Electronic Music 411 - how do you Drone? long rich tones seamless

10/10/06 + bsr

aye, grainstates is nice, sometimes i set it recording for 20 minutes then listen through and pick out the happy accidents that have a lush hook or bit of structure and then use that as a basis for a track.

10/10/06 + skab

here's that vsti
link

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10/10/06 + rrooyyccee

jupiter 8. . . slow lfo to pitch and filter and pulse-width
analogue effects

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10/10/06 + Roshi

Oh yeah, my other suggestion would be to detune two versions of the same sound, or use a pitchshifter like MadShifta at 50/50 wet dry and draw in some slow pitch modulation - it really expand the sound.

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10/10/06 + cloudburst

loop stuff, smudge it about.

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10/10/06 + flies

Ochre said: "Or if you do use synths, convolve them something noisy like pots and pans falling down the stairs, and you'll be able to turn the simple synths into evolving textures. "

this method works well in reverse as well, take some long sample, preferably something with stereo depth (the closer to noise it gets the fuller the result will be), and convolve it with a (very) short sample of a synth sound. makes a subtly varying tone.

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10/10/06 + astroid

wealth of rad info here.

awesome blog!

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10/10/06 + astroid

not that i often do drone music, maybe twice in my life actually, but something i'm always obsessed with is putting some binaural processing in there to dig into my subconcioussness. sine waves at around 50-100hz, bouncing around the stereo field, tend to sink right into the mix and do wonders for getting rid of headaches, for instance.

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10/10/06 + Locopomo

For a live drone performance a few months ago I used a bank of 10Harmonics, slow Risset tones and a little phasing in AudioMulch. Simple but effective.

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10/10/06 + kc9akb

I always wanted to do this. Just need a few tape players.

link

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10/10/06 + tmns

the sound sample on that sight is great! i'd like to try that too.

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10/10/06 + lunatinker

engels/work/homemadeuniverse/homemadeuniverse tape decks in cool brick rooms...yeah!
...that's some stuff! It reminds me of musique conrete' and the interviews ..
...running the long strands of tape clear down the hallways to keep it spread out...

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10/10/06 + flies

kc9akb said: "I always wanted to do this. Just need a few tape players.

link"

that looks a little like jason lescalleet's setup: link

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10/10/06 + kc9akb

flies said: "

kc9akb said: "I always wanted to do this. Just need a few tape players.

link"

that looks a little like jason lescalleet's setup: link"

Yeah that last photo looks like he is messing with the motor maybe to slow it down some. Still makes for so sweet sounds. Not only are you getting the "warm" analog tape sound but just some unusally rare loops. I think atleast getting two of the tape players on a movable table as to off set the patterns of a loop. But the effort to go that far always makes it better. I love to do theings the hard way.

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10/11/06 + bsr

Locopomo said: "For a live drone performance a few months ago I used a bank of 10Harmonics, slow Risset tones and a little phasing in AudioMulch. Simple but effective."

problem with that is that it sounds like the audiomulch risset! it's such a recognisable sound, you can always tell when folk are using it, i've heard it loads in live gigs here in manchester.