You know, I have burned my brain out a few times. That’s what separates me from other people, too. So would you say that sound design is something that you also bring to the table in your production?Ībsolutely. That kind of gives it a different edge to me, man – you know? My favorite part of it was the layering of the notes – there’s like 5th harmonies in there that are kind of offset in the minor and major keys. Cole record, I just take sounds and I’ll spend a ridiculous amount of time on the sound design which lives inside of it. The way Massive X now is just fun to play with, and using it with Komplete Kontrol’s 8 pre-assigned knobs, I just kept tweaking, and tweaking, and tweaking. In this case, I like to layer stuff, so I took one sound that was already pre-existing and I worked it and then added some other elements to it. Like, sometimes I’ll start from scratch all the way, like no presets. There’s different ways I create sounds normally. How did you approach making this particular patch?
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It has all these new options to shape any sound into whatever you can imagine – you can just take a sine wave and make all this amazing stuff happen.” So once I read things online – and I am used to reading manuals, because my dad is always sticking me about reading the manuals – and saw what it could actually do and how you can interface with it, it just changed everything for me. I grew up in the music industry, so I’m used to seeing these elaborate programs, and you’re just like, “Oh my god, this looks like a rocket ship.” But when I saw that, I was just like, “Oh shit, it has so many oscillators. It was slightly intimidating at first, I have to admit. So it’s pretty fun now.Ĭan you talk a little about your first impressions and first experiences with Massive X? But now Reason has grown, and I’ve grown with it, and now they have AUs and VSTs, so now I’m using Massive X directly in Reason. Back then, Reason didn’t have Audio Unit or VST support, so using 3rd party plug-ins was really difficult. But it was definitely amazing that I came across it. It didn’t work with the program that I produced in – I use Reason as my DAW – so I needed a lot of workarounds to make it happen. I was like, “Oh damn, high quality sounds,” just super-awesome. I barely had a computer that could hold it, but… I just picked Massive, and I just loved all the sounds and it was just like a breath of fresh air for me. What was your first experience with MASSIVE X?įrom the early days of Komplete, like in the beginning, I was so geeked. I’m out there in those areas to further research the music game and, you know, growing up in LA you can just get trapped in a box and only know one side.
I’m between an area called Buckhead and Brooklyn, NYC. Right now I’m based out of Atlanta and New York. And I’m from Los Angeles, born and raised. I’m a music producer known for doing a lot of urban, but I do other stuff, too – EDM, R&B, all genres is probably the easiest way to say it.
My name is Darius Joseph Barnes, also known as Phonix Beats (J Cole, Nipsey Hustle, Trey Songs, Bryson Tiller). Tell us a bit about yourself and the music you make.