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Electro Massive Patches?
Posted on: 01.06.2011 by Tatum Untiedt
Two quick questions for you guys:

1. Do you recommend the use of patches for a beginner? I'm believeing of dropping some money on a pack to at least give myself a small library of premade sounds to work with, and more importantly tweak and alter to my own liking. I've read alot of people who frown upon the use of sounds/samples made by others but I don't see the harm in using them temporarily until I'm personally capable of creating the exact sounds I want in Massive.

2. Any recommended electro patches/packs for Massive? Alot of electro tracks reuse the same general sounds so I'm looking for something along the lines of that.
Emilee Woytovich
05.06.2011
Originally Posted by ctrld
learning to program synths = sitting on your ass for hours, tweaking parameters until you know what they all do + finally when you do, mashing them together till they sing along with the voices in your head.
Yep! If you have worked with other synths then you should be able to pick up Massive fairly quickly. I got it like three days ago and I reckon I've worked out about half of what it does (the basics are fairly simple and work like any other synth but I know it has some pretty high end complex features which I haven't got my head around yet). Otherwise, twiddle knobs and simultaneously search Google and youtube until you work out what they do.

I personally don't like using patches because I feel like I haven't truly created the tune. However, if you just want to get some tunes up and going to get a feel for your way around music production then there are plenty of free patches around and I'm pretty sure massive comes with a few, I wouldn't really buy a pack, just trawl youtube and you'll find plenty of freebies good luck!
Maricruz Mouw
01.06.2011
Originally Posted by zero15ny
Two quick questions for you guys:

1. Do you recommend the use of patches for a beginner? I'm believeing of dropping some money on a pack to at least give myself a small library of premade sounds to work with, and more importantly tweak and alter to my own liking. I've read alot of people who frown upon the use of sounds/samples made by others but I don't see the harm in using them temporarily until I'm personally capable of creating the exact sounds I want in Massive.

2. Any recommended electro patches/packs for Massive? Alot of electro tracks reuse the same general sounds so I'm looking for something along the lines of that.
1 to be honest it took me 2 months to figure out massive head to tail and i only looked at it maybe twice a week...so a month if u even look at it once a week which most people do more....I would honestly not use premades because now i can make almost any electro sound i want

2 3 oscolators each off by an octive/5th or 7th/ diffrent varients of saw waves...boom u got 99% of most electro basses...
Tatum Untiedt
01.06.2011		Two quick questions for you guys:

1. Do you recommend the use of patches for a beginner? I'm believeing of dropping some money on a pack to at least give myself a small library of premade sounds to work with, and more importantly tweak and alter to my own liking. I've read alot of people who frown upon the use of sounds/samples made by others but I don't see the harm in using them temporarily until I'm personally capable of creating the exact sounds I want in Massive.

2. Any recommended electro patches/packs for Massive? Alot of electro tracks reuse the same general sounds so I'm looking for something along the lines of that.
Neta Schlaefli
11.06.2011		Yeah It really just takes a lot of poking around. If you follow some tutorials on how to make specific sounds, and make them yourself you'll learn a hell of a lot. I use massive for id say 90% of my sounds
Lavenia Neild
11.06.2011		I like to follow along with tutorials and such for making things in a plugin simply to learn about what all the knobs do. I almost always modify any patches or presets that I do use because I don't like my songs using sounds you can find in any other song. Well, mostly. I'm still guilty of using canned build-ups a little too much. I'm working on that, though. :P
Emilee Woytovich
05.06.2011
Originally Posted by ctrld
learning to program synths = sitting on your ass for hours, tweaking parameters until you know what they all do + finally when you do, mashing them together till they sing along with the voices in your head.
Yep! If you have worked with other synths then you should be able to pick up Massive fairly quickly. I got it like three days ago and I reckon I've worked out about half of what it does (the basics are fairly simple and work like any other synth but I know it has some pretty high end complex features which I haven't got my head around yet). Otherwise, twiddle knobs and simultaneously search Google and youtube until you work out what they do.

I personally don't like using patches because I feel like I haven't truly created the tune. However, if you just want to get some tunes up and going to get a feel for your way around music production then there are plenty of free patches around and I'm pretty sure massive comes with a few, I wouldn't really buy a pack, just trawl youtube and you'll find plenty of freebies good luck!

04.06.2011		learning to program synths = sitting on your ass for hours, tweaking parameters until you know what they all do + finally when you do, mashing them together till they sing along with the voices in your head.
Alica Mccaden
03.06.2011		He means 5 or 7 semitones, this is dialed in in the oscillator control section, where and oscillator is detuned. 12 semitones makes one octave, if you didn't know that
try making you own patches, you'll learn a lot and you'll keep getting better and your understanding of the synth will grow. try watching tutorials on youtube/internet too, as they will show features or techniques you might not have come up with or have found
Stephaine Hains
03.06.2011		^Could you elaborate on what you mean by 5th or 7th?
Maricruz Mouw
01.06.2011
Originally Posted by zero15ny
Two quick questions for you guys:

1. Do you recommend the use of patches for a beginner? I'm believeing of dropping some money on a pack to at least give myself a small library of premade sounds to work with, and more importantly tweak and alter to my own liking. I've read alot of people who frown upon the use of sounds/samples made by others but I don't see the harm in using them temporarily until I'm personally capable of creating the exact sounds I want in Massive.

2. Any recommended electro patches/packs for Massive? Alot of electro tracks reuse the same general sounds so I'm looking for something along the lines of that.
1 to be honest it took me 2 months to figure out massive head to tail and i only looked at it maybe twice a week...so a month if u even look at it once a week which most people do more....I would honestly not use premades because now i can make almost any electro sound i want

2 3 oscolators each off by an octive/5th or 7th/ diffrent varients of saw waves...boom u got 99% of most electro basses...

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