Advanced tips and articles

[ohmegah7]

I was looking over the tips and tricks for workflow thread and another thread where Mute posted his machine view of a Depeche Mode remix with explanations of his processing and thought that it would be cool to have a thread or something where our more advanced users could make posts or write articles detailing Buzz work flow, advanced routing setups and peer control chains, dynamics and effects processing, parallel routing, pattern XP tips, etc. I read a lot of SoundOnSound articles and find them to be full of useful information, but I think it would be very beneficial to our small community to have Buzz specific articles in the same vein, seeing as how we are blessed with more features, such as peer controllers, that other DAWs do not utilize. I realize we could scour the forums and find different things, but this would be centralized and, I would imagine, contain information and ideas that have not been brought up, as I regularly search for things that do not bring up results.

Anyone else with me on this?

[mantratronic]

That sounds good, but also sounds like a lot of work there are some youtube videos with the sort of things you mention, but articles would help. Perhaps the wiki would be a good place to put them if someone finds the time?

[onecircles]

Yeah something like a wiki, but organized a little more like a magazine so that nothing gets hidden. This is a great idea and would be so helpful if it got off the ground.

[magmavander]

maybe you already know these ? >>

Buzz Wiki
http://buzzwiki.robotplanet.dk/index.php/Main_Page

A lot of bmx to study :
http://www.buzztunes.org/music

Reviews with example files :
http://buzzmachines.com/reviews.php?limit=20

A collection of presets for various machines :
http://buzzmachines.com/presets.php?limit=20

Various videos :
http://buzzmachines.com/buzzonvideo.php

[ohmegah7]

Meh. I've seen all of that stuff. The wiki is general knowledge and there isn't anything too complex in the videos.

[onecircles]

Do you guys know of any good magazines or websites or books that do this but for synth music in general? I got ahold of the devarahi synth book once a number of years ago but that was before I actually had any synthesizers to experiment with. Synths are so complex and mysterious and cool. Something I just though of the other day is subtracting a wave from itself but setting the second wave slightly out of pitch so the wave starts with 0 amplitude because it's being subtracted from itself and then phases into existence, changing shape before phasing out of existence again. You have to use a synth that lets you chose how the waves are combined so Qsamo seems the best option as far as I know. It sounds kind of like sending an LFO to the offset of the pulse width in infector.

[ohmegah7]

check out soundonsound. i usually search a specific topic followed by soundonsound in google and get what i want. very informative stuff.

[Jono-60]

I am thinking of picking up the Rob Papen DVD + Book Synth tutorial set. Anyone checked it out yet?