Industrial sounds/atmosphere

[Ericlingus]

Hello. I was wondering if anyone knew how to achieve some atmospheric sounds and various samples that bands like Chimaira, Sybreed, Fear Factory, etc achieve. What synths(software)/samplers are best for this type of stuff? I play melodic metal with electronica sounds. Sometimes though, I don't really want any synth to go with the music but just something in the background for atmosphere not always chords or a melody. Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[neverpurify]

Spectrasonics Atmosphere

http://www.spectrasonics.net/instruments/atmosphere.html

 

[SocialNumb]

+1

 

[Ericlingus]

Thanks guys. I've been looking into that for a while. Hopefully I can eventually buy it. Any cool free synths for industrial type sounds?

 

[Rupturemetal]

I picked up one called Radioactive,I think its freeware if not its cheap.Sorry I dont have a link

 

[Aaron Smith]

Wow- Spectrasonics Atmosphere looks really fun, and sounds great. I've definitely been writing lately with more ambient parts in mind, especially since I have the backing tracks capability all ready to go for playing live. For $299, I may just grab this. Thanks for the tip!

 

[gorath23]

Check http://www.kvraudio.com/ - theres a load of free Synths that get really good reviews over there.

 

[JonWormwood]

NI Absynth.

 

[Ericlingus]

what about good electronic drum sounds especially machine-like industrial ones.

 

[Black neon bob]

what about good electronic drum sounds especially machine-like industrial ones.

bump for this one, i am still searching as well.

 

[SocialNumb]

Maybe Fixed Noise Otto. Konkrete 2. I think there both aimed at glitchy stuff but you don't have to use it that way.. It's been a while since I launched them. Kontakt 3 and any samples you can get are a good option. There are tons of sample cd's out there with machine-like industrial stuff.

 

[Kazrog]

If I was going to pick only one product it would be Reason. That being said, I know for a fact that Sybreed uses NI Absynth on their first album. The song "Re-Evolution" begins with an Absynth preset!

 

[Ericlingus]

thanks for your replies guys. I have absynth 4.0 and I do like it. I also have the korg legacy collection, fruity loops studio, and some free ones like crystal. For hardware I have a korg triton LE. So I do have a pretty good collection of synths but I don't have too many electronic drum samples, especially industrial ones.

 

[musickey]

NI Absynth.

Yup you can do some sick shit with it.

 

[SocialNumb]

thanks for your replies guys. I have absynth 4.0 and I do like it. I also have the korg legacy collection, fruity loops studio, and some free ones like crystal. For hardware I have a korg triton LE. So I do have a pretty good collection of synths but I don't have too many electronic drum samples, especially industrial ones.

I remember doing this in my industrial days. Take a good DVD extract the sound files, convert. Open up a good sound editor and start chopping away/edit. Load in to your sampler of choice. Edit to taste. I used to do this for both my Emu 4xt Ultra (hardware) samplers. When software samplers came along this got easy, still time consuming. Or just buy a machine/industrial sample CD already formated to your soft sampler.

 

[Kazrog]

I create all my own loops from scratch using virtual instruments. I really don't go for "stock" loops when there's so much you can do with sequencing and arpeggiating VSTis. Plus the whole "stock" thing is pretty funny when I recognize presets on records, such as the Sybreed track I mentioned earlier in the thread. I wouldn't want anyone to know where/how I got my sounds, but that's just me and it's a very nerdy concern, I admit. And it doesn't stop me from being a Sybreed fan... it just makes me laugh when I hear it...

 

[Torniojaws]

Well, nobody laughs when you use stock synth sounds (or stock bass guitar sound, if you want to be evil )

 

[Kazrog]

Well, nobody laughs when you use stock synth sounds (or stock bass guitar sound, if you want to be evil )

It's much harder to spot, and I don't know if I've ever used a stock patch on anything. I'll start with a preset but usually heavily modify to the point where it's no longer the same thing at all.

 

[pifos_2]

reFX nexus

 

[Ericlingus]

thanks guys. I'm still learning how to use absynth and FL studio. There is just so much to it. I've always just used the stock presets but I want to start going more in depth and making my own sounds. I also want to start using samples but by making my own from scratch. Since we are on the topic and cool industrial, trance, ebm, etc bands I should check out? I've been getting more and more into this stuff.