll give up some settings if you will 🙂
p.s. very thanks mr. norris.
does anyone know of a max for live device that has similar capabilities ? i cant believe that there is nt something out there….cheers
awesome stuff brian! love it thanks for the hfeads up on some of these plugs
Great Native Instruments Massive tutorial!
I've included this on my blog, http://www.massivesynth.com – a blog containing tutorials and patches for native instruments massive.