Space Cake: give two delays different musical jobs
Use Space Cake's dual Tape, BBD and Digital paths to build a rhythmic answer, a changing texture or a controlled transition.
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Practical recording, mixing, mastering, and sound-design studio notes written by Rory Browne. Each note focuses on one Fat Berry DSP instrument or effect, with practical routing, source choices and creative workflows. Treat suggested settings as starting points for your own material.
Follow the RSS feed ↗Copy The Dog: move from a repeat to a texture
Use Delay, Warp and Density to build an echo, a diffuse background or a selected-word transition from one source.
Read the noteTaurus Chorus: choose the motion before the width
Use Modern, Vintage and Ensemble models to animate guitar, keys or a sustained synth without losing the part's pitch and rhythm.
Read the noteCoil: excite the spring with the right part of the sound
Use Coil's input filtering, drive and spring structure to give guitar, percussion or a synth phrase a resonant physical space.
Read the noteKnee Verb: choose the space for the source's perspective
Use Plate, Spring and Church with their own character controls, then balance predelay, wet processing and the direct return.
Read the noteBig Knobs: make a small digital room earn its place
Use stepped decay, frequency-dependent tail controls and the Front/Rear output choice to place drums, keyboards or a mono source in a deliberate space.
Read the noteTangerine Flange: tune the comb around the instrument
Use Classic, Thru-Zero and Cluster to create a moving guitar colour, a tuned percussion texture or an arrangement transition.
Read the noteBIG: widen a stereo relationship, then check its foundation
Use Range, Stage and BIGNESS on material with real stereo information, keeping common gain and the optional BASS shelf in the mono comparison.
Read the noteWild Thing: make a character layer from the fixed chain
Use Wild Thing's ordered colour stages on drums, keys or a selected texture, with Magnitude controlling the treatment rather than final loudness.
Read the noteTime Travel: divide the sound before building the movement
Use Time Travel's banded modular rack to give bass, percussion or a synth texture different processing roles across its spectrum.
Read the noteAmsterdam: build a distortion arrangement across lanes
Use Amsterdam's split lanes, modular slots and master lane to create a controlled bass edge, a drum layer or a deliberate transition.
Read the noteMinerals: capture a moment, then play its texture
Use Minerals' live buffer, grain controls and rack placement to turn guitar, voice or percussion into an evolving arrangement layer.
Read the noteTaser: shape a phaser sweep around guitar, bass or percussion
Use circuit, stage count and bipolar feedback to choose the character of Taser's moving notches before balancing the effect.
Read the noteTremble: make level movement part of the performance
Use Bias, Opto and Harmonic circuits with Mono, Stereo or Pan motion to shape guitar, keys and sustained textures.
Read the noteDrum Berry: build the kit around the groove
Use Drum Berry's synthesis, sample choices and per-pad shaping to create a playable kit whose accents and decays fit the song.
Read the noteEIGHT: give each drum part a purpose
Use EIGHT's eight synthesised parts, per-engine A/B models and sequencer behaviour to build a kit with a clear groove and controlled variation.
Read the noteBrooklyn Zoo: make the kit feel like one printed instrument
Use Brooklyn Zoo's kit macros and pad controls to build a hip-hop groove with deliberate weight, room and variation.
Read the noteFidelity: place a drum performance between recording perspectives
Use Fidelity's kit choice, perspective macro, Tune and Decay to shape a MIDI drum part before adding more processing.
Read the noteSynth Berry: give the resonator a reason to ring
Use Synth Berry's oscillator, physical resonance and performance macros to build plucks, basses and evolving chords.
Read the noteWork Horse: build a layered patch with separate source roles
Use Work Horse's four source slots, filter routing and resonant body to create a bass, a hybrid lead or a developing pad.
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