I like to layer these on top of more traditional sounds for a little bit of contrast.
I also often find one-shots from sample libraries, and then I manipulate them with plug-ins to give it some sauce and make them sound different from anything else I've heard. When you're creating it's really important to keep the flow, and for this reason it's good to have a one-stop synth, because you don't have to load tons of stuff, you can do it all in one place, which makes it much less of a CPU hog. They somehow managed to implement the synthesis from the original synths, I think they replicated the algorithms that are in these keyboards, and they got pretty close, and the great thing is that you have full control over them.
I love what Omnisphere allows you to do with sounds, how you can really sound-design and mess with many granular aspects. "For synth sounds I use Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2.5, because it has so many sounds, and the '80s synths it has. I love using '80s classic synth sounds and pads, and will find things that emulate things like the Prophet, the Oberheim, Clavinet, the Linn Drum, whatever it may be, and I will save these sounds and tweak them to give them more beef or fatness or maybe detune them. I find quirky libraries and they may have just one or two sounds that are interesting to me, like a weird flute or harpsichord or unusual brass or choir. "I love Native Instruments' Kontakt, because it comes with so many libraries. The main sound sources Bell uses in FL Studio are well-known ones. Though with rap music this is rare, because rappers are singing so much now, rapping in the verses and singing the hooks, you don't need chord changes to differentiate between the sections." Points Of Kontakt Those things help you create something fresh. Sometimes you inject something different in the pre-chorus, so the hook will sound new again. I prefer more musical things, because they allow me to go more places with the melody. "The initial melody and initial lyric are the most important, and you can then make things more complicated, with passing chords and an interesting bass line. Michael Jackson's 'Remember The Time' also has just two chords, but they are very complicated and inspire an interesting melody structure. Drake's 'God's Plan' is just two chords, and these have some extra notes in them, like ninths, that give your ear something to play with. I don't want to shove that down people's throat, and the fact is that you can get away with just four chords in a song, sometimes two. When I add chords, I like things to be subtly musical. Then when I get to the studio, I'll go through anything that I remember may have been good, and I'll put chords to those melodies, and if it's magical, I'll continue. I'll voice memo them into my phone, and I email them to myself. "Quite a few of my ideas start a cappella," he adds, "in my living room or bathroom or wherever. Louis Bell has formed a close association with Post Malone (right), having produced every song on his smash hit album Beerbongs & Bentleys. Of course, if I hit a wrong note or play one really late, I will correct it, but I try to keep as many of errors and flams as possible, because they represent how you felt the moment you played it. You lose the feeling, and the feeling is where the magic is. It's like you're reading off a script, it's not authentic any more. The moment you try to quantise that, or you draw your notes in, you are almost trying to fool people. You're getting very slight delays, and imprinted in this is a very distinct emotion. The latter also takes longer, plus there's this thing that when you play chords, your fingers are not hitting all the notes at exactly the same time, so you get this natural flam.
When it's flowing, it's like you're lost, you maybe don't quite know what you're trying to do, but you know that what you're playing is maybe a bit more true to what's inside of you than when you're just clicking in notes. "I'll just sit in the studio and play different chords and things for hours. According to Bell, he's done "probably 95 percent of my songs" at the room at Electric Feel.