Ryan Lott: Creating Instruments from Vocal Samples

Son Lux's Ryan Lott delves into the process of finding the perfect piece of audio and transforming it into a musical composition. With the help of tuning, cross fading, and looping, he demonstrates how a simple piece of audio can be transformed into a beautiful, evocative piece of music. Keep learning at: soundfly.com/ryanlott
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About the Video:
Ryan pulls an audio file into Kontakt to be used as a playable digital instrument. By finding the most steady pitch in the audio sample, Ryan harmonizes the sample to create chord that has an organ-like sound.
The higher the pitch that Ryan plays in the sample, the frequency raises simultaneously, creating a hurried anxious feeling. He prefers chamber reverb on vocals and uses Universal Audio's Capital Chambers plugin. He listens for the dry sample's attack, decay, sustain, and release as a dry sample before applying the reverb.
This video is an excerpt of Ryan's comprehensive new Soundfly course, Ryan Lott: Designing Sample-Based Instruments. Learn how he captures sounds and transforms them into playable instruments at soundfly.com/ryanlott
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About the Course:
Inject a new dose of creativity into your music by composing with your own custom-made digital instruments. In this course, Ryan Lott, composer and bandleader of Son Lux, will show you how to find and construct inspiring, unpredictable sounds, and turn those sounds into playable instruments. Learn to write music in response to instruments that emerge through experimentation, rich with contour and variation. And see what kind of music you can create when you move beyond the limits of traditional instrumentation.
Ryan will walk students through the techniques he uses in his own music and in scores for films including 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' and 'Looper' to catalyze new creative ideas and build music that evokes complex emotions.
This course was designed for producers looking for more control in their sound design, composers who want to add evocative and otherworldly qualities to their music, and anyone in search of an inspiring new tool to drive their songwriting forward.
Ryan Lott: Designing Sample-Based Instruments is available now as part of Soundfly's subscription library of creative music courses. Preview the course for free and sign up today at: soundfly.com/ryanlott
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[@stefevr]

Thanks for the super insightful video, Son Lux are amazing

[@dashobradors]

Love this! When I have time I will do this course ♥

[@yntybeats112]

amazing stuff! loved this bit you made here: 6:23