It's an absolutely crazy multiband distortion, compression, EQ and filter, which pretty much lets you do anything.'ĭo you see programming as a joy or a necessary evil? 'I really like iZotope Trash, which is a great plug-in for distortion, as is Ohmicide, which I love. What filters and distortion do you use to create the signature Skrillex sound? It's a similar kind of thing, but the matrixes are different so you can make different kinds of sounds.' 'I also use Operator a lot, which is Live's FM synthesiser. 'I haven't really expanded too far off FM8 and Massive because I know them so well and can pretty much make any sound I want with them - especially with FM synthesis, which is so basic. I also really like Sylenth1, my Tone2 Gladiator and some other granular soft synths as well. People think they all come from Massive, but most of the ones that kids online are trying to recreate in Massive are actually from FM8. My best monster bass sounds have come from FM8. 'My two personal favourites are NI's Massive and FM8. I like doing things in a very minimal, unconventional way as a personal way of saying, 'Look, I made a career out of carefully and craftfully, though unconventionally, making records on laptops and blown speakers.'' 'I wouldn't call myself stubborn in an egotistical way but I do like the idea that in the past, what I do would not have been considered production - it would have been considered noise.

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