I've always seen randomised patches as a starting off point for further tweaking and it's generally good if you can exclude certain parameters, like those related to output level, pitch and anything that involves feedback, for obvious reasons. What it's generally good for is putting you into some place you wouldn't neccesarily have gone to otherwise. Then you have to shape that into something that is a playable aurally pleasing sound. There is also the idea of hybridisation where you take two sounds and they are morphed in various ways, which you can do in Fl and Reaper through use of scripting. To me, this is the generally more reliable of methods, ymmv of course. Also. thanks for reminding me about Absynth. After hearing this I'm gonna dig up my old installers. There really is nothing quite like it still.
Yeah, I feel similar about random patches being a good starting point, but I do love some of them as-is because they're usually inherently flawed in some way and those flaws tend to make music more interesting (and funnily enough, human). I think as synth sounds get more and more polished and perfect, the appetite for more uncontrolled, unrestrained, barely functional sounds will end up growing the same way there are a billion plugins out there that add hiss and crackle. What do you mean by hybridization? I'm unfamiliar with the concept and searching for "reaper hybridization" just got me a bunch of results about peppers.
@@227 Hybridisation is a concept that is mainly used in biology, but also chemistry as well. Simply put, it just means the process of combining or blending two or more things to derive another thing. In Fl it is part of the functionality of the DAW. In that you select the hybrid process and open a preset. When you open another preset it combines elements of the two. With Reaper it comes as a script and from what I remember of seeing it, you select whatever parameters you want to blend, then you use a slider to set the intensity of the blend and whether it favours characterisitcs of preset a or preset b. I've used the FL hybrid process to good effect on a number of occasions. The Reaper script one I've never used, since I'm concentrating on learning it rather than experimenting with too many scripts. (other than the ones that help with managing mixing or midi). I'm pretty sure I saw it in the scripts section of their forum. If you allow links to urls on your channel I'll put a link to it here, assuming I can find it. Although I'm pretty sure I bookmarked it, so it shouldn't be hard to find.
@@adamsmith7058 Awesome. I already have "block links" turned off, so hopefully posting the link won't be a problem. I'd love to play with the script in question.
@@adamsmith7058Funny thing is that when the Wavestation was announced I assumed that it would morph between patches including each and every parameter. It wouldn't have taken a lot of CPU horsepower to do so. I was disappointed when I found out it didn't work that way. The editor for Deepmind 12 DOES work that way! The official editor app from Behringer has a slider that lets you morph smoothly between 2 presets, and save a happy point in-between as a new patch! I'd have loved to have seen that ability built into the hardware Deepmind.
Hope you manage to find a way now that it's discontinued. I've seen at least one person offering it for sale on the Native Instruments forum (and lots of people put up earlier versions of Komplete that should include it, too): community.native-instruments.com/discussion/62/buy-sell-trade
Reaper's a very useful DAW, especially for mad scientist "I wonder if I could do [thing]" stuff. Last I checked, its demo is actually possible to run forever (with a short nag screen when loading it up), and it costs quite a bit less to buy than most digital audio workstations. Here's the link: www.reaper.fm
