hey everyone, well....like pretty much every other producer who loves what liam howlett does, i wanna know how he does it. What im after is if anyone here knows what programs or vsts Liam uses to get that acid ravey sound like whats heard in the start of the omen, 1:41 in on worlds on fire (although it was a sample) and pretty much every other prodigy song. I know the synths he uses and ableton live but thats about it....so yeh if anyone knows spill it :p
thanksss

IMHO there's no such thing as a "prodigy sound". Liam just uses specific samples and/or synths as he sees fit. It's all part of composing. Try it some day.

Not true. If that were the case we'd never 'know' a Prodigy track from a Chemical Bros or Crystal Method track without knowing who was who.

But we do.

Prodigy does have a unique sound, and it's distinct.

yeah no need for the smart ass comment aquila.
Prodigy does have a unique sound, maybe if you watched one of the thousands of interviews liam has done you would hear him say it himself.
And all im after is if anyone knew the programs he uses

he used cubase for sequnceing the fat of the land , ableton for aono, and for the gigs also ableton

A big part of Liam's sound-palette are just samples that have been twisted and deformed by Liam. Because thats what he does best.

Other sounds comes from all sorts of synthesizers.. There is a impossible task to find a way to recreate the sound of Prodigy.

by the way: you should try to get your own personal sound.. not recreate something other people does much better then you.

Yeah, that's the magic question... and there's no easy answer. Time, patience, skill. As far as VST's go, you can do the same thing on any analog modeling synth VST. It's all based on the same type of signal path. I use either Massive or Albino myself. Also, lot's of sampling and tweaking. Probably more cowbell too, hehe.

Just read your VST manuals, play around and experiment until you come up with something cool. Imitation is ok... just don't replicate.

plus the fact he has all that cash to splash on expensive gear. The sound isn't cheap.

Yeah. too many people thinks that it they buy the same synth as liam uses, the same sampler, software, ect, will make it "easy" to recreate his sound.

This just wrong.

Most of them!! The final mix ends up on Pro-Tools, but he's used Logic alot. Reason on occasions - pretty much whatever he can lay his hands on! Most of the live sequencing is done via Ableton.

maybe these will help

whooo never have seen this before....
interesting.

Sometimes I think, it is possible to make a complete track just with one fuckin music software, one keyboard and one PC/Mac ...

That´s sometims confusing me in common ... I do not need dozens of sequencer, keyboards, drum-machines, crossfaders, etc. etc. just for doin a track or am I wrong? Good, it seems to be more complicated with less equipment, but still not impossible....

of course its possible to make a complete track with only one program

oh awesome, that helps a fair bit. Im not trying to replicate the prodigys music, just re-create those similar rave styled sounds....but applied to the music that i make. Ive seen a few shots of Liams macs in their live show and most of the time it isn't ableton which is wierd....but then again he uses 4 macs in their shows so i guess one of them has to have it.
Fuck his good at what he does though haha
thanks for the help