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first for skrillex is a cool guy and a good producer
second for skrillex is a weirdo and shit producer
third for skrillex is a cool guy and a good producer
can you not
that feel when never heard skrillex
The first electronic music album to sell 1 million copies was made by a tranny
Ever heard the saying less is more? Sometimes it actually is.
If you like effects chains and want hardware then rack units or guitar pedals are the way to go but they don’t come without hassle of cables, mixers, etc.
My computer died recently and before that I was using a mix of hardware and software, but now I’m forced to use just hardware and I’m kinda liking it.
Some people also just like having hardware to play with I’m personally much more attached to my hardware effects units than I am with any of the software I own, plus unless you are pirating all your software the resell value of hardware is much more than software and doesn’t need firmware updates or get dropped by developers.
Plus some hardware things are hard to emulate in software.
Hi
why is this general so dead
Nobody likes music anymore.
We've all moved to painting.
shitposting and arguing in the recent threads has made them too obnoxious to be in
this but i also hope that people are just too busy making music, thats my headcanon.
r8 chords boys
Interfaccia grafica passato remoto di sapere?
English please my guy.
Are you ?
maybe it's just a typo
yeah, im not italian and google trannyslate isnt making much sense
Asking again since I didn't get an answer yesterday
What are some good ambient/experimental labels I can send my music to?
What should I keep in mind when approaching them? Does anyone have experience with stuff like that?
id start posting your stuff on youtube and making cool videos to go along with your music
ambient/experimental is a hard sell to any label, even those that are in genre
you need views/plays to convince them
you wanna post some of your work?
Yeah, most likely.
I'm reading Guiseppe, which I assume is actually Giuseppe (popular Italian name).
Inverting the I and the U can only make sense as Gui (graphical user interface - interfaccia grafica in Italian) seppe (which means "knew" in the "passato remoto" conjugation of the "knowing" verb).
So I just made the unfunny joke, which is now even less funny due to me explaining it.
oh shit lmao
my friends call me guiseppe because i used to wear one of those stupid italian hats
so yeah it's a typo
Do they call you GUIseppe (gooey-seppe), or GIUseppe (jew-seppe)?
more like gee-seppe
what is something in production you wish you had learnt much sooner, or maybe a mixing/composition/theory tip that improved your music massively?
Lol
How do they pronounce seppe?
sep-e
its all very mafia-like lol
incorporate more triangle
how much your room can fuck you in the ass
Hey bros,
I'm trying to get more comfortable with making my own wavetable pads, but it's been a tough learning curve. Any tips or guides on how to approach this? Thanks in advance.
agree
Start with good sounds. The effort you put into polishing a turd into something acceptable can be put into polishing a good sound into something great.
Understand everything in this video [youtube.com
Once you understand the relationship between all these different parts you can have a solid grasp on what goes on when you do something.
You can go super deep on DSP and learn everything at a coding level, but for normal producers it's not necessary. Just learn what happens to the sound when you do things like described above and it will be enough.
NB: If you're a beginner, don't do this. Focus on making songs first, and then learn this stuff when you want to make it sound good (as this knowledge mainly affects mixing, mastering and sound design).
IMO the biggest advantage of hardware is that it's much easier to get weird and unique sounds from just playing around. When I make music in my DAW I feel like I have to start with a plan and then make all the parts to fit that, but with hardware its more like just experimenting and letting the music make itself.
Use reference tracks even if you think you don't need to, and reference your song on as many speakers and headphones you can ALONG with your reference track, so you can see where your song falls short compared to it, instead of on its own.
>id start posting your stuff on youtube and making cool videos to go along with your music
>ambient/experimental is a hard sell to any label
Really? I though the fact that it was kinda niche made it a little easier
>you need views/plays to convince them
Some labels I found only accept CD submissions, would it be better to go with those in that case?
>you wanna post some of your work?
Sure, I'll post the track I'm working on rn in a second
im the same way, i much prefer hardware
yeah its kinda like that, less theatrical
Are compressors a meme?
I get how they work for making sounds punchier or more sustained, but it seems like people put them on everything. I usually only have like one or two where I actually want something punchier or more sustained and do most of my actual mixing with eqs.
I tend to set them up fairly quickly too, you can't even hear the changes that most of the settings make. I don't understand the whole 'spending hours tweaking a compressor' thing.
not a meme if you know how to use them
compression is on the same level of importance as EQ in my opinion
Play with them more, especially on mix busses. You'll never glue components together with purely just EQ, no matter how hard you try.
Music production is different from other music-making endeavors in that it's composed of Music (composition, arrangement, etc.) and Production (sound design/selection, mixing, mastering, etc.)
These two aspects largely require two different mindsets. The composition is an artistic practice, and the production is a technical one.
While there's certianly some overlap (and as you improve you start considering all parts of music production in a more holistic way when doing every part, as it's essentially only a piece of the whole), it's often beneficial to split the two into separate sessions.
It's not going to work for everyone, but for me, making the whole score with basic simple sounds and producing it into a full song later on, has been gamechanging.
Not only it's more productive, but it also leads to better results, since I'm not fooled by how good it sounds when I compose using nicer sounds.
And it helps keeping everything clean (mix-wise) too, since I can compose everything using a single midi track where I see all the notes at the same time and avoid having elements that overlap or harmonize badly.
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do we hate him for it lads?
What does gluing stuff together actually mean? Is it like putting mutilple things through a compressor makes them naturally duck each other a bit or something?
I usually find myself wanting to give things more space rather than stick them together.
I hate him regardless.
also this, it's really easy to think "yeah this sound good" until you play a reference and everything falls apart
Here's the song I'm working on right now.
Master was done in 5 minutes just so I could post it here
Any feedback welcome
>1. you don't need loads of fancy plug-ins
>2. use fruity softclipper on drums
>3. steal chord progressions using melodyne
>4. the pros use loops
>5. there is a songwriting formula that makes it a hit
>6. the pros use templates
>7. the pros use analogue sounds
>8. the pros use expensive microphones
>9. the pros recycle drums from old drum machines
>10. the pros really don't know their craft
who this nigga been around?
Himself.
He IS the biggest pro my nigga.
woah
no one, he's projecting
my right ear felt a little bit lonely during that
i like the track
it could do with more high end (maybe some strings or a saw)
its maybe too rhythmic for an ambient track
you should try to build towards a moment in your track, maybe a key change or something, just something to grab the listeners ear again
it's good, but i will be blunt and say not good enough for a label probably
keep studying the genre and exploring ideas
you will get there
>1
Periodically save your project into a new file every time so you can go back and recover anything from old versions.
You should do this regardless of the rest of the tip.
>2
When you're sure you're not going to make any other change to a midi instrument/track/channel, save the project and print the track to audio with the project version number in the filename, then use that in your project instead.
I usually make a new channel and put the audio there while keeping the old midi stuff turned off just in case, but after a few versions I just delete it (I can always recover it from the old project anyway).
By the end of the song you should have everything audio (possibly even the effects like reverbs and delays, either baked in, or on separate files) and nothing midi.
Hopefully no live third party effects either (stock stuff too, but third party plugins should especially be committed to audio).
This is so your project always works even if you don't have a plugin anymore, or if the plugin's anti-piracy locks you out (happened to me on the last day before a deadline lmao), or any other software fuckery that can happen.
It also saves a lot of CPU, and most importantly, it allows you to see how the waveforms interact with each other so you can do things like aligning the phases, or shortening/cutting something (like a tail for example) if it overlaps with something else, etc. It's especially useful for midi-programmed drums, so you can see the actual length of the hits and if they don't fit well together you can go back and change the midi before reprinting.
Freezing kinda achieves the same and it's faster, but if you don't mind taking slightly longer, this method allows for far more flexibility in many ways, and helps keeping your project folder lightweight (instead of having a 5-minute WAV of your whole track for every time you tweaked something and refroze).
1/2
When you get to the mixing stage you don't need to print everything to audio, and you can just continue working on the same project where everything is already in separate audio files perfectly aligned and alterable.
Just put them in groups (or whatever your DAW's equivalent is) to treat them together as if you had exported them in fewer merged stems.
2/2
Mastering using an LUFS loudness meter
Thanks for the feedback! It obviously needs work. I think I'll just finish the EP and send it to a label anyway, maybe it'll resonate with someone.
I like a lot of parts of it but it feels like it needs to be put together a bit better. I think that the bass loop thing that comes in at the start should sit a little lower in the mix, and maybe put a subtle, slowly modulated filter or a little bit of delay on there to keep it interesting and sort offset it back in space if you know what I mean.
I like the idea of the weird piano sound you have on the top as well, but past the intro it feels a little bit too dissonant. I think that lowering the volume of the bass and maybe low-passing it a little bit could help that though, it seems like the two sounds intefere with each other a bit.
The Jutsicefag was right, music is over.
It's a weird use of terminology, it has nothing to do with spatial manipulation of your sounds. The "glue" is two things, one is constricting all your sounds to a tighter dynamic range to reinforce the idea they were all recorded together, and two is to subject them all to the same saturation (old hardware compressors typically had some coloration to them) which helps fill out the soundscape nicely.
Basically people are so used to this sound that if you don't do it your music won't sound properly produced to them, even if they can't put why into words.
What do you guys think of soundgym?
I used it a lot when they first began and got a lot out of it. I saw a decent improvement in my perceptive listening when it came to frequency especially. But I bought a years worth of subscription for last black friday last year and have probably used it maybe less than 20 times.
I want to get back into it, but the same samples are kinda boring.
im better at making music than all of you and thats just a fact that you guys have to deal with ok
thats fine
How much does it cost?
Can it somehow be pirated?
It's browser based. They have a bit of a lite version with like half of the games for free. But there is a monthly subscription to unlock the whole thing.
Post music
Are the games in HTML5 or Flash?
How much is the monthly fee?
uhh idk probably html5. go to soundgym.co to find monthly fee, i'm not sure exactly what it is (i always try to get it on sale)
Horrid thread
Thought classical was the worst general but its actually prod
this nigga even tryin to steal my music im onto you man
Oh my days. Grim state of """producers"""
Not saying much LOL
(also not anymore ;))
Steal my tunes. See what happens
hey get outta here!
talk shit post clyp
skrillex = corporate virgin freak
#RARE HIGH SENTIENCE POST RIGHT HERE THOUGH
Oh my days. Grim state of """producers"""
Don't steal my tunes
very bad posts
literally lmfao
.
I'm Mexican
Idk like just make the tune innit LOL
dubbi pls leave
>Understand everything in this video
why
>"dubbi"
Literally WHO???
Lol check this out guys
So you can have a solid grasp on what goes on when you do something in your DAW and don't unknowingly cause problems.
Please understand everything in this infographic before making music. Thanks in advance
Fuck off, NPC
I GOT THE HORSES IN THE BACK
This meme is pretty true desu
Bump
There are practices that I thought didn't apply to me or weren't applicable that were actually critical to getting a good mix. For years there was always at least one thing I was doing wrong that if I'd just listened to what mixers and experts were saying I'd have avoided a lot of problems down the line. The technical side of production; mixing, balancing, etc are really important and you can't wing it or cut corners.
The best thing I could have done was found a mentor, someone who'd made a few albums already and knew what they were doing. It would have saved me so much time.
Cringe
cute daddy though
you ever taste his mustache?
post your studio setup
heres mine
What's a good phone for on-the-go music production?
Mine is on its last leg (pic related).
imagine being proud of this
feels like im stagnating lads, not sure what to do. i feel stuck and i dont know why. its fucking frustrating.
overpriced desktop hardware mixer with all faders unused
>check
monitors turned the wrong way
>check
no room treatment to be found, bass ports opening directly into a windowpane
>check
most gear not even turned on
>check
iMac
>check
getting on twitter to talk about "all these upcoming collabs bro just wait I know sonny personally"
>check
post yours faggot
Feeling cute today
Any single girl producer here?
theres only trannies here
Even better
Any sexy girl can contact me at pic related
Sorry, this is the correct one.
>you share a general with someone like this
what?
whats wrong with trying to smash?
What the fuck happened to his face?
he was trying to make jenkem and the bottle exploded in his face
I'm not feeling the music anymore , I used to like chords but now everything feels fucking bland and Idk why. It's frustrating. Everything is depressing ...
suicide my friend
my studio is in my bedroom also but i dont call it a studio i call it a shamble
how can one man be so ugly
loooooool fucking devin i s2g
I'm not Devin, but if he's cute tell him he can contact me here
Damn my resume is lookin SLICK
m.mixcloud.com
Devin is my wife (male)
Why does 4channel limit the frequency at which you can delete posts? Horrid site.
Which post do you want deleted?
I'll do it for you.
So do you guys do techno or something
personally a fan of 009 soundsystem
My nigga
At least it's not deadmau5's modular synth lmao
just got my hand on a sweet Roland D50 but I know horseshit about music theory, I'm just a semi-mediocre guitarist. How do I do sick improv?
use one of those like online practice things, whatever they are called flowkey or the other one
also i literally didnt even use the DAW during that "studio session" i just listened to my old tunes on the niceass monitors LOOOL
>spend a million dollars on every eurorack unit ever made
>constantly tirade about music and authenticity and originality
>albums only use filtered saw plucks made in serum and vengeance kick samples from a decade ago
>tfw steve duda has been propping your career up since 2002
can someone give me recs on a good starter mic? within the 100-200 dollar range.
>steve duda also honed his craft in Santa Cruz
sick
lol you see his new "testpilot" alias? He's trying to play "serious" edm (aka business techno) now lmfao
pathetic lil worms
I'll try that thanks. I'm getting some N64 vibes from certain patches, I can already play the OOT woods theme and some DK tunes. Making shitty dungeon synth is a great way to relax.
go away
if you can't find anything second hand that rode nt1a starter kit isn't terrible for the price desu.
definitely look in the second hand market tho
Jazz
lol why even power up the unit if there aren't patch cables even plugged in
It looks cool when ur lit af tbqh
give me your postal adress I'll send you a tape of my Crazy Frog cover, you're gonna love it
it has lots of brass
This one I'm getting a divorce
>mfw someone just sent me a 16/48 WAV file so heavily compressed poorly limited that my ISPL actually had gain reductions up to -8db
how on fucking earth do you even manage to fuck up this badly.
you forgot my last.fm tho babe. I'm not mad but please do better next time
just made this any advice?
by using fl studio
it's a nice shift from your previous hit "vlc record 2019 08 01 19h38m30s 2019 08 01 19 33 44 flv"
>when you post a new track on social media and everyone loves it
what's the best site to download free wav samples from?
youtube
They're just being polite. they don't really think those things
[spoiler]they actually think even better things[/spoiler]
big
weird
jesus i wish justicefag was back
chelsea voice tags has a nice ass
fuck off shill
bitch cant make a bed
.
.
.
btw
Can someone repost my resume?
cymatics is hiring
>clyp.it
Tune
I don't want to work sorry
why not
3/10 tune but 9/10 aesthetic and idea
have a belle in return
because if i marry a porn/lewdstar to support my artistic endeavors i wont have to compromise my art
how long before she hits the wall
clyp.it
this one is kinda shit but issa vibe
Honestly? at least 15-20 years
shes literally a 10
>literally a 10
not even close
Thanks for all the headaches, we should sue his ass for noise pollution. His shit will cause global warming at a whole different level
mxl990
Hi, I have watched 10000+ hours worth of tutorial, I have learned almost every processor there is. I have followed all advice but still my mixes/tracks don’t sound as the ones on the records. Any advice how I can approach this? How I can learn to get that release ready sound?
Name literally one hotter woman
i'd like to see if she's a "10" without the layers of makeup
by paying a mixing/mastering engineer
See
someone had a bad time in 2012 :-)
See >complaining about makeup
lmfao just go to r9k u virgin freak
Facts
who was he user
Not sure where to go from this. Advice?
Probably some failed producer who ended up offing himself lls
Just slow it down desu
...
It probably has something to do with gain staging. Apparently VSTs have an ideal operating volume, so its a matter of finding that sweet spot for all of your processing.
but honestly , who has time for that? just move on to the next song.
Something EXTREMELY satisfying about shitting on the featured clyps lol
Have started using Nova's pink noise match over mix bus, is this a mistake?
I'd honestly consider off myself if I made the same music as paper planes
why would you need a plugin for this
depends on how its routed. You'd want to hear the pink noise as an unprocessed signal (eg not going through your master processing that your other tracks are using)
Punching down? Nah I'm walking on em haha
It learns a basic eq curve to make your mix match pink noise, there is no noise, just end up with a radical dynamic curve. Nova is a great plug in by the way
just use your ears lls
suck the piss out of my peehole /prod/
Where
vocaroo.com
vocaroo.com
i cannot tell which version to go with- they're exactly the same but one is warped......
like i like the timbre and i think it adds a little something but idk if it actually suits the song hmmmmm
Don't get obsessed with making your mixes sound good on shitty headphones. I used to listen to music I like on shitty apple earpods and I would think "why can't I get my mixes to translate to these headphones like this mix can?". Then I realized that everything sounds shitty on low-grade consumer headphones, but I just didn't notice because I was used to it. By listening to music on a pair of headphones, you get used to that sound and it just sounds normal to you. So when you produce on your good speakers for hours, and then at the very end you mix-check on your shitty headphones, it's always going to sound bad in comparison.
Don't get stuck in the loop of trying to make it sound good on shitty headphones, which in turn makes it sound bad on your good speakers. Make it sound good on your good speakers, compare to reference mixes, do quick checks to see how it sounds on the headphones but don't get crazy about it.
pretty new to /prod/
there's a fucking click sound at the end of a triple oscillator melody I cannot get rid off, don't know how to
pls halp :(
neither
aimless and crapola
Try increasing the release
thanks :DDD
i get less is more, but I honestly have a hard time using my drum machine unprocessed.
like listen to this kick, unprocessed vs processed. (well there is some master limiting)
clyp.it
I can't imagine the rack units require to get a drum machine to sound like that with hardware only.
imma go with the unwarped one
thank you for listening friend :p
>2019
>using hardware
LLS
Based
>envy
does pirating ableton break launchpad functionality? it sometimes works fine, but 90% of the time it just lets me play a sound and lights up orange when i push buttons, but that lasts about 20 seconds before it stops working completely. sometimes restarting the computer works but mostly its just fucked
lol no your shit is just setup wrong
ive googled endlessly and found the same shit and nobody seems to have this problem, ive copied settings of people with working launchpads, i dont know what to do
this is how mine is setup
basically the same thing as far as my launchpad goes, i dont think its a settings issue
ableton doesnt seem to recognize inputs from it or something but i dont know why, cause it does recognize it for a moment, but no lights function correctly
right now it has one button just stuck on orange
are you using a laptop?
desktop
try a couple of other usb ports.
if no dice, try a different cable.
tried a lot of ports, dont know if i have another one of these cables but ill see
I make better tunes than all of u without wasting money on ""gear"" lmao
Sad!
>can't even use his gear that he paid for
Looooooool
wow you really proved yourself there! AMAZING!
Anyone else here smoke weed? Great for creativity.
Stop trying to talk to me s/tinky idiot
Is it really wasting money if I earn 100x you do? Of my music too.
trolling /prod/, you're clearly busy
stop replying to a troll dude
i wish we had more ban-happy mods honestly
After I posted that I slept for thirteen hours, unable to want to get up because it hit me so hard. I desperately want there to be something, but there's nothing. There aren't going to be any new Justices, or Skrillexes, or Mozarts. Just continual deconstruction of music that was once complex and lush with instrumentation. Lots of pop music is becoming drums, bass line, and singer. That's not to say that in pop music, once the phase of minimalism passes, that instrumentation might enter the picture again, but it's just going to be a rehash of the past.
Very dark times my dude.
>bragging about income in a production general on 4channel
Simply lls
>frogposters
Trying out a new mastering plugin (PSP audioware) but I think it might be too much?
Pic related is you.
Jk it's good again ;p
Are you guys ready to get dabbed on in music form?
do i buy korg monologue or novation bass station?
hey /prod/ I'm working on a project file someone sent me but I have never used ableton before. I'm trying to figure out how to swap or edit the synth on this piano roll. Is it possible without the serum plugin? Is there any way to keep the piano roll and automation lines but just edit the synth?
You just tell yourself that so you don't have to put in the thousands of hours of work.
Wimp
i wanted to call troll at first among all this shitposting but i guess other daws don't have hotswap
hit that refresh looking icon in the top right of the vst, swap it for a different one. done
LMMS > FL studio, Ableton, and Reason
prove me wrong
pro tip: you can't
>tfw no reaper
you're the man
HOLY BASED
It's alright but you should flesh out the last minute or so to give it a more complete feeling.
>should i waste my money on this or this
LOL
There's nothing. Come up with an original idea when we've gone so far with music that the only thing left to do is to deconstruct it with minimalism, ambient and bleeps and bloops. I'm really looking for anything. Any new concept. Electronic music has been the most evolving genre over the past twenty years, and it was taken to the heights of Justice and dubstep. That's where it ends. Now it's moving backwards. The only thing I can think of to "innovate" is to get as far away from the synthesizer as possible. It's a dead instrument now. A wave of rock music that eschews technology might be in the cards. Sampling is passe. You can sample absolutely anything; it doesn't make the work original or new. The EDM bubble has burst, and big room house was the most popular, although formulaic.
There's just too much music out there and none of it original.
but i want a synth for bass stuff on gigs. i play in a trio" guitar, piano, cello. it would be more interesting if i could play not only guitar
It's good.
*hides frogpost*
Nice
Sounds horrid
What vidya gaems does this song remind you of? I tried to make solid use of the borrowed flat-VII chord so that it had a sort of Pokemon/Zelda feel to it. How far off am I? Also, is it too short or a nice length for easy listening?
step a side
This is what I imagine the most recent Sim City soundtrack is like. Length is good.
Always funny to spot justicefag typing up a storm in Yea Forums other threads. Nietzsche and pepes...
damn I missed it. I like a good gear porn photo
Just pull up the digital native preset and hold down a key for an hour
At least the room looks somewhat tidy. For how picky bitches usually are, they don't seem to care about taking photos with clothes and shit lying around everywhere
Pentatonic scales and wobble the pitch bend knob.
I'm Mexican btw
Writing motifs and how to expand a motif into a whole melody.
I don't know if this helps anyone, but one thing that helps me immensely is to just plink around on the keys and make some long, shitty melody. I then listen to it and hone in on my favorite four or five note section. I'll pull that section out and see what is going on with it and start developing my phrases from there. The phrases are easier to organize into melodies when you take into account periodicity or antecedent/consequent phrasing.
So you might have:
>CCDEG - Call (Antecedent)
>CCFEA - Response (Consequent)
And those two sections can lead to a third section that maintains the feel, but is unique in other ways. It might go CCDFFDE. Think of it as A1,A2, and B. Write in building blocks. Good examples of this type of writing can be found in video game music, like in Super Mario 3's World 1 Map Theme.
>>CCFEA - Response (Consequent)
I hope you mean the A a 7th below the G in the antecedent -- otherwise that's a terrible response ;)
Can I come make stuff with you while I train to wrestle?
Fuck off. If you want to hear more of that music, make it. Take the Billy Madison approach. He never saw a blue duck and he wanted to see a blue duck, so he drew a blue duck. Yeah, you're gonna suck dick at first and make people think you're a fucking walking dialtone of a man, but you'll improve. And as you improve, you'll feel empowered, then you'll try new things, your sound will develop, and before you know it, you don't cringe anymore when you tell someone you're a musician/producer/artist. But you gotta take the initiative, even if the only thing that keeps you going is the potential for a brighter day/less shitty writing. I'm not very good, but I put myself out there and I absolutely adore this hobby. I'm sure you do too, user. You wouldn't be depressed about the state of music if you didn't love music. Take a risk. Write the songs you wanna hear. Draw your blue duck, you simple manchild.
I'll be completely honest, I just typed noted in C Major with no real thought for what I was actually creating. I just wanted to convey the concept in tard-level terms. And baybee, for all you know I could be a saucy fuck who likes to make shitty responses. Musical trolling, I guess?
Pokemon Ruby uses a similar brass sound all the time. I'm not feeling the dungeon though. It's not dark enough.
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Goodbye /prod/ I'm sorry I let us both down.
What would you call it then if it isn't dungeon? Just a Vidya OST?
Also, I appreciate that comparison. I loved Ruby.
Then we can die with grace, bitch. Tell me about your favorite aspect of creating music? What do you wish you could do better? What skill are you most proud of? How easily has music come to you? What struggles did you face in the beginning that you feel could have been easily avoided?
Actually, how about everyone answer those questions.
They told me not to copy Justice... It sent me down the rabbit hole. I can't think of a way to make a truly unique sound in music after dubstep. It seems as though all synthesizer sounds have been created. People don't like listening to complex melodies anymore either. They like simple music they can sing along to.
Music like the following link is closest to what I want to make: baroque and classical era music, but the song itself isn't really anything special or relevant to music today. That's why Justice has lost popularity since Cross.
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In this one, they have great, yet inaccessible melodies for the vast majority of people, and have thus lost popularity
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I'm beginning to dislike the sampled Cross sound because EVERYONE is sampling today. There's hardly anything left to sample. You can sample farts and make "music". It's so open-ended that it becomes a creative dead end, as well as it makes your music sound dated, and definitely copying Cross isn't going to be popular today.
I think for the album I want to make, I want to make use of analog gear emulation, but unfortunately I'm out of unique musical ideas.
I would file it under videogame osts. I can see it being used as some overworld or starting area theme. It doesn't strike me as 'actual music' for active listening outside of that context though. Are you the D50 guy? The pizzicato strings in the beginning also give me some heavy vaporwave fake advertisement vibes.
>it's fun to do when you get in the zone
>I wish I were better at thinking of fun variations
>I can kinda almost play keys a little
>pretty easy but I've been inclined since I was a child
>I kinda rebelled against my father's expectations by avoiding learning an instrument when I was younger
I'm thinking of switching DAWS,
quite the financial pain, but FL Studio is just so awkward to use and it always has been for me.
I think I'm gonna try reaper.
I was looking at Studio One too if anyone here is experienced with that
Creativity, especially creating something unique is a fucking nightmare to do when you're actively trying to be unique. Every artist was inspired by someone. Why not take the things you love about Justice and blend them with what you love about baroque and classical music? Study the fuck out of counterpoint and composing for SATB choir. Take what you learn and use synths and other electronic gear to make the sounds you have written. Don't make music for anyone else. That is the quickest way to depress yourself. This is gonna sound masturbatory, but do you know who listens to my music the most? I do. I make music I wanna hear. Sometimes I get lucky and other people like it. But I still make music for me because it makes me smile. Start with counterpoint and SATB and sprinkle weird shit in as you guy. I believe in you, Justicefriend.
Nah, I'm a different dude. I usually ask about genres because you guys have a better idea about that than I do. It's funny that you mention vaporwave because,I started out making chillwave, lofi hiphop, and shit like that. Now I make a little bit of everything electronic.
I guess my question is what gets you in the zone? I mean, hell, maybe you can do some Pavlovian conditioning and every time you feel like you're in the zone, put on a certain hat or play a soundbite on your phone. Try manipulating your environment to get in that zone on cue. Fuck, we're just animals. We're not hard to trick.
I use FL Studio and Reaper. Before I pirated FL Studio, I had the demo version, but you can't save projects. So to arrange well, I would output .wav chunks for each part (solo the part and export it with the remainder cut) and then do all of my arrangements, mixing, mastering, and recording in Reaper. It worked pretty well, and unfortunately it is all I know now. It's a little clunky, but I like Reaper's interface better for arrangements. Just my two cents.
Trying to stand out and be unique and trying to make something popular are kind of mutually exclusive.
anyone that own syntorial mind helping a pirate fag out by zipping up the serum lessons pack and giving a mega link?
>Tell me about your favorite aspect of creating music?
There are those few moments where I catch myself standing up and dancing, grooving, headbanging etc to whatever I just put together. Something about that response, to ignore inhibition and connect in that way with something I made. Nothing quite like it. The self amusement and feeling of pride that I just made THAT. It seriously beats pussy in terms of my self satisfaction. That idea that came out of me allowed my brain to think of a thousand new possibilities instantly. The album art, the stage, the light show, the whole experience . It all comes together after I get that feeling and everything kind of snaps into place.
>What do you wish you could do better? What skill are you most proud of?
There are a few things that pop up immediately, my inability to play the keys, my arrangement ability can't keep up with what I'm doing sound design and groove wise so things sound more like disparate good ideas with lack of structural cohesion. In terms of my best skill, I'd broadly label it as sound selection. Though I suppose you could lump sampling in too.
>How easily has music come to you?
Conceptually, its a constant flow of ideas in my head, some translate easily but are derivative. The better ideas come from getting some good samples I cut myself and messing around until I get something like the answer to question 1. I've never actually worked at music actively and instead have passively progressed through years of experimentation (no youtube tutorials when I started)
>What struggles did you face in the beginning that you feel could have been easily avoided?
Self doubt. Its crippling and never went away.
>I can't think of a way to make a truly unique sound in music after dubstep.
Thats right fuckers.
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Feedback? How can i make this better?
I'm going for like a mysterious/chill detective investigative kind of feel
make it more trip-hop vro (:
Is there a good app for learning music theory?
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literally not reading a word of that loser's pseudposts lmao
Horrid taste
Grim post
Dude's a retard dont bother l m a o
Good
True
>not even a tripfag
>just a namefag
Its been real.
become less virginic
hi everyone im new here
>no saxophone
>I can't imagine the rack units require to get a drum machine to sound like that with hardware only.
I guess that’s the less is more thing right there. To get the drum machine to sound like that you’d need to use whatever was in your software fx chain in hardware equivalents...but you could no doubt get decent drums sounds using less hardware gear than you might use in software by being creative (the more bit). You can obviously do the same in software too.
Hardware gear often has quirks. I can send drums (samples) to my space echo and get reverb, delay, distortion, tape saturation and wow and flutter just out of that one effects unit, plus you get that adc and dac converters colour from the sampler, add a couple more effects units and you’ve got more than enough of an effects chain really unless you’re doing something crazy in which case use software
yes
Drums always get processed especially the x0x ones because they're so played out
>yes
Indeed
>Drums always get processed especially the x0x ones because they're so played out
I’d say most things get processed as they are the building blocks, an 808 kick is a wonderful thing but you’d struggle to find any record with an unprocessed 808 kick on it.
blah blah blah
how much should a song weight with separate tracks?
first time i exported one came out 850mb
Either or really they’re both pretty cheap and simple synths, both will be fun
yo do people play instruments here or is it all beats n shit?
That flex is so big can’t see the studio gear
Indeed
Sound design and shit
Cringe
ur cringe
What does a laptop for music production absolutely needs except a good cpu? Does it HAVE to be 32gb ram?
Sorry for slowpoke but TorrentFreak made absolutely no attempt to identify Instaudio's owner. Pathetic.
32gb is only necessary if you're doing some really heavy duty sound design, fucktons of sampled instruments and vsts and shit running all at once. 16gb is plenty, 99% of the time.
i dont get it
Sorry pal I enjoy sound design and have no desire to make actual songs.
I’m gutted i don’t like the same things as you.
Why don’t you post one of your masterpieces here for us all to be enlightened
0.78125 clyp.it
Chill, cuckboy
what a shit thread
You sure know how to hurt peoples feelings
Sorry i didnt mean to
>tfw love saxophone sounds
>tfw they're expensive
Are there any actually good saxophone vsts or should I just bite the bullet and buy one and learn to play it?
fuck that's hard
no good sax sounds, sorry
this 'most mysterious song' shit is pretty retarded. the song isn't even that good
The tracks are frozen? right click unfreeze
The tracks are frozen, right click to unfreeze.
this is basically bitter sweet symphony
That’s ok I’m joking
hi
I play oboe, guitar, bass, piano, vocals, computer, percussion, and Ableton
Happy 808 day, lads
clyp.it
the guy pushing it is a shill on his reddit account first ever post is a link to his bandcamp selling a vaporwave version for 1 dollar
Man deserves to be headed tbf. Brb
*hexed
Also I compose when the computer is unavailable
What is this Mike Caren's secret formula? Any videos on that?
How do I make good sounding lo-fi drums?
The drums on Grief by Earl Sweatshirt always fucking get me, and I want to emulate that.
convert your kit to 16kbps mp3
love that album
>CPU
Most important for real-time audio is sustained clock speed.
If you can get 5ghz+ quadcore, you're gonna be chillin
i've typed this out too many times Demarcus what the fuck
There's a certain kind of distortion / time-modulation effect I hear on certain 60's songs, the best way I could describe it is as "boiling", not sure if I know what I'm talking about, it sounds like this:
>Come With Me
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>Going Home
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>The Trio
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How do I recreate this effect?
probably just shit tapes
look up "wow and flutter"
1. take a good sounding drum sample
2. put a yinyl effect on it, dial shittiness to taste
3. use decimort to emulate the sampling rate and bit depth of any sampler from the 90s (do some research)
4. resample and eq
5. repeat for all samples
.... or just use lo-fi samples to begin with lol
Innit lmfao
God damn this general gives the absolute worst advice
wait which one is the worse
i can't tell if you're trying to be obnoxious or you're just a faggot, what are you doing dude
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? Weird post, dude.
wasn't me this time
weird
Any techfags have insight into audio file formatting? Is the linear, unchanging mp3 or flac or wav file here to stay?
There must be a way to make music more dynamic. Even an A or B split would be an improvement.
>the track is exactly the same every time you listen to it
Sad !
Structurally, this is pretty similar to trap, right? So why the fuck can't I make it?
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i fucking hate namefags and shitposting like
stop ruining my social like FUCK
apparently mp3 is only still here because everybody uses it and it's completely inefficient
oh...
but no
We're supposed to be a communuty REEEE
Are you a gay Asiatic?
what do you mean "but no"
No.
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how do i steal the bass sound from this without just sampling it?
Maybe get some real friends then? Lmao
Don't talk to me, freak. TIA
>those reptilian bumps on my chest
Wtf
i bet they're earbuds
>tfw have ears on my chest
Someone make the New. Pic related
Noob question here. When to use Sidechain compression? I understand the concept, but i don't know when to use it.
>>you'll cowards dont even play jazz
>mostly 7ths
>no dominants
>no 2-5-1
>no interesting cadences
this is not jazz user
Depends on the genre, in most EDM types literally always, even when you don't have a kick drum hit.
Some guys even do standard ducking when the kick hits but additional ducking not in 4/4 time to make kind of a polyrhythmic pulse feel.
depends what you are doing. most "EDM" genres though you just SC everything to the kick
Mfw I don’t use compression or limiters
what you use then?
I just don’t use them, never really have.
I dunno why they are trashing u probably just jelly. What is the top racks? Is that the new MOTU interface? Is the first compressor some sort of LA-3A stereo pair or somethin?
Is the "remix" just pitched down a few semitones and that is all? Sounds like the same one that comes up on google search.
love all of you guys :)
youre gay and I hate you
You can get an alto that works for like $500. The $200 chinese ones are trash, but if you don't know how to play one I wouldn't jew yourself out of $2k on a Yamaha.
Proper VF lmao
Honestly? The gear was an overpriced outdated waste and the Universal Audio plugins did everything faster/cleaner/identically so it just reaffirmed my understanding that gear is an outdated waste of money, resources, and time when it comes to music production
I'm Mexican btw
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because he's a fag and there's no room treatment, with a fucking window right behind the speaker what's even the point of buying gear?
Someone make a new thread
It's not my studio lmfao s/o Cabrillo
still a cunt for namefagging and shitting up the thread
I'm the God of 4channel. Watch it
Still true tho.
