>ATTENTION! DON'T post Soundcloud, YouTube, or any other links where you are not anonymous (unless somebody asks you for it). That's considered self promotion and will result in bad feedback.
>Syntorial (widely considered the best place to go to learn synthesis) syntorial.com/
>Mr. Bill (Ableton based, some of the best sound design tutorials on the planet. Aimed more towards IDM-type stuff. He also posts his music here) youtube.com/user/MrBillsTunes
Does anyone have experience with microtuning and .tun files?
I have a list of 128 frequencies I'd like to assign to each key, but I can't seem to get it right.
Is there an easier way to do this?
If anyone's interested, this is the list of pitches (it's Equal Temperament approximated to entire numbers, so without decimals): pastebin.com/JzHsjheD And this is the result: pastebin.com/WsS5BbTB
Playing them in Serum, the pitches are exactly the same as the Equal Temperament until C4, then they start to get all wrong.
The one I posted before had the reference pitch changed, but it made no difference whatsoever.
Kevin Bell
I should also mention that I used the same method to make a .tun file for the Equal Temperament (basically the regular frequencies that synths and instruments use normally), and it works perfectly. pastebin.com/3DHmcWBE
Jaxon James
I exported it as .scl and imported it into Harmor, and the mapping shows the same thing (no change until C4, then all wrong mappings).
Christian Gomez
what are some good resources for drum synthesis?
Thomas Bell
What genre (or type of drum)?
Brandon Young
any as long as it's as good as that PDF on emulating real instruments with fm synthesis that was posted here a week or so ago
William Watson
Then type into YouTube and sort by most views. Once you learn the general techniques, start practicing by making some yourself.
Making drums is all about developing an ear for what to do to get them right, so practice is the most important part.
Aaron Ward
>Recording bass/guitar in Logic >Plugging straight into audio interface and using amp modeling >Always sounds like total shit How do I get these to a point where they sound listenable? I don't really care about sound quality/whether they're lo-fi or not I just want them to be good and not just kind of the thin weak sound they have now
Henry Turner
how do i make ambient soundscapes? sytrus looks like a good option for it but idk where to start. I could drown a sample in reverb or stretch it in paulstretch, but that seems lazy, unless that's how other people do it
Brayden Peterson
can I pitch a sample with the ableton sampler ad lib?
Levi Mitchell
>tfw can come up with a catchy melody or a nice chord progression in seconds >tfw the beatmaking that really matters is tweking shit and changing samples and mixing shit and changing patches and arranging shit and matching sounds I miss the days when I didn't have good ears so everything didn't have to sound perfect and I thought the struggle was finding the melody
Lucas Fisher
Who do you think that is there?
Ethan Peterson
It's all just reverb and delays and filter sweeps
what do you think ad lib means?...
Landon Perry
do you have the pdf you mentioned?
Caleb Hill
at will? wat do you mean by this?
Kayden Rogers
Of course you can change the pitch of a sample. Have you even tried? What sampler ever doesn't let you?
Anyone got/know where to get the Djentbass ERG VST? I can't find it anywhere
Christian Lewis
thats good
Dominic Gomez
so how long does it take for you to make a living off of this
Adam Long
We're not gonna talk about Judy in this thread, user
Jack Gonzalez
>make a living
Gabriel Torres
Lets see, assuming you are .002% of producers that make it.. about 4 years minimum
Oliver Turner
I started making music 5 years ago and now I've developed a new groundbreaking technique that will revolutionize the whole sound design field.
I'm currently debating with myself whether to keep it as a secret weapon and use it to have a chance at a career, or sell it to a famous producer for millions.
I think Skrillex is probably the only producer who can afford it and would care enough to spend millions on it, so I'm studying every aspect of his personality so I can apply psychology to convince him to buy it.
Wish me good luck.
Jace Bailey
Good luck.
Lucas Ramirez
Thank you. Now I have everything I need. Next time Skrillex comes up with some new shit, you know where he got that from.
Connor Wilson
it's just hybrid granular/fm synthesis isn't it
Sebastian Johnson
sure
Jacob White
I'm halfway in and it's the first time that someone explains this shit so that I can understand it. thanks a lot
Josiah Evans
NO IT'S NOT, SO DELETE YOUR POST QUICK BECAUSE THEE IS NO POINT IT IT BEING HERE GETTING THE THREAD CLOSER TO BUMP LIMIT HAHA LOOK AT THIS GUY BEING WRONG LMAO YOU BETTER DELETE THE POST FAGGOT BEFORE WE ALL MAKE FUN OF YOU FOR BEING WRONG.
Brandon Howard
does someone know how I can feed the audio output into visual analyzer instead of using the mic?
Ryan Peterson
Anyone have a link/torrent/cracked copy of Image Line's Groove Machine for Mac?? Can only find windows
PLEASE/THANKSS
Thomas Sullivan
that's what you deserve for supporting this evil company
David Scott
Holy shit these threads just keep getting more and more retarded. How does this keep happening
Julian Wood
how exactly does one do collabs over the internet?
export individual stems? send the whole project file?
Carson Brooks
depends completely on your project. I often send project files so everybody can get an overview to be prepared when we meet irl
Joshua Brown
hey so this track is very much a WIP, all the signals are dry and it's not even kind of mixed functionally
what I want to know is if the beat change is too awkward, like after the intro where it changes speed is it too abraisive
I want to know if it's something I should scrap now before I get any further or if it works
Again, most of the tracks are placeholders at the moment, v v rough draft
>I want to know if it's something I should scrap now before I get any further or if it works how shall we tell you? if you like it, continue, if not, scrap it. how will you ever develop something like a personal style if you're not selfconscious about your work?
I like it by the way. only the guitar in the second part seems to have a lower note disturbing the harmony throughout the track.
what worked for me: I try not to delude me into thinking everything is just a draft and in the end starting over when I don't like it anymore. every single step has to be pleasing to your ear. it doesn't have to be sophisticated or unique, as long as it pleases you it's almost certain that it will help you develop your own style over time.
Daniel Mitchell
>how will you ever develop something like a personal style if you're not selfconscious about your work? dude you ever listen to a loop for 4 hours straight and kinda lose track of which way is up? just lookin for thoughts from fresh ears
thanks for the input tho i appreciate it
Wyatt Howard
>what worked for me: I try not to delude me into thinking everything is just a draft and in the end starting over when I don't like it anymore. every single step has to be pleasing to your ear. it doesn't have to be sophisticated or unique, as long as it pleases you it's almost certain that it will help you develop your own style over time. dude i could never work like that, I would get so bogged down with making stuff sound right that I would lose my creative train of thought real quick
everything is a draft until the day it's out desu, if it feels like it's set in stone then I get paralyzed. different strokes man
Benjamin Jones
if pleasing others is your main goal than your work ethic is fine. I like to play around, develop and discover new sounds and forms and if I have something worth listening to in the end then I'm happy, but if not I don't get depressed like so many others. I was not like that for years and struggled all the time, had no output at all. Since I'm not looking for the result I produce actually stuff. It amy seem paradox but it's just like that. The more you're concerned about the outcome the more you stay in your way.
Adrian Wood
hey man believe it or not everyone's creative process is different glad your happy with your work or whatever but keep your condescending bs to yourself pls
David Bell
>everyone's creative process is different only that you won't develop style if you're constantly comparing yourself to other artists. that's actually the essence of my statement and it's true for every human being
Brody Sanders
where is this stuff even coming from lol i've never seen someone project so hard
David Torres
>where is this stuff even coming from lol I'm not sure if you're only trying to be a dick. confronting yourself with already existing art is the number one destroyer of motivation. try-hards are never going ot produce anything worthwhile and should look for something that they genuinely like. the best proof that you found your true talent is that you don't care what others say because you like to do it and you would continue to do it if you were the last person on earth. In my opinion anything you do to impress others is a waste of time
Chase Wilson
but like where did i even say i was trying to impress others or anything like that i dunno man we exchanged like three sentences and you're coming at me with this weird psychoanalysis thing
Julian Hughes
may original post literally began with this statement
Connor Thomas
oh i get it now
Do you honestly think because I asked for some outside opinions that I only care about impressing people? Then you go from there to assuming I don't actually like making music genuinely, and don't have intrinsic motivations.
Like do you see what insane leaps your making
There's nothing wrong with sharing music man, it makes people happy and it inspires others to go on and make things in turn.
Caleb Peterson
ok you're the guy who posted the clip.
>I want to know if it's something I should scrap now before I get any further or if it works
that doesn't sound like 'what should I change in the mix' or 'what notes could I add to that chord'. It sounds like 'if you don't like it I won't work any further on it'
Carter Ross
Oh my god I wish you would've just not replied in the first place fuck man
Obviously it's my choice and I am going to be the one to decide, I was looking for input from people who haven't heard it 2000 times today to see if it comes off as offputting
I'm not asking you to tell me what to do, I am asking what you think, so I can hear how it sounds to someone new.
why do you come to this thread about composition discussion if you're just going to shit on people who want to discuss their compositions
Charles Roberts
being this butthurt... it actually shows how far you still are from creating something of value. I can gladly say that I make better music than you and that's mostly due to the fact that I don't care about the opinion of others.
Andrew Scott
how can you be this stupid do we have like a language barrier or something
Henry Bennett
i sort of know this feel. I had been composing for years before I got into production and the stuff that sounded awesome in my head sounded like crap in the DAW, no matter how perfect it was.
It still does ;_;
Justin Russell
>who want to discuss their compositions I discussed your 'composition', gave advice and just made a remark that we are not the ones to tell you if you should continue working on it or not. I'm really surprised how that could upset you so much. It seems I hit a weak spot there.
Andrew Parker
just as we're talking about it... do you see how much this issue is standing in the way of so many people?
I haven't done anything to the mix yet, I've just been trying to get the song out.
Luke Murphy
I don't understand what's so great about Kontakt. It's just a sampler.
I've even watched in-depth videos to see what the fuss is about, but I can't see it myself.
Adam Butler
It's a really good sampler, and there's a fuckload of extremely good libraries that have been made for it.
Let's talk composition /prod/. I just started going back and watching Rick Graham's Guitar School videos on youtube again because I never finished them the first time, and the one on octave displacement really got me hyped.
The video is meant to help get more comfortable with the guitar, but essentially what he does is play a major scale up and down stepwise, but shift the octaves of the notes around so you get these really huge sounding intervals.
I've unintentionally done this kind of stuff in my tracks before, but never really gone out and tried it on purpose. Anybody here like to use octave displacement specifically?
John Martin
you mean basically stacking ninth? I guess that's more like a soundeffect than something melodic
Jonathan Ramirez
what the fuck Sup Forums why can't I post
Luis Sanchez
okay so I can only post when I'm asking why I can't post?
I keep trying to post this fucking track so you stupid fucks can listen to it but Sup Forums keeps flagging it as spam and I can't fucking figure out why. Are we not allowed to post soundcloud links now?
Angel Davis
With that specific pattern yeah, but the idea is to do it with any interval. Basically just take a melody and shift notes in it around by an octave
Parker Anderson
It doesn't have a similar melodic effect at all. The intervalic distance is very important in a melody. Much more noticeable than say inverting a chord.
Jacob Barnes
Its a virtual instrument host, don't even use the sampler. Can't do that with soft synth easily
Zachary Powell
Thinking about getting into entry-level recording/production of original works. I would be doing multi-track recording, mostly of myself and maybe a guest percussionist/backup vocalist. I do vocals, piano, acoustic guitar, upright bass, electric bass, cello, simple percussion/auxillary percussion, and saxophone. I have several cables, so I just need a solid mic, an audio interface, and a DAW. I'm looking at the AKG P420, the Behringer U-phoria 404, and Presonus Studio One 3. Thoughts?
Asher Lewis
you'll need an acoustically treated room in order to get decent recordings of those instruments, and different types of mics. but yeah all of that stuff seems fine
Hunter King
I have access to rooms at a local uni. What kind of mics would you recommend? I've only seen people do condenser mics, and this one seems to fit the bill in terms of versatility and price range
Nathan Murphy
i havent had any problems today
Kevin Ross
I'm looking to buy a synthesizer. Something affordable for an amateur musician just getting started. Does it make much difference which one I get or should I look for a specific type? Anything else I should be aware of?
I'm just going off reviews at the moment but they mostly talk about quality and value rather than whether it's good as a starting point.
Jason Roberts
does anyone know any extremely diverse artists?
i need this for inspiration because I always feel like I'm doing something wrong when I make one pop track and then move on to ambient soundscapes
ferraro only comes to mind
James Kelly
Keyboard is broken so have no clue where to go after the 2nd chorus for the bridge part of the song clyp.it/5ek2vyaq
Any tips?
Jaxson Myers
Its impossible to pick a bad one
Josiah Clark
where the fuck is the frequency oscillator in helm?
i literally can't change the pitch. i searched the manual and there's no mention of it. i'm trying to modulate the pitch with an LFO or filter surely there must be a way of doing it, right?
Hunter Gomez
Are you the guy who was asking if Sampler in Ableton could play different pitches?
Dylan Rivera
nope. I'm using FL. however, I'm currently trying out Helm as a standalone soft synth.
Joshua Cook
Aren't you just looking for Tune and the settings next to it under oscillator? Am I misunderstanding the question?
I've never heard anyone refer to a frequency oscillator, only an LFO, which should be obvious.
Levi Watson
lol no
Evan Barnes
Lol yes they call it "transpose" on this. I *think* that means pitch. It certainly sounds like it.
My question was essentially how to create a vibrato. Normally I just modulate pitch with an LFO but I couldn't find the pitch knob.
Using the "transpose" knob I think I've done it now.
