Those brittle percussive sounds, more often than not, are pitched-up analogue percussion sounds.

Specifically, 808 toms and claves.

The cowbell pitched down makes a nice synth.

Also, try some physical modelling synths such as lounge lizard.

I don't know why but I read an interview with Moby in the Daily Hate Mail the other day and he was going on about how he went through this phase of reading and listening to all this obscure stuff cos he thought it made him better than everyone else. I sort of identified with it cos for years I used ...

but if you design your sound good you can get any sound you like . thats what i think. like their are secrets vst. people who ask like how do you get that drums like gaiser does etc. isnt that bullshit.... its not a vst its the producer who creates it with creativity. sorry for crappy english hehe ...

Nice. But I bet it works as demonstrated about 10% of the time. That's what I thought in the first place. So, anyone here has a clue on how this damn thing is working ? The guy who created this said in the video that it's theorically impossible but doable in a practical way... I am very puzzled. Th...

Well say you want your snare your kick, bassline and lead synth to filter down at a certain point in your track. Instead of putting a filter on each channel and automating all of them Youy can use a send channel comnnected to those instruments. Saves alot of cpu. is there any way to do this in Live...

mlexicon wrote:stop listening to "minimal" and listen to some older house music

Or even some current house music.

There are some uses for compression on sends. It's quite common, for instance, to put a compressor on a send then mix the heavily compressed signal back in with the uncompressed. Works well on drums. There's a name for this technique but I forget what it is.

Nice. But I bet it works as demonstrated about 10% of the time.