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lol, work with live instruments. Everything is easier that way and sounds amazing to begin with. Don't worry about being perfectly on click track. Trust me
Christian Nelson
its just an instrument, m8
Hunter Morgan
I just picked up a korg nanokey2 as a spontaneous birthday present to myself. I have a couple of guitars and small instruments but I've never dabbled in anything like this. Honestly the OP is a bit overwhelming. Saving all of the information to dig into later but was just wandering if there's anything I should directly focus on as a complete beginner?
Brayden Davis
Experiment. I'd like feedback on the vocoder or anything else you think is noteworthy
hey /prod/ I currently use a tracker as my DAW. It's the best DAW I've found for me and I'm very happy with it. However I feel like I'm getting blocked into writing certain kinds of music because of the program design. So what I'm looking for is a DAW/other programs/ideas with a completely unique workflow. Or some killer feature that leads to making different kinds of music.
Dominic Lopez
>live instruments >making music that's been done to death for decades if not hundreds of years
Noah Long
>not ignoring either issue and just buying and using an actual synth
you dense fucks, hardware is king
Grayson Price
hey I bought one of those a couple years ago and it's on my desk right now great investment I use it all the time (with piano roll because I'm a pleb) and also as a controller for mixxx what a coincidence I'm staring at my nanokey right now thinking about the track I'm not working on :x
Brody Sanders
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Henry Mitchell
If you don't already have a DAW to make your songs with then pick one, the pros and cons of any of the most commonly-used ones are immaterial to you at this point so don't spend too long at this.
>Youtube - [Your DAW] + Starting Out If all you're wanting to do is have fun to begin with and you've not been taken in by the "sell beats make moniez fast" merchants (Who make their money from persuading people to watch their Youtube videos and from selling their beat-making guides, not from selling beats) then watch the Starting Out guide and get to it - a few weeks down the road you'll have worked out whether you want to learn more and at that point you can revisit the links.
Sounds pretty good and clean overall. Also sounds like there's a lot of space for a lead as well.
Henry Mitchell
fun lil jungle edit of Chief Keef im workin on hehe clyp.it/v4yqx5fj
Juan Bailey
Any synth recs for weird granular shit? I've gotten sick sounds out of Absynth 5 but that interface is fucking terrible and iris 2 looks much more like what I'm after. Any others I should consider?
Weak. Sylenth is too boring to be contrarian anyway
Benjamin Reyes
padshop pro or if you use ableton and have max granulator 2
Nathaniel Reyes
no it's not
David Morales
That's a shit argument unless you're Stockhausen or something. The vast majority of electronic music isn't innovative or diverse.
Caleb Roberts
Thanks
I've been trying to come up with a good lead part for days now. honestly about to give up :^(
Is it not possible to use files besides wav and aiff? I've been building a sample library for years that has a lot of MP3 (shut up) and flac. I'm going to be so :(
Camden Powell
just convert them if you cant import
Jonathan White
I will ofc
Just asking because it's all organized in several folders. Just annoying more than anything
Blake Parker
How do you guys organize your samples? I got shit from bunch of different sources and my folder is a mess
Sebastian Green
practice what? pentatonics? 7th chords?
Luke Cruz
Just practise playing the piano in general, the guy in the vid has obviously been playing for while and knows his theory well.
Ian Barnes
Hey guys, just "mastered" my first track (by following a tutorial on youtube step by step). I'd really appreciate some feedback on the master of this track that I threw together today. Mastering in Live btw
So I'm writing a score for an indie surrealist horror game and my jumping off point for this track was "Hit the Road Jack meets Fly Me to the Moon, but weird". Was I wrong to interpret "weird" as "use Coltrane changes and strange samples"? Any thoughts?
Well I did go for that towards the end, to be fair
Ayden Baker
>tonal >>subdivide by key >atonal >>subdivide by feel
James Jenkins
by company :^)
Matthew Evans
Disgusting (Am I missing out not buying sample packs)
Hudson Myers
just pirate them
Noah Davis
Yeah but are they worth it? Only payed pack I have is the factory battery shit. They're alright
Cameron Lewis
i wouldnt pay for them unless i was forced to
Joseph Peterson
Came with komplete on sale for 150ish I think. It was worth not dealing with cracks and all that for a shit load of content
James Foster
What is this and why is there a toilet in the corner?
Owen Barnes
i only pay for daws and vst i am talking about wav format sample pack
komplete is worth buying
Charles Jones
is ozone good or memeware?
Grayson Reed
You can do whatever with whatever dude, don't even worry about it, just get good with what you've got. Study up.
Easton Smith
Just built a simple piezo contact mic (waterproof) and am looking for some interesting ways to distort its output, anybody here into noise prod?
Tyler Morgan
Stop this fucking meme you're setting people up for failure
It's very good, pro tier, all you need to master unless you just have different taste
Iirc there's some difference with newer versions that pissed people off, probably not a big deal though
Parker Clark
No idea what the fuck you're talking about and I had to look up contact mics
I'm now very interested. Where can I read more about this /noise/ prod?
Can I record screaming and shit under water? Bashing shit with the mic attached?
Will it sound cool inside my acoustic?
Gavin Jenkins
Well I just started a noise general too, asked the same question, sometimes people post their gear setups
But yeah, you can scream underwater, feed that through all manner of pedals/misc. gear. You'd need a tougher one than the one I made to seriously bash it, but they're out there. I'm probably gonna affix it to my chest and experiment with body percussion.
And guitar stuff isn't really my area, but I know you can use it as a pickup.
Jayden Reyes
(I meant the body percussion thing by bashing (good idea))
Sounds v useful I will look into it more thanks :3
Thomas Thomas
Thanks, user, and enjoy! They're pretty easy to make.
Logan Hill
Max/MSP, dunno about the toilet but am intrigued
Benjamin Jackson
usually you just put pennies in an altoids box, tape the contact mic to that, plug it into a distortion pedal and flail around like a retard
do you think it sounds like trance? also, should i make the intro louder? and how do you like the sound/vibe of the sax/oboe sounding thing entering at 1:00?
how is it mix wise?
Leo Brown
That's a very cool Max patch, did you come up with it?
Parker Turner
>implying synths aren't live instruments
Have fun making shot music with that scuffed ass Logic Pro digital library faggot
Gabriel Lewis
heya friend, do you have a good max book/tutorial?
Everything i have been able to find is just "how to do X in max" i want a sensible text, not too retarded doe, like sth with a nice-pacing for people who already know programming to get into max
Adam Morris
desu unless the synth is really good it sounds better to use any other instrument and some fx pedals
there's too many crap synths
Michael Perez
I'm pretty impressed my dude, especially for not having done this before and using Live. Personally, I think the snare was like 3 dB too loud and the bass was like 3 dB too quiet, but those would really be in the mix more so than the master. Maybe reducing the high mids (like maybe 1.5 kHz to like 4 kHz) just a touch and adding more low end (really narrow boost around 100 Hz) and boosting the air (above like 6 kHz) a touch might help it sound more even and broad across the entire spectrum. I like your panning though, keep it up! The best thing you can do is practice
Daniel Jones
Dude, iZotope is the shit, if you're a student you get a discount on it at Sweetwater. Get Advanced if you can!
William Parker
Sorry dude, but I don't, I learned everything I know about Max in school and I haven't got my own version because I wouldn't have a lot of application for it
Joseph Cook
>in school what did you study?
Brayden Miller
i like this it sounds like dark psy / forest psy
Julian Young
I've recorded some demos with a guitar straight to FL Studio using the Rocksmith USB cable. It kinda works but there is some annoying delay, would an audio interface fix it and make the quality of the recordings better?
Nicholas Young
Equal parts audio engineering, composition, and guitar. If you want to do music in school, find a program at a school that's as open ended and self-selecting as possible. Otherwise you get pigeonholed into doing boring jazz shit, stuffy classical shit, or the worst option: writing about those things
Grayson Thompson
an interface would be better look for focusrite scarlett 2i2 or steinberg ur22mkII
Zachary Foster
Chances are even a cheap interface will do a much better job at converting your input to digital, and using an actual preamp can make a huge difference in the difference between your music and any hum or noise
Noah Allen
thank you, I alreaddy read up on interfaces a bit and had the steinberg ur22mk2 bookmarked Now I'll definitely give it a shot
Isaac Cook
>Music began in 1910...
Kayden Adams
Any feedback on this mix would be nice. Any final touched before mastering in regards to the instruments.
Keep in mind, the vocals are getting completely re done at this point in time. We aren't sold on them yet.
Is there any reason against a Behringer UMC204HD for starting out?
Xavier Jackson
hey guys, I posted the older version in the older thread, but I just need to know if you see this as a finnished project, would you add anything? mixing/mastering?
what's the best dj mixer you can get with under 500 euros?
Austin Bennett
i never used behrinher products but alot of people online say tehy make shitty quality gear
Connor Hernandez
it's hit and miss some stuff like the deepmind12 is actually usable, some stuff is absolute garbage I'd stay away from it
James Sanders
Dude bro, I really like your track! I love the whole dreamy feel it has. How did you record your drums? Is your drummer left handed, or did you pan for audience perspective? Did you switch to a new snare or retune it when the crosstick section started? At the beginning it sounded like the top head was too loose or the snares were too present or something, did you mic it from the bottom? If so, maybe turn down the bottom mic? I'd also like to hear more kick and overheads, just because there's so much going on with the cymbals and toms. Also, with the snare reverb hard panned it kinda pulls the snare to the right and kinda muffles it. Maybe pan the reverb a little closer to center and lower it by a touch? The guitar and bad tones are great! It maybe automating some panning in the lead guitar would be cool, I think it would help with the sense of space and dreaminess of the track. Great job dude! Sounds awesome
Christian Lopez
Behringer stuff isn't built well, and they cut a lot of corners when designing because their goal is such a low price point
Grayson Torres
What's that last one?
Gabriel Reyes
dubturbo
Caleb Lewis
HOL UP
Asher Reyes
Tascam US 2x2 might be viable, too? But really, I have no idea and am eager for some input.
Hudson Stewart
Thanks mate,
Tbh we are paying an engineer over in USA to mix. We have had loads of trouble trying to get the snare sounding really good. The engineer swears black and blue he had tried it all.
We recorded in a recording engineers studio (his shed turned into a pretty small room and control room with window thing. Drums in one room with bass DI. Gutiars in control room with amp.
I spent a shit load of time on my live guitar sound so it hasn't had any work really done to it from my understanding.
The bass was done in to a pre-amp, we just gave him examples of what we'd like and he's nailed it I reckon.
Glad you like it, we have been sending stuff back and foward for months and I feel its very close to master. The vocals we sent him are just not there. Gonna try some things.
Daniel Wilson
I've never had any problems with their newer USB mixers.
Christian Sanchez
>2017 >not exclusively using beat kangz products
Oliver Butler
Best of luck!
Lincoln Gomez
How do you actually force myself to sit down and do work? I get very anxious after an hour or so because I'm not coming up with anything and the start procrastinating. What's your workflow like?
