whenever i take the reigns of the virus, you can sort of hear the supersaw coming out. 2 of my mates start thinking...hes turning it into trance again...and sure enough both will vote me off the virus so they can swing things around and dirty it up a bit. one of my mates is very good at making helicopter sounds with the LFO. he has this unique talent. every patch he edits eventually turns into inaudible sub bass sludge. then he twiddles the LFO (its always the last thing he twiddles cuz it doesnt make much sense to him). voila. another helicopter. he can make it sound like its a helicopter over the horizon. widen the filter cutoff, bit of resonance, sub osc on 0. he can make the helicopter sound like its right overhead - sub osc on full, resonance 0, attack on both envelopes 0. the genius bit was when he opened the LFO to make the helicopter start up then take off and disappear over the horizon. was funny as hell but we achieved nothing that day. the song in the works was total pants.
'i heard another helicopter again on my virus and felt an eternal scream passing through nature.'
i think it would be funny to ms paint a picture of my mate sitting down and twiddling on my virus and saying in a speech bubble 'this is the best muthaphuckin' helicopter sound i ever made' and out the window you can see a commanche hovering.
or...sex shop. confused/embarassed looking woman. techy geek behind the sales desk saying whilst edging into the picture a black and red object, 'this is one of our best sellers - its got more knobs than you'll know what to do with.'
i think everyone has felt like the scream when they realise one of their tunes is almost irreversibly flawed or they realise all their songs sound like shat despite buying an expensive synth. bin that song. start over - the artist's casualties of war. mwahaha.
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