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Bought a cheap keyboard at goodwill and started making little songs with lmms. Slowly forming something that sounds like something. Literally no musical knowledge though so it's been not so great. clyp.it/v33pgrsd
i saw that video. Based Flume got forced by triple gay to watch a 11 year old boost the bass on his preset by +15db. This is what every FL Studio does in real life.
What are your favorite electronics-heavy albums that you wouldn't classify as "electronic" albums? Like how Deathconsciousness is pretty synth and drum machine-heavy but it's not really electronic music.
I'm trying to make something interesting with weird glitchy sounds and samples but it always just comes out sounding like a bad Flying Lotus track
Here's a blatant blank banshee ripoff that I started tonight. Whaddya think? clyp.it/u34fa00c
Austin Robinson
What is his endgame?
Liam Turner
pussy
Angel Murphy
I just tried Ableton and their mono engine is pretty bad, wouldn't recommend at all.
Chase Edwards
Retards Attempting Production
Kevin Nguyen
Is that Richard Stallman at the bottom (literally)?
Jack Morris
Never mind, someone shopped the head from this photo of him
David Howard
Nice meme
Jaxon Lee
Can anyone help me out with this? I'm using an audio interface that I'm playing into in FL Studio, and I'm sending what I play straight to the output of the interface so I can listen to it with headphones.
While playing, there's a really loud static which I thought was from me having my gain up so high, but when I export to a .wav file, there's no static at all. I can turn the audio monitoring level down, but there's still static unless it's all the way off or I turn the gain down so much that recording volume is super low. If anyone knows what's up I'd appreciate some insight.
John Myers
Would standard Google Drive be a good enough solution for long distance collaboration?
Jaxson Thompson
Try using Asio4All driver
Charles Cruz
Actually I think I just figured it out and basically I'm retarded.
Michael Rogers
I think so, or Dropbox.
Jaxson Long
why are you guys always sucking Flume's dick
Dylan Collins
have a look at your microsoft gain settings, they are automatically set really high
after you said that last time I tried to figure out what you meant but I still don't understand. it goes SOMEWH and on the -ERE drops with the beat it's quantized and ready to go my mans
>being this mad man, just because you probably can't make music you don't have to project that on to others who make some decent shit. there was literally 0 reason for you to say that.
Carson Adams
>haha projecting xd When will this meme end.
Thomas Gomez
lololol that is garbage of the highest caliber
Andrew Peterson
.being this upset someone doesnt agree with you
people can have different opinions than you ya know, i also think the "somewhere" is cheesy and kekworthy, like, in what context is that word being said?
Bentley Cruz
naming my shit is hardest
Camden Carter
i literally just look around and think of random stuff and name it the first random thing i come up with
Carter Brooks
>samefagging this hard I'm not upset at all and my response wasn't for you disagreeing with me, it's for making retarded assumptions or should i say, 12 year old comebacks and "assumptions" like this: >Getting feedback on your slot machine song from your mom isn't that worthy.
>clyp.it/ej4i0g5a this is great but please like put a filter on those hi hats or some more reverb or something they sound so out of place bc the rest of the track is so airy
Henry Barnes
This is exactly what is wrong with edm, kids just pressing the white keys baka
>1:40 not that user but i'd imagine it's the same thing i'm hearing, sounds like the female vocal needs to be warped to the beat more. the last phrase sounds like it's an 1/8 or 1/16 note too late.
Michael Peterson
clyp.it/hiou0d1d any potential? I know my 808's need more punch but I've been struggling to figure out how
Ayden Cooper
Is there a way to play songs without a laptop and just hardware? What would I need ?
Gavin Hughes
what do you mean? what kind of music do you want to make?
Christian Butler
Just heard 0,8 miliseconds of it, i think this needs More Life, i mean yiu did well, but this can be less cold can it? I would love hear a female vocal falsetto over it starting by the half-middle.
William Nelson
I guess like edm ?
Jonathan Garcia
I just name it the date with a number at the end
Alexander Martinez
literally a million, 22 quack, a million cause ducks. You get it?
1) Art performance artist. Bring literally anything to the stage. You're the mecha John Cage. Go ape shit. Eureka, music.
45) Lit(ally) Pendrives and a soundsystem (Paredões) or subwoofer (small crowd).
7) Auxiliar cable your cellphone playlist with prepared instrumentals/mix into a amplifier sound box or car-into-the-stage (preferable a European big Truck)
2) use your voice its like joanna newsom show
Aaron Cox
for EDM a laptop would be vital I think. lots of automation, visual EQing, sample packs, all that shit
You just need something to use as a sequencer. You can either get a dedicated hardware sequencer to control other midi devices, or you can get a bunch of gear that has small on-board sequencers and sync them together via midi...or both.
newer gear to check out would be Elektron Octatrack, The Pyramid Sequencer, Arturia Beatstep Pro. Most of the new korg stuff has on-board sequencers and can pair nicely with each other too.
if you are wanting lower cost of entry check out used grooveboxes from the 90s. Roland MC-505/909, Yamaha RM1x/RS7000, Emu XL-7, Quasimidi Raveolution.
Thomas Reed
Arturia da real mvps. How does it sound so far?
Jayden Lewis
I would raccomend an hybrid setup, like a couple of synths, a drum machine and a sampler with a laptop to use as signal processor (eq, compression etc etc)
I'm at a stand still /prod/... I've no idea what to add to make this sound more interesting. Recommendations welcome, vst/plug in recs, etc pleaase
note: I just shortened each part I have so far so I could fit the song into a small clip, the song isn't going to be 01:16 long and I haven't started mixing it or anything.
Also, I always have trouble with my kick, it never sounds right.
It sounds very thin, as if it needed maybe a synth/guitar/bass phrase going as the backbone of the track.
Also, the drums need some effects in them, or maybe you need to DL some different punchier drums
Noah Rivera
bump
Easton Anderson
It's a bit rough in a technical sense, but this is one of the best complete tracks I heard on /prod/
Ethan Brooks
EQ is mostly ear training - for creative use of EQ experiment with specific types of sound (vocals, drums for example) and listen to what the changes in EQ do to the sound.
For corrective EQ it's useful to have a parametric type EQ (with or without a visual cue although visual feedback is good for starting out) and sweep a narrow boosted band across your sound until it catches the frequency you want to cut and makes it more prominent - at that stage you can apply a cut to that band to correct (equalize - oh hey) and tame it.
Most effects are creative and just involve ear training and experimentation - if it sounds good to you then you've got to where you want to be.
I'd say reverb is one of the most often-abused effects though (although obnoxious amounts of sidechained compressor is catching up fast) so it's worth spending a lot of time on that, and specifically listening to how reverb will sound much different (usually less pronounced) on speakers than it does in headphones - "reverb soup" is real and it is the most obvious mark of someone who has just discovered the effect and has not yet learned how to restrain it.
