/prod/ - Music Production General

i am from zambia will dis make me powerful pussy getter?
clyp.it/ptvzmbju

I am going to commit suicide does anybodyu want to watch

not really man sorry

I fuck with the drums, the bass not so much. Keep working my dude, analyze what you did good and figure out what you can improve on in your next production.

REEEEEEEEEE
ALL MY BEATS SOUND LIKE FUCKING SHIT
WHEN I MANAGE TO GET A FUCKING SAMPLE ON BEAT, I STRUGGLE TO ADD DRUMS AND A BASS WITH A NICE RHYTHM THAT FITS CORRECTLY WITH THAT SAMPLE!!
WHY CAN'T I BE LIKE MADLIB AFTER 1 WEEK OF FUCKING WITH THE DAW???? WHY???

I EVEN TRIED TO REPRODUCE A SIMPLE AND EASY TRACK LIKE "ALL CAPS", BUT IT SOUNDED LIKE FUCKING HORSE SHIT.

you need sunlight

what's wrong user

fuck you you don't have a fucking choice

you tell me: everybody hates me because I'm brain damaged
and I can't make a good pattern to save my life

>Andrew Huang here with another sick beat on the OP-1

apart from stopping to attention whore like a facebook thot, try more eqing and mixing

>listens to clip
did you start producing 10 minutes ago?

I've seen maybe one Andrew Huang video, I wish I could understand your joke, I'm sure its really funny.

I think at this point, after trying two times, it's become increasingly evident that I will never be good at mixing.

>All caps a simple and easy track

Nvm i didn't read the post and didn't get its a joke

So Demarc, you want to make nujabes beats but it ends up sounding like trap? Am i getting it right

I own 59 microphones atm, ranging from the 1930s to 2018. A few of them are unique and of my own design and build. I have several ribbons, dynamics, condensors, crystal and even one carbon granule.

I don't use them and I don't think I want them anymore. Thinking of maybe having a contest to ship the whole lot to an user. What do you guys think?

>pic is my custom piezo crystal mic appropriately made from a salt shaker

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why not ship to more than 1 user

>What do you guys think?
God damn I wish I could afford to give shit away like that. Also making mics is an interesting hobby

Probably too much trouble

gib

all that gear and you couldn't get a half decent mouse

I need to speak to my nigga DeMarcus. Bro, you're actually getting worse by trying to copy and study a bunch of artists at the same time. Tackle improvement at a slow rate. If you want to get better at sound selection, dedicate an entire day to improving that. Dedicate another day to improving your arrangement, another one to music theory. Don't try to learn everything at once my nigga, that's why you're not improving like you want to. Take your time my nigga, and you're going to be a pro. You got this my guy.

And that's the greatest piece of advice for every single beginner that wants to git gud at any hobby, DON'T TACKLE EVERYTHING AT ONCE.

How do I make kick/low end sound like here?
youtube.com/watch?v=orc-D5kRZmU

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Alright, do it. But try to send it to more people.

pretty sure you're are white

Whoever makes the best Rubber Sound wins the mics.

I'm pretty sure I'm black, fuck off you cunt

I don't know what this means and I won't go along with it.

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It's not a joke. All Caps seemed simple to construct to me. I was able to chop all the parts from the TV shows instrumentals and piano, and the drums from Thunder something. All I was supposed to do, in theory, was putting the intro from the TV Show about San Francisco for 8 bars, and then start the piano loop for 6 bars, and then add the loop from the main sample, and then just continue to copy the structure of ALL CAPS

It sounded easy on paper, but very difficult (for me at least) in practice. Either the drums lacked that swing that they had on All Caps, either they are sloppy because I lack a subtle sense of rhythm to record without quantize. Either the main sample wasn't at the same speed it was on ALL CAPS, either the pitch was too high. Sometimes there is a small, annoying, millisecond between samples.

There is also a subtle bass on ALL CAPS, but I didn't try to replicate it because it would make the task even harder.

I thought it would be easy with Renoise, and now I feel frustrated like never before because I wasn't able to do shit, even though I understand my DAW in details. I feel very mediocre too.

Good advice. Thank you user

Yes, once you past a certain skill level music can be pretty boring honestly. Music is literally just you play around with 12 musical notes played by various kind of instruments, of course it can be boring at times

when he on the beat you don't go next ;^)

what band photo is this one behind the right speaker

>rubber sounds
way ahead of you
clyp.it/uqikhjpd

It's boring if you're boring friend

What the fuck are you doing?
Fucking ear cancer

>asks for rubber noise
>gets noise
>complains
faggot

noise ≠ rubber noise

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some rings of saturn elements here. very interesting progression in this. quite enjoyable after the 2nd listen

the original assignment was *sounds* not noise :))

it wasn't rubba sounds user!!

I kinda want to make music like this, what genre is this? And how do I make it happen?

clyp.it/luv5y3qr

all noise is sound and all sound is noise

>all sound is noise
nah... noise is a thumb to the fingers that are sounds

Noise is a hyponym of sound

future bass with a lot of drums

neither of these prove noise is NOT sound

this is true

so future drum and bass?

clyp.it/ozdx4h4v
Good enough?

clyp.it/xleqoyhh

How much can you do with a 16 step sequencer? Is it limiting?

how to achieve this grimy, dirty vibe? i know how he makes the crackly background noise but what about that droning/scraping sound? and the weird warbling synth noise that comes in at 0:27 and later?

youtube.com/watch?v=8PeftMaqOXI

if you can store and switch between sequences on the fly then you should be ok. but 16 steps is not much, expect to be switching drum sequences a fair amount. if you can automate it then you're golden

16 steps

is there something here
clyp.it/33a4s0if

what genre is this?

Where do instrumental musicians usually start professionally other than DJing?

youtube.com/watch?v=gCYcHz2k5x0
How do I get that knocking sound?

most distributors categorise it as dub techno, or just techno. i would personally call it industrial dub techno with ambient influences. if you're looking for similar music, good luck. as far as i know, this album is one of a kind. i'd love to be wrong though, let me know if you find anything

which of these cheap monitors are great for starting out
Behringer ms40
Presonus eris 4.5
rokit 5 g3
M audio AV32
m audio bx5 d3
JBL LS 305

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they are all shit, if I had to pick one it would be the jbl

the way i see it, there are two types of electronic musicians: live jammers and studio tinkerers.
jammers like DJing, performing their own sets live, clip launching, filter sweeps, beat repeats, all that crazy shit. they play their controllers like instruments and they like to put on a show. if this is your thing, my advice is to jam alone/with friends until you can "play" your controllers like it's second nature. offer to DJ or play your music at house parties. promote yourself, make connections, and you could move up to playing at small local venues. beyond that, it's mostly luck, persistence, and a shameful amount of self-promotion.
studio tinkerers on the other hand will spend days tweaking a tiny 400ms portion of their track. they're the type to "sculpt" every detail of their work until it's absolutely perfect. they're the type to spend a whole day coming up with a monstrous 64 bar chord progression then scrap it cus it sounds "over-composed". it's a time-consuming labour of love that doesn't translate well to live performances, unless you're just there to press "play" and sit back. if this is your kind of thing instead, i recommend just getting a laptop, midi keyboard/mixer, and a small collection of essential plugins or hardware if you can afford it. become very well acquainted with automation, either by drawing it in or recording it using MIDI. it's tedious work that can produce spectacular results if used creatively.
of course, you can do both, but imo you'll specialise in one or the other eventually

Good advice, thanks

there's also the dudes who make 10 beats a day and sell them online, taking at most an hour to make one beat

name 1 person that makes a living out of selling samples and beats

>how he makes the crackly background noise
how?

lmgtfy.com/?s=d&iie=1&q=people who make a living selling beats

youtu.be/AT4vESXV0wA

I know few guys irl. Even a few more that go DJing around the world, and regularly make beats for American rappers.
I have no idea how they succeeded though since they aren't even that good and come from shitty country. Guess it's the marketing and good connections.

Fuck I'd want one, I'm rockin a snowball and suffering with asio4all rn.
Dunno what I'd do with 59 mics but both my father and brother are musicians so maybe they need something.
That's really pretty, do you have any recommendations for resources about electronics construction?
I already bought but haven't started reading Mims' Getting Started.

So from what I understand from the last thread you want to make lo-fi hip-hop but everything you touch turns into a trap beat attempt?
Or was that someone else pretending to be you again?

there is also the third type, the andrew fearn: recording one-chord retardo tunes in one seating and then just pressing the button on stage while sippin some beer

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Probably but your bass is clipping too bad.

Monstercatcore

inxs

What's the average price of a trap beat?
If I want to email some rapper from USA and sell him my beats, what should I say? And what about percentage? How does that work?

Keep in mind that the ebonics translator will take roughly 15% of the cut

how do you guys go about learning how to make music in unfamiliar genres?

it's just vinyl crackling pitched down about an octave

Ear diarrhea

senks

Having actually done this myself from time to time, its not much. 50-300 if they're just a normal dude acting like a rapper. Couple thousand at best if they're getting some traction. Contacting them personally through instagram or twitter is always effective, they read everything to absorb all the praise they can get. Or just start your own website that you then advertise.

>So Demarc, you want to make nujabes beats but it ends up sounding like trap? Am i getting it right

Yes. I'm trying to make something that sounds like the Samurai Champloo soundtrack and The Neptunes' production on Lord Willin.

youtube.com/watch?v=W-sBDbX12cs
youtube.com/watch?v=8D8hzt3rSMs
youtube.com/watch?v=hBkpBvXFP60

>you're actually getting worse by trying to copy and study a bunch of artists at the same time
>If you want to get better at sound selection, dedicate an entire day to improving that.
>Don't try to learn everything at once my nigga,

I know you're right but its really frustrating. I'm trying to focus on EQing and drums right now but I don't really understand EQing at all. Someone on here linked a Metro Boomin or something song to me once where all the instruments where perfectly behind the drums, that's what I'm trying to get. I feel like my instruments are always too loud.

Thanks. It doesn't sound bad for a start. Especially if I start contacting every "aspiring" rapper on twitter and make like five beats a day. Do you still do this? Did people notice you and your work? I'm interested if it's a viable way to earn money, without having a day job and such.

Listen to genre
Then make it

how do I look for weird or unique vsts
where should I be looking

listen to music in that genre and make notes of:
>common drum patterns
>common percussion sounds and fx
>common scales/modes and chord progressions
>common instruments/synth sounds
>common sample sources, types of samples
>common fx, modulations, glitch trickery etc
>common arrangements, structures, transitions
Come up with a personal "ruleset" for the genre, then focus on breaking as many of those rules as possible while still maintaining identity and recognisability.
But more importantly, you have to embrace and understand the genre holistically, understand the emotions and imagery that you can and can't evoke with it, which will give you the knowledge to compose from an "insider's" perspective. If you really want to break the mould, you have to "become" the aesthetic. Internalise it as part of your nature and worldview. Then your core artistic values will sculpt it into something unique. I hope that makes at least a little sense

fuck you

another day, another pleb filtered

elaborate

what is a “good” drum machine to buy in current year

those beats must be generic trash if they took an hour to make

Max4Live devices and some Kontakt ensembles seem to be where a lot of the non-Virtual Analogue stuff lies, also VCV rack has plenty of unique and emulated modules mostly free of charge.

I have a technical question.

Does anybody know if i ran a RME midiface usb to 4x focusrite octopre dynamic if i can get simultaneous adat in and out on the octopre at the same time?

I know as adat preamps they support in, out and passthrough but im wondering if its simultanious because ive been led to believe cheaper adat preamps like the behringer 8200 dont do simultaneous?

I wanted to run 32 line level signals into the pre amps (synths, guitars, drummachines, samplers etc, the preamps via lightpipe to the midiface, the 32 channels into a daw and 32 outputs back out the midiface to the preamps and the preamp outs to a 32 channel mixing desk, with buses for recording/instrument tracking monitors/headphone amps etc.

Essentially its an old school signal chain, with the daw acting as a 32 track digital recorder and sequencer, but the mix being outside the box on an analogue desk.

I have no way of knowing without buying a midiface usb first and testing on one of the two focusrite octopres i already have.

Every beat is otherwise it would be a song

open source, user

Dunno about cheap, but ik multimedia ilouds, if you can aford to splash more than that on a small set of monitors its time to start considering spending a bit more on a set of small genelecs.

>I have no way of knowing without buying a midiface usb first and testing on one of the two focusrite octopres i already have.
So asking Focusrite isn't an option?
support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb/requests/new

you think you're better than me so i'm saying
fuck! you

Its viable if you gain some sort of following. If someone actually starts following you because of your beats and not the rappers you make the beats for then you might be in the dough. If not, its very volatile. Can be a good source of income but would definitely suggest it as a secondary income. Atleast at first.

they are clearly better than you tho

was hoping somebody here has adat's and has done something like this perhaps on a smaller scale (ie 8 ins 8 outs mixed on a small mixer) so i know it is possible on a larger scale.

If it’s got dedicated optical for both the ins and outs I’d expect them to work independent of each other... not one or the other

Just hopped on Ableton and my mind started racing like crazy. I genuinely have no idea what to do. I mainly listen to trap, but I want to make experimental shit.

You need to watch one of these videos:
youtube.com/results?search_query=ableton live 10 complete tutorial

You can't expect to already know how to use a program like that, without ever learning what everything is and does first.

I know how it works, I'm just bad and get nervous whenever I have to make a song.

just worked out how to use audio samples, the drums in this case

ill have to do something else with the bassline

instaud.io/3oUv

What is the easiest way to sample sound from YouTube videos on os x?

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Yeah, what id need i guess is specifically an adat that has A-D/D-A in the feature set.

Don't compose in the DAW. Sit down at your synthesizer. DAWs are for recording.

Then don't try to make a song.
Just make something. Whatever comes out (a drum beat, a melody, a synth patch, or a full song, it's not important).
Start the session by thinking that nobody will ever hear this, and if you won't like it you'll be able to delete it.
There's no pressure. You're not an the world stage. You're still learning and it's not only acceptable to suck, but it's expected. It's normal.
You just need to keep sucking for a while, in order to start sucking less and less, and ultimately you'll be proud of what you do, but for now there's no pressure. You just do whatever, and don't let anybody hear it.
Worst case scenario you won't like what you've made, you delete it, and it will be like nothing ever happened. Your life will be exactly as it was before, witth the only difference that you have a bit more practice under your belt.

lmgtfy.com/?q=youtube mp3 download

download them, just google "youtube mp3 download", there're many sites

>le hivemind

>youtube mp3 mind
Nah, I have youtube-dl but I just want to catch a couple seconds so I was wondering what other people here do. OS X is a pain in the ass and I don't know how to sample from the internal audio like I could on my old Windows XP machine. I know I could run a cable from the audio out to my interface but it seems like there should be a better way.

gib me

Use youtube-dl to downlod the audio track, then use a program like Audacity or Soundforge to cut the file.

ive seen people say about using some shit called soundflower to do this

>soundflower
Thank you; I have tried Audio Hijack in the past which seems to be a similar program.
youtube.com/watch?v=_KEwPO3femI

clyp.it/sbhamuqu

youtube.com/watch?v=QBr-z5BFGJc

>tfw you submit your first project across multiple outlets and it's redlining and sounds distorted as fuck completely unlike how it sounded on monitors, car speakers, and headphones

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Floating point in daws
Intersample peaking
U dun goofed

fuck you too

>if this were really

BUT WHYYY

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duh, but they sell

Don't have that problem on my 4 track

boy dis not even close

is it supposed to be that clap? also wtf why

Get yourself an ms20. This sounds vst and weak af.

Thanks for the feedback user. I didn't really put much effort into that and only spent like 20 minutes on it.

Or I could just buy them.

bump

If you're going to bump, at least say something stupid to spark discussion.
How many pseudonyms y'all got?
or
Is there any hope of getting discovered on SoundCloud if you don't put any effort into promotion and marketing?

all you really need is 4 steps

All you need is one step. You can manually trigger sequences using this thing called a keyboard.

Question to everyone:
When did you learn to get butthurt at bumps?

i bumped out of pity bugger off m8
those are both ridiculous chit chat questions i want SUBSTANCE (but don't want to start it (obviously)). because it always ends up me talking to myself lol

Message to all up and coming trap producers! :
kill you are self

AudioHijack

some of you should genuinely fucking stop and consider a different hobby. my god. you either have it or you dont

Just now

I think it doesn't matter how bad someone is if they enjoy it. Maybe they shouldn't be sharing everything they shit out though.

you may not like it, but this is what peek performance looks like.
>20 years ago

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wow

>you either have it or you dont
t. doesn't believe in hard work and frustration to avoid confronting that they're not as good as they want to be simply because they're too lazy and want to blame it on some uncontrollable factor

Any thoughts on your experience?
If you had to start over, would you do it again?

yes

this is a fake album
i am bored.
please be nice.

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wow

I could never go back to my former, unenlightened state.

imposter detected
>trips out

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Just some Bossanova on the Fairlight
instaud.io/private/a08cc739d67173518e1ca2642d509f8c61785b84

Guess I'll reupload this again
instaud.io/private/1a066fc265e2830903afc4601cfececd36e96d7e

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Hey guys,

sort of a noob question. I have a slightly older (8-9 years) Roland digital piano (HP 100). It has midi capabilities that I've never tried out before. Does anyone have experience with these? Do I need anything except a basic midi to usb cable?

MIDI is MIDI it will work on any MIDI interface.
Its a standard :)

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>instaud.io/private/a08cc739d67173518e1ca2642d509f8c61785b84
That bass line is Blake Stone as fuck.
The keyboards and everything you're doing on top of it sounds like a disgusting mess though. Less is more.

But do I need this meme midi box thing that I've seen online or will this work:

amazon.ca/Converter-Interface-Indicator-Processing-Electric/dp/B07H87W22L/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

jbls

Are there any sites where you can pirate commercial Novation Circuit patches?

No box necessary -- it looks like the converter chip is built into the USB end. I have one with a fat bulge of plastic in the middle; you're making me jealous.

that should work but be wary of cheap chinese serial interface chips because they suck and often fail.

>can't play a part anywhere near perfectly
>instead just drown it in reverb and "color" it in all kinds of distortion
>slap a lo-fi tag on it
Nice

Even the part from 1:00-1:15?

Hm... okay. Thanks.

>Even the part from 1:00-1:15?
Too much reverb and airy noise -- it just doesn't sound good.

ive been jamming on this beat too long. it okay?
instaud.io/3oXh

I like the idea a lot but wtheck u doin with that mix mang

like literally everything sounds like a toy aside from the main kick.... idk wha you're going for but i'd actually really like this if it were L U S H

its good but the drums are repetitive, just switch them up after a minute. a techno donk might be nice. kicks on 1 2 3 4 ya know

>kicks on 1 2 3 4 ya know
you disgust me and i know you don't listen to this music

Oh and one more thing anons, is there any software that I can use to change up the sound of the piano? Since it's expressly a digital piano and not like a small MIDI keyboard there are no built in options, really. Like, how would I make it sound like an electric guitar and add distortion and shit, if possible

>Like, how would I make it sound like an electric guitar and add distortion and shit, if possible
this again? it's still not possible. use a vst lol

..run the audio out through a DS-1.

He's talking about this
youtu.be/eJW9N-h8UgI

Oh fuck that's cool. I'm not exactly talking about that since I don't have an actual acoustic piano so I figure it's a different process but that is very cool nevertheless

nobody asked but i just figured out some sophie bubbles

god damn i love absynth

Post clyp.

instaud.io/3oY8
lawl

This is an improvement, desu.

you guys should collab

Is it entirely synthesized in Absynth or is it something else and then resampled into it?

i have a friend who actually almost makes a living selling trap beats. I could ask him for you what he normally sells em for.

I do know that a big part of it is having a soundcloud presence. Put a bunch of trap beats on soundcloud and spread that around first so you have some followers and shit

No, that was me and I don't want to make lofi really just non-trap. More like alt-rap. Brockhampton and ASAP Rocky might be good examples, but my recent focus has been on Pharrell and Nujabes (specifically the Samurai Champloo stuff with Fat Jon). I just can't get drums right for anything. I don't know if I'm ever going to make it at this point. I really want to start rapping and make actual music but I can't produce for shit

I've made 400 beats over the past 7 months with only minimal improvement.

youtube.com/watch?v=S9c31rpWDjg
youtube.com/watch?v=3HYZVzvmkm4
youtube.com/watch?v=Othv4_4a_FM

Sauce on the background song?

sounds like I'm in the toilets at a gig

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I don't think he would be open to that

>Absynth
stop telling everybody my secrets!!!
yes. i put a phaser on it too. no cheating with samples. i've gotten similar results with fm8 as well but pretty eh by comparison. it's a shame because i know it could actually be done much better but i don't know of any synth that currently has the modulation needed

king of /prod/

funny because the original patch actually sounds like water going down a drain to me (it's just an edited version of that patch)

Some fresh autism for you anons
clyp.it/xz5mwvku
How bad is it?

>stop telling everybody my secrets!!!
>god damn i love absynth
You're not very good at keeping secrets, are you?

>yes. i put a phaser on it too. no cheating with samples. i've gotten similar results with fm8 as well but pretty eh by comparison. it's a shame because i know it could actually be done much better but i don't know of any synth that currently has the modulation needed
That's cool.
How would one start to make this sort of sound (or this one in particular)?

>king of /prod/
Is it Sammy?
Link?

its not that bad. the drums suck though, add cymbals all the way through or get a light rolling glitchy beat.

>clyp.it/xz5mwvku
It's like you read a textbook on music that told you going from this chord to this chord will sound good so you followed their advice but you weren't thinking about the big picture and you ended up with this aimless drawn out chord progression that doesn't have any soul.

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>its not that bad. the drums suck though,
Nigga the drums are the entire foundation

FUCK i forgot what i even posted.
i usually try to hide myself but I even posted a song with rubber in it yesterday (?) i'm slipping man.

well it's fm and a lot of modulation.
granular is pretty overlooked for of these kinds of sounds and has potential to complete "real world" emulations in ways that most producers are overlooking atm. Also fancy effects aren't needed. 99% of the time ableton stock effects will do (not that others don't have potential for something unique, I just mean in general).

yes
lol i thought you were joking
instaud.io/3nRn

Or you could just type royalty free bubbles into google and download that

>>well it's fm and a lot of modulation.
>granular is pretty overlooked for of these kinds of sounds and has potential to complete "real world" emulations in ways that most producers are overlooking atm. Also fancy effects aren't needed. 99% of the time ableton stock effects will do (not that others don't have potential for something unique, I just mean in general).
Very interesting, thank you very much.

not quite my tempo

gonna kms

No, don't do that.
Last time I downloaded it from the official website it filled my computer with adware.
Consult the mydigitallife forums for other alternatives.

soundcloud.com/user-827128609/the-plunge
i'm just starting out with music and this is pretty raw and simple. dont hold back

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wrong thread my bad

kill myself

Easy: clyp.it/umhp54qa?token=53c753c98da8f1d41a7a722e93962885

I live in Germany. I hope that's ok.

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I mean, I'm sure there are other ways to activate a Windows ISO.
Worst case scenario you can buy a license off eBay for very cheap. No need to kill yourself for such a trivial issue.

What is the quintessential sophie rubbersound

Thanks man, you've been a big help
Yeah, sure man. I don't know shit about soundcloud though.

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okay i found it
rbt.asia/mu/thread/80187348/#80198681

instaud.io/3oZY
what am i going for with this?

What do I think of this clyp /prod/?

whaat

you fapped to it

Aw man, I was on day 18 of nofap tryna repurpose my baby batter into beats.

>baby batter
Stupidest fucking dirty talk and it stills gets me off wtf

Somebody teach me to make rubber sounds god damnit

yo

whats up bros, im singing tonite, i think im getting pretty gud at it
vocaroo.com/i/s1xJI7wT3EnK
vocaroo.com/i/s1gRt6dykXix
vocaroo.com/i/s0LHjbtUMAeC

>vocaroo
why?

I was really hoping it wasn't Sammy.

>many a poor boys
>sooood my new blue jeans
>fails out on the lows
>wild volume swings
bruh

why not

youre surprised with how good it was though, wasnt you

the "god i know iw one" part is worse lol
it's the only song of the three that i didnt practice before and i was worried with hitting the highs and remembering the lyrics.

another one vocaroo.com/i/s1pf7hoWXG9a

do you hope for a positive response when you post multiple links like this? lol

S’too late

Correct

Pretty sure you’re are grammar is the bad

how do you get over beat block/feeling uninspired?

>gimmicky responses that don't actually work for peoples
you don't. you work on something else for a bit or work on things that contribute to production: sound design, make presets, organize samples, mix, flesh out old tunes or clear out old projects if you can.

just do something else for me usually its xcom sometimes I don't even open my daw for days

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>uninspired
inspiration is a spook. Turn yourself pro, and work every day

>walk soldier down the ramp
>looks ok, take up position by landing gear
>second soldier out to other landing gear
>good so far
>third soldier makes it halfway down the ramp and get one-shotted from out of sight range by a plasma bolt
>rookie 3 members back in the Skyranger panics, goes berserk
>he's the one with the HE autocannon
>kills all other soldiers yet to disembark, knocks himself unconscious
>sigh, end turn
>chryssalid marathons from 5 city blocks away to impregnate a solder
>alien turn over
>try to move last man standing into Skyranger to scrub the mission
>gets shot in the back at the bottom of the ramp by an unseen alien prick with telescopic eyes
>mission failed, all equipment lost
>council reduces funding

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I used to smoke weed but I'm not allowed to smoke weed anymore in order to find a job/get ADHD meds. Now I just sit around doing nothing and hope tomorrow is better

>inspiration is a spook
talentlet

I know this isn't 100% music, but it's audio production, so...

>Be hired by someone who wants me to extract dialog from a video source
>Normally this wouldn't be too hard if file is surround sound
>It's fucking stereo
>Do my best with the software I have. Stuff like Izotope's RX
>None of them are giving me the results I would like
>On a whim boot up Audacity
>AUDACITY
>Notice it has a vocal isolation feature
>It's given me the cleanest cuts out of them all

Never fucking shitting on Audacity ever again.

i use it to databend
yes it has cool one off uses. it deserves to be shit on shut up you fucking pleb

if anything this is just another example of a big brand ruling over some aspect of production uncontested so people assume it's the best for some reason.

Just saying man, I ain't gonna shit on something that helps put bread on the table. I was about a few hours away from contacting the guy hiring me and telling him I couldn't give him satisfactory results.

how do i learn theory ?

youtube it

>need a vaporwave song for a video I'm working on
>Decide to make it myself
>Have absolutely no fucking idea what I'm doing
>Jamming samples into EVERYTHING
>Actually having a lot of fun

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I don't have fun doing anything, end me

czech'dd

i just use audacity to record a few seconds of whatever YT video and then render the file as a .wav , drop in ableton and finesse from there

actually good

literally only problem I have is the kick drum.
It feels like its fucking off beat

clyp.it/d5sbosfx

shutup clypster keep practicing

>clyp.it/d5sbosfx
I was on board until the percussion revealed that this was not going to be as lit as the synth patch was

I admire that you tried to make something very dense, and it certainly sounds pretty novel and unlike anything else I've heard. But after about the halfway point it sounds like a shitty nokia phone ringtone is interrupting a cool tribal tune. The melodic stuff seems entirely incidental to the cool percussion you have made. Even the pads and the lead melody synth don't agree on what the tune is. Trim the fat and leave the highlights imo.

>clyp.it/uqikhjpd
I turned it off after approx 2.1 seconds. Anyone can make noise. The hard part is making noise that sounds good.

my bad I didn't realize u were shitposting in response to other guy

It's a joke clyp?

ok I will just say it I guess I just really fucking hate niggers and kikes but also spics too I just wish they never existed before

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I took it as that the 2nd time around. With the rubber sounds shit in context.

Why don't you put that into song form so we can listen to it.

welcome /prod/ - Music Production General

there wasn't anything remotely rubbery?
it was just harsh (even for him) noise

it's just a random shitpost, you report and ignore guise

my serum midi track keeps changing in velocity seemingly randomly on each pla . i dont know what the fuck is wrong with it i wanna cry bros

right.. Rand Oscillator setting is thing. all is well

it probably is im a dumbass

clyp.it/ombqli5w

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just remembered I meant to make the drums more sparse in the verse section. oh well....

much better than yesterdays. still loopy and why that god damn snare sounds like shit

whatever that sweeping preset thing is is more of an effect than something to do constantly

>random shitpost
not true literally all of my music is about hating kikes or niggers

its a pad and yeah I guess I don't know how to break out of loops

that's not really what people call a "pad"

literally just don't copy and paste things. or in ever iteration of the loop change things slightly or take out hits... not randomly though

>literally just don't copy and paste things.
nigga what
you want me to make music without using any repeating parts?
isn't almost all music (especially hip-hop) based off of looping patterns ?
>or take out hits... not randomly though
whats supposed to be the discerning factor then

not quite but something like this youtube.com/watch?v=KKgIgwqyo-w

I just feel dejected whenever I have to make music, I fucking hate myself

how do i make anime bgm?

>you want me to make music without using any repeating parts?
dude are you serious? the absolute worst of hip-hop is just 4 bar loops, sure, but even those build arrangements based on layers. it could just be the kicks or hats or whatever but you need to be doing more even if you're setting the bar that low.

>whats supposed to be the discerning factor then
groove, use your ears lol. i keep saying listen and analyze to shit you like, if you did you'd notice this.
Did that 911 ableton session work for you? iirc it was fairly long for and was a good beat to study

alternate from major to minor (or vice versa) on your chords. Use pentatonic scale on your melody with a lot of sudden jumps and use a lot of saw based sounds.

From what I understand about artists that means you're on the right track.

>especially hip-hop
Y E S tecnucally, but you need to have variance somewhere or else you get Viper tracks.
For example a lot of Wu Tang stuff has really really simple loop structure but the variance comes from the lyricism, multiple rappers on a track, times they take the beat away, and sick kung-fu movie samples.
So yeah, you can make some simple ass loops and be a success, but only if you are a good writer.

first you must ask yourself
>how do i learn?
i could direct you to a book but maybe you'd learn more from a concise youtube video, or i could point you to some practice tests but you'd probably learn better just by fiddling around on a keyboard. study your own learning habits and come up with your own curriculum.
if you do need some direction though, i would start with learning what scales, modes, and chords/chord progressions are and how to use them. once you're well versed in these aspects, most other things will come pretty easily. from there you can choose to study more advanced stuff like jazz and classical harmony, or you can just build on this foundation by experimenting and coming up with a system of music that works for you. a lot of brilliant artists have taken the latter route.

holy shit demarco, this mix is awful but you're getting the hang of writing music. themelodies and harmonies are actually listenable. your drum programming is still shit though lol. here's a tip: adding ANY straight 8ths or 16ths percussion will give your drum pattern momentum and stability. it doesn't have to be hats, and make sure it's not overpowering anything else. it just has to be a subtle, steady pulse. your drum patterns sound really stop-and-start right now because 1) they're missing that pulse, and 2) there's a fucking fill every 4 bars. fills generally come at the end of sections to signal a transition, or to spice up a long section that has a repetitive drum pattern. try a fill every 16 bars if you must, but even then i'd recommend using them sparingly.

also when you're creating variations of your drum patterns, sometimes a really subtle change makes a big difference. move that kick one beat forward, or add three little hi-hats right there. too much variation and it loses its identity

swerve, nobles
a peasant comin through

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reposting for lack of feedback.
clyp.it/cll3izaq

i know it's way too long, i'm gonna condense to around 4-5 minutes. does you feel like it's missing anything? any interesting sound design-y fills and one-shots you'd add?

this thread has almost hit bump limit. now's your chance, faggot

Hate that current analog mono semimodular meme. We have enough of that shit already.

how do i make an ear training schedule

i can hear/sing simple popular music tonal melodies and score about 70% on the test of that "musictheory" website on that cromatic mode (albeit sometimes i miss some notes badly). i took that test last night and it felt good and i woke up enjoying playing music more

but i'm stuck in a box of standard progressions and when i improvise melodies with my whistle, if i go a bit out of these chords i get lost and cant hear the harmony in my head anymore. how do i get better at that improve my ear for chords and chords+melody, which is the key to songwriting (and the reason i can't write songs)

Learn how jazz standards work first (by buying "Greatest Jazz Compilations" type of book on your local bookstore then watch this video youtube.com/watch?v=q4JWqK6r6N4&ab_channel=TheSnapshotsFoundation from 17:45 - 25.00). Most anime song are just jazz standards with japanese lyrics and modern sounding arrangements

For concrete example, I can only say about Yoko Kanno but her basic signature animu songs are jazz structured songs played by orchestral or standard rock band format without the drums, then she adds mostly choral/vocal works combined with electronic sounding percussion. Some examples :
youtube.com/watch?v=BgJByRITxsk (GitS - i do)
youtube.com/watch?v=4t1_35xiub4&ab_channel=QDesjardin04 (Rahxephon - Hemisphere)
youtube.com/watch?v=jIxXKd5Uots (Koufuku Graffiti - Watashi ga Shitteiru Itsutsu no Houhou)
youtube.com/watch?v=TWzgs-eSJ2s (Rahxephon - Tune the Rainbow)
youtube.com/watch?v=q91TXBDgyac (CCS - Platinum, though this one is using real drums rather than electronic sounding percussion)

Also Yoko Kanno sometimes differentiate the key being played in the verse compared with the chorus (usually one or two whole tones higher in the chorus compared to the verse. See Platinum and Tune the Rainbow ones, the verses are being played in lower key, next the bridges act as a sort intermediate section to bridge the verse and the chorus and to make the modulation goes as smooth and unnoticed as possible, then finally the choruses are being played in higher key without the average listener understand what's going on. I dunno why that's the case ,though (probably, just my opinion) it's to unconsciously build hype and preparation into the listener's mind to make the chorus has more impact, power, and hype

Does Phaser still post here?

I was watching that twat Multipliers video about his frequency splitting racks. Does anyone have them for Fab Filter Pro Q? It would ease my autism about them sounding better than the EQ8

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You can make them yourself.
Just download the ones from Multiplier's video and copy what they do with Pro Q.

Sounds like that one meme synth wave song that has the same 4 chords.

youtube.com/watch?v=sBieYES7G7g

>when your genre is so devoid of creativity that you can't even tell your songs from other people's

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>the absolute worst of hip-hop is just 4 bar loop
What do you consider "the absolute worst"? Wouldn't some Nujabes and Earl's last album be considered loops? I think even Touch the Sky and a lot of the songs are Graduation are looped too, but I could be wrong. I think Slater on Wolf is generally pretty stagnant too, until the ending.
>Did that 911 ableton session work for you? iirc it was fairly long for and was a good beat to study
The session worked but I never stopped to sit down and learn how to use Ableton.

Okay, thank you. Do you think I did good? I really want to start writing soon but I don't even know where to start.

>adding ANY straight 8ths or 16ths percussion will give your drum pattern momentum and stability.
>there's a fucking fill every 4 bars.
I'm not sure if I understand what this means, specifically the 8ths and 16ths part, but I'm going to write it down and try to figure it out. Thank you.

megalolz

clyp.it/ekkr5uve

Any feedback?

I have to perform a long-due reinstall on my computer. Is there any possible way to backup my plugins, or am I forced to re-download and install all of them?

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reinstall... it sucks, but is better in the long run.

Good advice, but I'd also add that if you think you suck, you're probably thinking about it the wrong way. You're probably comparing yourself to whatever you like listening to, and chances are they will be so far above your level that you can't even imagine how you'd begin to approach it. It's like starting to lift when your only idea of how successful lifting might look like involves competing for olympic weightlifting records. To make something that doesn't suck by the standards of published music is setting the bar way too high for a beginner. You might get there eventually, but any individual session will be a failure and you'll probably give up quickly. Instead, you need to look at the small steps you can do right now, and find the reward in completing them. It might sound silly to celebrate clumsily putting together a 10 second melody, but whenever you recognize yourself doing something you couldn't do last week, that's progress, and progress is everything.

...I just wish I had realized this 10 years ago.

You thoretically could, but you'd have to save ALL files scattered throughout your computer (the installation folder, the VST files, the possible stuff in your AppData and Documents folder, and who know what else), plus the registry keys.
Even if I assembled a team of the most competent people to do this backing up process, I wouldn't trust my stuff to work well on the new system (especially big plugins with complex installations).

The practical way of doing something like that is to prepare for it at the installation stage.
You make a fresh OS install, install your programs, updates, and get everything in order, then you use another computer or a Linux live disc to image your whole partition.
This way when you make a fresh install you son't actually need to reinstall anything (not even the OS), as you just revert the whole partition to what it was at the time it was imaged.
The downside is that all your programs will be exactly as they were at that time, so you'll need to update them, maybe change your settings, etc. but it still requires less time than reinstalling everything from scratch.

should I just make the new thread?

does anyone here make money off their music or is the market to saturated?

what are the small steps and how do I learn them

don't do it buddy. you'll miss all the cool shit with AI and VR coming in the next 30 years

Can confirm.
When I first started I was happy for being able to do the simplest shit like filter sweeps or the simplest chord progressions.
I knew everything sounded like shit, but I always kept in mind that my idols took many years to reach that level and that they were just as incompetent as me in the beginning.
I kept learning and applying the small things I learned and before I knew it I could make music that I was proud of.
Yes, those songs were clearly below the level of published music, but I always kept in mind that it's not supposed to be, so I never brought myself down. I compared my latest songs to my older songs and saw clear improvement, which motivated me by showing me that if I can keep improving like this I'll eventually become as good as my idols.
If I had compared those same songs to successful ones in their genre, I'd have lost all motivation.

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>you'll miss all the cool shit with AI and VR coming in the next 30 years
Like what?
Automation taking all the jobs and the world turning into a dystopia where everyone is poor except a ruling class of oligarchs that own all the machines and can protect themselves from the unlivable hell that global warming will turn our planet into?

reminder we only have 30 years till global warming is irreversible

started using xfer cthulhu, its pretty cool

id like to improve this as well, in school we used to have exercises to improve it but it wasnt anything that complicated and im not sure how much it helped

clyp.it/uom1oao1

i want to make 'ambient pop' but im not good at making things. however it is fun

It already is.
30 years at this rate and we'll be all dead, but even if humans magically reverted to stone age hunter-gatherer societies, the effects will still be very drastic on our planet (in terms of survivability of the current flora and fauna, which includes us).

clyp.it/nkkpsytk

Could someone hook me up with a Hey There Deliah type beat? Grimy/ muddy/ noise. Thanks.

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You gotta figure them out yourself. Yeah, really shitty answer, but think about this way: You wanna be good one day, but there's like a million things you need to learn and master to get there. These are your steps along the way. There's all kinds of resources out there that can guide you through some of it, but it's literally impossible to make a step-by-step guide that would work for everyone. Being able to continually figure out those steps is what separates those who eventually become good from those who just play around a little. One obvious way to figure out some steps is to learn some music theory, so you can recognize the individual building blocks and how you might put them together one by one, which is basically what you'll get by reading a "how to compose" guide. Other than that, it's just things like listening to your work in progress and noticing what you can improve, listening to someone else's work and recognizing something you can try out too, or getting critique in the form of "you really need to work on X".

what if i cant do that and am really stuck
a track i made 2 years ago sounds better than what i make today, except just for the noisy gear