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How to make Noise Music?
So @Svetlovska posted this in a different thread, and my mind is absolutely blown!
It may sound harsh to many, but listening to it three times through, I can hear so much complexity and experimentation going on within! I'm trying to grok what I just heard so I can make my own Noise but can't seem to grok. 😮💨
So once again I turn to you wonderful folks to help me grok it! Interviews, the most prolific artists, tips and tricks and advice (and "just experiment" is not explaining the "how to do it"), etc. 
Can anyone help?
(Tagging @iOSTRAKON just in case he comes back to our forum and teaches us his ways.)
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no input mixer...
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/57224/igor-vasiliev-no-input-mixer-released/p5
or whatever you want and clip the absolute shit out of it haha.
Lol! Ah, I saw the thread but NoInputMixer didn't click in my brain for how I could use it. I think I'm buying that now! The beginning to creating deafening timbres and harsh sonic realities. 😎
Just consider that track was “re-mastered”.
We have tools to just virtually any track into pure noise.
My favorite tool would be combining samples in Koala using “mix”… after about 6 or 7 hundred samples you will get similar results. Of course, that’s before re-mastering to add that professional sheen.
Your interest in genres reminds of the dog in the Pixar film “Up” when it sees a squirrel. Go for it but thanks for thr warning.
I love noise music and as someone mentioned, NoInput is a great starting point. A lot of noise artists like Aaron Dilloway and Merzbow use feedback from mixers in their music. Vosis Pro is another good one.
But it all depends on how I’m feeling. One track I’m working on now is a pitched down and reversed sample of a piano in Pianoteq which is feed through multiple distortions and back into Gauss again, then being clipped again. Also a delay like Tap Delay is a great start. Use a limited and go to town feeding the source through a distortion and then a delay with feedback and time all the way up.
Another track is a sample of a leaf blower and an accordion blended together being ran through Lo-Fi and Voltour and then through Springs.
Autopad app through Shaper2 is a fun one. The options are really endless but going crazy with delay and distortion is a good starting point.
i love this. Leafblower and accordian for the win!
Seriously though, clipping is your friend on this one. Not sure of the best clippers in iOS, but i would try and find one that has different clipping algo's, or perhaps even MB clipping, or M/S.
After years if making many different genres (well, people here know just one part of my musical identity, i had many project also with other peple during years in many other genres), i learned one thing.
You don't need to try to make every genre music you like :-D Some are just for enjoying, listening. Also do not try always make music immediately after you first time hear something from that genre. Most of music, you need deeply listen for years to be able to make something which will really fit into that genre. Every genre has it's of spirit and set of rules, and if you think you grasp it all after week or two intense listeing, you are wrong
So regarding creating, it is better to concentrate on one or two main genres, and listen other things just for inspiration and getting wider musical overview, maybe use some bits and pieces and ideas in own style - but trying to produce every thinkable genre is just wasting of precious time, you end with tons of music wich is just average in that given genre, and people who are really deeply into that genre wouldn't like it too much.
Believe me. I did same mistake in past, and still doing it LOL.
Buy one of this
Your welcome
Some good apps for clipping: Push from Kymatica, LoFi from Nembrini, KNOCK, BitJuggler, Shaper2, Drambo, AudioThings apps (which means delays can get nasty 🤤), Barricade, MiRack, Bleass’s distortion apps, MultiTool and BOYD from Chow,
I’m positive I’m missing some but those were all that came to mind immediately.
I see things a bit differently haha. For me, the joy of music is its boundlessness—there really are no rules. Sometimes the most innovative tracks can come from mixing genres and techniques that you wouldn't typically put together.
When you experiment with new genres, you're not wasting time, you're expanding your toolbox. You pick up nuances, techniques, and inspirations that you can apply into your daily workflow,helping you to form your sound. Learning a new genre doesn't mean you're diverting from your path, it means you're adding more layers to your artistry.
taking time to do deep dives into other genres can give you a new framework / help you to appreciate and understand allmusic.
i make all sorts of genres, and they all bleed into each other and help create my unique sonic identity. i wouldnt have that if i was just making one or two
No input mixer is BRILLIANT. As someone else pointed out, you could do it with other apps but it leads you by the hand, once you understand it and of course all the sound modeling, including the fx, is absolutely top notch, coming from Igor.
Speaking of Igor, actually Soindsaw is an incredible app for the kind of abrasive noise on display in that vid you posted.
Others have mentioned various ones. Shaper or Shaper 2 are standouts for me. That new Nembrini Voltour app set to P2 smd with overdrive on can get real nasty. Another shout out for Bit Juggler, probably the best bit crusher on iOS. But yeah, there are a million and one ways to skin this cat for sure. And yes, it will yell and shriek, so don't forget your limiter.
Oh, Dedalus delay is another great one for the delay / feedback combo
Moebius Lab from Amazing Things deserves a mention here as well.
Indeed, smd can also do self feedback etc. I made 2 vids on that back in the day, never got round to making a 3rd on the synth. Very cool app tho!
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Apart from having to make sample ( which isnt bad ) Its not like it would appear on every song or even album.
Would be cool if Fractal bits ( Just thinking )
Could stream and change stream with midi but the streams were sorted like Glitchscaper by low, mid, high tones.
Multiout also.
But tunes were probably made 20 years ago. By the time a track is made ( the distant future ) and what we think sounds futuristic.
It would be dude. That sounds so vintage.
Not purely noise but you might like this too
Just look at the time of my comment, and yes, this is music to my ears! 🤩
@HotStrange - Name drops, great advice, app recommendations, now this is valuable to me. Thanks mate. And it's very interesting how you're going about the various processes for your various works.
And I have many of the apps already mentioned by you, so my wallet won't go thin anytime soon thankfully.
@shinyisshiny - I have FAC Bandit and SquaShit on my iPhone, so hopefully those are good starts for MB clipping. (I love those apps). Not sure which plugin would do M/S clipping, but perhaps you know of one or another. (The app can be iPad only since I sometimes still dabble on my iPad).
"When you experiment with new genres, you're not wasting time, you're expanding your toolbox." Exactly! This is why I like to dive into new genres I've never explored before, getting advice along the way. And I do love to blend genres quite often.
@dendy - I agree I don't have to make every genre I like. I tried Psytrance, but it's really a pain to get the kick and bass right. I have premade kick samples from Sounds of KSHMR Vol 3, but the bass sound design still eludes me, so I've resigned myself to the fact I'll be an avid listener of Psytrance, just not a producer. Not for a lack of trying though, lol.
@OnfraySin - LOL! The neighbours would complain, lol.
@Gavinski - I always mix into a limiter.
It just makes sense to do so, but it seems even moreso for Noise Music. I woke up in the middle of the night and purchased NoInputMixer. I forgot I had Soundsaw, so I downloaded that to my iPhone.
I also forgot I have Shaper 2 waiting to be downloaded. So all of these recommendations are a major assist to me.
Dedalus Delay. I have that as well, but I've always been confused how to use it. I see Doug has a dedicated video out from 8 years ago, so I will check that out post-haste.
Link...
Can you link up to your Moebius Lab vids mate?
@sigma79 - Cool video. I checked the section you showed me, and it reminds me of Aphex Twin. I skimmed through the rest and enjoyed what I heard. I'll watch the video in full when I get some free time.
Now Aphex Twin is a god amongst Experimental producers if I ever saw one.
@JanKun - that is gorgeous! It's Ambient but with gritty textures! Might be a good jumping off point for me to try first before I deep dive into full noise. That way I get more of a feel for the distortion tools on hand.
Thans mate.
@Luxthor - That's definitely music! It reminds me of my days in uni and trying to create minimalist soundscapes (albeit poorly back then). I bet I could create something like that in Koala Sampler rather easily.
Agree with all apps recommendations here, but surprised no one mentioned Bit Maestro... It is capable of very very dirty gritty textures.
Simply go to youtube and search 'Gavinski Moebius Lab' 🔥
I can spend ages making horrible noises with hardware. A particular favourite is with my little noisy moth mono delay thing (whatever it’s called).
Turning up the delay feedback with no input makes some glorious noises. And then it has a filter and delay time so you can shape them all in the one box.
It’s awesome.
I also love to feed the output of my pro-one back into itself for the same kind of thing too. I’ve recorded some lovely stuff with it but yet to make an actual track with the results. One day I will once I work out what direction it needs to go in, which will probably just come to me.
U/He RePro is an absolutely wonderful plug-in but it can’t do what the hardware clone does when you get to extremes.
As far as the Noise Music genre itself goes, I honestly couldn’t give a toss. Any inspiration I might take from the nasty noises will be used in whatever way I feel like. I try not to think too hard about it and just let inspiration strike. If it doesn’t I move on and come back to it later.
I’ve got some noisy droney stuff saved in BlocsWave and one day I’ll come up with something that uses it I’m sure.
Besides I think I’m incapable of making anything that stays within the constraints and boundaries of a genre.
But it is cool to take the best bits from various styles of music even if it’s just a spark that sends me off into a completely different direction.
(And I have to admit I’d never even heard of Noise Music before venturing into this thread!
— nothings new though. Extreme noise terror were blowing people’s minds decades ago with their weird shouty metal stuff. Check out kLF + Extreme Noise Terror live at the Brit awards on YouTube even if it’s just to see the faces of the people in the audience!).
@JanKun All I had to see was "manipulate individual bits", and I'm on that! Only five quid. Can't wait to explore with this plugin!
@Gavinski Okay will do lol.
@klownshed Yeah sometimes conforming to a genre can be constraining. Other times it can evoke creativity. It all depends really.
And lol at "seeing the faces of others in the audience". I'll definitely be looking that up once back home.
Lol, Bill Drummond was always genius and insane simultaneously. This was just a tiny bit less fun than burning one million 😂
Just to be sure - you know other KLF production, do you ? If you dom’t before you check it search on YT for songs “3am eternal”, “last train to trancentral” or “what time is love” - you will then better appreciate that surprising performance on Brit Awards 😂
KLF were and still are brilliant!
They’re are also justified and ancient and they drive an ice cream van.
Oh yes. Watch 3am eternal before the Brit awards version. That’s what the suits were expecting
The KLF had planned to shoot machine guns into the audience and throw pigs blood at them. It was their announcement that they were retiring from the music industry.
And for all out cross genre 1990s dance excess bat shit brilliance, add ‘America: What time is Love?” To the list.
It’s fantastic.
Mu Mu!
I know what I’m listening to on my cycle commute to work tomorrow
Havent really listened to Aphex Twin apart from Window licker, come to Daddy ( on mtv )
Met him in person though. He were just sitting in front of a fireplace ( The face/the beard )
This tune were when Aphex Twin were concieved ( In the back of a dustbin lorry )
And when made it out the tip, as a mini Aphex Twin.
Cruising around town on a throne, made of skip items. Pole dancers etc.
i am already listening
thanks for reminding me this greatness
I didn't fully understand your post here (I almost never do tbh, they seem written in code half the time) but I really enjoyed it.
So not only am I now picturing Aphex Twin's mum and dad shagging in the back of a bin van, I'm picturing a little Aphex zygote banging out a track a few mins later. Genius indeed!
Lol.
How do you think metal stress patch were made ?
Modular?
A synth with envelopes ?
What is metal stress patch? I googled and got this, lol:
Iol.
I need a stress patch.
The main synth pluck sound.
Dont know nothing about Ivan but sounds more of a Roel overall production and he seems to dabble in modular but if I had to guess. Its modular and that Ivans contribution.