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>LEARNING RESOURCES
(Obligatory mixing course) >The Art of Mixing by David Gibson [YouTube] The Art Of Mixing (A Arte da Mixagem) - David Gibson (embed)
(Obligatory synthesis course + additional related videos) >Intro to Synthesis by New York School of Synthesis [YouTube] Intro to Synthesis Part 1 - The Building Blocks of Sound & Synthesis (embed)
hi, not from this board nor i know how any of this works, but i'm searching for a gift for my girfriend, she studied piano, good with keyboards and very interested in electronic music (i think she knows that whole part of spotify).
however she had a good synth she sold for like 300€, don't know anything about it, she's not a musician and i'd like something cute for her to play from time to time. budget is around 50/70€, i'd like something like a 2 octave keyboard with a synth, capable of producing good sounds (maybe with loops idk), preferably with batteries so she can just play with it while high with friends.
best i found just on youtube is Casio SK1/SK5 but i don't know
Henry Garcia
i'm love distortion?
Lucas Brooks
nobody?
Parker Robinson
Ask her what she would want. The SK1 is cute but it's really just a toy. If you're not into that kind of thing it would be disappointing to get as a gift.
Benjamin Butler
You can't beat this naming convention.
Nicholas Cook
Can any one help my find some good spaceghostpurrp drum kits/sample packs? Looking for some of the dark r&b stuff
Evan Morgan
Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators
Chase Garcia
nigga you dont even know
Jacob Williams
how the FUCK do i come up with siqq jazz chord progressions all of mine sound shit
Robert Parker
make a basic chord progression add secondary dominants and fuller voicings add substitutes and alterations done
Alexander Bennett
Hello friends let me repost my post from last thread, as I posted it when the thread was dying and I would enjoy a reply. Here it is.
Hello friends. I posted a wip of this yesterday, or the day before. What do you think now? Is it too cacophonous (esp towards the end), and is the screeching synth too screeching?
Me to, generally. I actively have to stop myself from putting distortion on every project
Lmao, here is mine for april
Asher Ortiz
the 808s and the dog bark samples sound bad. also the vocal samples don't really add anything
also your naming conventions are terrible
Elijah Mitchell
Comin from last thread. Making a Samurai/Japanese type beat. Any suggestions on what to add for atmosphere? Percussion or anything? Also I know it sounds weird in the middle. I just fixed that but i can't be arsed to upload it again.
You guys actually take the time to label every WIP? I just label em' Beat1, Beat2, Beat3, etc. I only label them after, when i upload to soundcloud.
Alexander Cook
>also the vocal samples don't really add anything should I remove them? it's more of a personal thing but you're probably right. i wanted to have something though..
also what did you listen on? i use my laptop speakers and headphones from time to time. what exactly should i fix with those 2 things. I'll tell my friend's dog you didn't like him :*(
Charles Johnson
unrealistic flute, unless it's your artiistic choice
Nolan Stewart
Really? Cause i sampled it.
Isaiah Moore
does like nobody make sick-ass dirty-ass fuck-ass bass around here?
Jose James
amatures
Easton Price
Grow up
Nolan Green
heres a mere glimpse into my fl folder
Brandon Clark
not everyone has to be a joyless pissant like you
Brandon Reed
>sick-ass >dirty-ass >fuck-ass He's not wrong, make your post look less like it was made by some drugged out raver
Asher Ortiz
is there anywhere i can torrent music production stuff?
Justin Kelly
Where is everyone? :( Is it always this lonely in these threads?
Piratesbay
John Collins
most torrenting websites not dedicated to anime or something
Lincoln Lewis
the pirate bay
Leo Jones
Mediafire
Ian Sanchez
I have a surround sound system with 5 speakers and an 8 inch sub. I also have 10 dollar panasonic ear buds. When I give my drum more MMPH and bass, it sounds fine on my sub with the rest of the mix, but on the earbuds, it overpowers the mix. When I tone down the MMPH and bass on the mix so it becomes listenable on the earbuds, but it loses it's punch on the sub. How can I make my mix sound good on both shitty 10 dollar ear buds and more high end equipment?
Angel Jackson
audionews.org is all you'll ever need.
Registration opens 1st and 2nd of every month. If anyone reads this and doesn't bother to register they are a fucking moron.
Dominic Jenkins
it seems to be fairly common for cheap headphones to have the bass, and sometimes also the highs, boosted ridiculously
if those earbuds are purposefully bass boosted then don't worry about it sounding too bassy
Austin Hall
Fuck them. My account got insta deleted when i didn't upload 5MBs of shitty plugin I downloaded because of some bug.
When was this? I've had an account there for years and every time I've dipped below their ratio standard they just limited my account to upload only until it goes back up.
Kevin Campbell
Hey guys i need your help.
I still feel that the first part of my track needs something but i can't really place my finger on it, i could really use some help.
the vocals are really interesting, where'd you get them from?
idk it might benefit from a little breakdown
Chase Collins
>clyp.it/hjq3wnll you probably don't want to hear this but personally i'd slow it down a bit. It's a bit too short to tell you what you're missing
Ethan Flores
I think it was around half a year ago. It sucked, I couldn't login anymore, said they can't find an email in database or whatever.
Anyway, I have pretty much everything I will need for a while now, so I don't mind. And you can still find a lot of stuff on websites like Piratebay or Rutracker.
Ian Gomez
been doing some glitchmachines patches recently, think I got a pretty neat one here
How do music producers overcome the challenge of making their music sound good across different equipment? Why does a Kanye album sound good on my surround sound system and my 10 dollar earphones?
David Hernandez
might rely more on harmonics than the actual bass frequencies so it sounds fine on iphones and similar speakers and coincidentally sounds fine when it's bass boosted because it didn't have very loud bass frequencies to start
or you're just used to how it sounds on both systems?
Andrew Campbell
vocals are literally ripped from youtube, it's the intro of a Zulu song
>clyp.it/or3pd020 sound great but i'm not fully convinced by the instrument you use for the melody
Benjamin Taylor
im on my shitty laptop speakers, and I can't tell if there's sub bass, but this song could use some aggressive sub bass. It sounds like a trap song, and the first 30 seconds are building up hype, but the track doesn't go anywhere after like the 30 second mark.
I feel like you need an aggressive sub bass that carries momentum and hypes your listener up. Also I feel you could maybe pick up the tempo on the synth and give the song a bit more momentum. If I'm not making any sense listen to the first 40 seconds of this
The first 20 seconds and the part after the subbass kicks in are essentially the same in composition, it's just that the subbass makes the song sound so much harder.
Caleb Flores
hey thanks man, i'll try something out tmrw morning, what did you think of the second part of the song?
Jonathan Taylor
>clyp.it/hjq3wnll the drums seem really weak if they are sampled you should try layering more drums on them
Cameron White
Well i got an updated version here, where it's just a bit slower. And there's more variety. Still want to add a pad or maybe even a lead. clyp.it/2blurdst
You mix it first using a variety of different sound sources that are all flat, so you can get a good idea of how it'll sound
Ryan Hall
what do you mean by flat?
Parker Long
i really want to get into music production and this isn't about finding resources it's more so finding where to start. i find myself overwhelmed by the different points in which to begin. i'm more of a learn by example person so can anyone tell me which steps they took in starting out and learning? sorry if i seem annoying or clueless.
Aaron Jenkins
I'm figuring they meant "a variety of playback systems that are all flat" rather than "sound sources" - flat frequency response playback systems let you hear how your music actually sounds.
It's useful to know if you have too much sub-bass in your mix for example, since this will overpower bass-heavy speakers and headphones.
Isaac Martinez
Different speakers have different frequency responses, that is to say some frequencies are louder or quieter over the spectrum. When a speaker is flat it reproduces all the frequencies evenly.
Bentley Brown
No one?
Josiah Jenkins
So where do I get this flat speaker?
Ian Rivera
Look for studio monitor recommendations and reviews.
Chase Diaz
Can someone help me or point me the right way on how to reproduce this sound in FL studio (@43s) youtu.be/zQqAWHcq81Q?t=42
I dont seek to make one that sounds exactly alike but one with the same timbre and ofc same distortion.
Jose Collins
Maybe I'm missing some of it but it just sounds like detuned saws or squares with noise and a moving resonant bandpass filter, or it's FM with the second operator's volume automated as well as a bandpass or highpass filter for the end of the synth's phrase.
Jace Foster
oh okay ill go ahead and try what youre metioning ,, ty :)
Nathaniel Jackson
heads up: there's a bunch of tracks from a 50s sex education vinyl on soulseek 1950's sex education vinyl
this will spice up whatever you're working on, i guarantee it
Anybody have general tips for making hip hop? I might take a venture of being a producer for a rapper and I don't really know where to get started. I've only been really working on electronic rock stuff
Kevin Turner
"it's not about what you add, it's about what you remove"
or something to that end
Ayden Bell
Sweat.
Michael Thomas
I use audio technica m40xs, fairly cheap over the head headphones and as far as i know theyre flat, id recommend them for sure
Easton Evans
Just watch a shit ton of tutorials. Even tutorials that don't even apply to you. It's just really beneficial in general to just absorb more knowledge.
Also, when practicing/producing, set a timer every 20-30 min. Take a 5 min break then get back to it. It gives you a sense of progression and makes the job less grindey.
Cameron Ward
Also, if youre looking for speakers, ive heard krk rokits are pretty good, my mate has just bought some, bit pricey though
hey guys this is my first serious FL project, meaning ive been learning how to use the programs etc.
I am a classically trained composer so im making the transition to electronic.
would appreciate any feedback, also I think im might extend the transitions between themes (a and B) to maybe give it a more trance-y sound.
Lincoln Johnson
so when playing a note or frequency, that note is is actually a combination (harmonic?) of the previous, higher notes. whereas the one played is the loudest and lowest frequency?
Matthew Cruz
yes, also includes overtones
Ethan Harris
I believe harmonies are multiple notes or pitches forming a unique sound, as opposed to melodies which is just a sequence of one notes.
Brayden Thompson
the overtones (harmonics) are a part of the note
the fundamental is the defining part of the note
the overtone series has a strong relationship with the circle of fifths but it doesn't totally line up with our system of tuning
Daniel Turner
thanks a bunch for the help i'm still having some trouble understanding exactly.
a harmonic would be like pressing multiple keys on a keyboard at the same time right?
what is an overtone? what is the fundamental? the lowest frequency note played in the harmonic?
also, pitch=frequency=note?
Hunter Robinson
It depends on what is playing the note. All periodic signals can be represented by a number of sine waves of various frequencies and amplitudes, these are the harmonics.
A single sine tone therefore has no harmonics (its just the fundamental) while a square wave theoretically has infinite.
Hudson White
So I'm trying to write music, but I'm not here to ask how to do that. I'm wondering what software you guys use to do it. Right now, I'm using a website called noteflight, but it doesn't seem to be able to do everything I want it to do (i.e. I can't make certain voices in a lower range have a longer note value if it's being played over shorter notes) and I'm generally still trying to figure it all out. What do you guys use or recommend?
Logan Hill
I think you are confusing harmony and harmonics. As a musican you don't really need to know or care that much about harmonics unless you are delving into DSP.
Multiple notes playing at the same time is a chord.
Pitch/frequency/note are often used interchangably but also have non-colloquial definitions.
Henry Rogers
atm i'm watching the intro to synthesis part 1 video and the guy's currently talking about timbre.
i want to get an understanding of the pic i posted here but i'm having my hard time wrapping my head around it. i may be retarded
It's been exactly 1 week and a few Frankjavcee videos since I started fucking around in FL Studio, and this is my most recent shit, which I would have kept on developing until I pulled my headphones and noticed that it sounds like complete utter garbage on speaker, compared to my earbuds.
What the fuck is going and how did I fuck up the mixing this bad?
Elijah Watson
I need a link for this album! I want to listen to this album! Give it now!
William Ward
If a violin plays a C3 note, and so does a piano, both have the same fundamental frequency (whatever C3 is in hz), but they will sound different, because they have different harmonics.
I have no idea why someone teaching an intro to synthesis is trying to explain harmonics, you really don't need to know about them unless you are using additive synthesis or programming your own physical modelled synth, which most musicans will go their entire career without ever doing.
All synthesizers start with an oscillator or a combination of them, the most common being sine, triangle, saw, and square. These oscillators sound different and have different harmonics, but essentially no-one goes into designing a sound thinking "I'm going to make a sound with the 11th harmonic at X volume today".
If you want to learn synthesis you should start with learning what the different oscilators sound like, and then about how envelopes, filters, and lfos affect the sound. You really don't need to care about the mathematic underpinnings of it all.
Luis Flores
Pirate fl or ableton, get off those scummy online 'daws'
Camden Cook
Your headphones are likey do not have a truely flat eq. That could explain your problems, plus mixing on shity headphones or 'beats' is never going to end well.
James Wood
Thanks! That makes a lot of sense, but is there any way I would be able to fix this problem besides just getting better headphones, not that I'm against that.
Also, I'm guessing you have those better headphones, could you tell me how the clyp sounds to you?
Caleb Bailey
go listen to some tutorials on the fundamentals of rhythm.
Easton King
Shit yeah I literally have 0 knowledge on music. Thanks I think I'm gonna go study for a few months.
Jaxson Brown
wwhy nobody talks about VSTs, fucking can't find decent ones always stuck with a shit sound
Hunter Young
What do you think of Sibelius? It looks like it's available for use in the recording lab at my school, I might be able to copy it or just pirate that.
