Tomas Danko wrote on Tue, 16 September 2008 13:59 |
I love the Sherman, and would love to own one. I've tried it quite a lot though. It is very harsh and nasty to the point of buzzy and broken sounding. In a very good way.
But it's not a swiss army tool.
That Akai filter is more towards a classic analog synth filter box, sounds OK but it's rather limited.
A very good way to get any track to sound like a synth, is to run it through a synth.
Something like a big modular thing with audio inputs.
I have an EMS VCS-3 for that, as do some others. There are plenty of new and old options out there.
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The VCS-3 is great. I'd love to have one of those one day, they are truly mesmerizing.
I'm using a
KORG MS-20 to mangle sound. It's a great synth with a hipass and a lopass filter, an LFO, two envelopes and it's pseudo modular meaning you can patch the envelopes, LFO and external audio to where you want.
You can run external audio through the filters but you can also use external audio to control the filter cutoff and the oscillator pitch. So you can run a boring synthpad through the filters and have a percussionpart control the cutoff and end up with an out of this world electronic percussive part.
Or run a guitargroove through the lopass filter and set the envelope to trigger on every attack and let the envelope control the filter cutoff.
The filters are selfoscillating so they'll do plenty of weird bleep and bloop shit.
You can even plug in a (bass-)guitar and have the oscillators track the guitar pitch if the part is clean and not too fast.
It's the most inspiring sound machine I have. And hey, you can even use it as a synth. It screams and cuts through a mix like no other.