shchmue posted:

Those are low-pass filter sweeps. Auto Filter should be able to apply a decaying cutoff effect like this. I don't think there's a way to make it retrigger though, and that could force you to use really wonky automation. You probably have to use a third-party plugin, or else re-sample your samples with the decaying cutoff LPF manually applied.

Popcorn posted:

Here's a screencap I just took: Anything obviously wrong there? Is something turned off somewhere?

I'll post the session if that still doesn't help. (I don't know how to post sessions yet you see)

Reality Is Digital posted:

Popcorn posted:

My ceaseless quest for knowledge continues to... not cease. I want to apply a single effect to three tracks and control them with one volume slider. I assume I can do that by creating a new track and sending the audio from the three tracks to that one track... but when I do this, the new track doesn't give me any audio. What's the deal?

Popcorn posted:

My ceaseless quest for knowledge continues to... not cease. I want to apply a single effect to three tracks and control them with one volume slider. I assume I can do that by creating a new track and sending the audio from the three tracks to that one track... but when I do this, the new track doesn't give me any audio. What's the deal?

BittyWings posted:

Group track, kiddo.

Hold shift, select the three tracks you want, then right click and choose 'group tracks'. You can then put the effect you want on the group track, and the volume slider on that track will affect all within it, and all will be well with the universe.

I r Pat posted:

I'm trying to recreate a bass sound like Eskmo achieves here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IddDWBpkzYg


Obviously there is some pitch bending going on, but whenever I try and pitch bend in ableton it barely goes above a half of an octave, is there any way to make the area I can pitch bend bigger or do I just need to find a sound to glide to the higher octave? Also, how do I get that really, really, smooth bass tone?

surrealcatalyst posted:

So I never got a response to my question last page, but here's some more info:

When I have my audio driver set to ASIO through my TASCAM US-1641, there's a 3 minute delay before any MIDI signals from either my MIDI controller or the virtual computer MIDI keyboard are processed. They instantly light up the yellow box at the top right when a key is pressed, but the signal is not recorded in the meter and a sound doesn't come through an instrument for 3 minutes.

If I switch my audio driver to MME/DirectX, I get instant response from MIDI devices.

Does anyone have any idea why I'm getting this strange MIDI processing delay through ASIO? From my understanding, ASIO and MIDI are unrelated, aren't they?

Vanmani posted:

Check for updated drivers for your Tascam, and make sure it actually supports your OS.

Popcorn posted:

Thanks, Mister Speaker and BittyWings.

Next question. Is there a way to set delay to infinite feedback in Ableton? I used this technique in Cubase to make a single sample drone forever without having to retrigger it. Is there a smarter way to do this?

Popcorn posted:

I can't get any of those methods to work yet, but that's because I clearly don't understand those tools... but, uh, to clarify a bit, I basically have a sample of me going "oooh". (It's not as gay as it sounds, honest.) If I just retrigger it then it goes "oo-oo-oo-oo-oo" and I don't want it to have those discrete stop-start clips. I want it to be one long smooth ethereal "oooooooooooooooooooooooh..."

In Cubase I'd achieve this with an infinite delay and heavy reverb. Delay still does the trick in Ableton, but it eventually runs out of juice and I have to retrigger the sample. Will the methods you guys mention give me the effect I so desire?

surrealcatalyst posted:

I'm running the latest x64 drivers from the site.

The thing is that the MIDI input works just fine in both Reaper and Cubase. This seems to only be a problem in Ableton.

Vanmani posted:

Make sure you're running the latest version of Ableton. Do you have a similar problem with all audio inputs or just midi inputs through the Tascam?

surrealcatalyst posted:

Just MIDI, which works fine in both Reaper and Cubase. (Although Cubase has a stranger problem of recording empty 44byte WAV files every time I try to record a track)

Popcorn posted:

I can't get any of those methods to work yet, but that's because I clearly don't understand those tools... but, uh, to clarify a bit, I basically have a sample of me going "oooh". (It's not as gay as it sounds, honest.) If I just retrigger it then it goes "oo-oo-oo-oo-oo" and I don't want it to have those discrete stop-start clips. I want it to be one long smooth ethereal "oooooooooooooooooooooooh..."

In Cubase I'd achieve this with an infinite delay and heavy reverb. Delay still does the trick in Ableton, but it eventually runs out of juice and I have to retrigger the sample. Will the methods you guys mention give me the effect I so desire?

Vanmani posted:

That song is pretty trippy, so thanks.

I'm not very good at sound design, but rather than using a pitch bend use portamento. So get a monophonic bass synth patch which sounds right, and turn on portamento. You press one key, then press another key, and it slides to that note over the course of x ms - fiddle with the portamento setting until the x is about right.

I r Pat posted:

No problem! I saw eskmo live and he was mindblowing.

I'm a noob when it comes to making sounds.. thus I'm having a bit of trouble finding a good monophonic bass sound with portamento. I have massive & fm8.. can anyone point me in the right direction? I basically want a deep, clean, and smooth bass that glides at the rate I choose.

Popcorn posted:

I can't get any of those methods to work yet, but that's because I clearly don't understand those tools... but, uh, to clarify a bit, I basically have a sample of me going "oooh". (It's not as gay as it sounds, honest.) If I just retrigger it then it goes "oo-oo-oo-oo-oo" and I don't want it to have those discrete stop-start clips. I want it to be one long smooth ethereal "oooooooooooooooooooooooh..."

In Cubase I'd achieve this with an infinite delay and heavy reverb. Delay still does the trick in Ableton, but it eventually runs out of juice and I have to retrigger the sample. Will the methods you guys mention give me the effect I so desire?

KryonikMessiah posted:

http://www.kvraudio.com/get/748.html

Check it out. Good, freeware monosynth



But you should be able to do what you want in Massive. You got Legato turned on and voices set to mono?

Nindoze posted:

Check out the freeze function on the ping pong delay or reverb device, little F button - should be exactly what you're after.

I r Pat posted:

Not for Mac

This is really bugging me. I have this bass line in one of my tracks that keeps producing a popping noise at random. It was a preset with operator and I've tweaked it every which way and the popping noise WILL NOT go away. Is something wrong with my set, the instrument, or my computer, or am I just overlooking something here?