Manipulating Sounds

[Hita_K]

I was just wondering how many of u manipulate ur sounds to get other sounds. Example: a guitar to sound like a piano. I don't want to know how, but jus wondering.

 

[Greg Savage]

All the time

 

[krysolite]

naw. enuff samples out there. waste of effort to make one sound like another. but if ur just aiming to get it sound NOT like a guitar and somtn else, mebe once in a while for me.

 

[misscc803]

If i cant find da sound or im too lazy i'd do it. You neva know what your imagination can bring forth.

 

[Sanova]

i usually only do it with synths and basses and strings. other times, i like to use stuff that I'd never dream about using otherwise.

 

[pancakebunnny]

El-P and ?uestlove are good as fuck at doing this. Unless you have some hardcore creativity to begin with, like... your SWEAT could be sold as drugs because you're so damn creative, this technique usually falls short.

But ?uestlove can turn a sample of me farting on Sanova and turn it into a work of audio-art.

 

[Sanova]

*dead*

 

[pancakebunnny]

I got that atomic gas, kid. GUARD YA GRILL!!!

 

[J Cro]

I alter shit all the time. When I first started out all I had was FL and I didn't know how or where to get new sounds. So I used to tweak the shit out of the sounds that came with FL 2.7. They weren't high qaulity but the music I made back then was definitly original and it had my own sound.

 

[sYgMa]

I tweak a lot, but to a certain extent... a guitar to a piano... never tryed it, but taking a synth bass and making it sound like a acoustic/synth bass... or using a conga sound as a bass... that sort of thing, yes

 

[Manji]

there are certain, uh sound modules I think that you can emulate other sounds with.

The reason I say "I think" cause I seen some dude at sam ash playing the piano w/ his guitar, but I didnt really intrest mytself w/ it so I really didnt find out what it was about.

 

[PrymeTyme]

most of the time...if i end up manipulating a sound its usually by accident. because if i usually know what the sound or instrument that i want is and im jus tweakin it 2 make it blend wit tha beat. and sometimes it comes out soundin totally different

 

[Burna]

*dead*

in the simple words..


dun..dun .. duuuN

 

[O-H-TEN]

Yeah, I do that sometimes myself. Most of the time just to experiment and see what I can come up with. I've got an old Yamaha CS1x keyboard that I tweak the sounds in all the time. I don't use the sounds in the keyboard as they are because they are outdated and most of them can't compare to the rich synth sounds of today; but it has so many dope sounds in it that you can tweak and layer to make new sounds that I will probably never get rid of it.
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