>ATTENTION! DO NOT post Soundcloud, YouTube or any other links where you are not anonymous (unless somebody asks you for it). That is considered self promotion and will usually result in a bad feedback.
>LEARNING RESOURCES
(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
Sticking with a genre would be exactly what an autist would do, though.
Gavin Price
what are some divrese albums for inspiration then?
I go from wanting to make folk music to then 3 hours later making nu funk
Jose Mitchell
I don't know any diverse albums, desu. What I would do in your situation, is find a way to make them work together. Folk and nu funk are to extremes, so to speak. Panopticon makes black metal and bluegrass work together somehow.
First try at recording a song in Ableton. Spent a night on it but I don't know if I should scrap it. More of a proof of concept. For sure want to replace the drums with real ones and switch the highhats to a floor tom
Cameron Cooper
I actually really liked that, which almost never happens for me in /prod/. Overall really pleasant, good composition, and the production wasn't bad. I agree that real drums would sound a little better, but it didn't even sound that bad with obviously synthetic drums.
Carter Ortiz
Thnx, first time recording on something other than my phone so I still got a fair bit to learn. Gotta get gud on mixing too cuz it feels off n uneven.
Gabriel Ortiz
That's the dopest shit I've heard in a while. And I hate shoegaze. Maybe I should listen more to shoegaze.
Brayden Brooks
rough thing I made last week. probably not gonna do any more with it so I might as well share it here
I'm not too sure about the structure, seems a bit too linear. Any other thoughts in general?
Michael Turner
Hey /prod/, what do you guys think of Brazilian funk making the rounds as the trendy new bass music? I see a lot of people experimenting and mixing it with American r&b/hiphop. I'm having fun trying to reproduce these really syncopated rhythms and the wonky productions.
bought pic related a while ago but can't come up with what to do with it in a live setting. when i play live i have only one audio track going, so is there something i can do with this thing to have some fun (manipulating effects, etc)? i'd appreciate any vst recs for this matter. i know 'glitch' vst but i don't feel it works well
Lucas Miller
Clyp or fuck off.
Isaiah Hughes
fuck off sc is more legit than clyp why would I upload other's music to a third party site
Jaxon Russell
Honestly it just sounds like normal beats and future bass with 'ethnic' sampling
>mfw my padKontrol won't work in Bitwig even though it's in their list of supported controllers and when asked about it they basically said fuck you
Nathaniel Bailey
>still i dont think it ever really was the best. it got memed into popularity by low end theory people and a bunch of other artists using them (not that i have anything against low end theory people, i actually like a lot of them). as a sampler i just never really liked mine that much when i did own it. the process of trimming the start/end times of samples was really irritating, there was some really stupid limitations for resampling too (if i remember correctly it was that you could only resample up to 4 mono sounds at once or 2 stereo, and that you couldn't resample patterns), the pitch and time shifting algorithms never really sounded that great to me compared to software samplers or other hardware samplers... i mean, buy one if you want, just know that there are limitations
Aaron Cook
Would like some feedback because I suck at mixing. Track isn't finished but I'd like to know where I'm at.
Few questions: 1. There are instances in Ableton Live where I will play it in the program itself, but once I export it it will sound different and there will be elements that will change (for example, the one part in this track where the bass suddenly takes over at around 1:20, even though it doesn't do that in Ableton Live). 2. Whenever I listen to other SC or Clyp tracks they always seem louder to me. I always try to keep my master in Ableton Live at -3 db. Are you supposed to bump that up once you actually start mastering?
Any other feedback on would be more than welcome ofc.
Logan Bailey
How do I make ambient music like Tim Hecker?
Eli Baker
>2. Whenever I listen to other SC or Clyp tracks they always seem louder to me. I always try to keep my master in Ableton Live at -3 db. Are you supposed to bump that up once you actually start mastering? desu your track has good volume for me, so i say keep it that way
Gabriel Cox
also liking your music, reminds me of Tangerine Dreams
Alexander Stewart
Kind of expected a roast on this one, thanks for the positive feedback though! Is there anything that bothers you in this track though, I'd love to continue with this one and improve it.
Jose Nelson
I feel like the track should fade out at about 3:30 and end there. The vibrating sound that is introduced at 1:41 feels slightly out of place and could be changed a bit so it does not sound so harsh.
Aren't drummers usually the least autistic musicians?
Robert Peterson
i wonder if he could play that on real drums
Nicholas Barnes
He's a real drummer as well
Jason Johnson
In the sense that their retardation is not caused by autism, yes. They are the most retarded musicians. It's the lead guitarist you could make the autism case for, I think.
Dylan Turner
Where's my Synth1 people?
Oliver Morris
yes
Carson Martinez
No. Fuck you.
Dominic Rogers
you're probably just mad at your own inability to play that way on real drums or midi controllers lol
Leo Anderson
I wish that I had the drive to want to make real music. I keep wasting a short amount of time making trash like this. clyp.it/ijmmv4eb
That's basically all the elements you need in that genre right? Aside from swooshes when you add and remove elements of the loop and maybe a vocal hook.
Jaxon Barnes
The thing is that I don't even want to make music that sounds anything like this. I just do it to kill an hour and then I end up feeling like shit after.
Aaron Myers
Well what do you want to make? Any idea of what's stopping you?
Do you primarily listen to the sort of music that you want to make? Listen to something else so you have more ideas to draw from. Creativity is just taking ideas from a bunch of places and fitting them together in a new way.
honestly envisioning a 12 year old with ADD and babies-first-piano-roll... thats the only take away from the track.
stick to your commercial audio day job.
Charles Harris
I listen to so many different kinds of music that I don't even know what I want to make. I wish I could make something like Adam F's Colours or something like Shpongle.
I just can't seem to make anything serious when I try to. I don't even listen to anything like what I make most of the time.
make some sort of introduction, i really like this tho
Easton Collins
Do you have the samples and patches for that or do you just have a bunch of electro and house collections from Vengeance?
I remember someone from Noisia describing his first foray into electronic music and he was making trance music but it all sucked and it took him a bit to figure out why. He was using an acoustic drum sample.
Jackson Ross
>He was using an acoustic drum sample. huh
Austin Russell
igorrr
Leo Ramirez
His music sounded bad because he was using the wrong material, an acoustic kick instead of a heavy synth kick.
For whatever reason it's easy for you to setup a house track with the proper drums and synths, maybe there's the problem. Is that all you have?
Nathaniel Sanders
Thoughts on this? Mediocre or decent? I can't tell.
Nah man, I really don't know. I've been listening to this on a loop for a while so I don't really know what to think of it anymore honestly. I can't tell if i'm just burnt out on the track or if its actually kinda mediocre.
Jace Cook
I have shitloads of free drum samples I've found. I make all the garbage synths though.
Caleb Moore
If I had drums that sounded more natural I might find it easier to make what I want. That actually might be the problem.
Jordan Phillips
I can't arrange my tracks well. How do you transition between parts, how do you know how to arrange your parts and what to add??
Much better than the usual lazy shite that passes for sample based hip hop in these threads.
My only criticisms would be that the time stretch and the retrigger glitch bit near the start don't really fit, and the drums could do with a bit of variance.
Bentley Peterson
Is there any free drum sample plugin/kontakt library/sample set that comes close to Superior Drummer and friends? Really can't buy anything right now, I regret not getting SD when they had a pretty good offer.
Jacob Wright
Whats everyones intentions for making music?
Trying to make it big? Killing time? Fun?
Angel Fisher
My goal is making 2K$/month. Currently 0$.
Gavin Price
I want to learn how to recreate songs from scratch and apply that to create music similar to songs I like that I believe there is not enough off.
Luis Collins
for transitions try drum fills, instrument tags, momentary delay/reverb/mute/etc.
as for figuring out what parts to add, maybe try coming up with all of your parts before you start arranging them? eg start a song by putting everything on a 32 bar loop, record in a drum part, a bass line, etc. Keep adding more and more tracks that sound good together until there is too much going on. Then mute/unmute parts to build each section. that will ensure the over-all groove remains consistent for the song and should make your transitions smoother from part to part. If you want to change up the melody at some point, go for it, but try to make sure some parts from the other section are shared.
Benjamin Price
>as for figuring out what parts to add, maybe try coming up with all of your parts before you start arranging them? woah.. that's an unbad idea. I'll try doing that next time. Also thanks for your transitions ideas. I have this question though - are the bars always supposed to align with the grid? Like, if I make my transition a silence for a beat, without taking away from the previous or next bar's time.. is that bad? Sorry if I didn't explain it well.
Dominic Jackson
Use time signature automation to add a single bar of 1/4 before going back to 4/4, then you can have your one beat pause without going out of sync with the grid
Sebastian Gonzalez
How would you guys proceed with this track. I want to keep it very dark and primal.
>Creativity is just taking ideas from a bunch of places and fitting them together in a new way.
This shit right here is what REALLY bothers me. I don't have any problem with "stealing", i.e. getting inspired when I am designing something visual.
But I just can't do it with my music. I don't start with some kind of inspiration when I produce/compose, I just try to make something completely my own (which, of course is still a result of everything I've ever listened to), so I always, always get stuck and drop the project. I just can't finish it. It happened twice just today.
I don't know why my workflow is so different in this field, but it is making things a lot harder. I can't even bring myself to borrow a chord progression, it just feels wrong here.
God, sorry for my ranting, it's been a bad day again. Why can't I finish just one song and be proud of it? Am I asking too much? Some people have built their careers in shorter time period than I've been producing (around 3 years), while I'm sitting here wondering why I haven't finished a single piece. Creative work is HARD:
I'll try to make something similar with Omnisphere, but it's kinda cheating.
Dominic Turner
I am currently trying recreating other people's tracks, trying to make them sound as close as possible to the original. I am slowly getting better at it.
I heard it helped a lot of people. You might want to try it
