Help..... Fellow sound designers

[The girl next door]

I need to know which patch is close or how to get close myself to this high bell like sound (dooooo.do.do.do.............do.do.do) from U2 http://www.thegirlnextdoor.de/newyearsday.mp3

Cheers lads...... :wink:

[Khazul]

Its an EQd piano with loads of (metal plate?) reverb, compressed post EQ I think. Original synth might even be a U20 - no idea what U2 used back then.

Start with the hi piano patch on the TI - pile on the reverb, fiddle with colour, EQ it - that piano might be a bit sharp tho, and the reverb on the TI probably wont quite match the required color - resonance on 100% key follow will help a bit.

[H5N1-Virusinfected]

as for piano...I think U2 used a Yamaha CP70/80 back then....

..with tons of FXs...

[Timo]

I need to know which patch is close or how to get close myself to this high bell like sound (dooooo.do.do.do.............do.do.do) from U2 http://www.thegirlnextdoor.de/newyearsday.mp3

High bell? Lol.

Not with a virus that's for sure. VAs don't do acoustic pianos all that well. ;)

BTW, U2 is my fav band in the world. Edge is my idol.

[Tarekith]

Check out patch 1 in my soundset, it's an acoustic piano emulation I did. Sounds pretty good IMO, though I'd love to know what others think of it.

http://tarekith.com/assets/TarekithElementalSoundset.zip

[The girl next door]

U2 is my fav band in the world. Edge is my idol.
One of my Favourites also, but the best ever has to be Depeche mode for sure...

[The girl next door]

Check out patch 1 in my soundset, it's an acoustic piano emulation I did. Sounds pretty good IMO, though I'd love to know what others think of it.

http://tarekith.com/assets/TarekithElementalSoundset.zip
Thats the same set as you got on the Access site.And i thought i might get that U2 sound :? ...What music you into anyway??it ain't Trance and house thats 4 sure :wink:

[Khazul]

Americans *cant* do trance and house! :wink:













*grabs a bucket of popcorn and sits back to watch the show*

[The girl next door]

Americans *cant* do trance and house! :wink:

*grabs a bucket of popcorn and sits back to watch the show*
Know what i mean!!! sweet.
When i'm back in Reading to see me Bro-in-law for the Premiership footy or the speedway,me and thee will have to go out 4 a pint....

[Khazul]

as for piano...I think U2 used a Yamaha CP70/80 back then....

..with tons of FXs...

Hmm - just found a good CP80 preset on my Motif ES - definately kore than a passing resemblence when you pile on reverb and squash the hell out of it :)

Dunno why I never thought of using it before as a U20/M1 style piano subsititute...

[The girl next door]

Americans *cant* do trance and house! :wink:
Mind you he does come from Chicago!! i've still got some Tyree cooper,Fast Eddie,Farley Jack masterfunk and ChicagoHouse records...
Fast Eddie say no more :lol: Fucking amazing

[Tarekith]

Here's some examples of the stuff I do:

http://tarekith.com/t_audio.htm

I do downtempo, breaks, trance, house, classical, you name it. Restricting yourself to just one genre is so boring.

[The girl next door]

I do downtempo, breaks, trance, house, classical, you name it. Restricting yourself to just one genre is so boring.
Cool stuff...I think you are more Chillout and house..Like it..Respect !!

[Khazul]

Americans *cant* do trance and house! :wink:

*grabs a bucket of popcorn and sits back to watch the show*
Know what i mean!!! sweet.
When i'm back in Reading to see me Bro-in-law for the Premiership footy or the speedway,me and thee will have to go out 4 a pint....

LOL - you're on :)

[The girl next door]

Americans *cant* do trance and house! :wink:

*grabs a bucket of popcorn and sits back to watch the show*
Know what i mean!!! sweet.
When i'm back in Reading to see me Bro-in-law for the Premiership footy or the speedway,me and thee will have to go out 4 a pint....

LOL - you're on :)
He lives down near the Oxford road and our kid lives near coley park

[Khazul]

Tarekith, I listened to a load of you tracks a while back - some really good music there. :)

BTW - is the Exile set zip ok - downloaded it a while back - was corrupt - meant to tell you ages ago.

[Khazul]

He lives down near the Oxford road and our kid lives near coley park

K - I'm out in the sticks - Wokingham.

The racket I make here - I would probably get evicted from a house in Reading quite rapidly :)

[Tarekith]

BTW - is the Exile set zip ok - downloaded it a while back - was corrupt - meant to tell you ages ago.

Yeah, a few mac guys said they couldn't unzip it, no idea why though. I checked it with the friends I know who have Macs and they were able to unzip it ok, so ????

I even rezipped and uploaded a new one, try that and let me know if it still won't unzip. Shame, best thing I've ever done musically....

[The girl next door]

He lives down near the Oxford road and our kid lives near coley park

K - I'm out in the sticks - Wokingham.

The racket I make here - I would probably get evicted from a house in Reading quite rapidly :)
Sure you can get down to Reading for a season (Drink) maybe we can talk "Ten" into getting the first round in !!

[Khazul]

Sure you can get down to Reading for a season (Drink) maybe we can talk "Ten" into getting the first round in !!

Heh - good idea - Hes has been rather quiet :)

[The girl next door]

Sure you can get down to Reading for a season (Drink) maybe we can talk "Ten" into getting the first round in !!

Heh - good idea - Hes has been rather quiet :)
You meet that Geezer yet???
Or is he totally...Cyber!! or was it Cider,can't remember :lol: :wink:

[H5N1-Virusinfected]

U2 is my fav band in the world. Edge is my idol.
One of my Favourites also, but the best ever has to be Depeche mode for sure...


U2 is absolutely one of mine....definitely more into rock/pop than trance/techno/dance...

And here I am with a Virus...!

:roll:

[Timo]

I think the reason I admire the Edge so much is that he has a strong synthesis and electronic influence. He increases the tones from his guitars ten-fold compared to others. You heard that mother fucking humungous phaser effect he uses on Zoo Station when playing live? woah. And he's not one of those egotistical nonces that have to play 748-notes-per-second guitar solos just because he can. ;)

The whole band as a whole, to me, are just outstanding, though.

Anyway, TGND, the secret with the piano from New Years Day is distortion. Pianos sound fucking lovely distorted. EQ, compress, and reverb to taste. Distortion naturally compresses stuff anyway. Also play the notes two at a time, one one octave lower than the other. (If you have a good ROMpler piano available, simply use two oscillators, one being -12 semitones lower than the other). Don't fine-detune them at all, though, otherwise they'll sound like a crappy honky-tonk.

Also, break with tradition and apply reverb before compressing. Pumps it up like a giant mammoth mutha.

[Khazul]

Americans *cant* do trance and house! :wink:
Mind you he does come from Chicago!! i've still got some Tyree cooper,Fast Eddie,Farley Jack masterfunk and ChicagoHouse records...
Fast Eddie say no more :lol: Fucking amazing

Thats a good point - and I do have a thing for Chicago style house piano :)


Pianos sound fucking lovely distorted. EQ, compress, and reverb to taste. Distortion naturally compresses stuff anyway.

...

Also, break with tradition and apply reverb before compressing. Pumps it up like a giant mammoth mutha.

Absolutely - love the sounds of a piano abused in that manner :)

The virus ti reverb + analog mode filter saturation seems to suit this kind of piano abuse quite well + if you're crafty and use the input follower, and mod off the resulting filter envelope - you can use the TI as quite a good transient shaper/compressor in static input mode.

I must get around to fully plumbing out the TIs outputs into the patch bay so I can loop it all back through again an apply the transient shaping post-fx - sadly hard to do this decently in one pass on the TI as its doesnt have the C internal aux1/2 busses - Grrrr!!!

Marc/TK - one for you - can we have the aux busses back please :)