Just a little tip I found, you can automate 'tune' on your kick or other drums for added transient, e.g one bar at high pitch and the rest low with smooth set to none. This can give your drums some more transient contrast if needed. I've done it in my track I'm working on so I thought lt could be a good tip.
Drums: transient attack shaping
Great for snare/percussive rolls. Also you can automate decay and go from a open high hat to a closed one.
And find if u layer. Make sure the loudest note weather the highest or lowest. If u balance it between more than one machine u take alot of weight off one machine doing all the drums. But it is a machine heavy concept. Not many users find this a value. I find it strengthen how deep u wanna expand a song and how many parts u wanna dig in two....
Proper EQ and applied compression and gate will give your drums the most realistic touch and feel, be it acoustic or electronic. Transient shaping is best served in the CEVS-style editor, but utilizing the Shelf Filter effect module, to help with tone-shaping on the transient attack portion of the waveform (approx 40-60ms on kicks and snares -- overheads generally left alone, other than EQ for balance and tasteful high end in conjunction to the kick and snare counterparts)
i tend to automate my drum tunings a bunch, but i use the beatbox for more like a sampler because i like performing on the pads on the beat box, so jason is there any chance in the future if you could make like a caustic mixing and mastering tutorial and eq + filter applications to tracks, because this might give people a better understanding and the last few months ive been digging into caustic pretty heavy, trying to learn more, i ditched my daws im become blocked if i use fl studio its just not for me caustic is easy to translate the ideas in my head into reality, but anyways this would be cool.
I made a great kick just now by lowpassing the lot (to remove this annoying hat sound in the kick). and grabbing the click part and giving it fullback distortion, which gave it back the high end, compressing the kick using your distortion compressor technique, which squashed the click into a weird little shape, and then I just normalized the click, and then I went two times in tune/volume automation and exported it, this kicks ready for business.I also normalized the low half of the kick, and compressed, lightly eq'd and had fun.
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that kit sound heavy did you edit all the sample in the wav editor before, im trying to get a certain mixture of phaser and chorus on some of my leads, which sometime guitars sound better for leads than synths especially fenders the twang.
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I'm testing a variety of presets I made for PocketKit Platinum, nearing release, I have applied my methods and SBT for all of my drums, to get you a nice clean, punchy tone, right out of the box, and no additional EQ or DSP needed...... that goes for multi-layered acoustic drums (man these are sounding just awesome what I have going on here) and some kickin' electronic kits for many electronic music styles.
My idea is to do the hard work for you, and all you have to do is load these up and go make music right away.
sounds great i really liked one of the dsp packs you had on google play, great layouts, and i still use the dnb and trance pack, any chance of having a pack with alot of synthpop sounds i guess like your standard 80s synths (maybe the cure, flock of seagulls, depeche mode, synth styles) probably from a juno, and korg ms2000 or poly, i guess that was the standard at that time im not for sure, but im sure most of these are recreateable in most of the synths now with the sawsynth and preset merging.
great ideas, but I had the Roland Juno 1 and 2, and the Poly800 and some of the other analog synths, and their tone structure builds are different than on Caustic, in regards to key tracking, velocity sensativity to filters and envelops etc..... and I haven't even mentioned synth workstations yet that cropped up in the early 90's and the sampling technology at the time..... LA-synth, HI-synth, and other hybrid samplers/analog combo synth engines, all the way up to the synth workstations of today, like the Motif, Clavia (Nord synths) and Korg's Oasis or M50 etc....
I'd like to think that among my vast library of synth packages for Caustic, there is a nice variety of flavors that have that 80's and 90's feal to them, using the TG synths or Sample-based synths in the presets that I've made (we're talking thousands of presets and 10's of thousands of samples at this point)
yea i can imagine you have quite the collection, ive started running my stuff through tape again for mastering, well a dry mix then a cassette mix fed together its funny but usually its three mixes through different cassette recorders then a dry mix, it adds alittle something to it, i recently got this setup created im quite happy with it basically a walkman recorder fostex fourtrack and a mini recorder then two dry mixes its my custom mastering console with a chain of pedals, its nice when you finally achieve a tone youve been searching for, took awhile to find the right combination im happy with the cassette recorders really does a great detuning thing that i love.
I remember my early days of "multi tracking" using a handful of tape decks, and getting that right timing to "sync" my content together to add and mix to a new track..... a great fun self-learning experience, using a bunch of junk equipment I was able to get my hands on.....
....what was it I eventually settled on? Sony Metal Format Type 4? Lowest S/N ratio (hiss noise level) we're not talking about any pro equipment here when I was barely 10 years old
thats pretty cool its something about tape much like vinyl that draws me in like especially electronic music and techno, dnb, on vinyl and tape it just sounds like a piece of work, which nowadays things have really became to clean and polished for my taste and i seem to appreciate music more when i listen to it on these old medias, back when you put a cassette on in your car and didnt really skip any tracks, i feel like with the accessibility of making music in the modern age has kinda made people take it for granted in a way, its great that its so accessible but theres a special feeling when you find some artists album on vinyl or tape that youve never heard of and it changes the ways you think of music.