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Can I ask where a certain break came from? I'm dying to get this for a track I'm working on. DJ Spooky uses a certain break (or more than one) on his remix of From Whom The Bell Tolls from the Spawn soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0IJderpZVg&t=52s It should start at the part I'm talking about. I know I've heard it before.
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LP0 ON FIRE posted:Can I ask where a certain break came from? I'm dying to get this for a track I'm working on. DJ Spooky uses a certain break (or more than one) on his remix of From Whom The Bell Tolls from the Spawn soundtrack: Sounds like the Amen Break just chopped to poo poo and back, I do it all the time. Probably filtered a bit too.
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May 6, 2012 01:26
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There's a few things layered and chopped up there, I feel like I hear some funky drummer in it as well but I could be wrong.
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May 6, 2012 01:52
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I was leaning toward funky drummer myself, but it's so processed, it's hard to tell.
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May 6, 2012 02:21
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Definitely an amen
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May 6, 2012 12:00
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cubicle gangster posted:it's awesome. i'd like to hear a bit more done with that stabby synth though, it's a little soft and repetitive. the production, groove and general energy of it is spot on though. Thanks very much for the feedback! You're right, the synth probably needs some more delay and needs to be a bit more interesting. I'll make some changes. hypersleep posted:I'm just a hobbyist who's too much of a pussy to post his stuff online, but I really like your stuff. It's not available on iTunes, is it? Just Beatport? Hit me up on PM and I can send you some stuff 
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May 6, 2012 12:24
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1024x768 posted:Does this seem like a good idea or am I way off base? those are live controllers - the sort of thing you buy when you're breaking your tracks down into sections to trigger live and re-edit, i cant really imagine producing anything with one. They'd be nice, but they wont do anything you couldnt do otherwise. get a maschine or a keyboard. nice one lump shaker
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May 6, 2012 13:30
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killhamster posted:Sounds like the Amen Break just chopped to poo poo and back, I do it all the time. Probably filtered a bit too. seiken posted:There's a few things layered and chopped up there, I feel like I hear some funky drummer in it as well but I could be wrong. I'm still really confused about this, but I think you guys are right about funky drummer and amen, but I also think I hear Soul Pride by James Brown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdeiYALFVHY#t=3m21s
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May 6, 2012 18:13
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Something I hear new producers mess up all the time, and I was really bad about this myself, is falling into the trap of thinking that pulling the filter all the way off a synth patch is a good strategy for sound design. The same thing goes for EQs in mixing. Sure, that high frequency information is going to make the sound more "exciting", but it's going to both eat up room in the mix and eventually become fatiguing/abrasive to the listener. I think the other more experienced people on here will agree with me when I say that it's important to judiciously use both lowpass and highpass filters on basically everything to keep the mix tight.
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May 6, 2012 20:46
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Crossposting since I happened to upload these for the drum & bass thread in NMD: http://soundcloud.com/grandfunk/sets/dnb-wips/s-ZbARo I sort of just recently got good enough to make DnB that isn't awful but these are all still WIP sketches I intend to go back to and polish/redo a whole lot (haven't had time to for like half a year cause of school). They all have various things I intend to change, and the EQ/mastering is dodgy throughout. Criticism welcome. edit: also I've noticed that when soundcloud transcodes the wavs I upload to whatever format they use it has a tendency to distort transients in this weird way where they kinda get split a little and sound stuttery, does anyone know if there's a way to avoid that? seiken fucked around with this message at 23:56 on May 6, 2012 |
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May 6, 2012 23:08
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Vector 7 posted:Something I hear new producers mess up all the time.... doing this made such a loving huge difference to the clarity and sound of my tracks. careful eq'ing and cutting frequencies cannot be emphasized enough.
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May 6, 2012 23:18
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LP0 ON FIRE posted:Can I ask where a certain break came from? I'm dying to get this for a track I'm working on. DJ Spooky uses a certain break (or more than one) on his remix of From Whom The Bell Tolls from the Spawn soundtrack: sounds like a pitched up amen to me and also, its a fuckin terrible remix.
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May 7, 2012 22:34
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Yeah I was wondering about that. Terribad. I love some of DJ spooky's stuff, too.
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May 7, 2012 23:08
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So I did more work than I was expecting and more or less finished this track. First of hopefully many a love affair with my sampler as I learn _her_ ins-and-outs (yeah, that's right, it's a she  )http://soundcloud.com/hostismusic/hostis-running-from-the Enjoy!
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May 8, 2012 10:35
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I'm still trying to get the hang of D&B, I feel like this one turned out alright compared to some of my last excursions into the genre: Slingshot.mp3 As always, thanks for listening and advice is welcome!
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May 11, 2012 14:53
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killhamster posted:I'm still trying to get the hang of D&B, I feel like this one turned out alright compared to some of my last excursions into the genre: I like it. My drums are far from perfect but I feel the drums could probably do with standing a little further out in the mixdown especially the kick as it got really lost in there somewhere. You can try a couple things for this, like a notch filter on the clashing sound at the peak of the drum kick although it'll leave a hole when it isn't there. Alternatively do a small bit of sidechaining or a combination of both.
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May 11, 2012 15:06
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Anybody have any recommendations for a decent hardware drum machine?
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May 11, 2012 20:54
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boxorocks posted:I like it. My drums are far from perfect but I feel the drums could probably do with standing a little further out in the mixdown especially the kick as it got really lost in there somewhere. You can try a couple things for this, like a notch filter on the clashing sound at the peak of the drum kick although it'll leave a hole when it isn't there. Alternatively do a small bit of sidechaining or a combination of both. Good call. I completely glossed over that while I was fiddling with all the EQ and compression. I need more sleep, I think.
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May 11, 2012 21:24
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^ you might also want to try some parallel compression if you're not already doing that.
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May 12, 2012 02:07
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I took a little video while playing with my Launchpad and nanokontrol, working out a DnB remix of that Gotye song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKMiYGTDgao These things are such a great way to waste an afternoon. I haven't done anything in the way of mastering for the track, and I don't know if I'll bother. a foolish pianist fucked around with this message at 03:01 on May 12, 2012 |
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May 12, 2012 02:09
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Anyone have any advice on an UPS/power conditioner?
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May 12, 2012 02:59
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Furnok Dorn posted:Anybody have any recommendations for a decent hardware drum machine? if you've got a laptop around, I dont think theres anything better than a maschine for the price. for similar features pure hardware wise you're looking at spending a lot more. I've been playing with synths a bit. wanted to make something oppressively dark, all my music lately has been far too upbeat. http://soundcloud.com/downpour/downpour-darkwip hows it sit? cubicle gangster fucked around with this message at 23:30 on May 12, 2012 |
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May 12, 2012 22:25
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cubicle gangster posted:if you've got a laptop around, I dont think theres anything better than a maschine for the price. for similar features pure hardware wise you're looking at spending a lot more. Hmm, is there much difference between the maschine and the maschine mikro? I am new at this so hesitant to drop 7 hundo on the full one if its only got a few more features
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May 14, 2012 18:35
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the maschine mikro is the software and drum pad, but all controlling has to be done through a laptop. The best thing about the main one is leaving my laptop up on a desk and getting on the sofa with headphones on - you can control everything from the hardware itself. you can also plug a midi keyboard straight into it. It's not a huge difference to be honest, I think they just wanted to bring out a budget model but couldn't justify cutting any major features.
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May 14, 2012 22:23
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So, Ableton's Analog synth has a function called Unison. I don't know what it does but I sure like the way it makes a square wave sound at 90.00 (whatever that means) - kind of spooky/Silent Hill-y if that makes any sense at all. Anyway, I don't like Analog so much because of the lack of options and I'd like to create a similar effect in Massive but there's no such feature. What is Unison doing and how would another synth mimic it?
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May 15, 2012 05:24
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Its just stacking oscillators. Loads of other synths have that feature.
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May 15, 2012 05:35
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Anal Surgery posted:So, Ableton's Analog synth has a function called Unison. I don't know what it does but I sure like the way it makes a square wave sound at 90.00 (whatever that means) - kind of spooky/Silent Hill-y if that makes any sense at all. Anyway, I don't like Analog so much because of the lack of options and I'd like to create a similar effect in Massive but there's no such feature. unison just adds more voices, the number is probably how much they're detuned
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Hah wow, that simple huh? I thought there'd be more to it. I wonder why it sounds so different from having like 3 or 4 oscillators going on Operator or Massive.
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May 15, 2012 06:19
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This is my first attempt at actually mastering something from scratch rather than starting with an ozone preset and tweaking it, so if anyone wants to let me know how it sounds that'd be dope http://soundcloud.com/mathbonus/steam-engine
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Anal Surgery posted:Hah wow, that simple huh? I thought there'd be more to it. I wonder why it sounds so different from having like 3 or 4 oscillators going on Operator or Massive. Here's the Massive Manual in pdf form, you can search it for the word unison. It's what I did, because I don't have Massive.
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slardel posted:unison just adds more voices, the number is probably how much they're detuned theres a little boxe were you can pick how many voices you want to stack and how much to detune them, i dont think detune impacts how many voices are used. like you can pick monophonic with 8 voices, or duophonic with 4 a piece or something like that. but, the problem is, analog sounds HORRIBLE and thin and the filters are awful. you can use operator just like a 1 voice analog, and it sounds MUCH MUCH better and fuller and the filters slightly resemble a real vcf, and analogs filters sound like something off an early 2000s VA synth. edit: actually you can use operator as up to 4 voices as long you are change the order of operators so they are ordered right to left and not up and down.
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Could anyone recommend an inexpensive mastering service? The company that makes the main piece of software I use has offered to interview/promote me on their blog, but the situation has made me realize I should probably look into getting some tracks mastered. I don't have a lot of money to spend on it at the moment, unfortunately. I make dark minimal techno, if it makes any difference.
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May 16, 2012 03:04
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Peep hogscraper's thread right next to this one, he does a good job
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May 16, 2012 03:12
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Depending on your definition of inexpensive, manmademastering is 60 euros per track. Glowcast is 30 pounds. Both of those places do mastering for a lot of techno.
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has anyone else entered the ableton beat the clock competition that's going on? You basically have 24hours to make a track with a bunch of clips they provide. http://contest.ableton.com/tracks/491 this is my entrance, I'd appreciate any criticism of it, and also votes if you like it.
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May 17, 2012 16:15
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I have no idea what I'm doing but I kind of like it.
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I think I'm getting the hang of this electro house thing finally  (edit: now with better version uploaded) What do you guys think? It's still WIP, so comments are welcome! WAFFLEHOUND posted:I have no idea what I'm doing but I kind of like it. Instant Star Control 2 vibes. Friction fucked around with this message at 18:56 on May 20, 2012 |
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May 20, 2012 13:37
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So I made this: http://hosting.dataintensive.org/audio/Oscillating%20Jak%20-%20Way%20Down%20%5Bremix%5D.mp3 Oscillating Jak is a cool little jazz singer from Australia, and I got hold of some vocals to play with. I guess my mix is dubstep, or glitchstep, or squidstep or something? a foolish pianist fucked around with this message at 20:46 on May 20, 2012 |
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May 20, 2012 20:38
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This is only a first draft, but is it working? http://soundcloud.com/downpour/downpour-20maywip Kinda heavy near-tribal techno.
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Friction posted:I think I'm getting the hang of this electro house thing finally It sounds awesome (perhaps a bit too much going on at once?). It's a bit fast for my taste, but it'd make a really fantastic soundtrack to some fast-paced game. (I only mean that well!)
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