Hello everybody!
This is the fifth installment of my One Week One Sound project, in which I experiment several sound synthesis techniques and put my efforts into a one-minute demo.
This time I was wondering what image resynthesis could give to me, so I fired up FL Studio and loaded Harmor, an extraordinary tool to manipulate images and other sound samples.
The sound I chose to reprocess is a classical 909 kick, kindly offered by the basic FL Studio sound pack. Then the manipulation started.
I doubled the sound with its octave below, applied some distortion and chorus, and automated the harmonizer, which lets you create chords or double the sound once again.
Then I started moving the knobs to find the cutting/looping point for the sample. I slowed down the playback, and found a way to "navigate" through the soundwave, enabling me to reproduce a piece of sample and eventually going backwards and stopping in a certain point.
What I obtained is a grinding sound, like an electronic scratch, ideal for some darkstep tunes.
I added some external FX too, besides those provided by Harmor: some more chorus, some more distortion and a transient shaper to give more power to the medium frequencies.
This is the result. Hope you like it!
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