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i think it's perfect 10/10, but none of my friends digs it. is it really shit?
Jeremiah Powell
This is great, do you have a soundcloud?
Joshua Reed
Best fm synth? Something with a routing matrix like sytrus. I should just learn sytrus I guess but the envelopes really don't gel with me.
Charles Gomez
1. Stop listening to crap "music" 2. Stop producing and go learn music theory first
Sebastian Hernandez
Oh I get it, it's a joke.
Luis Cruz
I'm a total ignorant about music theory. I'd like to learn something so I could appreciate more (or less) the music I listen to and maybe start making some shit on my own just for fun. Could you guys advise me some resources (youtube, websites, idk) where I can start learning from scratch? (I am searching for something instrument-independent if possible). ty user inb4 get a course, no money/time
>this is a perfect 10/10 what am I even listening to?
Sytrus and FM8
you should definitely get a MIDI keyboard and noodle around it, I think it's impossible to learn theory without it. as for resources, you can even study scales and chords on wikipedia.
Alexander Martinez
ok mr music theory guy. whats wrong with my tune? music theory-wise
drums are one audio file cause I mixed down all clips through tape to make one file, but now I'm wanting to add reverb to the snare. As best as I can explain it, is there a way to trigger reverb by certain transients/frequencies like you would trigger a side-chained compressor? Like could I make a send for the drum track that I eq out to only be the transients of the snare (but not have this bus go to stereo out) that would trigger the reverb for the entire drum track?
Lincoln Garcia
If I want to produce classical music and/or pop music with acoustic guitars etc. that means I don't have to focus on practicing synthesis and sound design much, right?
What should I focus on the most to get a quality sound, then?
Ryder Butler
a good sounding room to record in, good microphones, preamps and conversion, a pair of good speakers and room treatment for your control room learn how to record, arrange and mix acoustic instruments
John Torres
or if you're too poor to get all those things, maybe start with some kontakt libraries and focus on mixing and composition
Thoughts? Mixing advice needed. How's it sound on your monitors familia?
Isaiah Brooks
you obviously know what you're doing, this is great. my only criticism is that I would EQ the vocals a little differently personally; it's maybe like the upper mids are a little pronounced, but I understand the sound you were going for
Logan Lewis
Thanks for the feedback.
>EQ the vocals a little differently
At what parts of the track?
Lincoln King
not the backing vocals that have delay on them, I like the EQ on that. I guess I was just referring to the lead vocals, they just are a tad too thin imo
Elijah Gutierrez
also, because you seem experienced could you get me some recs for mine/the dilemma I'm trying to solve in this
Leo Sanchez
Create drum track with only snare, put reverb on it 100% wet, mix to taste
Daniel Fisher
It doesn't even have to be the same snare, it could just be a similar sounding snare sample
Joshua Thomas
I like it, sounds like the opening to a Metroid ROM hack. I think the mixing may just be mushy
Connor Robinson
Hey
It's the guy who wanted to buy the Rode NT5. I wanted to start out by buying 1 and recording with it for a bit, before buying another 1 or a matched pair, however i read some customer review on a site, where the person said they will sell their Rode NT5 and buy a matched pair instead once they can afford it.
Is that guy just retarded or is there actually a difference between buying a matched pair and just buying 2 NT5 S one after the other? Seems as though the matched pair is just a bundle.
Carter Anderson
So I have a lot of physical instruments except for drums. I usually just straight up record my music in audacity and mix it there.
How do I emulate drum sounds? I'm guessing I'm need a DAW and a VST? Any suggestions? I'd prefer a natural sounding kit obviously.
Dylan Flores
>54 followers on Soundcloud >that quality
Sometimes I don't know why am I even making music. Of course, I'd still do it do it for myself, but it brings a lot of stress with it too.
It's all about the connection, isn't it?
Hunter Moore
What do you guys think of Viena and soundfonts? I'm trying to make my own from samples and it's going pretty well. I use Finale Songwriter for most of my music but I've also been importing my Midis into Ableton, to remix them with better sounds, but then the trial ran out and I don't know if I want to spend 99 dollars.
need some opinions on this, its taken from i guess the "crescendo" of the track, thanks a bunch :)
Zachary Perry
If you want to get Ableton Live, i still have a bunch of Ableton Live Lite codes from gear i bought, which makes the upgrade to Live 9 Suite about 100 bucks cheaper, in addition to that Ableton Live products are 20% off right now, so if you want one, just tell me tbqh senpai.
I do it to touch the hearts of select individuals that can appreciate my music. That's all that matters.
Luis Sanchez
Has anyone had any experience trying to make samples from scratch in Audacity? Like starting with the noise / tone generators for base sound and messing with effects and layering them to try to create a sample? I really want to create some good dark wave synth samples.
Spent 30 minutes on it. Does it have any potential? Didn't change other default synths so they don't go very well together atm.
John Brooks
ayoooo hol up *bumps thread*
I fucking suck at memes.
Colton Harris
Guys, any good links for some free drumpacks/essentials for deep house?
[spoiler]Does anyone know where I can get some vengeance packs, most places I look are empty[/spoiler]
Levi Morales
So, I'm studying controls of one synth and advanced synthesis in general and I have to ask a question.
Do you guys know exactly what will happen when you twist a certain knob, or is it always just an experimentaion to some degree? E.g. now I can know what every parameter of plate effect does, but I don't know how would I be able to know exactly what to do if I want to achieve a specific sound other than just trying everything out.
Jackson Phillips
might as well listen to the 150.000 other times this chord progression has been used.
was going for a nu disco/deep house vibes kind of thing. I added the white noise for effect
Jackson Bennett
they actually check the membrane and pair two which are similar. So it's not a bundle it's a pair with similar frequency response. When you wan't to do stereo Recordings i would highly recommend a matched pair
finished this yesterday, would appreciate some feedback
Thomas Evans
Knowing what every knob does is just the beginning. After a while you will know how things sound. To stick with your example knowing how a plate reverb will effect a sound. It's very similar to classical musicians who can hear a composition in their head even if they just read it on paper.
Kevin Ward
trash
Jacob Jones
o-okay
Lincoln Murphy
how do you into """"future bass"""""""?
Adam Bailey
opinions on the new standalone MPC?
Grayson Peterson
can't crack hardware Akai devs are geniuses
other than that, i don´t care
Hunter Lopez
I don't understand why would you tell me this while there still is a ton of music with that progression along with all the other ones. That doesn't mean it is automatically generic just because it uses the same chord progression.
If the melody is bad, that's a whole another thing, but it's stupid to bash something because it uses a popular progression.
I mean, I don't care about this 30 minute draft, but only I managed to get this kind of response 2 times here.
i'd kind of like a standalone sampler but not one that costs $1300
Oliver Taylor
You've summed up why so many people get impatient once they've learned all the stuff, and it's because ear training and familiarity with sound can't be crammed like studying can.
You'll get there, but you have to start listening now.
Brody Rivera
I'd buy it if they made a version that looked like hospital equipment again
can't stand the way that one looks, looks like some BEAT KANGZ shit
Jeremiah Clark
How do I into creating songs without sampling other songs and using instruments?
do you mean without sampling other songs and also without instruments? cause that's a cool thing a lot of people do. u can get a zoom recorder and hit things with sticks
Brody Parker
>BEAT KANGZ kek that beat thang looked like shit
Eli Wright
What synth is it? Manuals tell you what the knobs do but it rarely tells you how they interact.
Like for example, if you make OSC 1 a saw and OSC 2 an inverted saw you saw-PWM. Or if you have a filter with the resonance cranked up, you change how the resonance sounds by turning down the oscillators volume then obviously turning up the master volume to compensate.
If you're not feeling imaginative, synths can seem like boring pulse wave generators. If you actually start thinking about what you want to hear and start tweaking you can achieve stuff you didn't think the synth could do.
I like to watch this guys synth demos to remind me what synths are capable of.
Got some effects racks and stuff. Anyone work primarily on ADAT still? Do I just need to stop fucking around and get a standalone DAW station already? I'm just trying to make demos and stuff..
Logan Ortiz
Will check out those videos.
It's Diva btw.
Evan Rogers
MKS-50 is the same as the Alpha template preset in diva, MS-20 in the video is the MS rev1 template preset FYI
Jeremiah Reyes
I understand racks and other hardware (I own some myself) but I see ADAT as a speshul snowflake thing. I don't see why would anyone use it over any DAW. I mean unless you actually like it and are so used to it, that it would affect your workflow to switch to a DAW. But if you're fucking around and don't feel attached to it, get rid of that shit
Nicholas Morgan
work in progress probably not very good but im tryna just learn production through trial and error clyp.it/jmlsmcfj
im using renoise and it glitches out majorly (not in this clip tho) when i layer too many samples. is this normal
damn this is real nice. what is that synth playing that main backing melody what do u mean by too noticeable? i think i hear some kind of vocal sample in the background that i wish was higher in the mix. i feel the nu disco vibes hmm not feeling it 2 be honest. sounds too familiar if you know what i mean this has a real neat atmosphere given the dreaminess i think it's be appropriate for ur vox to be more reverb/delay heavy
Nicholas Hill
what kind of drive are you running on hd or ssd and what is your audio buffer size one of those may be the reason why youre getting audio glitches
I know for a fact every beginner producer suck dick man unless you practice everyday and learn the producer way of learning how to mix and process audio
Kayden Bell
What's the best way to remove audible clicks from a pluck running through a comb filter?
I've tried dialing back the attack on both the amp and filter envelopes, but they're still present
Blake Russell
i do practicing everyday...
i spend about 4 - 5 hours a day doing it
i know it takes time
i don't expect to be great overnight
do my beats sound alright for a month or producing?
Jayden Long
Thats good man
First track pretty trippy
second track ehh its okay
For a month thats pretty good
Keep up it man
Sebastian Lewis
I enjoyed this, there was definitely melody in there it was drowned out by the heavy buzz drone tho unless that was what u were goin for
how do you promote your music and get followers/listens?
Brandon Miller
Well ima make a website soon and do search engine optimization
How do I get plays? no idea lol
James Lee
does anyone know how i can send a track recorded on reaper through my mixer's aux sends?
I'm using an alesis firewire 8 and can't figure out how to map it to that output. I've tried a few different configurations, but all it does is isolate it to either the master out or control out instead of Aux A or B.
There's an option for choosing which output it uses, but nothing for the aux/FX loop, and I can't find it in the alesis settings, either.
What do I do? I'm trying to transition from recording on tape to using a computer and really want to use hardware effects since I can manually manipulate them.
Basically what I want to do is record a clean track, send it through the aux, and then apply effects that way instead of being forced to record a bunch of different tracks for each type of texture I want. It's easy on tape, why is it so difficult on computer?
I have an idea for how to avoid latency, though, so I guess that's a plus.
Camden Evans
There's nothing happening here, you need to introduce other instruments, change the melody, do something. All you have is a dissonant melody that doesn't change for 6 minutes.
How much time did you spend on this?
Charles Hughes
like the joy division vibes mane. Lyrics are good, singing a bit hit and miss, maybe mix the chorus some more. Good songwriting
