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"The Social Network" synth sounds
- ffrmmusic 4y agoFor fellow TR-AR fans, I would love your opinion on a piece I made in the style of Social Network: https://soundcloud.com/functionform/after-all-the-cake-and-watermelon https://soundcloud.com/functionform/after-all-the-cake-and-w.... It was made for a for-fun contest where you use one plugin to produce all the sounds. This concludes my self-promotion!
- tunnuz 4y agoIt’s great! Thanks for sharing.
- fritztastic 4y agoNot a musician, so I don't really have the proper vocabulary, but- as a fan of industrial specifically (and electronic music in general) and as a writer, this has a really nice balance of texture and atmosphere. I could see it being incorporated with visuals and other elements of design/sensory experience for a cerebrally lush creative project. It was nice to listen to, thanks for sharing.
- ffrmmusic 4y agoThank you!
- ggerules 4y agoI really liked this. Made my day. Very nice job with layering!
- AlexSW 4y agoJust to add another data point, I really like it! I'm an enormous fan of the Social Network's soundtrack and I feel you really captured the feel and sound that some of its pieces give (obviously particularly the main theme). Would love to add it to some of my Spotify playlists if you're on there (but I very much understand if you're only on Soundcloud).
- ffrmmusic 4y agoIt's one of my goals to get on Spotify! Thank you for listening!
- computershit 4y agoI dig it. Nice work.
- mr337 4y agoWow, this is fantastic!
- tiku 4y agoNice!
- shiredude95 4y agonice! sounds very close in style to TSN soundtrack.
- dwringer 4y agoReally nice work. Some really good sounds in there, I especially like the opening which makes me think of a heavily processed chorused piano, and then some of the sounds after that bordering right on the edge of distortion. Very atmospheric. Also cool to see someone bring up the KVR one synth challenge on here. I participated a few times just for fun and found it an unparalleled learning experience. I highly recommend at least giving it a shot to anyone musically inclined who is interested in learning how synthesizers are used in practice. I guess some months are better than others because they use different plugins each time but the wavetable one on there right now looks pretty interesting.
- ffrmmusic 4y agoAbsolutely agree, I love KVR. Hopefully after my current job calms down a bit I can get back to making more music! It's been at least a year:(.
- vcanales 4y agooof I love this. the bass and bass drum hit hard
- frisia 4y agoReally excellent sound design! At first I was a little skeptical of the heavy muddy sound mix-wise but then when it broke up around 1 minute in it paid off more than well. Great track!
- ffrmmusic 4y agoThank you for listening! Good catch on the mix, I also noticed it after it was too late :)
- rexreed 4y agoListening to it again, and I really like it. I do agree that after about 1:30 or so when it "opens up" it really hits its stride, and I go from like, yeah this is good, to wow yeah this is great after about 1:30. It leaves a great after-taste and makes you want to listen to it again.
- rexreed 4y agoHey I really enjoyed it! I was listening it in the background as I was working and then realized it was your piece. It's very well done.
- ffrmmusic 4y agoThank you!
- ffrmmusic 4y agoI am absolutely humbled by this response. Thank you so much for listening - it really does mean everything to me!
- mrcwinn 4y agoGosh, this is so not at all my world. I'm not very good with these tools. But as a fan of the original work, wow, this is just wonderful. I really enjoyed spending time with this post.
- jpe90 4y agoI’m a HUGE fan of these two and I’ve been tinkering with DAWs a little in my spare time so this is absolute gold for me. Thanks so much for writing it up and sharing it.
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 4y agoI've seen clips of them using the more esoteric electronic instruments like the Lyra 8 and the Resonant Garden, which may explain some of the interesting and uncommons-sounding FX you hear in their work.
- hey2022 4y agoAnd it also goes to show that while it’s possible to re-create similar sounds in a DAW, these hardware instruments were an integral part of the original creation process (mood, texture, composition, etc). The use of the Swarmatron defined some of the key aspects of the soundtrack.
- ovao 4y agoA fun video on the use of the Swarmatron in the score for those who haven’t seen it: https://youtu.be/uuM4yBFI03E https://youtu.be/uuM4yBFI03E
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- Void_ 4y agoStill the best coding soundtrack. Need more like this.
- sixstringtheory 4y agoYeah it’s good for that. The Ghosts albums and Quake soundtrack are more works in that style from them.
- tbossanova 4y agoHa, I tried coding to Nine Inch Nails but I got too angry at compiler errors!
- farnsworth 4y agoYep. As soon as I hear the opening melody in Hand Covers Bruise, I know I'm about to start typing and not look up for 3 hours.
- GrifMD 4y agoOf their works: the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has a few choice coding songs. Some of it is little too dark or a little too airy. Before the Flood is also pretty good a little sad at some points. The Juno single they put out as part of the 2016 Jupiter probe collaboration with a few artist is pretty nice. The Vietnam War soundtrack never quite vibed right for work. And finally, Watchmen Vol 1 is dope, especially NUN WITH A MOTHERF&ING GUN but good luck getting work done to that.
- mkaic 4y agoFun fact, Trent and Atticus are still scoring films, most recently Pixar's Soul! It's a great soundtrack[0] that has a number of jazz tracks contributed by Jon Batiste as well as Reznor and Ross's synth pieces. Fair warning, it's a very different vibe compared to Social Network, much more relaxed and atmospheric. I particularly recommend the track Falling, which plays during the opening credits sequence after the main character dies (if you haven't watched Soul, this isn't the spoiler you think it is lol. You should watch Soul, it's great) [0] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_keoZPbaxTzFnlAJVB2OJprX6ELEANOSNc https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_keoZPbaxTzFnlAJVB2...
- phillco 4y agoAtticus also scored the soundtrack behind the television series _Dr Death_, and it was similarly excellent.
- pbreit 4y agoMy favorite playlist while working: https://music.apple.com/us/station/trent-reznor-atticus-ross-similar-artists-station/ra.395740922 https://music.apple.com/us/station/trent-reznor-atticus-ross...
- Maxburn 4y agoThank you!
- jwdunne 4y agoI really loved the soundtrack when watching this film. I was thinking this is some of the best New Age music I’ve ever heard. And, to my complete surprise, it was scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. NIN has been my all time favourite band since I was a kid. That made me chuckle.
- NewLogic 4y agoThe Gone Girl soundtrack is probably their most similar score. Bit more downbeat and slow but still very good.
- bazoom42 4y agoI would not have guessed the guy behind The Downwards Spiral would one day be writing the soundtrack for a Disney animated feature.
- torpid 4y agoThis is what getting clean from from heroin does to someone who got famous for writing angry, dark music.
- hey2022 4y agoHe is still writing dark music for NIN, not much changed in that regard.
- dylan604 4y agoMy friends and I always said that Pretty Hate Machine is what happens when a girl really fucks up a guy. At the same time, the guy that did Mad Max also did Happy Feet, so sometimes you just like a little grit, and sometimes you just like a little fluff. (and paychecks!!)
- mtts 4y agoDunno, NIN (which I love, btw) was always the Disney version of Midwest Industrial which itself was the Disney version of Throbbing Gristle and friends, so, you know, it’a not entirely unexpected ;-) Friend of mine called PHM “Michael Jackson with dirty words” which isn’t an unfair characterization by any means.
- ROTMetro 4y agoAm I the only one that thinks Reverb Machine getting posted for the Kate Bush breakdown was interesting, but this second time in not very long with it just being another breakdown seems super iffy?
- EdwardDiego 4y agoYep, it seems you're the only one so far.
- FpUser 4y agoAll nice and dandy. I would even read it had it not been written with this thin light grey on white font. Somehow it makes my eyes feel strained even if I magnify it to a healthy size.
- grugagag 4y agoI hope I don’t sound jaded but am I the only one who finds this a bit boring and lacking what music should not? I’m in my 40s and dabbled myself with music making and jamming electronic instruments with others and when I see a clean instruction led process that has no room for human touch, may it be mistake that blends it naturally or unpredictibility it somehow appears dull. Im sure this will get downvoted in perpetuity but I got something off my chest.
- siftyy 4y agoI think there's room for both types in the ever expanding genre of electronic music. Perhaps its a little too open ended to call all types of noise music… but why should music be constrained to something appealing to listen to?
- lethologica 4y agoI found the soundtrack to be really fitting with the tone of the movie. Maybe it’s a metaphor for Mark Zuckerberg.
- selectodude 4y agoThat makes sense as Trent Reznor is a fucking genius.
- EdwardDiego 4y agoThe Hall of the Mountain King version for the rowing race was top notch.
- cutler 4y agoAgreed. If you compare this stuff with, for example, John Foxx's "Metatmatic" or Bowie's "Low" the human touch makes all the difference. Great electronic musicians leave an impression but this stuff just leaves me empty. I don't think sound engineering can be classed as creative music.
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- behnamoh 4y agoI really liked the calm piano piece at the beginning of the movie when Mark is walking on Harvard campus.
- steve_taylor 4y agoThis instantly became my favourite film sountracks of all time and is yet to be dethroned.
- mkaic 4y ago2010 was truly a phenomenal year to be a film soundtrack enjoyer. It's hard to believe that we got Ross and Reznor on Social Network, John Powell on How To Train Your Dragon, Zimmer on Inception, and Daft Punk on Tron: Legacy. All 4 of those scores are amazing and it blows my mind that they all released in the same year.
- rmnclmnt 4y agoLoved this soundtrack ever since the release of the movie! Fun fact: a lot of tracks are reusing parts of a previous Nine Inch Nails album called "Ghosts I-IV" also featuring Atticus Ross.
- jwdunne 4y agoI didn’t know this until I read it. Whenever I listened to Ghosts, I’ve hit a few tracks and thought “I’m sure this was on The Social Network”. And then some time later, I’ve done the same thing listening to TSN OST. Never clicked!
- NewLogic 4y agoI came here to post this exact same fun fact. Had some fun listening to all of the Ghosts collection when I learnt that.
- rmnclmnt 4y agoYeah you have to be patient to figure out which of the 36 tracks are involved! Needles in a haystack...
- Dibbert 4y ago[dead]