Who needs and MPC5000? Single Cycle Adventures

Ya mon.....I'm using a synth with all the classic knobs, buttons, and faders......While I have no real tech knowledge, I do know which knob thingy does what to the sound.......you'll never find me writing users guides...but I could show ya......same applies to my mixing skills.....I couldn't tell you what frequency is causing that boominess in your bass, but I can quickly identify it, dial in the appropriate cut and make your music sound better......

Bump 2009

ILIAC: You can cross-fade between zones in the MPC and get a kind of vector synthesis going. I know this has been pointed out before, but 4-way wavetable cross-fading is pretty big deal. Very few synths have that kind of flexibility.




How do you do that?

Some more interesting and lovely documented single cycle waveforms:

http://www.adventurekid.se/akrt/waveforms/

Note, that there is a chart included, so you have a first guess about brightness/bassyness of the waveforms.

Have fun!


TSR

I'm heart broken this site is 404. Is anyone kind enough to throw up a local version of the site so I can read thru what bazziman is doing. I'm doing lots of synth work in the 4000 and it's perfect for the sound I like, and this would just add more dimensions to what I do.

Bazziman wrote:For those who enjoyed reading my first two blog entries on single cycle sampling....I finally got round to writing nomber trés!

Check it out at:

http://www.vandewerk.nl/bazziman

For those new to the trade: a few months ago I experimented quite a bit with using single cycle loops as the basis for synthesis. The synth engine of the MPC4000 is quite extensive and it will give the MPC5000's VA quite a run for its money on several fronts if you ask me. (I am not kidding here)

I also promise to include some sound examples and some files sometime during the next weeks (yes weeks; I am off for several extensive business related trips so I have very little time on my hands)....

http://www.adventurekid.se/akrt/waveforms/

Click on the single cycle link

Thanks haze, I wad looking for the website info too. Seems like he goes thru the process of making single cycle waveforms. Which I could for sure use. I tried waybackmachine and google cache but no luck. I messed around with zone select xfade modulation. Pretty nice. Could make some nice evolving pads this way.

Thanks again haze

Blue Haze wrote:http://www.adventurekid.se/akrt/waveforms/

Click on the single cycle link

thank you both for the waveforms

will check dem out soemtime this winter

illiac wrote:Yeah, it's great to turn knobs and see what comes out. But it's hard to go very far down that road with synthesizers I think. You get to a point where you say, OK, I need a sound that's like this (imagines sound in head). And you try to make that sound quickly. Maybe it's airy and diffuse but it has a kind of hollow resonance, or whatever.

If you use a synth with a fixed architecture like the Virus or V-Synth or a soft synth like ES2, then at least there are knobs for you turn; but there are hundreds of knobs and envelopes and parameters, and it takes forever to make your sound if you start turning them blindly.

Iif you use something like Max/MSP, Reaktor or Kyma, there are no knobs at all. You just get a big footlocker full of modules and have to wire them together and build your own knobs before there is any sound at all, haha. So going about it blindly is impossible, really.

In the case of using the MPC4000 as a synth, it's kind of a like a fixed architecture synth, except that you have to think through the stuff that's not obvious. Like aliasing, which will wreck the sound if you don't take care of it (it sounds like wrong notes being played).

Anyhow, it's all good. It's amazing that the MPC4K can do this stuff at all.

-illiac

The 4K's the truth.

Anyone care to share there secrets for beating aliasing.