Eerie Atmospheres

Production
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this was the inspiration for ‘paul’ to make paulstretch btw, might be common knowlege, but also interesting. A 24 hour live streamed version of “Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th symphony stretched to 24 hours, with no pitch distortions”

http://www.expandedfield.net/

the interview:
http://www.microscopics.co.uk/blog/2010/paulstretch-an-interview-with-paul-nasca/

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I won’t tell anybody outside this forum, promise :ghost:

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I once paulstretched this forum and it took me three years to read.

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The first rule of paulstretch club…

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I thought everyone knew bout Paul stretch haha

It’s fucking genius tho. Seems to work best with multi layered complex sound

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These are Mac only, but IMO they make amazing atmosphere’s with very little effort. Almost feel bad about letting people in on the secret…
http://www.michaelnorris.info/software/soundmagicspectral

Michael Norris is the Chuck Norris of plugins

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Thankyou good sir, this will add wonders to some ambient I’m working on right now :slight_smile:

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Da real mvp! :fire:

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yes, Omnisphere 2 is the go-to for these backgrounds

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take a sample… pitch it down 8 times… add reverb… profit?

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Add subtle distortion, add or reduce it with automation, play with stereo wideness, and yes I’m at uni and not producing lol

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A cool trick I learned was with ableton’s reverb unit:

  • take a sound and put the reverb on with a very long decay time
  • set up a resampling channel,
  • play the sound and record it into the resampling channel
  • when the reverb is at a particularly nice sounding point hit the freeze button on the reverb unit and it will just stretch out that point in the reverb tail until you turn freeze back off
  • now in your resampling channel you will have a cool atmospheric drone sound that you can do whatever you want with
  • I like to whack it into a sampler and use it as a pad if the sound is an actual note, if it’s the reverb tail of a drum hit or something like that you can use it to make cool risers or white noise fills and stuff
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