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  • How To question - keyboard sound - arpeggiated and/or LFO movement - how is it done? (p.3)
2013/06/25 22:18:07
lawajava
TheBand19 - thanks for that. It does look like a tool that can provide plenty of controllable and creative ways to break up the sound rhythmically.

I like what I've been able to do so far with Rapture, but further suggestions like this for alternative methods are welcome for sure.

I'm also wondering about the arpeggiator as an approach, although with Rapture you can design the tail off on the repeats pretty nicely.
2013/06/26 01:34:27
The Band19
Yeah, different ways to skin the cat. Many ways to get the hair off that thing? What we're all interested in at the end is a hairless... 
 
 
"cat"
2013/06/26 19:00:26
b rock
A gate with sidechaining.  There's another good technique that didn't get mentioned earlier.
I'm also wondering about the arpeggiator as an approach, although with Rapture you can design the tail off on the repeats pretty nicely.

That's the problem with using the arpeggiator.  You're effectively repeating the chord notes themselves.  You still need a way to provide an overall envelope for each chord change.  You could do that with a repeating automation envelope, but - given all of the other techniques here - it's more work to get not-as-close.
 
If you want an arpeggiator starting point, try something like this:
Enable: On
Octave: 1 Octave
Shape: Rhythms Only (any Shape works in this context).
The rest at defaults.
 
Note that it is possible to 'embed' a velocity fade inside an .arp preset.  I did some of that in the Alesion Arp Presets project.  The only way I know to create a custom core .ptn file for an .arp preset was Project5, though.
 

 
... further suggestions like this for alternative methods are welcome for sure.

I've been circling back around to the fine suggestions already given here.  That 'delay' technique is certainly a viable option.  You have to play staccato, and let the delay line do the heavy lifting.
 
I particularly like the LFO idea.  You can build the amplitude and filter envelopes as if you were playing block piano chords.  Then chop up the release 'tails' into segments with an AMP and/or CUT1/2 LFO.  Try 7 - Saw Down or similar for an attack/decay shape like my Rapture AMP EG example above.
2013/06/27 09:03:31
The Band19
Yeah, too bad no one mentioned a gate? 
2013/06/27 09:41:27
b rock
You misunderstood me, The Band19.  I was commenting on how your contribution offered another unique perspective.
2013/11/22 20:49:29
lawajava
Reviving a previous question with a new angle.  To recap, brock helped illustrate how to get this particular sound / vibe out of Rapture, which is really cool.
 
The new question I have, if anyone can reply, is what kind of approach / settings might be used to approximate the sound using Omnisphere?  I'm sure it can be done.  Just trying to figure out how.
2013/12/03 20:04:58
The Band19
b rock
You misunderstood me, The Band19.  I was commenting on how your contribution offered another unique perspective.




Sorry, I did misunderstand. My bad.
 
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