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Sound Design / The Sound Design Symposium! 2016
« on: January 07, 2016, 09:27:51 pm »
Hi!
So every forum that deals with production generally has it's own dedicated "Official Growl Bass Thread!" or "Post Your Bass Sounds Here!" thread, and recently we got one here too. And though it's definitely fun to share cool sounds and get praised for it, it's not really useful nor practical. Oftentimes a user posts their sound, waits for feedback, then leaves. In the best of cases, users post a sound and explain how they arrived at it, which is good. In either case, after enough time has passed, the user either deletes the sound off of wherever they posted it, the link to the file expires, or something along those lines. What you're left with is several pages of people talking about sounds that don't even exist anymore. This kind of stuff isn't really helpful.
To solve this problem, I was thinking that we should have a thread (this one) where we all post cool sounds to the same place, and explain how the sounds were made in an organized, standard format. Every post that links to a sound should have the following:
-Type of Sound (Bass, Pad, etc)
-Plugins used, preferably in order, and any re-sampling steps.
-Explanation of the processing behind the sound
So, for example, if someone were to post a growl bass they made in Sytrus and resampled twice, it'd go something like this:
"Growl Bass using Sytrus
Processing:
-Fruity Waveshaper > WOW2
-Resampled
-Fruity Parametric EQ 2 > WOW2 > Fruity Waveshaper > Maximus
-Resampled
-Loaded into Harmor > Maximus"
Then the person posting would detail the process, and, if they know enough about it, talk about where certain qualities of the sound come from. For example, how the sound gets it's vocal formant character from it being made using FM and the types of filter provided in WOW2, or where certain movement in the sound comes from. Obviously not every post needs to have this, just the ones sharing sounds. Feel free to discuss the sounds beyond the original post.
At the end of the year we'd compile all of the sounds and explanations into one big folder, organized by sound type, and share it so people could learn better.
Just an idea, this could be either really good or just not happen at all, but I think it'd be a refreshing change from the dead links found in a lot of other popular forums.
Clyp.it is a newish website for sharing sounds. Upload amount is unlimited and you could make your sounds private, so I think it would be ideal for this kind of thing. I wouldn't use SoundCloud because it has a limit to how much you could upload. Make sure the sound is downloadable! Patches and project files are optional, I'd much prefer to hear the process behind something and working it out on my own than having something handed to me.
So every forum that deals with production generally has it's own dedicated "Official Growl Bass Thread!" or "Post Your Bass Sounds Here!" thread, and recently we got one here too. And though it's definitely fun to share cool sounds and get praised for it, it's not really useful nor practical. Oftentimes a user posts their sound, waits for feedback, then leaves. In the best of cases, users post a sound and explain how they arrived at it, which is good. In either case, after enough time has passed, the user either deletes the sound off of wherever they posted it, the link to the file expires, or something along those lines. What you're left with is several pages of people talking about sounds that don't even exist anymore. This kind of stuff isn't really helpful.
To solve this problem, I was thinking that we should have a thread (this one) where we all post cool sounds to the same place, and explain how the sounds were made in an organized, standard format. Every post that links to a sound should have the following:
-Type of Sound (Bass, Pad, etc)
-Plugins used, preferably in order, and any re-sampling steps.
-Explanation of the processing behind the sound
So, for example, if someone were to post a growl bass they made in Sytrus and resampled twice, it'd go something like this:
"Growl Bass using Sytrus
Processing:
-Fruity Waveshaper > WOW2
-Resampled
-Fruity Parametric EQ 2 > WOW2 > Fruity Waveshaper > Maximus
-Resampled
-Loaded into Harmor > Maximus"
Then the person posting would detail the process, and, if they know enough about it, talk about where certain qualities of the sound come from. For example, how the sound gets it's vocal formant character from it being made using FM and the types of filter provided in WOW2, or where certain movement in the sound comes from. Obviously not every post needs to have this, just the ones sharing sounds. Feel free to discuss the sounds beyond the original post.
At the end of the year we'd compile all of the sounds and explanations into one big folder, organized by sound type, and share it so people could learn better.
Just an idea, this could be either really good or just not happen at all, but I think it'd be a refreshing change from the dead links found in a lot of other popular forums.
Clyp.it is a newish website for sharing sounds. Upload amount is unlimited and you could make your sounds private, so I think it would be ideal for this kind of thing. I wouldn't use SoundCloud because it has a limit to how much you could upload. Make sure the sound is downloadable! Patches and project files are optional, I'd much prefer to hear the process behind something and working it out on my own than having something handed to me.
