Question For Jem About "original" Snowman Sounds!

[Jim Takacs]

I Know He is Extremely Busy Now so maybe someone else knows this or maybe its Been asked before, i couldnt find it, The Main Lead Instrument, riff sound thats a single note sound with the first 3 notes being G, C, Eb, What Is that From? Its Very Similar to, Dare I say it, the sound "echo drops" From the GM Soundset. Its obviously shaped differently using Filters. I Found The almost Exact sound In the Kurz PC3 called "TimbaSynth" Where you use the Mod. wheel to control the Formant or Vowel Shaping! Its Close. Sounds Like Jem Is using a Vocal sample and I always wondered what its saying! THAT im sure has been Beaten To Death Here![attachment=0:35eaua0z]th_other_beatingA_DeadHorse.gif[/attachment:35eaua0z]

[Jem]

It was a sample from a softsnth way back in the day called Plugsound. Before it became Plugsound Pro, there were 6 little versions you could get. I can't remember which one it was from, but it was just a little 4 note riff that I used the first three notes from.

I think. Truth be told, I don't tend to keep the methods in my memory, I just blunder on until it all sounds right. The best analogy I can think of is a child with his head in the toybox lobbing toys out from it over his shoulder without really looking at them.  :lol:

Even with the songs themselves, I have to re-learn them if I know we're going to do them live. I have no idea how to play most of The Dividing Line currently. I do know that it's in G.

It is isn't it?

[Tricky]

Even with the songs themselves, I have to re-learn them if I know we're going to do them live. I have no idea how to play most of The Dividing Line currently. I do know that it's in G.

It is isn't it?

Heh Heh.
Does this imply a live TDL at some point in the not-too-distant future...? 8-)

[Jem]

Heh Heh.
Does this imply a live TDL at some point in the not-too-distant future...? 8-)

Oh Gawd, yeah! And 1976 too hopefully in time for Xmas.  

[MarkOneMusic]

Even with the songs themselves, I have to re-learn them if I know we're going to do them live.

I thought that was just me!

I'm right in the middle of mixing a whole CD of songs I can't play! LOL

[E.S.]

Me too! Somehow, composing and recording is easy, but when it's time to learn my own riffs for live, it's really hard. It's like it was written by someone else.

[gav]

Me too! Somehow, composing and recording is easy, but when it's time to learn my own riffs for live, it's really hard. It's like it was written by someone else.

That's the only problem of writing and recording on a DAW- you play it once and then forget about it for a while, and then you have to try to make sense of it all in a live situation, which can be VERY difficult!(As you know, Jem )

This never used to happen when people wrote entire songs as a band before even thinking about recording them! :lol:

[edit]YAY! I just realised that I'm a CHOCOLATE HOBNOB!!![/edit]

[Pedro]

Grats on the HobNob-ness.  

[Jem]

That's the only problem of writing and recording on a DAW- you play it once and then forget about it for a while, and then you have to try to make sense of it all in a live situation, which can be VERY difficult!(As you know, Jem )

Exactly, it's just "Next! Next! Next!" with ideas and sections. On the plus side, when it does come to work out what you did, you're left in awe of yourself.  :lol:  :lol:

[Pedro]

Completely different genre and level but I was sorting through a heap of papers yesterday and I came acrodss a folder from a creative writing course I did a few years ago. There were about 8 of us on the course so I had a misture of stuff that we had all written. I got half-way through reading one bit before I realised it was mine. :oops: I had totally forgotten writing it.  :roll:

[EVP]

What really sucks is when you have a HD crash and loose that important data
and find that you can't go back to it later! It happened to me once and I learned
from that mistake. I spent forever recreating my effects chain and then I had to try
and figure out what notes I was pulling out of my arse at the time I recorded it.

[EvilDragon]

Interestingly enough, I was just to open a new thread asking Jem how he got that Snowman "breathy droplet" sound.

[EvilDragon]

Jem, it would be most appreciated if you could recall how'd you get that sound. Here I have Plugsounds and thousands of patches to go through, but no time to do it

Was it a layer of several Plugsound patches? Was it from one of the 6 plugins, or it combines several of them?

[Pedro]

Didn't Jem already answer this as best he could? Or am I missing a subtle difference in the question?

It was a sample from a softsnth way back in the day called Plugsound. Before it became Plugsound Pro, there were 6 little versions you could get. I can't remember which one it was from, but it was just a little 4 note riff that I used the first three notes from. I think. Truth be told, I don't tend to keep the methods in my memory, I just blunder on until it all sounds right.

[gr8gonzo]

I just blunder on until it all sounds right.

Jem Blunders!