Comments on: Spice Up Your Loops by Automating EQ http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mixing-mastering/spice-up-your-loops-by-automating-eq/ Music, Sound & Audio Tutorials Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:32:28 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: DJ Kat Fyte http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mixing-mastering/spice-up-your-loops-by-automating-eq/#comment-26261 DJ Kat Fyte Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:40:55 +0000 http://audio.tutsplus.com/?p=1457#comment-26261 TO VIC DIESEL: You can also use the Autofilter plug-in, in which you set the rate at which the high-pass filter turns on and off, and the type of curve that is followed as the filter goes up and down. For instance, you can set the Autofilter to "wah" at a rate of 1 bar, which means the high-pass sound comes in and out at a rate of once per bar. That way, you don't have to draw the curves. You can set it to turn on and off sharply with a square wave, evenly with a triangle wave, smoothly with a round wave, etc. You can set it to either low-pass or hi-pass, and since you can just set it to "wah" at a given rate - create a quick wah-wah effect with an "1/8 note" up-and-down rate or a slow one like the one described above with a "1 bar" rate. The Autofilter settings never change, so unless you feel like changing the rate at which the high pass-curve goes up and down, you never have to automate anything and it probably saves you a lot of clicking and dragging since its just one setting, and every curve up and down is exactly the same because it's generated by a computer. This is an interesting way to get your ambient samples sounding even more ethereal. A lot of the sort-of wonky flying lotus sample sounds are put through a sort of strobe or a more subtle Autofilter such that the sounds comes in and out all the time, producing a disorienting, unstable kind of sound. Just my two cents, I love the Autofilter... ...I'll also be blogging about production techniques. My upcoming post is about wonk-y sounds, in sampling as well as MIDI programming, in timbre and texture as well as in rhythm. Check out PopInfluence.Blogspot.com TO VIC DIESEL:

You can also use the Autofilter plug-in, in which you set the rate at which the high-pass filter turns on and off, and the type of curve that is followed as the filter goes up and down. For instance, you can set the Autofilter to “wah” at a rate of 1 bar, which means the high-pass sound comes in and out at a rate of once per bar. That way, you don’t have to draw the curves. You can set it to turn on and off sharply with a square wave, evenly with a triangle wave, smoothly with a round wave, etc.

You can set it to either low-pass or hi-pass, and since you can just set it to “wah” at a given rate – create a quick wah-wah effect with an “1/8 note” up-and-down rate or a slow one like the one described above with a “1 bar” rate.

The Autofilter settings never change, so unless you feel like changing the rate at which the high pass-curve goes up and down, you never have to automate anything and it probably saves you a lot of clicking and dragging since its just one setting, and every curve up and down is exactly the same because it’s generated by a computer.

This is an interesting way to get your ambient samples sounding even more ethereal. A lot of the sort-of wonky flying lotus sample sounds are put through a sort of strobe or a more subtle Autofilter such that the sounds comes in and out all the time, producing a disorienting, unstable kind of sound. Just my two cents, I love the Autofilter…

…I’ll also be blogging about production techniques. My upcoming post is about wonk-y sounds, in sampling as well as MIDI programming, in timbre and texture as well as in rhythm. Check out PopInfluence.Blogspot.com

]]> By: Toby http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mixing-mastering/spice-up-your-loops-by-automating-eq/#comment-23374 Toby Sat, 23 May 2009 11:43:31 +0000 http://audio.tutsplus.com/?p=1457#comment-23374 Hi guys, Looping automation is absolutely possible, and without having to copy regions! In fact I'd already started writing a tut that shows you how this is done. With some special twists of course! Should be done soon...ish! Hi guys,

Looping automation is absolutely possible, and without having to copy regions! In fact I’d already started writing a tut that shows you how this is done. With some special twists of course!

Should be done soon…ish!

]]> By: Mantovani http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mixing-mastering/spice-up-your-loops-by-automating-eq/#comment-23367 Mantovani Sat, 23 May 2009 08:06:17 +0000 http://audio.tutsplus.com/?p=1457#comment-23367 Yes you can (in Logic). Open a second track w/ same instrument, create a region of different length there, do automation there, then copy this 2nd region as often as you need (shortcut available). Looping will not work here! Depending on your track automation settings (go there if necessary) Logic will ask you whether to copy automation as well when you try to copy regions. Voilá! Yes you can (in Logic). Open a second track w/ same instrument, create a region of different length there, do automation there, then copy this 2nd region as often as you need (shortcut available). Looping will not work here!

Depending on your track automation settings (go there if necessary) Logic will ask you whether to copy automation as well when you try to copy regions. Voilá!

]]> By: Dan http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mixing-mastering/spice-up-your-loops-by-automating-eq/#comment-23329 Dan Fri, 22 May 2009 19:48:57 +0000 http://audio.tutsplus.com/?p=1457#comment-23329 Vic - Probably an easier way to keep it going all the way through would be to get a loop you're happy with and bounce it to a new audio file. Vic – Probably an easier way to keep it going all the way through would be to get a loop you’re happy with and bounce it to a new audio file.

]]> By: Sean http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mixing-mastering/spice-up-your-loops-by-automating-eq/#comment-23083 Sean Wed, 20 May 2009 18:01:14 +0000 http://audio.tutsplus.com/?p=1457#comment-23083 This is great because it's really useful no matter what DAW you're using. You can get some great effects with automating EQ, everything from guitar wah-wahs to dubstep bass wobbles, to filtered loops. This is great because it’s really useful no matter what DAW you’re using. You can get some great effects with automating EQ, everything from guitar wah-wahs to dubstep bass wobbles, to filtered loops.

]]> By: kev on music http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mixing-mastering/spice-up-your-loops-by-automating-eq/#comment-23062 kev on music Wed, 20 May 2009 13:50:43 +0000 http://audio.tutsplus.com/?p=1457#comment-23062 yeah fair enough! thanks for the tip man!:) yeah fair enough!
thanks for the tip man!:)

]]> By: VicDiesel http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mixing-mastering/spice-up-your-loops-by-automating-eq/#comment-23060 VicDiesel Wed, 20 May 2009 12:25:17 +0000 http://audio.tutsplus.com/?p=1457#comment-23060 Nice. For your next tutorial: how to integrate this automation into the loop so that I can have it throughout the song. Or can I set up repeating patterns of automation? Have a 2 measure drum loop and a 3 measure filter automation loop, so that it becomes less repetitive? Nice.

For your next tutorial: how to integrate this automation into the loop so that I can have it throughout the song. Or can I set up repeating patterns of automation? Have a 2 measure drum loop and a 3 measure filter automation loop, so that it becomes less repetitive?

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