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(Obligatory mixing course) The Art of Mixing by David Gibson youtu.be/TEjOdqZFvhY
(Obligatory synthesis course + additional related videos) Intro to Synthesis by New York School of Synthesis youtu.be/atvtBE6t48M YouTube channels that you should subscribe to:
What's the cheapest way to lay down a drum line that doesn't sound like shit?
Juan Miller
layer the shit out of it, pan hats and toms
Evan Hernandez
Good samples
Cameron Collins
not him but where can i find good samples? Sick of the same ol' vengeance shit i've been using for the past 6 years
Ryder Campbell
Have you guys used this program called Melodics?
It's pretty cool, it's like a Rockband-esque thing but for making beats on a midi pad. There are a few free tutorials, but it costs 10 bucks a month after that.
Where are good places to learn different but standard drumming patterns for various genres?
Charles Anderson
All that vengeance shit is just drums some other asshole already layered. If you want to farm some truly new sounding shit, then get into layering your own drums. Its the path to ultimate victory.
Maybe you use acoustic snare #569.wav as the body, and you layer some electronic drum machine hits on it, filling in the frequency ranges where the acoustic one is lacking. Maybe the 909 snare has that bassy thump that was missing from the acoustic one, and you filter everything out but that and 'graft it on' to the acoustic one. Maybe you layer the noisey tail of one snare onto the body of your main one. Take whats good from each layer and filter or EQ out the rest. Layer in time, but also in frequency.
The individual layers may be weak on their own, but together, create your ideal drum sound.
Shitty graphic for perspective.
Nathaniel Richardson
Sorry I am new to /prod/, two more questions: 1) going through drum patterns is opening my eyes a lot to the structure of certain genres of songs I enjoy.
To start playing around with things, is it sufficient to lay down a beat and try some melodies and stuff over it? Obviously it won't lead to a real song or anything, but I really want to just jump in and experiment.
2) what is your guys' creative process? is it trial and error? do you come in with a melody/fleshed out idea already in your head?
sorry for plebbing it up
fuck these are all really good. in Civilization Funk did you do the bass yourself or sample it?
>not him but where can i find good samples? Sick of the same ol' vengeance shit i've been using for the past 6 years
reddit drum kits
Alexander King
I used free Melodics and got a bunch of premium lessons for free when I got my mpd218. Honestly melodics is better than nothing but it won't teach you to finger drum organically. It's only good if you want to like, play a few samples from the pads or learn a few rhythms, yknow real generic "muh controllerism". What I mainly don't like about it is how the pads are always changing sounds around and it's never the same lay out.
I recommend you check out xpresspad's methods if you're really serious about becoming an actual finger drummer. The full main course is only 40$. I'm doing it and desu I love it. It feels like I'm learning to actually play an instrumment. The bigbang drums library that came with the mpd218 is damn good and I use it to practice the xpresspads lessons. I can tell this is gonna help a lot when I want to write percussion for a track.
Ps. here is a wip. this is one of the metal kits from the Big Bang drums library (pardon my shit mixing, most all hits are close to full velocity) clyp.it/mzd54ch3
Julian Nguyen
reminder
Julian Flores
yes, every post you make is a reminder of your autism
Cameron Rivera
Anyone here built a pc for audio production? Any guidelines?
Cooper Hernandez
at least 8gbs of ram, I got and i5 but I'm moving up to and i7. Get a like a 500gb SSD for programs and bootup and a 2tb for music/movies/project files/etc.Get decent GPU if you're running multiple displays.
Adrian Rogers
Does anyone know how/if I can sync the arpeggiator/sequencer of the Novation Bass Station 2 with fl studio?
First try at this specific genre of metal. Any crits would be greatly appreciated. Also I know my screams suck cocks, any tips on that would be appreciated as well.
William King
>improv sessions >from a sequencer or arpeggiator
Nolan Davis
>tfw procrastinating by blaming the daw
why am i such a beta?
Jeremiah Richardson
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Ryan Baker
>why am i such a beta?
Idk, why are you using FL Studio?
Jason Wood
Because Ableton and any other DAW just look confusing as fuck
Zachary Hall
If you don't like scat don't bother with Ableton.
Benjamin Allen
Start with melody first not with the percussion
Nicholas Gray
then linux daw users are jacking off with their own shit
Levi Phillips
Fl Studio is more confusing than Ableton. Ableton neatly shows you everything on one screen. Whereas FL Studio has you juggling and moving hundreds of windows.
Worst UI, and I've used it for 6 years.
Liam Parker
same, and I'll never use anything else
Blake Hernandez
>worst DAW because you can't manage windows Bet you don't even know what mono is
