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zeldadude posted:someone help me describe this song, it's definitely one of my favorite things I've ever made but I have absolutely no idea how to classify it. I feel like it belongs in like a racing video game or something?? Maybe kind of a future bass influence? I'm truly at a loss Really love this, coming from the likes of Hudson Mohawke and Rustie, but still stands on its own. Is it uploaded differently? Can't seem to find the Like button. duck.exe posted:Uploaded some DnB I finished up today after sitting on it for a while Excellent relaxing+"a little tense/mysterious" dnb type sound. Woolwich Bagnet posted:I made another song. Yet again one that I've been working on here and there. Spent a whole lot of time working on the balance of it since there's quite a bit going on for a lot of it. Pretty happy with how it turned out even if it isn't perfect. What is anyway? This is amazing work. Can't believe how fast symphonic instrument plugins have come. Do you make soundtracks?
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Good Sphere posted:This is amazing work. Can't believe how fast symphonic instrument plugins have come. Do you make soundtracks? Thanks! Nope, just make stuff for fun. It's a nice creative outlet and I've been doing it for something like 10 months now and still love it.
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:Thanks! Nope, just make stuff for fun. It's a nice creative outlet and I've been doing it for something like 10 months now and still love it.  I really need to dedicate myself more to music.
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I could not begin to tell you what this is. https://soundcloud.com/retrocombine/scung Edit: on listening further I hate LARGE sections of this. That first screeching…sample…thing isn’t well used at all, and is basically pandering towards the latter of half the track. No complaints about the closed hi-hat track, the bassline, or that cool cyclical synth thing in the background., though. Pollyanna fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Jun 18, 2022 |
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Pollyanna posted:I could not begin to tell you what this is. It reminds me of what I used to make with a sampler and a few machines more than a few decades ago. Is that a TR-707 sample? Keep it just the way it is. I love this stuff. I’ve come back to the experimental process, and letting everything happen as I’m making it, instead of being calculative, because it’s so tedious and not fun to me.
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You mean the stand-in for the hi-hat, the percussion at the beginning? It's some sorta random cowbell sample but not the TR-707 cowbell, mixed with a pitch-shifted jangly tambourine sample, then some second-order LFO (i.e. LFO-on-LFO-rate) fuckery on the ADSR decay to generate some weirdass rhythm. I'm glad you like it!  I won't deny that it's fun as hell to make all of this, but I can't help but feel like I've got a long way to go in composition and music production. Another reason to keep doing it, I suppose.
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Had a lot of fun with this one: https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/long-cold-nights-are-coming Yesterday I had "And We Got Older" from Jim Guthrie which has a really cool guitar part. I put down the first minute or so of it to see how well my acoustic guitar plugin sounded. Then I put down the cello note at the start of this, erased everything but a couple of measures of what I had put down before, and kept it changing throughout and it morphed in to this. A big goal for this was to keep that rhythm going throughout while not clashing with everything else going on, which I think really helps drive it. edit: Pollyanna posted:I could not begin to tell you what this is. those beats slap
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New music! Also excited that we're going to be publishing a second vinyl later this year!  https://soundcloud.com/2dcat/the-end-of-the-world
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Been doing some weird, somewhat generative stuff recently: https://open.spotify.com/track/3At3fp2yWsnQVvHEFH8hEs?si=e6b7c23d01f04b3a https://soundcloud.com/kiwillian/135-ghz https://open.spotify.com/track/0YKd4dmDqH5r68vCOpoZjf?si=735d2a05ab844837 https://soundcloud.com/kiwillian/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace Got one more coming up. Just not sure if it's done yet...
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2DCAT posted:New music! Also excited that we're going to be publishing a second vinyl later this year! nice Kiwillian posted:Been doing some weird, somewhat generative stuff recently: I'm uhh, not sure what I just listed to. This popped in to my head yesterday so now it's a song I guess. Cool. https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/the-way-home
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:I'm uhh, not sure what I just listed to. Haha  That's pretty much the reaction I get.I just made a thing recently where I put a classical piece into a markov chain in Max and all sorts of things happened. Then I put some metal guitaring on it and a bit of choir, because why not?  edit: As luck would have it, it just went live on Spotify... https://open.spotify.com/track/7lFPGAi1v12vZNrklcyZZf?si=44745314a1424af1 Kiwillian fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Jun 29, 2022 |
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I made more thing: https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/as-the-days-go-by Probably one of my favorites I've made so far.
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Leeeet the water hold me down I was half expecting one of those Wild West whistles to come in at some point. Feels kinda cowboy. Pollyanna fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Jun 30, 2022 |
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A couple weeks ago, a friend forwarded me a voicemail they received (they work in municipal administration, and the guy had a property covered in garbage and old cars he bought at a tax auction and didn't want to clean up), and I did this with it. https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/id-like-some-censoreding-names I also did this, with a sample from the final boss fight in Clock Tower 3 and some public domain movie samples. https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/this-is-the-end im_sorry fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Jun 30, 2022 |
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Pollyanna posted:Leeeet the water hold me down I guess I saw it as a completely different thing and don't even know where that would come in, but making music like that sounds like fun now Not really sure what I'll make next. Guess I'll see if something pops in to my head this evening to work on.
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I have an EP and what looks like is becoming a double album in the works so I haven't put out a one-off SoundCloud track in a while, but today was the first time I ever heard Jordan Peterson's voice and I just had to make it dance. https://m.soundcloud.com/michaelnixmusic/what-rule
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I made a house track, did 5 takes of playing guitar licks and solos over it, took the best guitar bits, and spent a lot of time mixing n mastering trying to make it gel and sound together. Multiple firsts for me and I learned (and winced in pain) a lot. Happy to finally release it https://soundcloud.com/nonnonchalant/jwst
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ProperCoochie posted:I made a house track, did 5 takes of playing guitar licks and solos over it, took the best guitar bits, and spent a lot of time mixing n mastering trying to make it gel and sound together. Multiple firsts for me and I learned (and winced in pain) a lot. Happy to finally release it Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Jul 14, 2022 |
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Dr. Faustus posted:I like to think I am your biggest fan. The only goon I've listened remotely as much as you is LesterShy. Just got back from the new track. It's great! According to my Soundcloud "Insights" feature, you probably are! Thank you so much for all the support!
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I started writing a new song. Got through the progression, realized it was a match for Billie Eilish, and leaned into it hard. everything i wanted (Billie Eilish instrumental cover) by Jamt on #SoundCloud https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/75ouj
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Worked on this for a couple of weeks, pretty happy with how it turned out. https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/cinematic-feels Not perfect, but then what is. Was certainly fun to do at least.
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:Worked on this for a couple of weeks, pretty happy with how it turned out.
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Thanks  really means a lot to me.I don't make money from it or anything. I just use it as a creative outlet, and I don't think it'd be as fun for me if it was a job. Maybe I would consider it if I didn't already have an established professional career. Until then, I'll just keep making random stuff that pops in to my head and 
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https://soundcloud.com/pete-cavagnaro music is a mix of ambient psychedelic electronic
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My newest single is officially released in 8/12, but I put it up on Bandcamp for listening and pre-order. The song is new wave/synthpunk, with a bonus punk arrangement for anyone who buys it for a dollar. It's also my most over-the-top political song, and that's saying something, so fair warning about that. https://faustbot.bandcamp.com/album/abortion-is-a-human-right-2
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New release, this is a very different feel from what I'm used to making. Also used a lot more live instruments instead of midi. https://soundcloud.com/jamt_band/apart-of-me
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My Latest thingy: https://open.spotify.com/track/474tyGAn5ZVuauYIOe5ioB?si=08f9fdce2e7c4d8d or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYq4TvPgEhE Weird IDM kinda thing...
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I like the new track Woolwich, and I agree with Dr. F, you're very talented. I enjoy your music, and I'm glad you post it up. Love to hear more SNES arrangements in a more complex style like your Secret of Mana one, if you ever want to Dr. Faustus I'm calling you out: you're extra supporting and awesome and it's good having your positive influence around wherever I see it. Keep doing your thing, man. Also I wish we were in a band, your guitar work on your covers is great and I always sing along!  ProperCoochie posted:I made a house track, did 5 takes of playing guitar licks and solos over it, took the best guitar bits, and spent a lot of time mixing n mastering trying to make it gel and sound together. Multiple firsts for me and I learned (and winced in pain) a lot. Happy to finally release it This is fun and I really like the combination of elements! Cheers for exploring your creativity further and learning new things. I admire your release frequency, also; the last nine months have been newborn time for me more than anything else, now I've got three kids in the day to take care of and one of 'em is my little dude, really hoping I find the time somewhere to get back to more frequent creation. It's good for the soul, corny though it may sound. I like how you worked the guitar tracks together here, has a feel almost like live looping. Nice one man! If y'all will forgive me reposting something in another thread, at least it's most appropriate for this one I guess. I made a track to learn this Kaossilator Pro+ I picked up, integrate a new synth, and put it all together in my DAW using this external looper plus recording guitar into my DAW from my amp and pedal board. It's not too long and it's fairly simple but I had a lot of fun making it and I hope somebody likes it. https://soundcloud.com/user-6129700...=social_sharing
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I put out a couple new songs over the last week. First up is a synthpunk/new wave song in my normal style and my least subtle political song, Abortion Is a Human Right: https://faustbot.bandcamp.com/album/abortion-is-a-human-right-2 That one has a punk arrangement bonus track for people who buy it. The goal for the Faustbot project is to make synth heavy new wave that feels like punk, and I think I succeeded here. The secret is using acoustic drums; in this case, a processed version of the SSD Pure 60's preset with a handful of different EQs, compressors, and saturators to give them a heavy punch while keeping a sped up 60's groove. Electronic drums and drum machines turn the sound more electronic than punk. Which brings me to this instrumental which uses AIR's Boom drum vst. https://faustbot.bandcamp.com/track/bring-the-funk The change in drums influenced the writing of the track to something more generically electronic, but it was too fun of a song not to share. I wrote it after trying one of the bass presets in Cherry Audio's Elka-X, which was only slightly modified for the main riff. The rest of the song flowed quickly after that.
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Agreed posted:I like the new track Woolwich, and I agree with Dr. F, you're very talented. I enjoy your music, and I'm glad you post it up. Love to hear more SNES arrangements in a more complex style like your Secret of Mana one, if you ever want to Thanks! I might at some point. Also that track is awesome! Posted in another thread but made a chill kinda electro thing https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/go-to-sleep-already And working on another that I was inspired to make while doing some world building stuff for a friend's campaign https://soundcloud.com/poltzart/space-lol-wip1/s-KzyQM9tfPXk?si=02ce21e072784e6bbb432b8510c7defe
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Finally making some new music after ten years away. https://soundcloud.com/roadsofbalatran
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Nition posted:Finally making some new music after ten years away. But I am a sucker for anything down around 60bpm that marches like a heartbeat, and this leans way into that in the beginning. The material though, is quite special. It's compelling. Operatic at the end. My hat is way off.
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Thank you very much! It's all done myself in a bedroom studio, although I can afford some better equipment now than I used to have. And I have a lot of past practice making badly written, badly mixed, and badly mastered music to draw on. Since this is the first thing I've finished in a long time I really tried extra hard to release it polished. BPM is 116, so very close to 60 if you halve it. That "almost a capella" first verse is me quickly engaging the practice pedal (actually a lever on mine) on the piano to bring the felt down. Acts almost like a natural lowpass filter.
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Nition posted:Finally making some new music after ten years away. This is a level of self production I dream about. It's so clean, so well thought out, and really hits. Awesome work. My band just released this one. I'm the sole recorder/producer/mixer and handle most of the instruments, then my band mates pitch lyrics, melodies, ideas, and vocals. I feel like I'm still improving a lot with each song, but have so much further to go. https://soundcloud.com/jamt_band/prisms-and-prisons
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Nition posted:Finally making some new music after ten years away. This is super good, loved it.
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Thanks guys. Judge Schnoopy posted:This is a level of self production I dream about. It's so clean, so well thought out, and really hits. Awesome work. If you've got any questions about my equipment/process/instruments used or whatever feel free to ask. You're being too hard on yourself though I think, your track is good! And I've released tons of badly mixed music in the past. Having said that I have a few thoughts on how you could maybe improve your mix a bit: - The vocals are too loud IMO, personally I'd bring them down quite a lot, like ~2dB? Except for the part at 2:20 which is already spot on. I'm guessing you've lowered the volume on purpose there to get more dynamics out of it, but I'd totally bring it all down to that level. - Guitar solo at 1:00 could be a lot louder, more like the level the vocals would be at if you brought them down as above. - Obvious clipping at 0:41 and the very end. If it's not clipping in your master, it might be the format conversion. You can have a wav that doesn't clip but the mp3 conversion will. I've started mastering with the limiter at -0.5dB to allow some room for it. - I reckon the guitars could have some more mids and highs, or at least some more highs. At the moment the vocal sits on top of the guitars, but if the guitars had some more treble I think the vocals could sit with the guitars a bit more and still not get swamped. Side note: If your guitars always sound like they're lacking high end, one thing to check is if you're DI-ing them with passive pickups then you need to be at instrument input level, not line level. Electric guitar into a line level interface automatically loses some tone. Yours sound like they're mic'd on an amp so probably not an issue, although who can tell what's real anymore? The drums and bass guitar on my track are both fake. - The drums and brass are totally sweet. One thing I still really need to improve on myself is writing good drum arrangements. Feel free to ignore any and everything I said, there aren't any real rules.
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Nition posted:Thanks guys. This feedback is amazing and I'm incredibly grateful. I can hear each song we make is getting better, but we'll hit diminishing returns because we lack the technique to fix what's not working. Getting direct pointers is much appreciated. I remember listening back and thinking "are the vocals too hot here?" but ignored it. I'm with you on taking them down a bit. The clipping is a total lack of experience that I need to reign in and pay more attention too. I'm still battling "louder sounds better" bias in mixing. The rhythm guitar is live, plugged into my interface and piped through the Guitar Rig digital amp. The solo is a digital guitar mixed with my best live attempt, blended together to get more "realness" out of the midi. The tone from the digital guitar is not very convincing, but it can play far better than I can. I'm pretty sure I could play it live if I just practiced instead of concocting bizarre effects with plugins. The drums and horns were my favorite to make. It was my first time using Aria Player and woof does that take a lot of time to get anything halfway decent. I'm pretty happy with how it ended up sounding pushed a little further back in the mix where you might not hear some of the rough edges. I'm gonna open this one back up and see if I can't use your feedback to get some quick wins. Thanks!
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Nition posted:Finally making some new music after ten years away. I also liked this. Is good. Judge Schnoopy posted:This is a level of self production I dream about. It's so clean, so well thought out, and really hits. Awesome work. I can hear a lot of clipping throughout it. As Nition said make it a bit quieter (I usually do -1 dB on the final mix). Can also use a brickwall limiter to stop it from happening in transient cases. I do like it though.
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