How do i FUNKYFY my Piano ?

[the crackhouse]

I work in reason and i tried to do a loop using a piano. I used the Big piano NN19 patch (working in reason 1) but it's not as funky as in many house joints.
Do you have any ideas of how I could make it sound less classical piano ? (i tried echo and compressor, but maybe a single effect is not enough and i may have put too much intensity in the effects, so i lost the attack).

thank i_nadvance

mathieu

[<Basti>]

if i understand u right, u want to programm(play) a keyline with a NNXT Multipatch and drop it out of reason as a wave file? or am i wrong???


No Effect will do it "funky" as i know, it just let it sounds better, brighter, kingly, chilly...

Okay u could play a chord and filter the frequencies in a funky way.

Got the Skills, u will have what u want

So practice, practice, prectice it is worth the trouble...

Hope everything is right, my english is bad.

[the crackhouse]

Originally posted by <Basti>:
if i understand u right, u want to programm(play) a keyline with a NNXT Multipatch and drop it out of reason as a wave file? or am i wrong???


No Effect will do it "funky" as i know, it just let it sounds better, brighter, kingly, chilly...

Okay u could play a chord and filter the frequencies in a funky way.

Got the Skills, u will have what u want

So practice, practice, prectice it is worth the trouble...

Hope everything is right, my english is bad.

You're right, i haven't been very precise.
The sound is too much of a classical piano, to play Chopin for example.
I don't have in mind a house track that plays a funky piano like I meant, but it's about the piano sound, not the notes played.

An example of funky sounding piano:
Click here and listen at 24:30 (it's the DHP mix # 1055 if the link does not work)
if you know how to get this kind of piano sound, that's what I'm talkin about...

[JorgeG]

If it's the sound, crackhouse, how about the piano rhode sounds?

listen to these sounds I see if it's these sounds you speak of.


http://www.audio360.com/sampleBrowser.jsp?sampleType=pn


http://www.pyramid-sound.com/rhodes.html

[GrantB]

The piano in that example has a low pass filter on it that is swept in and then out. Instead of filtering the notes individually, the entire piano performance is sent through one filter.

Your nice big classical multisample will probably still sound too clean. Find a "rock" or "roadhouse blues" piano patch. For the classic house piano, try looking for samples from the Roland MKS 20 module. Short of that, you could try to mess with the tuning of some keys (gently) and maybe try a short (but wet) reverb just on the piano to add density. Don't forget to roll off some high end to take the air out of the thing.

What you play and how you play it will still matter the most in terms of funktifiedness. The chords you use are the most important ingreident to the sound you are looking for. Also play it hard, and make that shit swing!

[<Funkraum>]

Try placin sum FX over the piano PHAT CHORUS,LIGHT PHASER,light pitch modulation. [img]smile.gif[/img]