Computer Music

Transforming vocals

Sound designers are always seeking fresh sounds, and love to get excited about new techniques and ways to craft original creations. Though using ready-rolled samples in their entirety is perfectly acceptable, of course, this’ll only take your creativity so far…

So if you’re looking to give your sound design muscles a good workout, why not use unrelated source material to form the basis of something completely new? By recruiting the myriad of audio-processing tools lying within your DAW and plugins

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Computer Music

Computer Music10 min read
Building Effected Vocals
You may well be drawn to reading this feature based on the fact that you make a type of music that will benefit from one of these forms of vocal processing. The undeniable fact is that many of these processed elements have become intrinsically linked
Computer Music2 min read
Soundware Round-up
For this one, real drummers play nothing but fast and furious funk breaks, only to chop and edit them up to make the punchiest, most authentic-sounding, old-school live jungle drums. Think back to those iconic ’70s beaks from the James Brown stable t
Computer Music4 min read
Hard Harmonies
It might feel like a relatively new concept within the production psyche, but the process that we describe as ‘hard-tuning’ has been around for nearly 30 years. Back in 1997, audio software company Antares released a new piece of software which it ca

Related Books & Audiobooks