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Previous thread:
I'm no scientist so take what I say with a pinch of salt, but in short:
We evolved our brain at a time where food was scarce and survival (and consequently reproduction) was highly uncertain.
This primitive brain kept us alive by releasing a neurotransmitter called dopamine into certain areas of our brain (which causes them to activate more and to gives us pleasure) whenever we achieved or obtained something that we think will increase our chances at survival, reproduction, or that we simply wanted (which was still likely indirectly because of survival and reproduction).
Whenever we found/got food, killed an enemy, had sex, etc. we'd get some dopamine, which would make us want to do it more to feel good again.
Those who had this mechanism to feel good when doing things that increased their chances of passing on their genes, while those that didn't either ended up dying or not reproducing as much, so their non-dopamine-driven genes weren't passed on.
Unfortunately this dopamine-based way that our brain has to treat goals is still persistent today that we live in a society where the actions we take to achieve our important goals aren't immediately met with the dopamine release that will give you a sense of gratification that will encourage us to work on them (since they're long term and we may need to work years without any gratification before we finally see some results).
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There are three keys to exploit this system to our advantage:
1- Get rid (or reduce as much as possible) anything that gives you dopamine without actually improving your life (porn, videogames, social media, sugary and fatty foods, etc.) because chances are your whole reward system is completely fucked right now, so you need to make it work normally again. You don't have to go cold turkey (although if you have the willpower it's the most effective way). Even a gradual reduction of these activities will be beneficial.
2- Practice delayed gratification and discipline (in every part of your life, as it's like a muscle and your overall sense of discipline will get trained no matter what kind of discipline you practice)
3- Break down your big goals into a hierarchy of smalller subgoals (and those into even smaller subgoals and so on, until) so you can get that sense of accomplishment when you complete them (with that dopamine release that you're hardwired to seek) and you'll be able to slowly start getting used to completing tasks (since they're small and easy) and once you pick up steam you can just rely on the discipline you'll have developed.
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Now, merely accomplishing these small goals may not give you the dopamine release, so you may need to give yourself some sort of reward to trigger it.
Some people use food (a piece of chocolate every time they achieve the goal), entertainment (an episode on Netflix), or whatever they find works for them.
You can definitely go full Pavlov and use positive reinforcement (associating something pleasant with a good behavior), negative reinforcement (removing something unpleasant after a good behavior), positive punishment (associating something unpleasant with a bad behavior), and negative punishment (removing something pleasant after a bad behavior) on yourself as if you were using it on a dog or another person, and employ it gradually over time so it becomes habit. This is very effective because our habits are almost entirely controlled by our subconscious, so training it from that angle is more effective than going for our conscious actions.
Just avoid using rewards and punishments outside of this conditioning to not dilute them and reduce their effectiveness.
Personally I found that rewarding myself with the activities that I'm trying to avoid only gets me closer to fall back into them so I opted for a slight variation of what people call the "Jerry Seinfeld strategy" (google it).
Basically I make a table with seven columns (one for each day of the week) and a bunch of rows (one for each thing I plan to do every day). When I complete it I make an X in blue on the corresponding cell, and when the day goes by without me completing it, I make an X in red. This gives me the reward feeling of completing the task (I know, it seems like such an insignificant thing but it's actually very effective) without being something that I'm trying to avoid.
At the bottom of every column there's a vertical space for one weekly task per day, for those things that you want to do regularly but not daily.
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Another effective aspect of this is that an excellent way of getting rid of bad habits that we unconsciously keep falling back into, is to call our attention to them by writing them down, so in your daily task you can put something like "don't watch YouTube videos" and if you do, put a red X on the day you did.
Once you get going you'll feel strongly compelled to not break the chain and you'll definitely hate seeing the red cells.
The original Seinfeld technique involves a single page with a full year's worth of days for a single X per day.
This doesn't really work for me because if I fail too much I get discouraged and throw the whole thing away, while if it's weekly you can just start over the next week without your streak being tainted (this can be a double-edged sword so be careful), and it also allows for multiple small goals, which are important for the reward thing from earlier.
The list is printed on a small credit-card-sized pocket mod (google it) booklet that I always carry with me so I can immediately update it (it has to be physical, as digital stuff doesn't work as well).
The booklet has a front cover, 6 internal pages, and a back cover/page.
On the cover I have my name and the dates, then on the first 4 pages I have 4 weeks (1 week per page, but my first one had 2 weeks per page, and you may want to experiment with 2-week booklets too, so you can change the goals faster if it's printed), which leaves 2 pages + the back for a list of one-off things I want to get done.
There are a lot of other systems (Bullet Journal and David Allen's GTD seem to be two good ones), but my life is simple enought that this is more than sufficient (which is also an advantage for procrastinators like me who might not have the motivation to keep up with a complex system like those).
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what vsts and samples did early 2000s trance and rave music use
I strongly recommend going for a first "trial run" month where you test which goals (and their intensity) you want, so if you fail you don't ruin the whole thing by getting discouraged right away.
Start slow with goals that you're sure to complete without too much effort, and go up from there.
It's much better to take baby steps and initially focus on building the habit and mindset (even if you don't accomplish much), than to go full throttle and get burned out after only accomplishing shit for a few days.
It takes about a months for repeated behaviors to become habits, so be patient.
Admittedly I haven't always accomplished everything, but compared to before, now I accomplish a hundred times more than before, and I'm consistently improving, so if you see a lot of red, don't take it too badly if you're still being much more productive than before.
Give me some time and I'll upload the PSD files so you can make your own.
>TL;DR:
1- Divide your goals into smaller subgoals, than divide those into even smaller subgoals and so on, until you have small and easy tasks that you can accomplish easily.
2- Print a table with 7 columns (one for each day of the week) and a bunch of rows (one for every task that you want to accomplish daily).
3- Carry the table with you and when you accomplish the task put a blue X on the corresponding square, and when you don't, put a red one.
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PS: It's very late here and I can't be bothered to proofread. If something doesn't make sense, let me know and I'll try to clarify.
You broke my combo dude.
Could you please delete your post and repost it?
This way my autism doesn't hurt me and your post doesn't get buried.
Please man I'll post my feet if you do.
here is a list of vsts from different eras
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good shit my dude, thanks for taking time to write all that out
Mixing and mastering is fucking easy. Just put your track in Ozone8 and hit auto
You're welcome my friend.
I'm setting up the templates right now, but I need to remake some parts so it's gonna take a bit.
If you don't have Photoshop you can tell me what to put in and I'll make one for you if you want (I won't judge lol, it certainly won't be as ebarrassing as mine).
I'll upload the blank ones too anyway so you can write them in or type them with MS Paint or something.
Nice posts. Thanks.
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updated the breaks and improved the bass
what do you think about this now?
Thanks for posting. I am familiar with Jerry's method but I never thought about applying it to music production.
>trance
I would guess hardware. Roland shits, Juno, Korg M1.
>rave
Sample CDs from Zero-G, Jungle Warfare, ... the list goes on.
You've somehow made it worse...
what were you studying
what made it worse
You're welcome.
Forgot to add:
This isn't the perfect universal method that's supposed to be infallible for everyone.
This is just what worked for me, and those are the reasons why I started using it.
Everyone's different and in a different situation, so experimenting with different methods is a must, but I think a simple system like this is worth trying for everyone who needs to get their shit together.
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So much. That one cheesy bass on top that starts with major thirds C C E E~ C C E E~~
while the background pads are these dark edgy chords and they just don't fit together thematically.
Random mix of breaks that is all over the place.
Reposting:
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Would this composition be salvageable with better mixing? It's one of the first things I ever came up with, and I recently redid the ending and recorded it. The sample at the end is going to get shortened up, by the way.
It's supposed to sound like a '90s video game piece or one of those lo-fi ROMpler tracks black metal guys used to make in their side projects.
I'm not really sure what I think of it anymore.
Those styles aren't my area of expertise and I don't know about VSTs from that era, but I imagine there would have still been a lot of Roland sounds in use, whether from the JV or XV synths or just drum samples. I know the JP-8000 was huge for '90s trance due to the supersaw sound.
mastering is unironically easy and it honestly annoys the shit out of me how many fucking people will insist that you should never ever ever do it yourself because it's a black magic that will make or break your track
>I make a table with seven columns (one for each day of the week) and a bunch of rows
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holy fuck you never disappoint man
nah, real talk this is good advice, but i'm afraid you're attempting to break something down much bigger than could be addressed in a few Yea Forums posts.
Also i'd imagine unhealthy associations with blue and red after this conditioning :^)
>It's one of the first things I ever came up with
bruh you can't get too attached to old songs, distracts you from just leaving bad ideas behind and just making good ones
also that melody is beachboys lol
... honestly i have no idea what you're going for here, so i'm going to go with no it's not worth bothering with.... then again i have no idea what side projects of black metal dudes sound like. (Link me some pls)
explain impedance to me like I'm 5
>real talk this is good advice
Thank you.
>but i'm afraid you're attempting to break something down much bigger than could be addressed in a few Yea Forums posts.
Of course. This is stuff they write series of books about and psychologists keep researching and debating. There's so much more complexity and nuance, and as I said, everyone's different; but regardless of the situation you're in, if you're having a productivity problem, trying a system like this will most likely be beneficial even if you have more serious issues at the core.
Any improvement is better than no improvement.
>Also i'd imagine unhealthy associations with blue and red after this conditioning :^)
Heh, never thought of that.
Well, technically we're already hardwired to see blue as calming and reassuring and red as exciting and attention-demanding, so this method would only be reinforcing what you already have in your mind.
You can always mark it in other ways, like with a dot when you accomplish the task and an X when you don't, all in a single color (this is also good for carrying around a single pen).
i made it cheesy on purpose
i thought it was funny
it's generalized electrical resistance, it really depends on what context you're referring to
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I'm talking about the "dungeon synth" type of stuff, although I hate that name. You'd sometimes hear it on actual black metal releases, but it was usually done on the side.
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This one is particularly pungent:
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I don't necessarily want the melancholic feeling those guys went for (my melodies had a naive, childlike feeling to them whether I wanted them to sound that way or not), but I'm otherwise trying to go for something fairly similar in terms of sound. I really like the rough, homemade-sounding production and corny '90s PCM patches that they used.
Oh, shoulda just called it that
... yeah you're off the mark. Move on man
I was afraid to hear that it wasn't any good. I'm short on old material I think would be fit to release and didn't want to move on until I fixed them up.
I think I even ended up making things worse as far as production goes. Just as a comparison, here's the original track I made back in 2011:
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It wouldn't be such a bad thing if it wasn't such a sunken cost.
On the positive side, I've got so many unfinished pieces that it shouldn't take as long to come up with something better. Plus I've got a few field recordings I can use.
hes right though if he is really leaving youtube are kikes its free to use for a reason because they are abusing you to get shekels
Jahseh was essentially a clout martyr.
Everyone is claiming this was a random robbery, but it's clear what was actually happening: his killers were driven to take his life solely for the sake of clout. They wanted infamy of their own and found it in gunning down a 20-year old.
As Jah was taking his final breath, he was surrounded by kids taking video and pictures of him. Why? For clout. No one was taking his pulse, no one was calling 911, everyone was standing around with their phones out as his body was clinging to life.
The moral lesson of Jahseh's life story should be a cautionary tale of the horrors of social media and how it's fucked ou.r society beyond belief.
RIP Jah. See you in Heaven.
>20$/month
jesus christ
>literally who hip-hop tutorials
>$20/month on MY OWN platform :^)
dumb fucking move. this guy can't be that with it if he doesn't see that that's basically suicide; youtube is an ad for your own shit at that level, he shouldn't be giving a fuck about ad revenue
He's the dude who got caught pirating FL Studio from his videos not once but TWICE.
He's obviously an absolute moron so this is not a surprise at all.
Extremely rough draft IDM piece. Thoughts and critiques?
Would aspiring trap producers really be willing to pay $20 per month?
I may be a victim of stereotypes but they don't strike me as the type to do such thing.
Just need to add the vocals to 'that's not my name by the ting tings
Why do I get anxious and start overthinking everytime I open Ableton, I just want to make music ffs. I have no idea coming up, I've been in a block for about a month. send help
Maybe listening to and analyzing some songs for inspiration would help?
I had the same thing for decades. Its because you want what you're doing to sound right but you can't get it. Just practice, and be easy on yourself. Give yourself a small goal then open ableton. eg, make a good drum loop. Don't forget that every issue you have is answered by google, just a matter of wording it.
Sorry for taking too long.
Here are the files:
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The instructions are at the bottom of the included README.txt file.
If you see anything wrong with it please let me know.
Pic related is an example of how it should look like (except every page is different here, while you'll probably have the same 4 pages).
I'm going to bed now. Good night.
nice
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I'm new to prod which is why i lurk here, this and your other one both sound like film music to me. good call on the 90s rpg vibe tho i hear that. production wise idk, but computationally they're both really cool. are we allowed to post composition and theory stuff in this thread?
trying to turn a pop dance song and give it a darker vibe. hows it sounding?
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finished it up thoughts
the tone on the kick is cool but it's way toofucking loud and repetitive. composition wise it basically doesn't exist
composition wise, * not computionally
it sounds like the kick gets fucked up around 40-60 seconds those big aggressive synth chords in the background right before shes singing, those should be llouder
>clyp.it
hey you fixed that bass thing I complained about, thanks dude! I like the composition, the snare (or scraper w.e) sounds a tiny bit out of place but it might be fine.
Whatcha think of the mix? The vocals work? In there? Its a rap tune, I guess.
>it sounds like the kick gets fucked up around 40-60 seconds
how so like off rythem? i noticed when i uploaded it kinda sounds off beat between 40 and 49 seconds so def gonna fix that.
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IT IS MORNING IN ITALY WTF
thanks though
>I guess
"hard as ice" especially sounds rushed. nitpicky but i'd try to relax the flow timing a bit... it's not really *locked* into the groove
... but it's a dope song man
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Would love some feedback. Something feels off?
the music is in a triplet swing and the drums are not
>clyp.it
literally bad note at :35, :40, and :57 , replay the solo
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remove the autistic earrape part
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do people listen to this stuff unironically?
what?
Can you rec me some good free reverbs? (abanbonware accepted)
I already use abletons, TALs and blackhole.
I'm in the mood to make some bullshit hipster tape loop ambient music. What's a really cheap 4 track I can get online?
valhalla can be free
Whats a good midi controller that will amplify the amount of fun I have producing? Opening Ableton fills me with dread.
>IT IS MORNING IN ITALY WTF
I'm a NEET. Time is but a number to me.
>thanks though
You're welcome.
Access Virus, Access Virus, Access Virus
If you can play keys anything with an actual wheel pair and weighted keys.
If not just get that little akai everyone shills.
Obviously, I know this one, but I don't want to use it.
I was wondering if there was nice discontinued reverbs somewhere that deserved to be preserved if you see what I mean.
My favorite part about instaudio is how it doesn't autoplay and shows me the spectrum chart so I can lower my system volume appropriately. Troll "IDM" posters got cucked hard by the clyp account required thing.
>I'm so poor instead of using something like flstudio i use audacity and a 1980s casio MA-101
>mfw it sounds better anyway
Demarcus which operating system are you running?
Is it Windows 10?
Check this out:
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If you have Windows 7 or 8/8.1 it should basically be the same, but it will look a bit different.
im back
this is good guys i swear
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Why is the thread so dead?
is this what you retards call fucking music? heres a hint, making a bunch of autistic fucking noises and calling it music is not something anyone wants to listen to except pretentious assholes.
Yes, I do. If you find any, please reply here.
Other than the TAL one I use a spring reverb from that website for the free vsts. It's called vee spring or something? I can check later if you want, it sounds pretty good to me.
why does it trigger you so much
it's too messy and loud
could use a song or melody to make it not just a boring dance beat
>are we allowed to post composition and theory stuff in this thread?
I would say go for it.
I'm wondering how to make it more interesting without those 2 things, or too much percussion. I'm already modulating the delays a bit.
It's supposed to be more ambient like
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obviously theirs is much better than mine but this is the first attempt ive made
Look no further
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it won't be interesting cuz it'll just be the same basic set of sounds repeating for a few minutes
did you listen to the track I linked?
How do I into mastering
>He's the dude who got caught pirating FL Studio from his videos not once but TWICE.
Lel, is this real? I get once but how could it happen twice?
IIRC the first time he was just using a pirated copy, then when caught he bought the cheap basic license but kept using the full version in his videos with a friend's license.
no I'm talking about a different track
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The example track you posted has more movement in the harmony. It pulls you forward and pulls you back in two measures. Your track stagnates playing the same chord four times before moving somewhere but when it does move somewhere it goes off linearly and doesn't resolve back to the first chord such that it feels like you're walking up a staircase and once you get the top you're immediately transported back to the start. The analogy for your example song would be like walking in a circle; the last chord resolves back into the first.
>Use vst compressor / saturation / eq
>tweaking settings forever to get a good sound
>try hardware compressor
>immediately sounds perfect
why tho
>Your track stagnates playing the same chord four times before moving somewhere but when it does move somewhere it goes off linearly and doesn't resolve back to the first chord such that it feels like you're walking up a staircase and once you get the top you're immediately transported back to the start.
Can you word this part differently? I mean, I think I get what you are saying but still. Thanks for the respond
cringe
because of the flow of electricity
You have boomer ears.
fucking retard... i've always felt there was something slimy about him and the way he spoke and made his videos
Yeah, he talks in that "youtuber salesman" way that nobody talks in in real life, and he's clearly one of those "live for the hustle" type of guys.
If you find the information in his videos useful, good for you, but there are so many other resources to ght it from that don't make you want to kill yourself 2 minutes into them, so why bother with these youtube "teachers"?
It seems many peoplehave excellent mixing/engineering skills, but know literally dick about arranging and music theory....... I'm a pro musician I play instruments live on stage, but i know next to nothing about mixing and instrument-design..... Does someone who's good at mixing and mastering want to collab with me? i can churn out amazing sounding hooks and chords effortlessly, literally, I just suck dick at mastering and making instruments. Ableton user btw, but open to change..... anyone listning??
>tfw garbage at both composition and mixing
I'm good at shitposting though. Are you interested in that?
Is anyone gonna crack this soon (EWQL Hollywood Choirs) or should I just download Symphonic Choirs + Wordbuilder instead?
There's 2-3 youtube guys that are worth it in my opinion, but to find them i had to watch quite a bit of videos.
>hooks and chords
let's see?
>There's 2-3 youtube guys that are worth it in my opinion
Which ones?
julian earle
mg tha future (for hip hop)
sadowick
seamless is good to but he's outside of what i need
those are whose tutorials i watch sometimes. i don't watch too many tutorials now in general tho
there's some broader channels like the pensando's place one and that david bruce composer guy that are nice too
Didn't know the first two ones, thank you.
>mix song with speakers
>sounds good
>plug in headphones
>sounds like shit
haha
this looks like the ableton font
I mix everything with my (allegedly) neutral headphones that I've had for years, but the songs sound weird on my friend's sound system. I don't know what to trust.
the first guy talks weird but you get used to it after a while
Any tips on how to get an album to sound ike this? I.E. that raw, muddy 70's rock sound?
Micing tecniques, amps, etc?
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>t. boomer
Always.
i'm an above average shit poster, maybe we can collab some day.
i mean, i churned out these licks in like an hour, i realize it's not pro, but i'm doing it all on my own... if I had a studio with guitars/pianos/basses i could dolike 5 songs a day easily before my noon cigarette break.
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it's not that bad, admit it
>i'm an above average shit poster
I don't believe you
>it's not that bad
Ok I believe you.
not a pro at DAW definitely a pro at performing on stage tho** looking for an audio engineer to work with me.
Get an old marshall amp and crank the pre amp.
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It's like I'm watching the weather channel. Where is the hook that you talked about though?
>instaud.io
Oh. MDYY guy. Terrible; completely out of time lead -- I don't care if it was improvised.
>it's not that bad, admit it
Bro
... can't tell if this is also a shitpost or not. Doing that aaaalllll on your own doesn't mean shit either, most people are now a days
My man are you sure you're a pro musician? You can't even stay in time
Has anyone here bought Komplete or Reaktor?
What happens when NI updates one of their products with new libraries (like they just did, adding Reaktor Blocks stuff)?
Do you get it downloaded with the in-program updater, or you need to download the new components individually and add them to your library?
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I'm on 10 so never experienced reaktor 6 but everything is generally done with their updater.
Even new presets and stuff that gets added instead of updated?
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for as long as I've been on it (>3~ years?) they've never added content, so idk why you'd ask that. Maybe that's just something they've done with reaktor and I haven't payed attention, but afaik it's only ever been big fixes and comparability stuff.
They added new stuff a few days ago, that's why I'm asking.
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Thanks, that's good to hear. Soundtrack music is actually what initially got me into piddling around with music in the first place, and I still work in that frame of mind.
Maybe I'll still release it at some point after mixing it better and cleaning things up, not that it's first-rate material.
All I can recommend is the obvious advice of using vintage-style gear and staying as analog as possible. You might want to look into the equipment those bands used and find cheaper modern alternatives (ex., buying Epiphones and upgrading them rather than buying Gibson stuff). Lemmy's bass sound is supposedly hard to nail without a Rickenbacker, and there isn't really a budget-friendly alternative to those due to Rickenbacker being so lawsuit-happy with other companies imitating them.
As for amps, Orange is putting out solid-state ones seem to have great reputations.
Recording on a reel-to-reel machine would be ideal, but that's also expensive. I'm sure there are plugins out there that focus on simulating that if you're into that sort of thing. A four-track cassette recorder is another option if you want more of a DIY sound.
These things should get you most of the way there. I'm neither a cork sniffer nor much of a guitarist, though, so take all this with a grain of salt.
Haters gonna hate, my music toches your soul and ur too afraid to admit it. Work with me not agianst me, the world already has plenty of faggots, please don't add to the total.
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shut the fuck up bitch. why did you have to bring gays into it? homophobe cunt
YOUR PUSSY FLAT TIREEE
Hm, well when you initially install you set up the directory, so it would probably just use that to update the library. If not, reaktor isn't hard to install to anyway.
Lol
Ok buddy, enjoy making your Mario Paint music
literally faggots who cant appreciate mario paint
ah so this is the above average shitposting you mentioned
lol
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My dudes I get nothing done. Just snippets and small music ideas. The worst thing about is is that i'm starting to believe hardware music production will help the creative boost (i play many instruments and i'm very easily distracted by gaming/the internet). Guys how do you get your shit done? Any talented fuckers here like me that actually gets stuff done?
Risky
It's just me, your friendly neighborhood tripfag!
What could go wrong?
Just open the .txt file if you don't want to download the .zip archive.
Forgot trip.
don't download this it creates mustard gas
>tfw you spent the entire night making something for Anons and nobody even downloads it to check it out
I downloaded the image that you posted here :3
Mate we'd love to see it but downloading a random .txt from mediafire that shit is risky
I highly doubt you can get malware from a .txt file, but here it is on pastebin:
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It's the same as the long posts at the begnning of the thread but slightly altered and with some proofreading.
Don't worry I'll add it to the sticky pastebin when I get home :^)
I'll give you 10/10 for effort I hope this works for someone. Good read however from a neuropsychological perspective it's way to simplistic to reduce motivation to the mesolimbic pathway and simple conditioning since the frontal lopes are the main location of executive functioning
I saw it now and found it very useful. Keep posting it in future threads, more people will definitely like it.
How are you gonna use it with all the text on top?
Here's the same thing with the empty spaces. It has all 4 types of tables (weekly and bi-weekly, with and without the 7 weekly tasks) so you can copy-paste them to your liking.
You can just use this without the PSDs if you want.
Not sure if it should be there, but sure, I'd be ok with that.
Thank you.
>I'll give you 10/10 for effort I hope this works for someone. Good read
Thank you very much.
>however from a neuropsychological perspective it's way to simplistic to reduce motivation to the mesolimbic pathway and simple conditioning
True, and as I said here it's not about the whole picture. It's just a productivity system that's based on one effective way to make us want to achieve our goals.
>since the frontal lopes are the main location of executive functioning
Yes, but that's about the conscious behaviors (which are still of course very significant, especially in developing a sense of discipline).
The whole productivity method is about the unconscious habits and the lack of motivation that prevent people from being drawn to achieving goals (which I think should be the first step to take if you have trouble working on your goals, like many of us here), which is in great part regulated by the systems mentioned in the pastebin.
And as I mentioned in the text, once you get going, you'll be used to working and achieving goals because thanks to this dopamine-driven "kickstart" you'll have started to develop actual discipline, as regulated by the prefrontal cortex.
This isn't to dominate all your behaviors. It's just to get you up and running if you're a worthless fuckup that spends all day procrastinating and not working (see and for context).
You seem to know much more than me (a pop-sci simpleton) though, so if I'm saying something that doesn't make sense please correct me.
Here's the order and orientation of the pages.
sure, here's couple of beats
>How are you gonna use it with all the text on top?
Thank you; I saved those two images as well.
It's that I was planning on using them. More like I wanted to save them to be occasionally reminded of your post while I am browsing my image folder for something cheeky to post.
Thanks to your posts yesterday I did think about what my smaller goals would be.
>Listen to the Dreams stems and cut out samples that I want to use
>Play around with the samples in a tracker
>Rework samples as necessary with respect to pitch and speed
>Play around some more in a tracker
>Download Reaper
>Export audio from the tracker and mess around with EQ and mixing in Reaper
>Upload to instaud.io and shit post it here
I haven't even started step 1 yet. Maybe next weekend.
>Good read however from a neuropsychological perspective it's way to simplistic to reduce motivation to the mesolimbic pathway and simple conditioning since the frontal lopes are the main location of executive functioning
explain what this means and how to use it to improve motivation
That's good user.
I was mainly talking about repeated tasks that you can do daily (for example "spend 30 minutes synthesizing sounds from scratch" as part of the "learn sound design" goal that's itself part of the bigger "learn production" goal), but subdividing individual tasks into smaller ones is also a very good way to accomplish them.
Just remember to write them down on physical paper and to mark them one by one as you finish them, otherwise it's not nearly as effective.
>I haven't even started step 1 yet. Maybe next weekend.
Noooo.
Cmon man, you can do it.
Thanks lads! Sorry for late reply.
Yeah, I think going as analog as possible and maybe recording to a 4 or 8-track should do the trick. The albums I posted are fairly poorly mixed to put it bluntly, but I love how they sound so using similar equipment should get me there pretty quickly if I'm lucky.
Trying out some vapour ambient shit
What do you think?
Now that I re-read it, it's not exactly clear that this is about getting started being productive, so I made a couple of changes (pic related).
Is it correct now?
why the hell is this?
vocaroo.com
Yes it's fine mate gj!
best thing to come out of this thread since the remix contest
Sample roulette was such fun man. We should bring it back boys
But I still need to do Dreams!
Next weekend I'll get started. Next weekend for sure! ;_;
Fuck. I spent my entire day looking up Playstation Music 2000 and fantasizing about making with my PS1. Hopefully there will be no internet in the world of my next life.
fuck this shit if you should do it just for fun, if you need (((((motivation))))) something is wrong
extra "if" because I'm drunk
Thank you.
Here's the updated version that doesn't expire in a month:
pastebin.com
Not sure if diss or compliment...
Yes, obviously this is for people who have something wrong with them, like depression and/or a fucked up reward system.
Besides, I'm not just using it for music, but for everything in my life that I want to improve.
why i cant seem to learn to sing past the middle C without straining
I feel you; it took me forever to get comfortable singing the D above middle C and I can only hit E on a good day. How low can go you? The B two octaves below middle C is where I tap out. I would trade an octave of low notes just to be able to sing to the A above middle C though.
Practice more without straining, maybe?
i can make a breathy G (the g on the lowest string of the guitar)
but if i use fry (which doesnt count i think) i can go one octave below the A of the A string at least
i cant practice without straining that's the point
>g on the lowest string of the guitar
Hmm, that ruins my idea that we just have low voices not suited for higher notes.
i can hit a screechy B4 or even C5 (middle C is C4) when i'm warmed up but my voice goes away after a couple attempts
After making some research, I found one called Iril River. It's free and so far, I think it doesn't sound bad.
>Iril River
You mean Oril River?
You just download, install and register them with their program. Everything goes through this program, even registering third party libraries.
yes
is it open source tho
whats the point at recording music if most people (including me) is going to hear it in shitty equipment.
Like it sounds really good when it is just midi in my synths.
Hop to it lad, use drugs if you have to.
I'd whether or not it sounds good rides that heavily on the reproduction your writing needs improvement.
how hard is it to come up with a good rock mix & master in Logic if you have basically zero knowledge of how to mix? Could I get by with just a YouTube tutorial or something?
Cool, thanks.
I love you guys. Have a good night. I'll see you next weekend!
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vocaroo.com
nite nite user i'm going too
bump for this
Do you think this is worth continuing at all? I was doing something completely different with it but scrapped it and came up with this in a few minutes.
what sort of vocals would go over this? Like would this be for trap rap or like, trip hop or something?
just regular rap vocals
not trap necessarily
also I deleted and reuploaded it because I was signed out of my instuad for some reason before
eh pretty relaxing sounding.
>watch music tutorial
>presenter has shit vocal production
Holy shit, I'll give this guy half a pass for being retarded but fuck bro, spend some money on a mic.
No, mastering is pretty important if you want it sounding right. There are so many problems with mixes that aren't fixed easily and lead to ear fatigue for the listener. Grimes is a good example of an artist that has bad mastering and makes it impossible to listen to. Death magnetic, etc. Bad mastering can damage hearing. If you care about your music and listener mastering's important.
so i put a vocal plugin on my kick drum and turned the all the way down while leaving the pitch at normal position. this gives a nice low-quality sound to the drum but only problem is there's phasing in my kick drum now, very obvious as well. is there a way to mimic this sound without it phasing?
what exactly is mastering
Don't know, I think any remedy to the phasing will change the sound badly. You could leave it as is and not care or reduce the sides up to 100- 200 hz. Use a mono chorus like Black Cat's instead. Probably anything you do will kill the effect.
>multiband compressor preset
>limiter
ez pz
Post your masters.
Muh alocholism peaked its head today and now mum is worried/mad :(
Time to drugs/morrowind my feelings and contemplate my neet life
Gonna look over it tomorrow... or tonight, will see
Remind me to listen to because I love that shit
Saturaration, (maybe) vos slick eq or multi band compression, Limiter no 6
My life changed when I discovered clipping>mastering, real talk, secret weapons level technique
Meant clipping>hard limiting
Soft into clipper is good too
anybody or nah
>Time to drugs/morrowind my feelings
good taste my friend
I'm at the point when even listening to music makes me irritated, I don't know what to do anymore lads. This creative block is eating me alive. I've tried everything you guys can come up with, I'm experiencing the same dread, the same anxiety, the same anger.
List of things I tried:
-switching DAWs
-taking a day break, taking a week break
-going outside
-started exercising 3 times a week
-socializing (inconsistent)
-trying out genres
-switching up workflow
only thing left is going from software to hardware but I'm broke as fuck and it'd be a waste of money I think.
write
that way you'll have a material for when you feel like making music again
Thoughts and critiques? Updated tons of stuff, now sounds varied, new textures, etc.
I feel the same, since I started doing this more "seriously", I get anxiety from it, it's like my mind is constantly trying very hard to find how to make this shit work, I'm obsessed with it.
I know I'm overthinking it, but that's how I can get more ideas.
It also kinda ruined the fun of listening to the music I want to make because I'm always analyzing it, trying to guess how to replicate that sound (fortunately, I can listen to other kinds of music without doing this).
Well, nobody said it was easy.
Use a distortion like d16's vst instead, they've got tons of low fi presets.
You have to identify your weaknesses. Firstly if you don't have a musical ear you're not going to make it and should probably give up.
Best thing to learn music is learn piano or guitar, play around on it, basic music theory, try and make tunes.
The whole production side is difficult to learn on its own let alone becoming a musician if you don't have any kind of musicality to you
what is a musical ear and how do i figure out if i have one
I don't know man, if you have to ask you probably dont have it.
Things like you enjoy messing round on a instrument, you can sing, you sing harmonies along to songs you hear, you drum with your hands in time. You're obsessed with music and playing it
>if you don't have this just give up
>what it is
>idunno lol.
incredible. Even over the internet I can tell what your skin color is.
literally everyone can do that shit
>he doesn't drum with his fingers on the table
>he doesn't use play his legs like bongos
just give up man
No they can't, in terms of singing I mean in tune
Hey fuck you, you know what a musical ear is
well like only 3% of the population is tone deaf so literally 97% of people can do it, assuming they've been exposed to music at all in their life
That's utter bullshit
very hard
you need experince, means you need to be doing it over and over, mixing downloadable stems and practice tracks, mixing shit for your friends and random bands for free, constantly comparing to tracks you like in that genre, spotting where your results are different and researching on what you're doing wrong and how you can improve on the flaws you found at the same time.
this takes a shitload of time so you better get started right now
what a shit advice
en.wikipedia.org
read up niggas
tl;dr if you like music you have a """musical ear"""
ok appreciate the response, user.
the ones that had just come out in the early 2000s my dude
listen to me right now, this could save you years of wasted time
a bad song can never be made good through better mixing or mastering. if you are even at the point where you're asking yourself that, then you have mentally strayed off the rails and need to back the fuck up and reality check the situation. i'm not saying that tracks is good or bad but when you figure that out for yourself you need to leave mixing and mastering out of the equation. otherwise you are only fooling yourself
i literally just deleted this part of my brain by forcing myself to write tunes. i wrote about 100 in one year (one every two, three days. they were all finished tunes, no half assed 16 bar loops allowed) they were all TRASH. but at the end of that timespan the entire concept of mental block had been destroyed
this post is like every dunning kruger in this general combined into one clusterfuck