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trill rear end posted:finished i think Sounds cool, I'd just turn the sub bass down a couple db so it sits in the mix better.
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Jul 7, 2009 05:34
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 Tell me what you guys think, mixing and composition wise.
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Jul 7, 2009 06:37
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Jul 7, 2009 10:05
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Yes it is anything else? 
Quincy Smallvoice fucked around with this message at 10:33 on Jul 7, 2009 |
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Jul 7, 2009 10:12
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trill rear end posted:finished i think You need to add some more off-beat kicks in there too. Triplets or whatever you call them. I wanna dance to this like a reggae/garage/dnb song, not a house song! There's no space on the track, really detracting from what makes those dub elements you have work in dubstep track. I bet if you slowed down by even like 3-5 bpm, it'd rock a little more. The main melody and everything else is excellent melodically, I just think you could take the track to the next level if you took another crack at the song. Like check this track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVKboRPgu0U see how much more sparse it is? That's the kinda treatment I think this song could benefit from a bunch.
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Jul 7, 2009 21:23
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After weeks of being out of it, i've been trying to get back in but I feel like I have so little direction. I'm also denying myself anything to copy - i've not listened to any techno in weeks and i'm finding it so much harder to come up with stuff when I cant remember whats been done before. Spent a couple of days working this section up - it's just a build and little break, 1:30 http://soundcloud.com/schtick/stomp-smallclip Is this worth carrying on/padding out? cubicle gangster fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Jul 7, 2009 |
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Jul 7, 2009 21:27
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ManoliIsFat posted:All the real dubby vibes you sell at the start are not well served by that main melody. Too easy, too mindlessly wobbly. The track doesn't skank at all. Maybe ride the LFO speed through the song or something, it just sounds too gross and huge right now. This track can groove so much harder. Its hard to explain, but that bass is just too locked in to the beat. perhaps me and dubstep are not meant to be
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Jul 8, 2009 04:42
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trill rear end posted:perhaps me and dubstep are not meant to be Don't get discouraged, you're such a drat good producer elsewhere that I'd hate for you to give up. Just twiddle some knobs and let the magic happen!  Or do what I'm doing: listen, critically, to more stuff in that genre to try and figure out some of its secrets. Once you've cleared that extra mile, you'll be sitting on gold.
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Jul 8, 2009 05:22
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xpander posted:Don't get discouraged, you're such a drat good producer elsewhere that I'd hate for you to give up. Just twiddle some knobs and let the magic happen! Off topic, but this drives me up a wall. Maybe it's just because of my background, but I can't count the number of people I meet who show me an album or whatever that they "produced", only to find out that they're the artist on the album.  "I'm a producer." "Oh yeah? Who have you produced?" "Well, my new single just got released...."I know it's commonly misused, but it still annoys the hell out of me when I'm trying to figure out what people actually do.
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Jul 8, 2009 12:29
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I'm a retard, I've made the bit at the bottom of the piano roll editor that shows the velocity disappear and I can't work out how to get it back. Help someone?
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Jul 8, 2009 13:34
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Kai was taken posted:Off topic, but this drives me up a wall. Maybe it's just because of my background, but I can't count the number of people I meet who show me an album or whatever that they "produced", only to find out that they're the artist on the album. You're kidding, right?
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Jul 8, 2009 14:50
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trill rear end posted:perhaps me and dubstep are not meant to be Ya man, I didn't mean for it to come off like that. You just gotta keep banging out tracks. Kai was taken posted:Off topic, but this drives me up a wall. Maybe it's just because of my background, but I can't count the number of people I meet who show me an album or whatever that they "produced", only to find out that they're the artist on the album. ManoliIsFat fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Jul 8, 2009 |
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Jul 8, 2009 15:37
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ManoliIsFat posted:Ya man, I didn't mean for it to come off like that. You just gotta keep banging out tracks. Beaten. Writer's write, performers perform, producers...produce music. I can't think of another word to describe what I do do. I mean write music makes sense, but write doesn't seem to cover the whole act to me.
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Jul 8, 2009 16:40
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ok tried extra hard to make it lurch and swing and have space feedback pls ps this is just a draft, gonna change the siren and the lfo rate for a lot of it
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Jul 8, 2009 22:35
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trill rear end posted:ok tried extra hard to make it lurch and swing and have space its great. nice and crazy.
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Jul 8, 2009 23:24
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Kai was taken posted:Off topic, but this drives me up a wall. Maybe it's just because of my background, but I can't count the number of people I meet who show me an album or whatever that they "produced", only to find out that they're the artist on the album. Actually I can sort of understand this. I think it's more common in electronic music than rock/indie/"band"-type musical enterprises, so that's why it's used more. When I tell family that I'm a producer, I have to instantly clarify, because no one other than the heads are going to know what that means.
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Jul 9, 2009 03:08
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trill rear end posted:ok tried extra hard to make it lurch and swing and have space filthy bass. not the kind of dubstep i dig but that is def dubstep. hats are definitely good but they are a bit static, need to change from measure to measure, breath along with what the bass is doing. youve definitely got the lurch/swing going, this tune makes me want to fall over. Agree with manoli that the bass needs to be a bit more on beat. its like jazz, bass keeps time, through either notes or wobble, drums skitter. im jealous of your speed of output. my rate of a tune every two months or so is not working. edit; btw xpander posted:Just twiddle some knobs and let the magic happen! Terrible Horse fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Jul 9, 2009 |
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Jul 9, 2009 08:19
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while I'm here how about this: http://www.zshare.net/audio/624254638a5a2d03/ its a remix of Tunnel by Shuttle. its not there yet. one of the problems with it is that its too long and slow so feel free to skip around
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Jul 9, 2009 09:22
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Terrible Horse posted:there definitely an element of chance and spontaneity to this, especially with synth programming, but when youre going for a sound you need to learn the rules of the genre and work within it. knob twiddling is how we ended up with glitch and idm nonsense. I was with you until the very last part. Glitch and IDM, and really all electronic genres, are created with attention to detail. They are not nonsense, and random knob twiddling will not produce good idm or glitch any more than it would produce good dubstep.
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Jul 9, 2009 09:23
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Terrible Horse posted:worst advice i ever heard. just caus youre using a laptop doesnt mean youre not a musician who has to learn his poo poo. learn dubstep drums by listening to dubstep tunes and writing them out on the staff/whatever method. try to recreate one exactly. there definitely an element of chance and spontaneity to this, especially with synth programming, but when youre going for a sound you need to learn the rules of the genre and work within it. knob twiddling is how we ended up with glitch and idm nonsense. Sorry if it wasn't clear, but I was being sarcastic regarding "twiddling knobs". The monkeys on typewriters approach might come up with something someday, but I don't think anyone really has the patience for that. The second half of that post was what I was really suggesting, which is incidentally what you said in your third sentence.
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Jul 9, 2009 09:29
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Jul 9, 2009 09:34
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cubicle gangster posted:http://soundcloud.com/schtick/stomp-smallclip Anyone got some quick thoughts on this? On the verge of scrapping it.
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Jul 9, 2009 12:17
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cubicle gangster posted:Anyone got some quick thoughts on this? On the verge of scrapping it. It definitely NEEDS some padding out eventually if you're going to continue it, but right now I like the dubby feel. You might want to extend and flesh out the buildup, too, right now it doesn't tease enough. It's a good sketch, I don't listen to a ton of techno but it sounds good to my ears.
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Jul 9, 2009 19:34
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dookie posted:
Any suggestions?
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Jul 9, 2009 23:04
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ok i think im done 
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Jul 9, 2009 23:43
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trill rear end posted:ok i think im done Let the bassline roll man.
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Jul 10, 2009 12:00
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trill rear end posted:ok i think im done Sounds mighty good to me.
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Jul 11, 2009 02:34
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IanTheM posted:Let the bassline roll man. i agree with this it's good and you've been progressing a lot but the thing that would make this a really banging tune for me is if sometimes you'd let the bass go for a whole measure leave the LFO on the bass but then adjust the cutoff so the bass is always present but wobbles BOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWWWWOOOOWWWWWOWWWWWWW the glitchy parts to the bassline are cool too so keep those but mix it up with some whole notes
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Jul 11, 2009 06:58
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Hey guys, I think this is pretty much done, would love some feedback though. Anything at all that needs to be tweaked would be appreciated. Purely big room progressive house: http://soundcloud.com/the-sargents/amphibian-june-09 In other news, my first released single is doing pretty well on TrackItDown: http://www.trackitdown.net/genre/house/track/1074239.html Got to #3 overall (#1 prog house), currently sitting at #4 if anyone is interested.. Thanks for the feedback in advance.
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Jul 11, 2009 07:16
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ashgromnies posted:i agree with this Yeah, the thing is that you can still kind of feel the electro producer tendencies behind the music, and some of them work (the drums are great) but the glitchiness of the whole thing doesn't flow with the amount of space half-step dubstep gives you. Half-step was originally invented as a way of letting the bassline takeover, most of the preceeding 2-step stuff like in Garage had way bouncier and tighter basslines. Anyhoo, I talk to much and don't put enough music:   
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Jul 11, 2009 10:26
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Can anyone explain the pitch wheel to me in Reason? How exactly do I program it to pitch up/down to an exact note besides just doing it by ear? I understand using parameter automation but what values constitute as a half step up/down? It also depends on the note range setting in the oscillator too correct?
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Jul 11, 2009 18:20
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-8191 to 8191 is the standard range for midi pitch wheels, so to get an exact pitch the formula is (8191 / pitch bend range * pitch difference) So for example if the pitch bend range of the instrument is 7 and you want to transpose up by 2, you do (8191 / 7 * 2) = 2340
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Jul 11, 2009 18:28
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ashgromnies posted:i agree with this quote:All the real dubby vibes you sell at the start are not well served by that main melody. Too easy, too mindlessly wobbly. The track doesn't skank at all. Maybe ride the LFO speed through the song or something, it just sounds too gross and huge right now. This track can groove so much harder. Its hard to explain, but that bass is just too locked in to the beat. Can't please everybody I guess...
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Jul 11, 2009 19:25
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i kinda like it how it is
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Jul 11, 2009 19:47
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dookie posted:Can anyone explain the pitch wheel to me in Reason? How exactly do I program it to pitch up/down to an exact note besides just doing it by ear? You use the setting called "Pitch Bend Range" which is present is pretty much any of the Reason devices, or if all you want is a slow slide from one note to the next, you use portamento. quote:It also depends on the note range setting in the oscillator too correct?
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Jul 12, 2009 22:34
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I don't know if this has been posted in ML already, but my mate mute just showed me this and it looks like a great resource: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm
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Jul 13, 2009 10:04
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I've always preferred this guide for beginners. http://www.beatportal.com/topics/c/guide-to-synthesis/P15/ The Sound on Sound one is a little too heavy.
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Jul 13, 2009 18:08
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 lil doody im workin on ( i rip off burial)
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trill rear end posted:
Sounds like a flying lotus beat (except quantized). Sounds good, though the bit crush sounds more aggressive than burial's crackles. EDIT: Something I'm working on, a bit of 'soulful' old school garage. 
IanTheM fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Jul 16, 2009 |
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