how do you guys process sounds that you want to vanish quickly.

[pcock]

sort of microhouse/cut style of sample arrangement where you have tonnes of things starting and stopping almost immediately. . whenever i try and do it, the end of the sample always sounds completely out of place, i use fades and play around with fabfilter Pro-G(ate), really tiny precise reverbs, it never really sounds like it belongs in the mix. is there any particular technique you use to handle this?

[thawkins]

Could you give some audio examples of what you are having in mind?

[Guest Chesney]

Set up some sort of software sampler and set the polyphony to 1. So the previous sound gets cut immediately when a new sound is triggered. I don't use software samplers but pretty sure this will be easy to do.

I'd be thinking an MPC style setup thing, is this what you mean?

[Xyloglotte]

Could you give some audio examples of what you are having in mind?

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[cruising for burgers]

Set up some sort of software sampler and set the polyphony to 1. So the previous sound gets cut immediately when a new sound is triggered. I don't use software samplers but pretty sure this will be easy to do.

I'd be thinking an MPC style setup thing, is this what you mean?

i don't think this is what you meant but anyway...

or do you mean those kind of granular sounds?

also, after all the fx and reverbs and echoes and whatnot, you can render it and then cut it in your preferred audio editor or daw...

[mcbpete]

You might be [possibly!] looking for a transient shaper. There's a really good free one called Bittersweet, turn it to the 'bitter' side for 'shorter' sounds (increased transients) and towards 'sweet' for longer decayed sounds

 

 

https://fluxhome.com/project/bittersweet-v3/

[auxien]

 

Could you give some audio examples of what you are having in mind?

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[thawkins]

 

 

Could you give some audio examples of what you are having in mind?

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[thawkins]

You might be [possibly!] looking for a transient shaper. There's a really good free one called Bittersweet, turn it to the 'bitter' side for 'shorter' sounds (increased transients) and towards 'sweet' for longer decayed sounds

 

 

https://fluxhome.com/project/bittersweet-v3/

 

This seems like a cool plugin, thanks! Seems like a next level mixing tool for me, I hardly ever think beyond pan, eq, comp.

It got me thinking though - maybe what the OP wants is something like the reverse of a compressor - like a dynamics expander or whatsitscalled?

[Threads]

Record the sounds to audio and edit them so they are short. No need for fancy plugins.

[sweepstakes]

I think we got trolled.

[thawkins]

I think we got trolled.

 

In this case, my process for sounds that need to vanish quickly is usually Cmd-Delete. Take that, troll!

[cruising for burgers]

Record the sounds to audio and edit them so they are short. No need for fancy plugins.

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[Entorwellian]

I'm not sure I 100% understand the question but I think you are referring to microsounds?

 

If so, then turning off anything that can possibly dither the short ms lengths is necessary, which include cutting lows as well as EQ boosting to accentuate certain frequencies in the mid-high ranges. Any reverb or anti-aliasing filters may have to be turned off completely. If you arentalking about a layer in the track in general, then its spending time playing around with the timing of the amplitude cut than a particular production technique; nothing really special or complex.

[pcock]

i spent a bit of time last night trying to find examples of how i want sharp transients to end but failed. im going to have a play around with that Flux software though, see if it can help me. 

[Nil]

If no sound processing can make it all sound as you want, then maybe you’d better fix the source?

Otherwise : careful volume automations might be exactly what your tune needs.

[drukqs]

Ok, are you just referring to sliced samples with abrupt endings i.e., you cut up an amen break but the way you sliced the samples leaves the beginnings and endings sounding harsh?

[Nil]

I suppose it's more about the short bits you'd hear in a Akufen / Soft Pink Truth / Sutekh / Alva Noto track?

[Guest]

The mystery of the vanishing sounds.