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Mechanimal launched its first live in October 2009 and has been
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over 20 successful releases and ever growing experience Mechanimal released its debut album rocking dancefloors worldwide!
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Step 3: Automation
Open up automation for the new “Pitch” Macro Control and draw a line up. I like
to start the pitch bend a beat late and finish a beat early so you can hear the key
start and resolve. Now you have your basic riser.
Psychedelic e-Mag catches up with Mechanimal for this month’s music production tutorial:
Making risers with Mechanimal using Massive VST
Step 1: Preparation
Open Massive and draw in a MIDI part the length you would like your rise in the
key of your track. In this case I’ve created a 16 bar long note in the key of G.
Step 4: Modulation
Select Bandpass filter [Yellow], Click 5 LFO tab, assign to Cutoff [Purple] and assign the Pitch macro control to 5 LFO rate: drag to the drop [Red].
Step 2: Pitch automation
Select: File -> New Sound [Yellow], Raise Filter Balance to F1 [Green], apply Macro
Control 2 to OSC 1 pitch: drag up to 36 and lastly rename Macro 2 to “Pitch” [Red].
Step 5: Tips & Tricks
You can get some interesting tones by applying the Pitch Macro to different parts of
the synth (like the filter in the previous step). Try applying the Pitch Macro to other areas for example [