"I really like iZotope Trash, which is a great plug-in for distortion, as is Ohmicide, which I love. What filters and distortion do you use to create the signature Skrillex sound? It's a similar kind of thing, but the matrixes are different so you can make different kinds of sounds." "I also use Operator a lot, which is Live's FM synthesiser. "I haven't really expanded too far off FM8 and Massive because I know them so well and can pretty much make any sound I want with them - especially with FM synthesis, which is so basic. I also really like Sylenth1, my Tone2 Gladiator and some other granular soft synths as well. People think they all come from Massive, but most of the ones that kids online are trying to recreate in Massive are actually from FM8. My best monster bass sounds have come from FM8. "My two personal favourites are NI's Massive and FM8. I like doing things in a very minimal, unconventional way as a personal way of saying, 'Look, I made a career out of carefully and craftfully, though unconventionally, making records on laptops and blown speakers.'"
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"I wouldn't call myself stubborn in an egotistical way but I do like the idea that in the past, what I do would not have been considered production - it would have been considered noise.
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#SKRILLEX USING FM8 MANUALS#
Do you think that helps you to do things that perhaps the manuals wouldn't tell you to do? Everything is laid out and you don't have to go searching for things like automation or plug-in parameters - in fact, all the things that are really hard to do in other DAWs. "I think, for laptop producers especially, it's just so intuitive in the box. Sure dynamics and all of that are debatable but its just such a genre that i dont have a problem with.ĭubstep producer Sonny Moore, AKA Skrillex, is riding the crest of a wave at the moment, and he recently spoke to Computer Music Specials magazine from his tour-bus-cum-studio and gave them some insight into how he creates those speaker-shattering basslines and incendiary beats.Ĭheck out the interview below for more producer chat - including interviews with Noisia, Carl Craig, Steve Lawler and more - and tutorials, check out the 50th issue of Computer Music Specials - Beats & Bass: The Producer's Guide - which is on sale now.
#SKRILLEX USING FM8 PRO#
I think his mixes are punchy, he also does the whole process by himself including mastering, on a macbook pro and a pair of krk rockit 5s.