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what's up everybody, this is my first post at FP. i really like what i see so far. this is the start of what may be a migration from the mpc forums seeing as how my learning curve is reaching a plateau over there.
here's something i posted over there a few months back. it had a little controversy but the end results speak for themselves - how to get SP1200 sound in a mixdown without an SP.
"Sonic Decimator (TM)
The Sonic Decimator allows you to reduce the apparent sample rate or bit-depth of your sound file. This is an excellent way to re-create the sound of the first generation of digital sampling devices. At moderate settings, it can create a "low-fi" effect, as though the sound was being processed by a low-budget sampler. At extreme settings, large amounts of hiss and distortion, as well as intense aliasing effects are added to the sound.
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THE TRICK:
--> you can recognize it a mile off - the high end, sweet and sexy little distortion on basses, mids, drums - everything. the "SP sparkle" is one of the greatest sounding elements in the sampler world - which is funny, because it's actually a lower quality, bastardized version of the original sound wave...but it's so SWEET.
for years i didn't know where it came from. i studied all the greats, listened to the sparkle and heard it again and again, from a variety of places. i used to be a computer producer (acid pro, then reason) and i went through several hundred DX plugin chains to try and find it.
then i bought my mpc1000 to enter the world of samplers. i also hoped that maybe there was a filter or something to achieve that sound. no luck, but no problem anyway- i just constructed my **** around it.
then one fine afternoon it hit me. i accidently clicked the wrong dx plugin in acid while freaking a sample for my mpc by mistake and all the sudden the SP1200 sound was there--or something acceptably close to what i heard from the famed instrument.
this plugin is called the Hyperprism Sonic Decimator. you can control how sparkly you want it - from the point where the distortion overcomes the sound or to the other extreme, where it's just icing on a beat cake. i downloaded this program as an H20 try before you buy bootleg, and i plan to buy the next update.
for all of you who like the sound and taste of the sp1200 but want a bigger sample time, this is for you. you have 2 options - you can apply it to your samples in acid or cubase before you export them to your mpc, or you can put the effect on when you track out to mix in cubase/acid/whatever.
it makes basslines ring so nice!!! and the drums...oh the drums...give it a try and tell me what you think.
here's something i posted over there a few months back. it had a little controversy but the end results speak for themselves - how to get SP1200 sound in a mixdown without an SP.
"Sonic Decimator (TM)
The Sonic Decimator allows you to reduce the apparent sample rate or bit-depth of your sound file. This is an excellent way to re-create the sound of the first generation of digital sampling devices. At moderate settings, it can create a "low-fi" effect, as though the sound was being processed by a low-budget sampler. At extreme settings, large amounts of hiss and distortion, as well as intense aliasing effects are added to the sound.
"
THE TRICK:
--> you can recognize it a mile off - the high end, sweet and sexy little distortion on basses, mids, drums - everything. the "SP sparkle" is one of the greatest sounding elements in the sampler world - which is funny, because it's actually a lower quality, bastardized version of the original sound wave...but it's so SWEET.
for years i didn't know where it came from. i studied all the greats, listened to the sparkle and heard it again and again, from a variety of places. i used to be a computer producer (acid pro, then reason) and i went through several hundred DX plugin chains to try and find it.
then i bought my mpc1000 to enter the world of samplers. i also hoped that maybe there was a filter or something to achieve that sound. no luck, but no problem anyway- i just constructed my **** around it.
then one fine afternoon it hit me. i accidently clicked the wrong dx plugin in acid while freaking a sample for my mpc by mistake and all the sudden the SP1200 sound was there--or something acceptably close to what i heard from the famed instrument.
this plugin is called the Hyperprism Sonic Decimator. you can control how sparkly you want it - from the point where the distortion overcomes the sound or to the other extreme, where it's just icing on a beat cake. i downloaded this program as an H20 try before you buy bootleg, and i plan to buy the next update.
for all of you who like the sound and taste of the sp1200 but want a bigger sample time, this is for you. you have 2 options - you can apply it to your samples in acid or cubase before you export them to your mpc, or you can put the effect on when you track out to mix in cubase/acid/whatever.
it makes basslines ring so nice!!! and the drums...oh the drums...give it a try and tell me what you think.
