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bigweldindustries · 8 months ago

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thinking about Sophie again and the fact that NONE of those characteristic metallic/plastic/rubber/wet sounds were samples, every single one of them was engineered from scratch on a synthesiser by Sophie, and I'm once again completely heartbroken at the fact we lost one of the greatest sonic geniuses ever to live so fucking early

#axel grinds on #idk if this is gonna hit for people who dont rly know about synths but like #sophie literally manually MANIPULATED FUCKING SOUNDWAVES to sound like metal or plastic or rubber #every fucking sound designed from nothing #no samples. nothing. literally just manual shaping of a soundwave #and like thats the basis of any synth. all synths work like that #but sophie fucking. shaped them into familiar-but-not-quite non-traditionally-musical sounds #do you understand how fucking good you have to be to do that #how fucking much you have to know about sound as a concept????#its so much to think about im gonna explode

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