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Chitin
Apr 29, 2007

It is no sign of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Volvagia posted:

Here's a question I feel dumb for asking since I have done it in the past, but for some reason I forgot how I managed it: How do you export a single instrument's MIDI data from reason? I solo the instrument, select all info in its lane, but I still end up exporting ALL midi data from the entire file after clicking export.

What DAW are you using?

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Shes In Parties
Apr 30, 2009

Imperialism is a manifestation of state terrorism.

Chitin posted:

What DAW are you using?

I'm going to assume Reason.

bog savant
Mar 15, 2008

unending immaturity
I'm trying to export from reason to Ableton.

pelswick
Jul 29, 2006

i dont care about report card
I ONLY CARE ABOUT GUITAR

Peanut Wagon posted:

Does anyone know how to make that synth pattern used in both Crystal Castles "Baptism" and Justin Timberlakes "My Love"? Im curious and have been looking around but cant find anything.

sounds like someone just got some "analog strings" type detuned supersaw sound and sequenced some super lush chords with it, and put that through some trance warehouse reverb

pelswick fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Jan 28, 2011

SpecialAgentCooper
Sep 15, 2008

Where we're from, the birds sing a pretty song, and there's always music in the air.

hooptyjr posted:

For some reason every drum pattern I program in Reason sounds "dead". I can't get any soul infused in these drums no matter how hard I try. Any tips on how to make programmed drums sound more "organic"?

This is a bit of a late response, and it only works in some situations, but I've sometimes had great success using the ReGroove mixer on a particularly dull beat. Redrum's pattern sequencer has 16 rigid steps whereas when you're writing a pattern in the main song editor you can be much more precise if you're trying to add a lot of swing and "live"-ness. Here's a brief explanation:

Take a pattern in Redrum, right click on the Redrum, pick "Copy Pattern to Track", then disable pattern select on the Redrum sequencer (you probably know this part at least)

Then open the ReGroove mixer in the Song Editor, pick a pattern in Channel A1, and tweak the slide/shuffle settings to your liking. Then - and this isn't very obvious, but whatever, it took me months to get it - in the pulldown menu next to your Redrum channel (the one in between to the big red record button and the Lane Mute button) pick your pattern. Instant swing.


Also, what that other guy said was right - the Kong Drum machine (I think he kept calling it a Korg? lol) is way more bangin' than Redrum when it comes to default settings alone, so you can maybe start with a pattern you like and then put the notes on Kong drums instead.

OG KUSH BLUNTS
Jan 4, 2011

Has anyone used the Izotope Stutter edit?

http://www.izotope.com/products/audio/stutteredit/

Mister Speaker
May 8, 2007

WE WILL CONTROL
ALL THAT YOU SEE
AND HEAR

Volvagia posted:

Here's a question I feel dumb for asking since I have done it in the past, but for some reason I forgot how I managed it: How do you export a single instrument's MIDI data from reason? I solo the instrument, select all info in its lane, but I still end up exporting ALL midi data from the entire file after clicking export.

I'm pretty sure there isn't actually a way to do this (I don't want to call you a liar... but I dream plenty of cool poo poo about DAWs). Back in the day (when I had motivation...) I exported all of my Reason MIDI to Live and ran into the same thing. It's really not a problem though; I mean if you use the Arrange page in Live your full Reason arrangement copies right over so it's just a matter of arranging your tracks 'properly' in Reason, and putting External Instruments on your new tracks in Live, that correspond to the right device in Reason.

bog savant
Mar 15, 2008

unending immaturity
^^^ Yeah, maybe I did dream it ahaha...but I remember it so clearly! Thanks for the reply though, you're right it's not too big a deal to deal with all the MIDI at once, just annoying.

Tostito
Sep 5, 2007

life is good
edit: Nevermind.

Tostito fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Feb 2, 2011

efreeman
Dec 27, 2008
I released my first electronic album a bit back and never really got around to posting it in this thread. Here's the link:

http://soundcloud.com/aerobic/sets/reasonable-1/

Any feedback is much appreciated!

hexa
Dec 10, 2004

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom
Warp/Bleep have released a new set of headphones - does anyone have an opinion on these? http://bleep.com/index.php?page=dynamic&module=TMA1

That Wicked Walrus
Sep 24, 2010

you've gotta keep movin'

glitchkrieg posted:

Warp/Bleep have released a new set of headphones - does anyone have an opinion on these? http://bleep.com/index.php?page=dynamic&module=TMA1

http://twitter.com/flyinglotus/status/32826353032101889

breaks
May 12, 2001

Always be skeptical of the quality of stylish products made by a company that doesn't normally manufacture that kind of product. For not much more than they are asking for those you can get BeyerDynamic DT770s, Ultrasone Pro-650s, AKG K271s or some other ridiculously high quality piece of equipment.

That Wicked Walrus
Sep 24, 2010

you've gotta keep movin'


YET ANOTHER CLUB TRACK (in progress)

Not fully mixed yet but I'm mostly done with the arrangement. Check it out!

bog savant
Mar 15, 2008

unending immaturity
Jesus christ I'm having a hell of a time transferring arturia softsynth licenses to a new dongle, since the old one was destroyed. I hate this. gently caress dongles, I get that piracy is a problem but don't punish your legit customers AND make them waste a USB port like this arturia.

PRADA SLUT
Mar 14, 2006

Inexperienced,
heartless,
but even so
I hate dongle poo poo, especially on a laptop where I've only got like two USB ports anyway. Plus it's more poo poo to lose and have to deal with.

wayfinder
Jul 7, 2003
New pre-final track up at http://soundcloud.com/wayfu/wayfinder-arisen-jupiter

A collab with a local friend, it's already quite old but it never got finished (still isn't but he put it up so I'm figuring why the hell not).

All feedback welcome!

Vector 7
Sep 29, 2010

Something I've started to experiment with has been using a new kind of production method in the style of Wolfgang Gartner. Here's a video showing what I mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2XpyNYB11U

I'm still working on building something decent with it. Anyone have any advise for using this technique?

hooptyjr
Dec 22, 2010

The future is in the past!
http://soundcloud.com/jordangoodwin123/winter-storm-2/s-snaGm

Still rough, no real mixing/mastering. Still putting a few touches on the programming, lemme know what you think!

a foolish pianist
May 6, 2007

(bi)cyclic mutation

hooptyjr posted:

http://soundcloud.com/jordangoodwin123/winter-storm-2/s-snaGm

Still rough, no real mixing/mastering. Still putting a few touches on the programming, lemme know what you think!

You could use some variation in the volume of the hat ticks in the section between 1:00 and 1:30. They sound really flat.

Digging up some old stuff - this is one of my projects from an electronic music course for non-majors, back from summer 2001:

http://soundcloud.com/stephen-tyndall/solarscape

Making this thing brought me and the amen break closer together.

hooptyjr
Dec 22, 2010

The future is in the past!

a foolish pianist posted:

You could use some variation in the volume of the hat ticks in the section between 1:00 and 1:30. They sound really flat.

Thanks for the tip, I laid this whole thing down in like 9 hours last night, definitely got burned out on listening to it to notice stuff like that.


Volvagia posted:

Jesus christ I'm having a hell of a time transferring arturia softsynth licenses to a new dongle, since the old one was destroyed. I hate this. gently caress dongles, I get that piracy is a problem but don't punish your legit customers AND make them waste a USB port like this arturia.


gently caress dongles. At least you can take the Reason/Record dongle out after you've opened the program, and you just need to plug it in to save. Still annoying, but at least you have the option of just logging in with your propellerhead credentials if you don't have the dongle or are too baked to want to get up and get it.

bog savant
Mar 15, 2008

unending immaturity
Man oh man. I can't re-register my Prophet V. This sucks, I used that synth for everything. You can't even open support tickets on the Arturia site without having a synth registered.

arbybaconator
Dec 18, 2007

All hat and no cattle

x

arbybaconator fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Nov 8, 2011

mezzir
Jul 1, 2007

I'ma rub your ass in the moonshine.
Let's take it back to seventy-nine...
:woop: New Track!:woop:

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

So I made a thing

Gibberish
Sep 17, 2002

by R. Guyovich

mezzir posted:

:woop: New Track!:woop:

Very nice. Is that your own synth bass?

Sevyplates
Jan 7, 2006

Vector 7 posted:

Something I've started to experiment with has been using a new kind of production method in the style of Wolfgang Gartner. Here's a video showing what I mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2XpyNYB11U

I'm still working on building something decent with it. Anyone have any advise for using this technique?

The most important thing about that real popular gartner sound is to keep all your samples in key, that's the reason why they're jiving together rather than sounding like noise.
Try this, create a synth line and bounce it up and down a scale and tweak the filter, envelopes and LFO settings like a mad man. After you have done this for a while, recording the sounds, create another(different) synth and play the exact same line while tweaking more parameters.
Do it again and again till you have a little "library" of these sounds to call upon.

When arranging, put the "glitch" clips on ever 1/4th and/or 1/8th bar and play around with it till it sounds nice.
Oh, and don't forget when your composing the line to go up and down octaves.

Vector 7
Sep 29, 2010

Sevyplates posted:

The most important thing about that real popular gartner sound is to keep all your samples in key, that's the reason why they're jiving together rather than sounding like noise.
Try this, create a synth line and bounce it up and down a scale and tweak the filter, envelopes and LFO settings like a mad man. After you have done this for a while, recording the sounds, create another(different) synth and play the exact same line while tweaking more parameters.
Do it again and again till you have a little "library" of these sounds to call upon.

When arranging, put the "glitch" clips on ever 1/4th and/or 1/8th bar and play around with it till it sounds nice.
Oh, and don't forget when your composing the line to go up and down octaves.
Thanks, this will definitely help. I think I'm starting to see how it works. Any more advice like this would be awesome.

Mister Speaker
May 8, 2007

WE WILL CONTROL
ALL THAT YOU SEE
AND HEAR
I've been wondering about how to create a particular 'wobble', I suppose. I would call it more of a 'telephone ringing' sound than a wobble, though. I hear it all the time in Mass Effect (goonsire) and recently I've caught its brief use in a few dubstep/brostep/etc tunes. Here's an example:

@3:10 in Forgot About Breaks

I have some idea of how it's done (square wave LFOs?) but can't seem to get the 'rhythm' or the harmonics right - it always just sounds like a really generic ringer. This can be accomplished with Massive, no?

EDIT: I guess this should be in the 'Recreate a Particular Sound' thread. Oops.

Mister Speaker fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Feb 15, 2011

bog savant
Mar 15, 2008

unending immaturity
Got my prophet back, made this out of a vybz kartel acapella in celebration.

chippy
Aug 16, 2006

OK I DON'T GET IT
Cross posting this from No Music Discussion where it go zero interest, maybe a few of you guys will be more interested.

A friend of mine is during a musical diary, basically he has challenged himself to write at least 2 minutes of music a day. He writes experimental electronic music with influences from ambient, jungle, drone, folk and others. The aim of the experiment is not to generate a month of masterpieces but to reflect his moods and emotions over the month and generate a load of material he can come back to me.

All the tracks are here: http://skink.bandcamp.com/album/six-hundred-and-seventy-two-jerk
He's keeping a blog about it here: http://blahskinkblah.tumblr.com/

I think he'd really appreciate some feedback if anyone would like to give some of it a listen.

Thread in No Music Discussion here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3389561

Friction
Aug 15, 2001

I haven't eaten anything today, I've had untold amount of coffee and I just sampled Mass Effect 2 for this Drum&Bass track. It turned out pretty brutal.



Now, food.

Meatsplosion
Oct 25, 2006

+3 Meat Elemental
http://soundcloud.com/simon_nelson/simon-nelson-trinity

Some grimey new progressive/electro I've been tweaking/playtesting recently... no subtlety whatsoever :)

Friction
Aug 15, 2001

Meatsplosion posted:

http://soundcloud.com/simon_nelson/simon-nelson-trinity

Some grimey new progressive/electro I've been tweaking/playtesting recently... no subtlety whatsoever :)

I really liked this one. :)

Considered sidechaining the kick for extra pump? I think it could fit well.

Meatsplosion
Oct 25, 2006

+3 Meat Elemental

Friction posted:

I really liked this one. :)

Considered sidechaining the kick for extra pump? I think it could fit well.

yeah there's some sidechain in there but I've kept it pretty subtle thus far... I was thinking about automating the depth/attack/decay a bit as the track progresses, maybe I'll give it a shot

candy bar
Jan 14, 2008

Just put out a tiny little demotape, take a listen!

http://hvzel.bandcamp.com/

mezzir
Jul 1, 2007

I'ma rub your ass in the moonshine.
Let's take it back to seventy-nine...

One of my sample folders has been on a Aesop Rock album of instrumentals+acapellas for a while now, and now every track I end up writing ends up an Aesop track. Kinda okay with this.

Gibberish
Sep 17, 2002

by R. Guyovich

James K. Polk posted:

Just put out a tiny little demotape, take a listen!

http://hvzel.bandcamp.com/

Excellent synths and I loving LOVE the horns/saw on the first track... I want to know how to make those.

The second track reminds me a LOT of some tack off of Chrono Trigger or something, I can't quite remember.

Good stuff, I wanna hear more.

candy bar
Jan 14, 2008

Gibberish posted:

Excellent synths and I loving LOVE the horns/saw on the first track... I want to know how to make those.

All the synth sounds on that track were just barely-modified presets from the old Native Instruments Pro-53 plugin, plus some delay and mid-heavy EQ-ing. Hope that helps!

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Xeno
Sep 16, 2005

MAD TYTE DUBZ, YO.
http://soundcloud.com/deftek-1/deftek-its-over-now

Some new deep, minimal dnb I've been working on. It's not fully finished yet, the breakdown is a little weak, but I'd appreciate your thoughts!

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