Radiohead - Samples

[kirbyjwilson]

This is a broad topic, but if you have a sample that you use for ANY Radiohead song, would you mind sharing it here?

[CaptainMurphy]

"Everything in its right place" had a stint at being a popular voice to create on synths. Here's one I made earlier...

• Sample.mp3

[CaptainMurphy]

Thank you! I edited your post to put the mp3 "inline" so the mp3 player shows up.

[toniolito]

Anyone knows if this sound can be created without samples on NS3?

[CaptainMurphy]

Anyone knows if this sound can be created without samples on NS3?

It's deceptively difficult to recreate correctly on anything other than a decent synthesizer. That sample I supplied is not right, but it's close. I used my Prophet Rev2 to create it so it's reasonably close to the original which was made on a Prophet 5 (I believe). You can probably get close by tweaking an organ, a Rhodes or a mix of both.

[toniolito]

Thank you. I currently begin to learn how to create (and try to mimic) sound with a synth.
And I think that NS3 is great to learn how parameters change sounds for a beginner like me.

I still have difficulties to recognize oscillators/filters/modifiers types used when I hear a sound.
My current workflow to reproduce a sound is to do a lot of tries/errors before finding the nearest one.
I think I understand sound principles, but I miss practice.

For that Radiohead sound, I was wrongly thinking that it was straightforward to reconstruct: it seems that I'm far from being an expert
Anyway, I find your sample very close to original sound from my ears.

[CaptainMurphy]

I still have difficulties to recognize oscillators/filters/modifiers types used when I hear a sound.
My current workflow to reproduce a sound is to do a lot of tries/errors before finding the nearest one.
I think I understand sound principles, but I miss practice.

Some sounds are more obvious, like telling the difference between basic saw and sine oscillators, but as soon as you start playing with pulse width and filters then I'm pretty much just stabbing in the dark and hoping I get close. Sounds like we're in a similar position!

[ponkine]

Some requests (please!)

- Paranoid Android 1 (percussions loops + lead guitar + the "fittier happier" voice split)
- Paranoid Android 2 (lead synth + human voices + drum percussion loop [which last 2:02] ). "rain down ..."

- Let Down (Vibraphone + guitar)

- Karma Police (piano + human voices + the last effect loop split)

- No Surprises (Glockenspiel + guitar layer + synth string split)

- Lucky (guitar (left side, main) + guitar chords (right side)

- Pyramid Song1 (dual piano + effects split).
- Pyramid Song 2(dual piano + strings)

- Videotape (Piano + effects, human voices and percussions loops split)

- All I Need (strings + keyboard + piano split)

- How I Made My Millions (mono piano)

[Projet Xion]

"Everything in its right place" had a stint at being a popular voice to create on synths. Here's one I made earlier...

• Sample.mp3

Well done CaptainMurphy, you are very close from the original.
I hope it will be possible to use it withe my future Nord piano 4.

I would love to have the Radiohead vocal sound in "Exit music (for a film)". I think it's made with a Mellotron M400, maybe it's possibe to be very close with the mellotron collection in tne Nord library ?