![]() The main takeaway I got from this is I really, really like debut-album-title-track Showbiz. I’ll put the full list in accessible text format at the bottom of this post, but here are screenshots of the final results: (In my defence, this was only the first 1.30am of the night!) This is a valuable life lesson which this unreasonable jerk of a brain will most likely continue to ignore. I realised early on that I had to avoid thinking about one pair for too long, go with my gut instinct, and ignore any thoughts about what I “should” be going with based on popular opinion – all the same, the result was a list I’m mostly happy with. I’m terrible at making any kind of decision, and this went from “easy choices” to “like choosing between children” incredibly quickly. This left 102 tracks in total, and the process took about an hour. This meant I didn’t have to double-check every B-side and rarity,and avoided questions about whether this should include Matt Bellamy’s solo work and, in turn, The Jaded Hearts Club. Well, not quite – it’s more a ranking of “every song on a Muse studio album, including bonus tracks but excluding different versions of the same song, or otherwise released by Muse as an A-side single”. It gained popularity in Doctor Who fandom circles last year (indeed, a ready-made Doctor Who Preference Revealer now also exists), but you can use it to rank your preferences in any category you can imagine.įor example, you may wish to temporarily distract yourself from how unendingly awful everything is by ranking every Muse song. The idea behind the Preference Revealer website is simple enough: You feed it a list, it presents you with different pairs from that list and asks you to choose your favourite from each pair, until eventually you have complete rankings from most to least favourite. ![]() Sine, Saw Strings, and Additive harmonics, that's the basic ingredients, but individual synths are going to require different settings, and everything will sound a little different.Things Are Bad, So I Put Every Muse Song Into Preference Revealer The sound blooms from pure tone, to strings, into a bell sustain and release, so the sound becomes more harmonically rich as it grows. Some key features is that only the pure oscillator has pitch LFO, while the rest of the sound supports it underneath. It's very layered, like a K2600 or a Triton patch, so the different parts are bound to be a bit synth specific. Very slow attack, very slow decay, lots of reverb. Most Romplers I've used have a multisample called "Inharmonic", which is an additive generator with LOTS of high harmonics and few low ones, creating a bell-like tone. Instance 2: Standard synth strings - 3 closely tuned saws with a bit of LP filter attack. Lots of pitch LFO triggered by Aftertouch or Mod Wheel (I double the bass, so I use AT). My specific settings (using a band reject filter) have a bit more "oboe" tone, but that's not likely necessary. So here are my settings, I used three different instances of Massive: Those full keyboard arpeggios during the pre-chorus are INSANE! It's basically the Final Fantasy theme played at 4x speed. We typically do this following Starlight, which is one of my very favorite Muse tunes, and is a TOTAL workout, one of the hardest rock covers I've ever learned. ![]() The chorus part is really fun to play, and a bit of a workout, I do those arps with right hand, while keeping the synth bass going, swell pedal, and then sing (or scream, sometimes I get a little too into it) with the singer. I'll take a look at my exact patch setup when I get the chance. There's a lot more pitch LFO than I would typically do, but then again, it's really drawing from 60s SciFi, so that makes sense. Something like a high-passed saw with long delay will work. The main thing is that while the root attacks fairly quickly, harmonics are a bit delayed. I used Massive (software wavetable synth), but it's the kind of thing most romplers or workstations could do. ![]() I should mention that instead of playing the opening, I typically play the Doctor Who theme, which I strongly suspect influenced it.Īnyway, I can't remember my exact synth settings, but I've layered a few different engines together. ![]()
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