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Anal Surgery posted:This is a nice track, man. I love the vibe. It's something I've struggled to capture in certain of my tracks. My early stuff was all about trying to do big whizbang effects but a lot of my later stuff is learning the art of economy and minimalism. Good stuff. I feel like the detail that's usually present with modulation has to get translated into notes somehow if you're going to do this. Like the tuba (?) from 0:28 seems to be standing in for some more complex sound that isn't just one repeated note, but the one repeated note is all that's audible. On an unrelated note, I parsed your soundcloud name as G. K. Chesterton every time I saw it, until JUST now I noticed the extra "r".
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ejstheman posted:On an unrelated note, I parsed your soundcloud name as G. K. Chesterton every time I saw it, until JUST now I noticed the extra "r". ha, I did this until you just pointed it out. Also that track is hilarious. nice work gk  I tried to do an edit - https://soundcloud.com/downpour/everything-everything-tin-slow-club-edit I find it harder than starting a track from scratch :/ cubicle gangster fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Apr 23, 2014 |
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Dicky B posted:It's also by far the best bang-for-your-buck DAW out there which is probably why it's still so popular with beginners. Counterpoints: Reaper (free or sub-100$ for non-commercial use), Reason (very complete package out of the box, with comparatively cheap plugins - that unfortunately use a proprietary format).
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Not sure where to post this so hope here's okay. My Nexus VST has stopped working - I'm unable to change voices in my library, when I double click one there's no loading bar and no change occurs. Loading my old tracks with nexus tracks in them is fine, it remembers all its configurations for that track, but again I can't change the voices. I've tried reinstalling nexus but that didn't work. Does anybody here know what's up?
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Got lots of new tunes on my SC, but here is the latest one: https://soundcloud.com/djchumpchange/chump-change-spamm-kidd-eye-contact What you guys think?
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Just wanted to say this thread has been incredibly helpful and has pretty much been the catalyst for getting me to dick around with beeps and boops. Stumbling in here has been one of my better recent decisions. So thanks guys. I've finally got a few tracks I'm happy with, I'd love to hear what you guys have to say about any of em. I guess they're mostly slow and pretty moody, dunno. That last one is just a sketch at the moment. https://soundcloud.com/mahatmatitian/sets/interstellar-motors the damn Ruskis are back fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Apr 26, 2014 |
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So I'm still trying to crack the code and produce neurofunk D&B, but the black art of resampling bass still eludes me. I posted about this in the Synth Thread but didn't see much of a response (except from forums user Flanky, thank you). Basically I understand the technical process(es) involved but actually finding a cohesive melody in the soup of processing/sampling/re-processing, and maintaining control over it is something I'm really struggling with. I can get some pretty nasty sounds straight out of my synth, but resampling my sounds, I feel like they lose some cohesion, and interest, and I quickly become frustrated. Any creative tips to this end? My synth is a Virus, and I'm working mostly with Ableton's Sampler.
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Maguro posted:Got lots of new tunes on my SC, but here is the latest one: This is awesome, i like most of the tracks I've heard on your soundcloud. I like the intro portion of the above track especially, the lead into the main pattern is really smooth. Sounds like the first minute is more juke and the second half more jungle. cool stuff.
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Radio du Cambodge posted:This is awesome, i like most of the tracks I've heard on your soundcloud. I like the intro portion of the above track especially, the lead into the main pattern is really smooth. Sounds like the first minute is more juke and the second half more jungle. cool stuff. Seconded. I wasn't keen when it started but by around 30 seconds in I w was sold. Very very good.
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Apr 26, 2014 01:10
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Somebody asked me to make one of these, so I made one  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUpF3Pjfv08
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Apr 26, 2014 01:38
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Cool I was just listening to this on soundcloud actually. Quirky as. Seeing a tracker gives me flashbacks to when amiga was a force to be reckoned with.
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A track I've been messing with on and off for a bit. Not sure if it's done or if I will tweak more so any input is welcome. Dark industrial/techno? https://soundcloud.com/ttinga/onbeat/s-tiVwO
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Lump Shaker posted:A track I've been messing with on and off for a bit. Not sure if it's done or if I will tweak more so any input is welcome. Dark industrial/techno? i like it a lot as it is
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I was looking for some new ideas to try out for drum programming and found this post on UK garage drum programming that has some interesting techniques for any style: http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com/2010/01/offbeat-eighths-and-all-that-jazz.html Gonna have to revisit this with a DAW open.
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massive spider posted:I'm stuck, I have no idea whether to stick with Logic or give the gently caress up and go for Ableton/Reason/Maschine. Logics workflow is just really awkward to me and I'm not sure the best for writing in. I might be biased as I've been using it for 10 years now, but logic is the best DAW on the market imo (def biased). What difficulty are you having with the workflow/writing side of it? Ableton is good but I just find logic has a fuckton more usability, its built in synths are great, its built in plugins are utterly incredible and it strikes a great balance between vst/au soft synth stuff and sampling/recording. Which version are you on? I have both 9 and X installed, but stick with 9 for synth based stuff still as a lot of my plugins aren't compatible yet. X has some great audio editing additions though so I've been using that for recording. I use logic (obviously) with reaktor routed in as an AU for some of its weird synth/effects sometimes. WAFFLEHOUND posted:Anyone have any suggestions on using a super recognizable sample and having it not dominate the song? Not dominate as in sit it in the mix properly? Or adding effects so it still sounds nice but isn't instantly over the top recognisable in that it draws attention away from everything else? Editing the sample is a good way, chop up the bits you want and leave some space between them so its not always present. If you're doing some downtempo kind of stuff or dubby/garagey style thing then you can always go for the burial technique and pitch shift/time stretch it to gently caress. Reverb, delay etc can help it sit in the mix better if thats the issue. Other content, a track I made the other day. The mix is low as this is just my raw bounce and I leave (probably too much) overhead for later. Thoughts? https://soundcloud.com/s-t-u-x/unbound Stux fucked around with this message at 14:51 on May 1, 2014 |
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Read the first few pages of this thread, and they gave me the motivation I needed to buckle down and make a track. It's short and gritty, and I don't think it's quite finished yet, but I'm using the free version of Reason and I'm going to have to shut my computer down eventually haha. Feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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I just came across this great youtube channel where the uploader seems to be meticulously cataloguing every free VST in existence: https://www.youtube.com/user/UPROAR24/videos Someone appears to share my love of browsing kvr-audio at 4 in the morning and downloading all the shittiest looking plugins just to see what the hell they do.
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dicking around with feedback, distortion & samples of helicopters. https://soundcloud.com/downpour/140405a
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cubicle gangster posted:dicking around with feedback, distortion & samples of helicopters. I like this - reminds me of the harder, more industrial-influenced techno from the 90's... Jeff Mills, Surgeon, Robert Hood, etc. Nicely done!
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cubicle gangster posted:dicking around with feedback, distortion & samples of helicopters. Yeah, this is good poo poo. Your stuff is moody. I dig it.
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So despite producing for a few years now, I really am out of the loop when it comes to the online communities. SA forum has some good quality posters and content but I'd like to branch out a bit more and find a slightly more... active(?) community and posters, hopefully touch base or make connections with other producers who like my thing. So that being said, as a mostly digital producer who uses Ableton, where might I go? Preferably a place with a minimum of tight asses or genre bashing.
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Poizen Jam posted:So despite producing for a few years now, I really am out of the loop when it comes to the online communities. SA forum has some good quality posters and content but I'd like to branch out a bit more and find a slightly more... active(?) community and posters, hopefully touch base or make connections with other producers who like my thing. IDMforums is really active and fairly open as to genre - despite the name.
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Poizen Jam posted:So despite producing for a few years now, I really am out of the loop when it comes to the online communities. SA forum has some good quality posters and content but I'd like to branch out a bit more and find a slightly more... active(?) community and posters, hopefully touch base or make connections with other producers who like my thing. /r/edmproduction
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Just finished a new one. The vocals were a last thought and they made it. I'm happier with this than anything else I've ever done. Really happy! Hope you like it: https://soundcloud.com/azurebellmusic/dawn-of-a-new-day
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Here's something I keep running into: "Wow, I'd really like to do a Promises remix. No acapella on Youtube, though... Guess I'm boned." Is it still like it was back in the day, where you just have to buy the two vinyls with the acapella and instrumental? I get the feeling from google searching about this like it might be real hard to get some of these acapellas without being signed to the label that owns them.
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Anyone have like a good "I have no clue what I'm doing" starting tutorial for a newbie? I've been dicking around in FLStudio slowly figuring out how to make beats, but it's mostly just random sounds that don't piece together very well. I can't even replicate simple beats I have on repeat. Also as a complete newbie, should I ditch FLStudio for Ableton? That's what one of my friends mentioned a while back.
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I find Ableton has a much more streamlined interface that's easy to learn. I know FL often gets talked up for being newbie friendly but I find the workflow so incredibly disorganized and messy it's hard to really grasp a lot of the basics about getting into production. I personally think Ableton is better for this, as I find all the vsts/samples nicely segregated into their own channels that I can group or route as I please. As for my advice for newbies, start reading musical theory, watch all the tutorials you can find, and pick up a copy of the Dance Music Manual and treat it as your bible. And recognize that what most people simply call 'production' nowadays is actually 4 very separate but interconnected skills: sound design, arrangement, mixing, and mastering. PoizenJam fucked around with this message at 14:29 on May 17, 2014 |
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This is pretty awesome. I was messing around with trying to figure out how to make a moombahton track and decided to just try and do a remix of some sort. The Knocks own so I just went ahead and did an edit of their remix of Girls by The 1975. Had a HELL of a time because the vocals didn't really shine and there was no easy way to fix that. Anyway, I put up what I had since I was happy enough and figured there's not much else I could do to fix that. https://soundcloud.com/aeglus/girls Then the same day I get this:  Pretty awesome considering I still feel like I'm a beginner as far as music production goes. Anyway feel free to have a listen.
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aeglus posted:This is pretty awesome. I was messing around with trying to figure out how to make a moombahton track and decided to just try and do a remix of some sort. The Knocks own so I just went ahead and did an edit of their remix of Girls by The 1975. Had a HELL of a time because the vocals didn't really shine and there was no easy way to fix that. That's so amazing for being a beginner. As far as non-drum instruments how did you arrange those? did you cut up the song and place it all? https://soundcloud.com/swanconnley/love-life-work-in-progress/s-GE6Bj I've been working on this for two weeks now and I feel good about where it is, I might try to find a vocalist and actually layout some lyrics and record for it but right now I've got samples and I like them.
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Blowdryer posted:That's so amazing for being a beginner. As far as non-drum instruments how did you arrange those? did you cut up the song and place it all? I basically set up the drum pattern then looped 1-2 bars at a time and just chopped/placed everything until it sounded sufficiently "glitchy" enough. Since I used HEAVY compression, the vocals were dead so I layered two more tracks down then panned one 50R and one 50L, then set a 10ms delay on one. Worked out to get more full vocals. I just put this one out last night, a lot more glitchy effects and cuts in it. I wanted to make a twerk/nola bounce track but ended up getting sidetracked into making an all out glitchhop track. https://soundcloud.com/aeglus/what-do-you-think-now
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Weird futuristic trap thing, also with helicopter sample:
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not quite sure on how to spice up the drums here. i'm more interesting with a set. ideas? https://soundcloud.com/drastictaiga/observation-2 would be cool to make my own drums or find some good ones, i use these as placeholders sometimes nishi koichi fucked around with this message at 06:52 on Jun 4, 2014 |
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hey this thread here's a recent song of mine! https://soundcloud.com/mathbonus/zenith-and-nadir
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Am I doing something horrifically wrong if my song sounds significantly better when I put a filter on my entire drum rack?
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rule #1 if it sounds good it aint wrong. you could be cursed with a lovely taste in music tho!
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I've recently been remaking this track by ear, and have made a small amount of progress so far. This is what I have at the moment. Obviously, it isnt properly organized yet, since I want to get the sounds right first. I am going to do the guitar by recording my own guitar, and I am definitely going to be changing the percussion and adding better ones. My biggest problem is that I cannot find better string samples. All the samples and soundfonts I have (about 65 of them) are very underwhelming, and the VSTs I am using aren't much better. I have absolutely no money to spare on anything. TL,DR version: I need a way to make my strings sound good without spending money.
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THE MOON! posted:My biggest problem is that I cannot find better string samples. All the samples and soundfonts I have (about 65 of them) are very underwhelming, and the VSTs I am using aren't much better. I have absolutely no money to spare on anything.
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Start with a Howlin' Wolf sample, add drum machines and synths, and you have something housey https://soundcloud.com/seesub-1/howling-wip should be noted i had this song in my head but came nowhere near it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SWFx6Ro9gk ashgromnies fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Jun 8, 2014 |
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Hey guys, it's been awhile since I've posted in this thread, but I'm back with some good news! Last time I posted in here I was planning on making some Massive tutorials for people that were interested. As I started writing up a few, I felt that I could go much further and, well, long story short - I've spent the last few months working on an entire video tutorial website that I want to now share with all of you!  I've seen a lot of youtube tutorials, and 90% of them are made by a 12 year old with a flip phone for a mic. And if they do happen to be watchable, they end up being 10 minutes longer than they need to be. And so, my goal was to create a very high quality and concise series of video tutorials that people would feel is worth their time and (hopefully!) money. Our focus is on Massive and Ableton, but we plan to branch out to other plugins in the near future. Our business model is as follows: We're launching with 30 videos, 22 free and 8 member videos. Each week we plan to release 2-5 videos. If you visit our website, you'll be able to watch the videos we've decided to release for free. If you pay a one time fee of $15, you get a lifetime membership with us in which you can watch all of our new videos as they come out, as well as each week's "showcased" videos (~5 videos we decide to pull up from the archives per week, allowing members to stream for free). Each archived video can be purchased for download at only $0.99 per video, BUT if you wish to become a premium member for $5 a month, you can stream all archived videos at any time, and every video in the store is 30% off. If you've ever purchased a tutorial series then you know most of them are around $40 just for a few videos. We feel that our pricing is much more fair to the producer on a budget (aka most of us), not to mention the fact that many of our videos are free! Here's the best part though: Since I really value this community, I wanted to share with you guys an exclusive goon only promo code, good for a full month of premium access. If you head to our promo page (https://edmacademy.net/share/paste/) and use the code SAGOONS you'll unlock a token good for 30 days of premium access. Here's a short list of some of the videos we're launching with: Ableton Interface Overview Massive Interface Overview Massive Modulation Working With Audio and Midi Working With Automation Bussing Basics 5 sound design videos (Massive) Several Ableton Device videos (EQ8, Reverb, Overdrive, Filter Delay, etc.) And many more! Here's a couple examples of our videos (make sure to watch in 1080p!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4IG-hYnmbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmb_OaFxHhw We're also giving away a free sample pack on our facebook page! And finally, here's the homepage of our website: http://www.edmacademy.net
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This thread seems to have died lately, has everyone migrated to the synth thread? Anyway I've been busy with my thesis but have a new 2 track release I'd love some feedback on - vaguely tech house (I suppose?) but it's probably further away from the generic sound than other stuff I've done. Haven't had a lot of time to produce so my mixing etc is a bit rusty I think. https://soundcloud.com/fieldbalm/sets/hunters-riverrift (lossless download in the description if anyone wants one).
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