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field balm posted:Put out a two track glitchy house-y ep I finished up a little while ago: I liked this a lot.
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field balm posted:I'd love feedback on the sound and production, I didn't get a chance to check this out on too many different stereos.
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Lump Shaker posted:Good stuff man, pretty unique take on house. Thoogsby posted:I liked this a lot. Thanks for listening guys! Thoogsby, you and other SA people's output has been a big inspiration for me to get more poo poo finished and out there. Dicky B posted:I think that snare in quilted needs a little attention because I wanted to turn the volume up higher than I could without that one frequency pricking at my eardrums uncomfortably. Other than that the overall mix sounds great. viewpoint is my favorite of the two. That snare is wretched and a big part of why i went 'gently caress it these tracks are done', haha. It peaked super high no matter what I did, I high-passed and clipped the hell out of it in the end to try and get it to not gently caress up the entire track's compression or be impossible to hear. I synthesized it so it makes it even worse  e: or do you mean pitch/frequency wise? field balm fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Jul 28, 2013 |
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field balm posted:Put out a two track glitchy house-y ep I finished up a little while ago: I really love that second track. Reminds me of Funkstorung, but it's still danceable.
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field balm posted:Put out a two track glitchy house-y ep I finished up a little while ago: This is pretty sweet, I really liked quilted. Also I made another quick and dirty track https://soundcloud.com/zweikaiserbund/momentum I had some fun with the beat this time and tried to keep the sound lively instead of just playing the same loop over and over.
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field balm posted:Put out a two track glitchy house-y ep I finished up a little while ago: Really cool, especially the first track! Really like that distorted synth between minutes 2 and 3. I also finished a track, the first one i'm really pleased with. It started life as much more up-tempo, but i decided to slow it down to 121 bpm and change the bass and mix to really hone in on a more relaxed summery house vibe. Here it is. I'm having trouble getting honest feedback overall, so any criticism is welcome!
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I like this track a lot! Only criticisms I have is that the vocals are a little loud (example around 2:06) but other than that I really like the movement and feel of the track. I could definitely see me playing this in my car! Made an 808 based track that I'm actually pretty happy with. I promise I'm not riding this stupid rear end trap wave, I just really like the sounds of deep 808s and the accompanying percs. https://soundcloud.com/stosz/forge I also made a future garage type track for those of you into that stuff https://soundcloud.com/futuregarage/ends-by-stosz-futuregarage-net
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dk2m posted:I like this track a lot! Only criticisms I have is that the vocals are a little loud (example around 2:06) but other than that I really like the movement and feel of the track. I could definitely see me playing this in my car! I dig the spacey quality on both of this. Definitely like the first link more. The second I like a lot but I have to agree the sounds that pick up 1:21 or so can be a bit jarring. I feel like there could definitely be something there but I'm not sure that sound does it for me. I like the track though! I just finished/released an EP here of some weird stuff I made. Not really even sure what to categorize it as other than pseudo-cyberpunk electronic background music. It's on bandcamp but if you actually dig it enough to download it, just pop in 0.00 to get it for free. Let me know what you think: 
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Been working on another track and I got pretty far in it then turned around and made it into garage. House Version: http://www51.zippyshare.com/v/82117737/file.html Garage Version: http://www42.zippyshare.com/v/9521841/file.html *updated link I'd love to hear any criticism you guys have because I just want to keep refining either/both and get a finished product. edit: *snip* edit 2: Garage Version v2: http://www58.zippyshare.com/v/21395146/file.html Blowdryer fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Aug 2, 2013 |
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The Mechanical Hand posted:I dig the spacey quality on both of this. Definitely like the first link more. The second I like a lot but I have to agree the sounds that pick up 1:21 or so can be a bit jarring. I feel like there could definitely be something there but I'm not sure that sound does it for me. I like the track though! I like it. Is it supposed to cut out abruptly on the last track like that?
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The Mechanical Hand posted:I dig the spacey quality on both of this. Definitely like the first link more. The second I like a lot but I have to agree the sounds that pick up 1:21 or so can be a bit jarring. I feel like there could definitely be something there but I'm not sure that sound does it for me. I like the track though! Just finished the first track and I'm liking it a lot. Really laid back, but it doesn't feel like it runs long or gets boring. Thanks for sharing E: It's been a few months since I posted anything of my own in here... Here's some things I think turned out well: https://soundcloud.com/agreeculture/e-y-m-i https://soundcloud.com/agreeculture/the-catcher Also got a bunch of stuff in the works with a good friend of mine. Feels better than anything I've made thus far, pretty excited to see where we go with it! Sgt. Slaughter fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Aug 7, 2013 |
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Tollymain posted:I like it. Is it supposed to cut out abruptly on the last track like that? Yeah, I guess it's hit or miss in that respect. It's just kind of building up and then it dies. Stupid maybe but it as an idea I had and tried out. Just sort of a weird end to the EP and plays with the song title a bit. Thanks for checking it out! Sgt. Slaughter posted:Just finished the first track and I'm liking it a lot. Really laid back, but it doesn't feel like it runs long or gets boring. Thanks for sharing Glad you dig it - I was worried how it would hold up (or any of them) since it's all instrumental but has a sort of traditional intro / verse / chorus structure to it. I *love* the E.Y.M.I. track - forreal. The percussion on it is really killer, what did you do to make it because I've been looking to create that sort of sound with stuff I'm working on and I love it.
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Was thinking of adding a big ol piano synth lead to this but after pulling up some middle frequencies and mastering I'm not sure it's needed? Thoughts? It's a bouncy low end techno number. https://soundcloud.com/careyb/dragon-fly
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Been awhile since I've poked my head in here. I've been real lax on music-makin' due to life shenanigans and general writer's block. I've futzed around and finished some projects, but more just to finish something, not because I think they are any good. Anywho, I've recently been enamored with the music of Reso and various Drum & Bass and/or Drumstep and/or whatever it is. Been wanting to make some of my own, but I have the Sound Design Blues. As in, I'm having a devil off a time understanding how to build some of these synths/sounds. This is Check 1 2 by Reso - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IuSFpB2r_k - and I would classify it as kickin' rad. I love that bass/synth sound at the 38 second mark. But I'll be damned if I can figure out how to make that electrical grungy rippy burny high part. I understand the basics of layering, so I get that the main bass is probably composed of two or three layered synths, so it's that metallic top end I guess that I don't understand. And I get the Envelope open/closing part, so it's mainly just the sound in and of itself that's eluding me. My theory so far is that there's some Detune/Unisono going on there, probably with some Phase Modulation? I don't want to directly rip off the Reso track (well maybe...  ) I just want to understand the principle behind that grindy gritty layer so I can make my own original garbage. Any theories out there?edit: I use Massive and Ableton, for what it's worth That Dang Dad fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Aug 9, 2013 |
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CareyB posted:Was thinking of adding a big ol piano synth lead to this but after pulling up some middle frequencies and mastering I'm not sure it's needed? Thoughts? Sounds good to me, I don't think it needs a piano lead although you could always try it out. Digging the synth strings.
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https://soundcloud.com/djchumpchange/chump-change-backward Stop and start jungle tune.
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I know the Minibrute has gotten a lot of love on these forums, so I was wondering if anyone has the same problems that I do getting it to work with Ableton Live. It syncs and all is well, except when I try to sequence it FROM Ableton. In other words, the latency is fine when Ableton RECEIVES midi but not when it SENDS midi. The latency is at about 1/4 of a beat I think (have to check this later) The latency compensation I've found in Ableton seems only to apply to the midi FROM the Minibrute, which already syncs fine, so I'm at a loss. I wasn't sure whether I should post this in the synth thread or here, but I suppose it could go in either.
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Maguro posted:https://soundcloud.com/djchumpchange/chump-change-backward I love this. I love jungle!
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field balm posted:I love this. I love jungle! Thanks man! Check out some of my other tunes if you like that style. Most of them are free download, or they have been released on various labels.
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So I have recently been able to motivate myself enough to start trying to work on music again. I still have the same problems as before, namely not knowing how to make sounds. There are many specific sounds that I want to at least make something close to, but have no ability to do so. How do I figure out how to make sounds more effectively, so that I am not aimlessly loving around with dials for hours on end and getting nothing out of it? One other thing I was wondering was about using filters on soundfonts to make them more interesting. I am wanting to make sounds that are gritty and electronic sounding, are there filters that are really good for that?
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I am the M00N posted:So I have recently been able to motivate myself enough to start trying to work on music again. I still have the same problems as before, namely not knowing how to make sounds. There are many specific sounds that I want to at least make something close to, but have no ability to do so. How do I figure out how to make sounds more effectively, so that I am not aimlessly loving around with dials for hours on end and getting nothing out of it? Honestly I've gotten a lot of value out of aimlessly loving around with dials. It helps to have a basic understanding of what those dials do - I recommend reading Dance Music Manual and then going through the Synth Secrets articles on SoundOnSound - but once you have that, start experimenting with how different settings affect the sound you're hearing. There's no replacement for that deeper understanding of what adding a sawtooth wave does to the sound, or intuitively knowing that the "bad" part of this sound could be removed with a filter, etc. (Not that I have that deeper understanding, but occasionally I have flashes of insight that surprise me, as sort of a preview of what people who actually know what the gently caress can do) That said, I too am looking for (I think) the same thing. I want to make some harder dubsteppy stuff but I keep getting distracted by pure, glassy, sparkly sounds and I never seem to find a starting point for the signature "electro" sound with that growly bass. I don't really want to go look up a "How To Sound Like Skrillex" tutorial, but I do need a starting point...
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I am the M00N posted:How do I figure out how to make sounds more effectively, so that I am not aimlessly loving around with dials for hours on end and getting nothing out of it? When you gently caress around with dials for hours and you're not getting anything out of it, you're doing it wrong. First you have to learn what the dials do. There are no decorative controls, but there are interdependent controls. Cutoff won't do anything if it's set to max and you try to push it beyond that with an envelope, so you have to understand these dependencies when it seems like something's not doing anything. quote:I am wanting to make sounds that are gritty and electronic sounding, are there filters that are really good for that? No, because the terms are incredibly subjective. Do you have any Youtube videos/Soundcloud tracks as examples? Then it's possible to determine what kind of sounds you're looking for and how difficult they are to recreate. Re: dubsteppy stuff; never be too proud to look up how to make a sound. Factory presets, ditto; that's someone else's experience that you can learn lots of things from. I recently reinstalled Komplete 8 on my new DAW and found the Massive Thread library - anything not dubsteppy is still incredibly interesting w.r.t. modulation, especially the loops where the sequencers are used as drumcomputers/pseudo-arpeggiators.
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I am the M00N posted:So I have recently been able to motivate myself enough to start trying to work on music again. I still have the same problems as before, namely not knowing how to make sounds. There are many specific sounds that I want to at least make something close to, but have no ability to do so. How do I figure out how to make sounds more effectively, so that I am not aimlessly loving around with dials for hours on end and getting nothing out of it? I spent too much time in the past twiddling knobs and never got around to making music. I still don't have much time for it, but I've found that I'd rather just choose a preset close enough to what I wanted, then maybe throw a CamelPhat or CamelSpace (or both) preset on top of it, and I get something I like. This let's me spend more time on putting an arrangement together. I can always tweak or replace the sounds later if I think I need to. If you have to choose one filter, I'd go with CamelPhat, but CamelAudio has a sale once a year where you get CamelPhat and CamelSpace together for the price of one ($59). They're just really easy to work with and come with a ton of presets.
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Dessert Rose posted:Honestly I've gotten a lot of value out of aimlessly loving around with dials. It helps to have a basic understanding of what those dials do - I recommend reading Dance Music Manual and then going through the Synth Secrets articles on SoundOnSound - but once you have that, start experimenting with how different settings affect the sound you're hearing. There's no replacement for that deeper understanding of what adding a sawtooth wave does to the sound, or intuitively knowing that the "bad" part of this sound could be removed with a filter, etc. I don't want to sound like Skrillex, because if I do, why not just play a Skrillex track? He's already made a bunch of them. But it would be nice to know how Skrillex sounds like Skrillex. It's like, if you're learning how to be an automotive engineer, you start by fixing cars and reading books about cars, not by milling the parts of a complete car you dreamed up, assembling them, and trying to drive it. If you do that, you'll probably just get a heap of junk that isn't even a car. I find as a newbie that there are rarely useful glossary entries for musical terms*, so if I even want to know what the gently caress people are talking about, I have to just listen to a bunch of stuff, including presets, "how to sound like so-and-so" YouTube videos, etc. I suppose it's like how they tell aspiring writers that the most important part is doing a ton of reading. *I think being a math/phil major spoiled me. Those disciplines are all about precise definitions in a hierarchical structure. (Edit: and unlike making music with computers, both disciplines have had thousands of years to make their hierarchical structure really, really good.) You can learn a lot about the discipline by just reading the dictionary it uses. On the other hand, did "gritty" communicate M00n's meaning to Laserjet? It seems that it didn't. And yet I hear people use words like "gritty" to describe music all the time. ejstheman fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Aug 14, 2013 |
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I like video tutorials. Sonic Academy is pretty good for "how to sound like X." Their tuts walk you through both sound design and production techniques. It's usually more of a "do this" approach than "this is WHY you do this" but you can still pick up a lot from what they do if your goal is to target certain sounds or EDM subgenres. MacProVideo is good for "how to use X." If you already have an idea of what you want to accomplish, their videos are best for just explaining the tools. Groove3 has some good stuff, too, but MPV has more.
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ejstheman posted:I don't want to sound like Skrillex, because if I do, why not just play a Skrillex track? He's already made a bunch of them. But it would be nice to know how Skrillex sounds like Skrillex. It's like, if you're learning how to be an automotive engineer, you start by fixing cars and reading books about cars, not by milling the parts of a complete car you dreamed up, assembling them, and trying to drive it. If you do that, you'll probably just get a heap of junk that isn't even a car. This makes sense. I just hate, as a general rule, being handed the finished result without any explanation or understanding of why each decision was made. A tutorial I went through last night was just like, "add this synth with these settings. Now tune this other synth to this other setting. Do that two more times. Now add a synth with this preset (which I don't even have)."  My DJing learning process basically went "read a couple books on basic technique"->"read the general lists people make of 'what not to do'"->"practice a lot". I guess I just lumped tutorial videos and presets in the "don't do this" section. I know that DJing is basically instant gratification compared to every other instrument ever, including this one. I can tell I'm making progress in a lot of areas, which, of course, just frustrates me that I'm not making as much progress in other ones. Guess it's time to watch some videos then. And read more. And continue being frustrated that my "drop" doesn't sound musical at all. But it helps to write the non-musical drops because then I listen to a track that I like and I can see why mine sounds like rear end compared to theirs, and I can fix it. Eventually 
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I am the M00N posted:So I have recently been able to motivate myself enough to start trying to work on music again. I still have the same problems as before, namely not knowing how to make sounds. There are many specific sounds that I want to at least make something close to, but have no ability to do so. How do I figure out how to make sounds more effectively, so that I am not aimlessly loving around with dials for hours on end and getting nothing out of it? Distortion and bitcrusher/bit reduction effects can be a good way to get a gritty sound. It's kind of a subjective term, but as with a lot of musical descriptions like "warm" or "bright", there's usually enough information conveyed that you can talk about a specific EQ profile, or a specific kind of effect upon the overtone series, that's characteristic of that term. As for sound design in general, I think a good approach is to first find a moderately complex synth and learn it inside out, learn what every control does. Pick a subtractive (virtual analog style) synth. Synth 1 is a pretty good candidate, it's complex enough that it can approximate most anything, but is accessible enough that you can wrap your head around everything. Avoid FM synths at first because they are a pretty different approach to sound design, and be wary of that describes itself as modular or semi-modular, because there's a good chance of information overload. Start with a blank patch, and try to make some of the following sounds from scratch: a racecar engine, a submarine ping, a doorbell, an office phone ringing, a slide whistle, bubbling lava, a car horn, R2-D2, a lightsaber, a golf club swinging, Mario jumping, a couple of kinds of explosions, laser sounds, force fields, etc. From there, you should have a better idea for putting together more musical sounds -- punchy basslines, lead synths, lush pads, and soforth. Youtube tutorials for specific sounds are a great resource too, but keep in mind that the sounds you hear in commercial tracks are often more than just a simple patch on a single synth -- there may be multiple synths layered together, plus a whole added effects chain, sidechaining, etc. To get the most out of tutorials you need to at least understand the basic building blocks of your synths -- how different oscillators and filters sound, how envelopes and LFOs work. Learn WHY things work the way they do, don't just follow a list of instructions.
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New track! Played around with more classic house sounds and added some bird chirps for good measure. It feels like I'm gradually improving with each track, which feels really nice. Probably going to try making something with a bit more edge to it next, anyone got any tips on how to make something 'hard' without it veering into bro-ey electro house? I'm thinking more Gesaffelstein-ish rather than Knife Party, etc.
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Finished this lil EP thing, 80s samples w/ 808s everywhere: https://soundcloud.com/spacecampbeats/sets/summer-flu-ep
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Lump Shaker posted:Sounds good to me, I don't think it needs a piano lead although you could always try it out. Digging the synth strings. Cheers bro.
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Recently made 3 electronic (house-ish?) tracks with a friend of mine on Reason. Not final mixes/masters by any means but would appreciate any feedback! https://soundcloud.com/lesjab Thanks!
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Just wrapped this up after a long uncreative spell during which I only did remixes: http://soundcloud.com/killhamster/circadian-rhythms The couple remixes I did manage to crank out were for goony nerdy rappers though: http://soundcloud.com/killhamster/ytcracker-bitcoin-baron http://soundcloud.com/killhamster/satellite-high-anklebiters Jonny posted:Recently made 3 electronic (house-ish?) tracks with a friend of mine on Reason. Not final mixes/masters by any means but would appreciate any feedback! I really dig these tunes but the fx come across just a tad heavy. Reich starts out with something that sounds treated with chorus or maybe a unison that's set a little too wet. Nothing wrong with using these but they seem a little too pronounced. There's also some funny compression going on in Decipher but that could be intended.
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I made a thing, it's kind of mournful and disastrous and don't be certain I'm not ripping on the quality thereof: https://soundcloud.com/tollymain/garbles-2 E: I have no idea how to percussion; any good resources? Tollymain fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Aug 22, 2013 |
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3 song EP or whatever, who cares
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Tollymain posted:I made a thing, it's kind of mournful and disastrous and don't be certain I'm not ripping on the quality thereof: https://soundcloud.com/tollymain/garbles-2 I use samples, there are a lot of good packs you can buy from loopmasters or there are the vengeance essential packs. Essentially what I do for making drums is draw out the intro / whatever part I'm doing in 8 beat patterns and vary it up (I spend a lot of time doing drums). Then getting it to sound good you have to mix each channel, compress each and maybe add some panning to some elements or reverb or whatever you wanna do. This is a very very early (two drum patterns, one synth and one bass pattern) version of a song I'm gonna make, I'm excited. http://www35.zippyshare.com/v/91304896/file.html
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Tollymain posted:E: I have no idea how to percussion; any good resources? Apparently. I've yet to order a copy myself.
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Gibberish posted:3 song EP or whatever, who cares Pretty decent! I like the reoccuring skull motif on your covers. What synth is that in Neon Eyes?
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