Budget synthesizer for live dance sounds
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2013 1:45 am
* I wasn't sure whether to post this here or in another sub-part of the forum. So please excuse my dubble post.
Hello everyone!
I was looking for a synth forum and google helped me find this place. I hope you guys can give me some sound advice
I'm a keyboard player in a student coverband, we play a lot of different music (basically from old rock songs to top 40 hits). I am used to playing piano and hammond sounds. I know enough about synth sounds to play songs like "liquido - narcotic" but I don't know much making and editing synth sounds.
I think would be really cool to be able to play convincing covers of current top 40 dance songs. Just to give you an idea of the kind of sounds that I'd like to make:
Avicii - Levels: synth at the start
Snoop dogg - sweat: synth at 0:40
Rihanna - we found love: synth at 1:20 and bigger synth at 2:00
Gavid Guetta - She wolf: synth at 1:30
Swedish house mafia - one: synth at start and bigger synth at 1:10
Swedish house mafia - don't oyu worry child: synth at 1:50
I don't need to play an exact cover of these songs, the small arpeggiators and subtle synths in the back aren't importent to me, but I'd like to recreate the main usually phat synth sound. To help me do this, I'm looking for a budget synthesizer to reproduce these amazing synth sounds in a live setting. I come from a background of playing the piano and keyboards and I'm not at all familiar with editing sounds on a computer. I really dislike playing with a laptop next to my keyboard, so I'm looking for a hardware synthesizer.
I was thinking about a microkorg. Would it be possible to recreate sounds and effects like the ones I mentioned above? I read it only has 4 notes of polyphony. I figure this might be a problem when you want to layer multiple patches to create a really phat synth sound. For example during the "swedish house mafia - one" you start with a synth sound, but multiple layers get added later in the song (around 1:10).
A microkorg XL has 8 notes of polyphony, would this be more suited?
Or do you have some completely different options for me?
Like I said, I'm a noob when it comes to actually editing sounds and synthesizers, so please share with me all the ideas you got
Hello everyone!
I was looking for a synth forum and google helped me find this place. I hope you guys can give me some sound advice
I'm a keyboard player in a student coverband, we play a lot of different music (basically from old rock songs to top 40 hits). I am used to playing piano and hammond sounds. I know enough about synth sounds to play songs like "liquido - narcotic" but I don't know much making and editing synth sounds.
I think would be really cool to be able to play convincing covers of current top 40 dance songs. Just to give you an idea of the kind of sounds that I'd like to make:
Avicii - Levels: synth at the start
Snoop dogg - sweat: synth at 0:40
Rihanna - we found love: synth at 1:20 and bigger synth at 2:00
Gavid Guetta - She wolf: synth at 1:30
Swedish house mafia - one: synth at start and bigger synth at 1:10
Swedish house mafia - don't oyu worry child: synth at 1:50
I don't need to play an exact cover of these songs, the small arpeggiators and subtle synths in the back aren't importent to me, but I'd like to recreate the main usually phat synth sound. To help me do this, I'm looking for a budget synthesizer to reproduce these amazing synth sounds in a live setting. I come from a background of playing the piano and keyboards and I'm not at all familiar with editing sounds on a computer. I really dislike playing with a laptop next to my keyboard, so I'm looking for a hardware synthesizer.
I was thinking about a microkorg. Would it be possible to recreate sounds and effects like the ones I mentioned above? I read it only has 4 notes of polyphony. I figure this might be a problem when you want to layer multiple patches to create a really phat synth sound. For example during the "swedish house mafia - one" you start with a synth sound, but multiple layers get added later in the song (around 1:10).
A microkorg XL has 8 notes of polyphony, would this be more suited?
Or do you have some completely different options for me?
Like I said, I'm a noob when it comes to actually editing sounds and synthesizers, so please share with me all the ideas you got