Le Voile

Interview

About Le Voile AKA Zir0h

I'm LeVoile, an artist and producer with over 10 years of experience creating music on Audiotool. Outside of music, I'm a fan of gaming, movies, and animation. My favorite dish is gyoza. Favorite childhood cartoon: Spongebob Squarepants (Seasons 1-6 only IYKYK). Current Favorite Adult cartoon: Smiling Friends, DanDaDan. One day I want to commission someone to make sick music videos for my music, like Ganja White Night has.

Describe the style of music you produce

My favorite styles blend dark, gritty, and wet, drippy bass sounds, where bass-heavy textures meet emotional depth. While I haven't fully explored gnarlier territory yet, it's where I'm headed, and I'm always pushing my boundaries to get there. For me, music is about helping an idea become the best version of itself, and I love sharing that creative energy with others.

What is your musical background and when did you start making music?

My musical interest started when I was small, lying on the living room floor with my dad as he played his big stereo loud on Friday nights. My musical background started in 5th grade when I picked up the alto saxophone, an instrument I played all the way through high school and into my freshman year of college. During high school, I also began playing piano, and I took classes to learn to read and write music. While I had to sell my saxophone to help cover tuition costs in college, I continued playing piano, taking private lessons for about five years until my teacher passed away while I was away at school.

How long have you been using Audiotool, and how did you discover it?

My love for audio and music production came later, with my introduction to EDM — specifically Americanized dubstep (Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites by Skrillex). In high school, my friends and I would go on night drives and surf YouTube for sick dubstep tracks. One day we found a track with gnarly growls and jungle sounds. My friend read the description and the artist said that he made the song on Audiotool for free. As a broke high school kid, this was thrilling. The rest was history.

What is your favorite Audiotool device and why?

It's honestly a toss-up between the Quantum and the Heisenberg. A multiband compressor makes a huge difference in the final product. The Heisenberg is so versatile — I constantly find parallels to some of even the most popular modern VST plug-ins.

What is your favourite trick in AT/What technique do you always use?

Modulate a Sine wave with a Formant II wave. Normally, you'd want a Formant II filter type, but this works just as well in combination with some clever EQ automation. Those two were born to be together.

Have you ever had a writer's block? If so, how did you deal with it and what do you recommend to your colleagues?

Like every single day! I like to find a loop of some sort of busy noise, like a crowd talking, or people laughing. Or, pick a TV show, maybe your favorite one, and watch a few of your favorite episodes. Isolate a 30 second span or compile some snippets of lines from shows or movies that sounds the most fun to you. Put it all in a pile, and chop it up into 1/8 bar or 1/16th bar bits. Mix and match to taste and lay it over a beat.

What has helped you the most on Audiotool to improve and widen your musical horizon?

Live collabs are a really nice feature. I remember when that wasn't a feature, and collabs were a lot slower going! It was harder to leave notes, or actively communicate without using a third party app.

What do you like most about Audiotool? Is there anything you would like to suggest?

I still personally use third party apps for voice and video communication. It would be really nice to see Audiotool upgrade that DAW feature to be more on par with services like Discord. It would also be nice to see Audiotool offering contest prizes that would attract more serious artists. Cash prizes would be nice.

Your message to the community:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. To anyone starting out, feeling like no one believes in you or that you can't succeed doing what you love: you can. Your talent is real, even if others don't see it yet. Believe in yourself, even when it feels like no one else does. Don't give up on your passions. And never, ever be afraid to be yourself.