Hey Guys,
I’m having a complete brain freeze on how to make the following effect…
Suppose I create a synth and want a simple delay tail to come in ONLY when i release the note… Can someone refresh me on how thats done…
One example is Dada Life’s Whitenoise track here: at 00:06 where the synth line ends, you hear the delay/ reverb tail, but only when the riff is not playing…
Thanks in advance for any help.
Darth
Honestly, it sounds to me like they simply placed a delay on a return track followed by a compressor side-chained to the synth itself. That way, the delay would duck behind the synth while it was playing, and then would be set to release the compressor quickly thus raising the volume of the delay.
The reason I say this is because I can still hear a bit of delay happening while the synth is playing, and you can faintly hear the volume ramp up in the delay when the synth stops.
Now, they might have also automated the release time on the compressor so that it would evenly compress the signal during the synth solo with a long release, then automate the release to a short setting when the synth gets a break.
If you are working with Logic, you could easily build an environment object that would trigger a delay on your synth track to activate the delay with a legato-sensitive note-off midi signal. Unfortunately, Ableton it isn’t sophisticated enough to do that sort of thing if that is what you are using.
Hope this helps!
J
[quote]Darthbrooklyn (25/05/2011)[hr]Hey Guys,
I’m having a complete brain freeze on how to make the following effect…
Suppose I create a synth and want a simple delay tail to come in ONLY when i release the note… Can someone refresh me on how thats done…
One example is Dada Life’s Whitenoise track here: at 00:06 where the synth line ends, you hear the delay/ reverb tail, but only when the riff is not playing…
Thanks in advance for any help.
Darth[/quote]
You could probably sidechain a filter/autofilter too?
I think youre right about the compressor sidechained to the synth… Thanks
And don’t forget about the reversed reverb technique they apply too.
Towards the end of the 4th bar you hear it swelling up.
[quote]daniaan (26/05/2011)[hr]And don’t forget about the reversed reverb technique they apply too.
Towards the end of the 4th bar you hear it swelling up.[/quote]
How do you do that?
If I’m not mistaken we have tech tips for that as well posted. But it simply is the stab reversed. Then you apply a big reverb to that reversed stab. Let’s say some 12 seconds. You record this/bounce this. Then you reverse this result back.
If you can’t find it in one of the training videos, you will definitely find it on youtube 