the best tip i can give you is put some mathematical note patterns into your midi sequencer, on short loops on several tracks (same midi channel) ( polyrhythmically if you can get your head round that) then on each track draw in velocity slopes of various kinds, sawtooth, reverse sawtooth, triangle...

Wicked! So up for this, but fo you have any idea how many more days this will be open for, because Im working on something right now.

Who said they did?

Various random tips 1) Self oscillating filter controlled with envelopes 2) Sample offset/ajust attack on sine by a few ticks to avoid the kick 3) 808 kick samples! 4) Layer sine one octave up (as already stated) 5) Saturate triangle wave->24 db Lp with high res->move cutoff so the res peak reinforc...

Great topic, the nitty gritty level of analysis I love, frankly. I personally agree with much of the above - I like intricacy first and foremost, usually defined by a busy, dense soundscape whilst still feeling very spacious. I personally like to hear a lot of syncopated percussive elements and of a...

Very interested in this post as the gate is one of the only tools I havent experimented with. Stormgate looks great, by the looks of it more of a sequenced gating effect rather than a true threshold dependent gate. Ronny - can you elaborate on how youd set that up? How do you calculate the right thr...

Fabfilter Pro-C.

My go-to compressor - even without this function.

Steevio, cheeky question but have you ever dumped any presets on your computer? Ive tried the SysEx manager thing once and I beleive you can upload/download presets? Ive made many sounds on the NL but never anything Id use in techno - infact I havent actually used it for a while because I dont make ...