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I swear music production is the biggest time waster out there. I was just messing around with a shitty drum sample last night at midnight then next thing I know it's 5 am.
Ethan Rogers
at least you weren't gaming
anyway, what were you doing?
Jaxson White
I'm new to production and Ableton so I was just learning how everything works
Does anyone who has a laptop use an external monitor for production? Considering getting one for my Macbook Pro. I need a dock or something too. Would prefer to just plug one thing into my Mac instead of 3-4.
Lucas Wilson
Pains my heart to see people name their shit stuff like 'Garbage.".
does it sound good though? i need to know before make further progression
Asher Brown
see Vocals aren't clean enough.
I like the added drums but not much else going on that you added, also I really fuckin hate the extreme panning of the original. Back when stereo was a new concept I guess.. However I like the drums, they don't distract from the overall string magic but not sure if this counts as a remix. I'd call it re-work.
Mason Edwards
For all it's an easy-listening cliche I still love the strings in that - to my ears and what I remember of it though the strings are lacking a little top end, if you haven't rolled off the top a little I'd add an exciter instead of boosting the highs with EQ - not much but just to give the strings some more airiness.
Robert Harris
So what's the catch with Splice?
Jordan Reyes
If they use the same T&Cs as the Reason collaboration service then they reserve the rights to use any and all music uploaded to the service, to allow anyone to create their own work with anything that is shared. That could be seen as a catch if you're not aware of it.
Dominic Butler
Good point. I just love that original track so much I feel wrong chopping it up. I might have to revisit it later. Thanks!
Owen Rodriguez
>he goes to college to study music production
Is there a bigger meme than this?
Jack Hall
Anyone know why I have dotted marker lines in Ableton?
Jordan Garcia
Still a beginner with Ableton. Not really sure what I was going with musically with this. I don't have my MIDI keyboard with me so I feel like I can't create a good melody right now. Only thing I like about this track is the synth at the end lol. All the synths sound preset-y because they are. I need to explore mixing and EQ, sounds really muddy.
I just listened to my first stuff. It was super bad. I wish I had never submitted it to netlabels.
Jordan Ortiz
>I CREATED When I mentioned something like that piecing together the memories of IRC that night I seem to remember being told that "we wanted to make sure that doesn't remain true" by those goofs with the glasses at the VIP party. Anyways, ggez4u. Also,
>when your own family enables mental illness lmao thanks for stealing my swimming trunks and transcripts.
Stretched it out a bit, added an exciter to the string track.
Anthony Turner
clyp.it/2dmys0pu Gameboy, no post processing yet. I'm too interested in sound chips and working on my song structure.
Justin Lee
>come up with unique title for song >someone already took it fuck
Ian Morgan
It's not unique then, is it?
Charles Hall
Why is the shitwig package manager so shit
couldn't they just have used the one that comes with ubuntu
Samuel Harris
hey /prod/ i currently have ableton im not sure if i need any extra eq's,compressors,etc. since ableton already has them do you guys have any that you reccomend?
Nathan Rivera
why no replies
Liam Parker
no offense, but you probably don't need any extras yet if you ask that question experiment with the built in stuff
Joshua Clark
Should i learn music theory first? how do i get into music production?
Kayden Ward
Getting there, time to think of what to add now when you sweep the filter down on the strings.
I'm thinking pizzicato strings, plucks, or maybe some harp notes would work. I'm always looking for an excuse to add a vibraphone but I don't think it would work in that case.
Nicholas Butler
the fuck are you guys talking about?
Kevin Roberts
don't listen to this it's never too early to branch out into other plugins. try the fabfilter stuff.
I'm working on some 2011-2012 esque dubstep for my own entertainment. I just wondered if any of you EDM conneseurs have any tips for the buildup, it just doesnt flow or elevates the track at the moment, it just is. Any tips or tricks that might help it be less shit?
>clyp.it/hbzawmhv Great production, as mentioned, you need something when you filtersweep the strings, the effect itself isnt enough to carry the song through that section.
Great sampling, great production, better than 95% of the things I hear in these threads.
The drums are, but the bass is all over the place, you need to tighten up the playing. Recording parts in sections always helped me when recording bass and guitar as I am really out of practice and recording whole songs at the time just wears me out and I end up rushing or behind the beat by the end of the song.
Are you going to add other instruments later? it's very sparse with only the bass and drums. If you're going for only bass and drums, you need to spice up the mix with something.
Aiden Butler
ayyyy, this is pretty good user. I think the issue you're having is that you don't have a verse with like a melody or whatever. you go straight from the intro to the buildup then to the drop with the rhythm section almost constantly playing.
you have to create tension before you release it, after the intro drop the percussion, make a 30 second verse with a melody or whatever and slowly bring the percussion but not the kick, if you do make sure it's lowcutted, then you have to make a banging ass buildup that finally delivers that drop, which is pretty fuckin banging.
It doesn't change that much in 11 minutes and it gets tiring after a while because of how loud and abrasive it is.
Hunter Clark
I like this. Might be pleb as fuck but i was hoping for some standard drums to come it around 41 together with some basic repetition and structure instead of it keeping evolving.
Nolan Myers
Yeah, I agree that section in the middle is lacking. I can hear what I'd want to add in my imagination, but I can't quite figure out how to make it manifest yet.
Camden Garcia
First you should find a DAW and choose it based on the type of music to produce
Kevin Young
how is this for "vaporwave"? I think it's an interesting loop desu clyp.it/hwi5ojtv
Hudson Scott
thanks, I'll try that, I have some melodies and chord progressions later on that I can bring in earlier.
Yes it lacks something, I would add some vocal chops to add some human element, but I am shit at vocal editing and have little clue where to find decent vocal cuts that isnt used to death. Is there a decent site for accapellas anywhere?
I forgot how much fun it is to just make "dumb simple" music.
Connor Gomez
as this user said, It lacks dynamics, if you keep banging the listeners head inn with distorted kicks and synths (which can be cool in it's own right) for 11 mins straight, they will just get bored or tired of it.
If I were you I would add sections where you build things down and build them up again, tension and release is one of the keys to a good song and right now you have very little of either.
Jeremiah Nelson
I like it. I'm a sucker for well produced ambience and textures. Reminds alot of a song I made a while back.
Anyway, you have a very nice sound and vibe, you should develope a chordprogression and It would be a pretty solid melodic ambient piece.
Robert Young
>we are the champions by Queen nah man. Try to find something with less pop cultural baggage than queen to sample, it would be very hard to mold it into anything else than a queen tribute of some sort.
Jordan Morales
did you even do anything besides loop the sample?
Camden Torres
That's vaporwave bro. Just find a song, pitch it up or down a semitone and LOOP DAT SHIET
Easton Gutierrez
I keep thinking I'd want to add something like, Spanish or Portuguese radio chatter over that section. Dunno where to find it though, and I wouldn't want it to just be nonsense.
Jeremiah Thomas
agreed, but i thought it was sounded sort of interesting no, not really. added some bass and miiiiiinor fucking EQing
I actually got the idea from a segment from an old TV show where they used so the exact same loop (but it was cut awfuly), just tried to perfect the loop I guess
Jack Rivera
broadcastify.com/listen/ Maybe check here. It's broadcasts of police/Fire/EMS feeds from all over the world
not sure how the audio quality is though
Lucas Fisher
it's nothing wrong with it, just remember that it's pretty hard to make queen into something else than queen considering so many have heard the song. That is the baggage that comes with it.
If you manage to pull it off, then the hats off to you.
>clyp.it/oezce4dv cool sound, but gets repetive real fast but I guess this is just the main idea and not the whole song.
Austin Morgan
>clyp.it/oezce4dv Love the intro, super nostalgic Maybe turn down the rain so the rest sound a bit more clear? Idk, i'm not wearing headphones
Brody Morgan
If you want to do a DIY route, theres a plugin called Speakerphone 2 that can make audio sound like its coming out of anything from walkie talkies to turntables, to payphones. Really cool plugin.
James Walker
>500 dollars for a goddamn plugin
Camden Cooper
the cheap route would be just using impulse responses of crappy band limited devices like that, which is just as good but not as versatile
Christian Harris
But I thought that's what I did with the begining and before the ending. The loud part was the middle
Hudson Price
I mean, it's just the original song slowed down.
It's interesting but not executed well. The problem I have with it is that it's the same thing playing over and over.
Gavin Thomas
>The loud part was the middle are you taking the piss? you have 11 minutes of the same kick and synth, hitting at the same velocity, with the only change in intensity is that you double down somewhere in the middle.
Let me cut to the chase. No one will want to listen to this as it is now. You have 11 minutes of abrasive breackcore or terrorcore or whatever, with little to no variation other than the apparent random sequences you have put together. If you want anyone to listen to this without turning it off after 2 minutes, you need to bring in alot more variatons, breaks, pauses, crescendos. You went flat out and held it there for 11 minutes.
Daniel Reyes
yeah i didnt really know where to go with it, i thought the song might carry itself thanks for the feedback
Jason Adams
on a scale of 1-10 how useful do you guys find midi drum pad controllers
i'm considering picking one up so i dont have to keep hitting the samples with my mouse (keyboard is weirdly mapped in drum rack)
Nathaniel Brooks
They're pretty useful if you don't want to spend time humanizing your drums manually on the piano roll and also they have a better feel than keys.
You have way too many mids, cut down on those and focus on your low end more, make that tight. Gonna be a bit of a bitch to mix this because the drums are hectic. Might wanna lowcut the kick a bit to make more room for the sub because sidechain just won't do it for this sort of kick pattern at this speed.
Landon Russell
Anyone know of an analog-style plugin that has a mix knob, a switchable high pass filter and attack/release knobs?
The MJUC has all this but it doesn't have the specific sound I'm really looking for, for what I'm trying to do
Ethan King
ok thx, i usually make more normal stuff than this. I'm just fucking around with the vst "bazille" though and it's crazy
The song is pretty good but the mixing is bad, very weak, the drums are drowned in the pads, I'd say pull back all the faders and start with the drums as your reference point. The synths also sound a bit cheesy and preset-y. Also it could be louder overall.
Andrew Bell
I think its pretty good, but you should make the song "open up" faster, if you get what im saying.
chiptunes is such a niche genre that I dont really have anything constructive to say about it, I dont really see the appeal other than nostalgia for the 8/16 bit period.
Maybe dial back the distorted glitch noise, it gets a bit tiresome after a while.
