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stop thinking cause you're rich daddy gave u a studio to play with you dum twat that your some for of a quasi Rick Rubin
Blake Sanchez
fuck off nigger, it's a joke you spastic. Trap producers aren't real producers.
Jason Kelly
can i buy this on vinyl
Joseph Jackson
get out of here mozart
Charles Myers
Is the Samsung Portable 250GB SSD T3 ok for an Audio Drive?
Eli Wood
>250GB no
fuck i just came
Elijah Edwards
jesus christ how jealous of an 11 year old can you be?
Jonathan Price
500GB ok? desu I don't think i've used more than 100Gb in libraries or files before.
Alexander Allen
i hate everyone in that kids video
Chase Moore
Depends on what you're using for sampling libraries and whatnot. For instance, Omnisphere alone without any additional packs is about 49 gigs. That's nearly a quarter of your drive right there.
Ayden Walker
Honestly, it's extremely mediocre music and if he weren't 11 no one would give a fuck.
Matthew James
based flum got forced to pay non-existant denbts back to Triple J for "unearthing" him when it was actually his own manifestation, not Triple Gay. Also a pretty good publicity stunt for flume, although he should of bought him ableton.
Jackson Gonzalez
So it's just about space? All I really want to know is if there isn't some super secret external HD/SSD spec for audio I've got to figure out.
Isaiah Sanders
A lot of people are dissing Harmor in that video's comments section. Why? It's a great vst, right?
Leo Jones
it's because they're a bunch of mediocre bigroom producers, with little to no talent who sound the exact same as everyone else. If Martin Garrix doesn't use the VST then it's obviously not good.
Grayson Murphy
savant uses it and thats all it takes. his amount of autism brings years of suffering to any company whos product gets used by him.
Andrew Lee
imageline makes great synths those people are stupid and people like to shit on imageline because fl studios fruity loops past
Cameron Martin
Any reason I shouldn't get an Akai Professional APC KEY 25? I use Renoise B)
Ayden Reyes
Should I fall for the meme?
Bentley Young
i would get more keys unless you dont have the space
Chase Long
ltcorbis is the superior child producer
Mason Hughes
How the fuck do I learn Sytrus?
Can I actually make any sound from it?
Jayden Richardson
be prepared to feel like a complete retard. especially when you're a keys player it just feels like crap and intonation is fucking hard at first, but after a couple of hours noodling especially with equator it's tons of fun
My old delay plugin would drop everything whenever parameters changed, but I just got one (Bionic delay) that takes it in stride with whatever clicks and pitch bends your changes introduce. Fuck, this is fun.
Kayden Martinez
>read manual >watch youtube tutorial >mess with presets
repeat for a straight month 1 hour a day at least and you should git gud
Nicholas Carter
>mediocre It isn't even that.
Even good EDM is barely mediocre. EDM is LITERALLY the same as a fun park for children. Rises and drops are LITERALLY a rollercoaster ride. It "meaks u feel gud" and that's it. It's the most "template-y" genre I've ever heard.
I started learning Ableton 2 years ago and I still have yet to make anything I'm proud of. Everything sounds like shit, my synths are never in sync, everything is too quiet, I'm permanently stuck in the "make a 4 bar loop that sounds good, click save and never make a full track ever" phase. I thought buying gear would help, nope. I'm just god damn shit.
Aaron Edwards
clyp.it/z510pnzp thoughts? >my synths are never in sync like, your physical synths? or vsts
Ryan Ortiz
hardware synths and samplers.
>make a nice dub chord with one synth >only have enough inputs and cables to use one at a time >ah guess I'll see if I can make some nice drums with my sampler >kick sounds like shit >everything sounds like shit >it's out of sync >watch youtube videos of people using the exact gear I have >comfy fucking tunes
All I want is to make nice tunes and calm my shit brain for a few hours a day, is that so much to ask for? Instead I get constant anxiety knowing I'll never be good.
Hunter Garcia
>tfw I've been shit for 10 years and only finished like 5 songs but I'm still having a blast
Colton Watson
How do I get started making Gothboiclique style beats? I'm been producing for like 8 years but I just can't seem to get down that style. Like, I think I have the voice for it, I just can't seem to make the beats.
yo this shit sucks I'll say though the vox are very breathy and like, he's singing like a mid-2ks pop emo band, so I guess listen to some of that
Justin Ward
fuck, you said you wanted to make the beats. that kind of music seems very reliant on sorta happy sounding elements mixed with darker sounds, like that 2nd song has a very major sounding bassline with a minor sample on top, and then obviously lots of 808 kicks and sprinkler hihats
Matthew Martin
I'm trying to add guitar rig to audacity but every time i change the state of the plugin from new to enabled it just goes back to new
It doesn't show up in my plugins list
What do i do?
Christian Roberts
use a daw
David Flores
Audacity is a daw
David Mitchell
enjoy your gay errors then
David Peterson
try reaper
Robert Gutierrez
I'm not feeling like spending 1000 bucks on a program tbH
Easton Murphy
like 99.999% of producers pirated their daw lad
Easton Rodriguez
Having fun with Zebra. I just have to break the main loop before it's too late and it sticks in my head forever. Not mixed yet.
Just so you know, this is NOT true, and often you will be subject to stigma if other producers (in the professional environment) and engineers realise you are cracking software.
You must understand that you are literally stealing the money of the developer and that you are not helping "their" industry.
All the NFO's from release groups say at the end "If you like your developer, buy the software to support them". Its not just a meme it is the industry surviving.
Leo Kelly
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Samuel Bell
I always pictured it has emo vocals/emo lyrics (will the occasional hood rat lyric) over emo trap beats. I dig it. I dunno why. I know how to make trap. It's like all I make. I just can't get that certain style down. They seem like the use a lot of samples but I suck at samplinig.
Jose Nguyen
I just going to assume you're the guy that said trap producers arnt real producers, care to post your trap?
Even if it wasn't you post your shit fgt
Brody Richardson
Alright, gimme just a sec. I gotta export it and upload it.
Jackson Mitchell
my friend's MPK-mini key snapped off, anyone know where I can get a replacement key?
Anthony Flores
What is, in your opinion, the best digital osc -> analog filter synth in terms of how interesting it sounds?
The PPG wave is the best I've heard, all over this song:
Third one: clyp.it/uvg5xkae Still not done yet though: Also, I cut out the beginning because I fucked something up. It was only like 20 seconds. hype af
(I also just realized there's another fuck op around 0:20. Oh well.)
John Hill
I've been asking myself this for 2 years now. I'm legit unable to flesh out an entire track, unless you consider a 4 bar loop faded in and faded out an entire track.
Julian Rogers
Some people just dont have it.
Force yourself to finish a song, work on it until its done.
Should take you 14 hours max to finish a 3-4 minute song. Put in the hours, put them in until its done. No one can cure your laziness unfortunately
Nolan Bailey
I'm trying to make this sound like it's from the 90s.
Not entirely finished with it, but I want to hear /prod/'s opinion before making any big changes.
Looking for a hardware synth to be my default device for pads. Something polyphonic that I can quickly tweak and record into a daw.
Thinking about the korg minilogue, but didn't know if their was better option, maybe something vintage. Budget is 800
Asher Roberts
- Make a 'production notes' notepad file and every time you're messing round with a synth, an effect, guitar + amp etc and you find something that sounds good, write down in the file what you used and keep adding to it every time you stumble upon something. Even if it's a far-out abstract thought you had on music just write it down.
- Set out days where all you do is sit down and make your own presets, or patch settings for hardware. Go back to old projects and you saved (I always add 'ok'/'good'/'goodgood' to the filename to set it out from the shit doodles) and find ones with interesting sounds that you can re-use. Save the synth patches and effect settings as seperate settings but also save the combined track (instrument and effects) into a container like ableton's instrument rack
By doing this you can save up a big bank of stuff tailored to your taste that you will definitely find more useful than stock presets.
For composing, try thinking of a melody or a riff or bassline etc and singing/humming it. Record it to an audio track. You could build up a song of you doing vocalizations and beatboxing and then just replace the lines with synths/guitar/drums.
For guitar, use an amp emulator that allows you to stack two radically different amp + effect sounds in parallel like guitar rig. I don't know why but having two diff layered sounds in unison really helps with improvising ideas, it might be that the two sounds phasing with each other has some sort of suggestive effect.
Alexander Taylor
Organize your vsts, patterns, automations, and effects.
It legit helped me.
Josiah Nelson
trying my hand at a bit of IDM desu
drawing in every single hit this is a fucking nightmare. Gonna get rid of the hissing hat btw but I have about 3 seconds finished
For reference; some will not need this at all - but this is just my Kontakt libraries.
Tyler Bailey
I went to sweetwater's physical location and tried this while I was there, it felt like shit.
Jack Ross
Hi, I'm new. How do I record a 'sequence' of VST knob-turning? That I to say: >load up a VST >add an audio effect to it >press a key >move around stuff on the effect panel, move knobs on the vst >all this while the key is pressed How do I record that entire sequence of sound, of saturation augmenting, of a high filter entering (and then leaving), etc?
Blake Robinson
On Ableton btw.
Noah Cook
For 800 you're not gonna find a whole lot of hardware, but for just over 800 your options open up greatly. I'd suggest a waldorf blofeld and some good effect pedals. Blofeld can be had for under 400 for hte module.
Brandon Bennett
So when people talk about using a long attack time on a compressor, say for a piano or a guitar or something. How long is long?
I've got some horrifying ideas about compressors to unlearn.
Brayden Anderson
you can configure VST parameters by clicking the down arrow on the VST window, click configure and then adjust parameters. Ableton saves the parameter settings so you can record automation
In the arrangement view, on the right of the channel strip there is two boxes, and a small + symbol underneath. These are Automation arming. Click on your VST and move a knob, the box will change to the parameter you are modulating. Click the + to put that modulation in its own strip. Draw it up and down at your discretion, some will have ON/OFF settings which will be all the way up and all the way down respectively - most will be an amount between 0-100% wet/dry.
You can copy and paste automation across different automation strips to automate many things to move in tandem, if you are using a VST with macro knobs, assign many parameters to a macro and modulate the macro.
have fun senpai
Ryan Parker
When making a track, do you like to start with a sample, a melody/harmony, or a beat?
Asher Bennett
I usually start with beats, bass, or pads. Rarely melodies.
Brandon Davis
Well the actual milliseconds that the compressor shows you aren't always accurate, but I'd say around 30 or 40 ms seems to be "long" on most comp plugins I've used.
Like I said though, don't trust the milliseconds. Just try to listen for the effect that you want. One trick is to turn up the ratio really high, and lower the threshold a lot so you're getting a lot of gain reduction, and then adjust attack and release times. Slow attack usually means that the "attack" of the sound is coming through uncompressed, so try to listen for a sharp transient type thing coming though louder.
Wyatt Sanchez
THANKS!!
Ryan Young
Thanks for that, just needed a ballpark estimate.
Btw, just curious for now, but are there any pros willing to take a .flp and maybe a reference song or two, mix for a few hours and send the thing back for studying? And how much would that cost?
Luke Parker
Ignore my clipping audio.
I'm recording my MS20 and I'm getting this high pitched whine in all off my recordings. Does anyone have an idea of what is creating this noise? I tried EQing it out but it will muffle my synthesizer.
Possibly, you could try posting on /r/audioengineering, i don't know if it would be against the rules but you can try
I'd estimate it might cost $100 - $200, not really sure though
Adam Nelson
Who has experience with hydrogen for programming drums? I'm just looking for something simple and straightforward to fuck around with, possibly put drums on some acoustic stuff I have already
Would it just be better to just torrent logic/etc and use that?
Or maybe it's oscillator bleed, dunno if that's possible.
Jaxon Perez
I don't, I'm going to buy new cables and replace my audio interface and see if that plays into it.
Ian Ortiz
np bud
the clipping itself could be the cause but i guess you've probably tried that
it sounds like resonance on a filter and it only exists on the left channel (i think), I might be wrong
i just looked at what the ms20 was and thats pretty fucking cool man
if you are panning the noises because they are mono maybe the resonance is coming from phasing during the pan with one of the stereo sources
the sound begins at the beginning of the track which starts with the bass, try changing the filter on your bassline to be either a lower db cut lowpass or at a different frequency.
also because it starts at the beginning it could a rendering issue, is the noise always present while you are playing it or is it only in the rendered file? if its only in the rendered file its the rendering process is fucking up somehow
theres probably a bunch of other possibilites aswell desu
Joshua Morales
don't buy stuff until you've ruled other things out
Aaron Jenkins
I figured it out, as soon as I open qtjack (Linux audio processor) it introduces the whine. So now I know that, I'm gonna fiddle with jack till I find why it's making this noise. Thank you for the suggestions and sorry to make you type all that out for it to be something completely different.
