Today, the dematerialization of instruments and production tools made everything easier for the musicians. You can do without spending a buck what people used to do spending tens of thousands of dollars twenty years ago. Plugs and DAWs make the possibilities infinite, but most people just come up with the stupidest song entirely based on a 16/32 bars pattern. Why is everybody so lazy? Why the abundance of Dance Music?
Blake Lewis
>two discords end this
Lucas Collins
Why are good snare samples so hard to find? I have loads of bass drums, toms and hi hats that are ok. And dont tell me to layer
Austin Peterson
you're too picky, layer
Henry Walker
Where can I get basic guitar or bass samples? And by basic I mean just separate notes.
I want to assign each to a key in my laptop and fiddle with it. Nothing fancy.
Hudson Scott
Also wondered about this in a way. Back in the days of (unironic) 4-tracks people would claim the only thing that was holding them back from Pet Sounds or whatever was tracks and the logistics of recording varied instruments. It didn't happen. If anyone knows any Soundcloud/bedroom symphonic pop I'm all ears though.
Jose Scott
because that's never what was stopping people from being more abstract, if you're uncreative with little you'll probably be uncreative with lots
Carter Long
anyone know some vinyl rip blogs for sampling? my stupid city literally has only 2 records shops filled with dadrock
Jayden Diaz
Idk man
I finally finished consolidating my sample library yesterday- by far the samples that I had to be pickiest with were the snares. I went from like 1000+ to about 15, and desu I still have some holes to fill with that.
This. People don't want to hear more "complex" music anyway, it'll always stay underground.
Idk why this post is so annoying, like you turned such a basic concept into something pretentious I guess???
most people like simple music so most people get into production wanting to make that music. Not complicated
Jonathan Price
>how did you get tinnitus? No idea. I don't remember not having it, so I guess I was pretty young when it started, but it was gradual and never annoying (even when consciously focussing on it) until a few months ago where it became noticeable and a few weeks ago where it became distracting. Only recently it started getting serious for some reason. I've used earbuds constantly for the past few years (and relatively frequently for the past decade), and recently the filter broke so they have a ton of high frequency content which heavily fatigues my ears, so it could be that.
Even though I've always used either both earbuds or just the right one (almost never just the left), and yet my left ear has it 3 times worse than the right, so I don't know.
I'm way too poor to go to a doctor or change my earbuds, so I guess I'll have to reduce their usage to a minimum. Such a bummer considering music production is the only thing I have in life and my only chance of any life improvement.
Serum presets for this feel?
Caleb Powell
is there a Sup Forums version for musicians? i'm getting into the guitar, i've been playing for years, but got back into it at the request of a friend
i know my do, re, mi *c,d,e/s* of playing, but i'm having a bit of trouble learning scales, arpagios, 2.5.1 transition notes and 7ths.6ths.9ths, etc.
is there a place i can learn more that explains it in detail?
tl;dr not a noob, want to learn better guitar chord/techniques
cross posting from Sup Forums, your friendly neighborhood jewish nazi.
Caleb Ross
Are voices and deliveries like Young Thug's and Lil Uzi's something they're born with or is it mostly trained?
I tried making something in the vein of Lil Uzi. Someone tell me if it's close to being good or not.
this user is right, you're forcing it too hard. try relaxing and talking without enunciating, basically just without closing your mouth unless absolutely necessary. the inflections they do are more of a instinctual thing i'd say, just do what sounds cool to you.
I'm in the process of soundtracking an imaginary video game.
What are some traits that people look for in video game OSTs? I want to sort of make a vidya soundtrack that's not really a soundtrack to anything. But I'm not sure what goes into this music that makes it feel like it's supposed to soundtrack a game.
Should it be simple? Quiet melodies? I'm going for a atmospheric synthy 8-bit type feeling, a sort of floating in space feeling. What makes a vidya soundtrack a vidya soundtrack?
Matthew Collins
Hummable melodies that sound nostalgic
Brody Martinez
Something that's interesting and depthful when you listen to it but not so much that it distracts from the game itself. Something you could easily zone out to and forget it's there. But when you kinda snap out and hear it, it matches the tone and provides a comfortable backdrop.
I'd say what you linked fits this nicely. Maybe drop the bassline in the mix a bit. Reminds me of something off Stardew Valley.
Elijah Barnes
it'll sound like shit. just get a guitar
Joseph Sullivan
clyp.it/wxuygjpj trying to break into the 'alt rnb' world. what do u think Sup Forumscus
is this halfway decent composition? just started making music electronically about a month ago really trying to improve
Brody Brown
one of the best songs I've ever heard desu
Benjamin Howard
get a guitar or bass vst, finding separately and well sampled notes is gonna be next to impossible
Anthony Gray
Here's a question for guitarists: I've been playing for about five months. I've got a Squire Strat and this really old, worn out amp that gives my guitar this really cool crunchy, distorted sound if you tweak it just the right way. As fun as that is, I want to explore the different sounds that can be made with effect pedals. I'm particularly interested in delay and reverb effects. Can anyone offer some recommendations? My price range is... flexible.
Nathan Clark
My girl's voice is jazzy, soulful and deep, non of that weak cracking shit you see eveywhere.
I barely know guitar and piano, just DLed FL Studio in hopes of making a beat or something. Thanks for the links.
If I wanted to make instrumentals for her, where should I start? What genre? Don't worry, reading the music theory tl;dr right now.
She kind of just riffs and makes up her own lyrics as she goes.. I'd love to write some for her but I have no idea where I'd start
Sit down together at the compy. Download a drum machine VST. Program a simple rhythm into it, then play along with a guitar or piano. Let her sing whatever comes out. If you feel good about what you're coming up with, write it down and/or record as much as possible.
Try new things every day. Not just in your music, but specifically in the DAW. Learn the ins and outs of it and how to get the sound(s) that you like most from it. Don't box yourself into making the same exact sounds every time you open the DAW. Try new shit. Even if you hate, at least you'll know how it works and you can go back to making what you like, all the while learning new production skillz.
Let it come organically. Don't ever try to force it, and remember, you can record music pretty much anywhere anytime. You don't have to be confined to specific set of parameters. You can make your own. DAWs are blank canvases, make art with them.
Leo Cooper
lol thanks lads
Wyatt Moore
everything sounds great except the bass, smooth it out a bit
Carson Johnson
Tbh, the comp is awful. The sound design itself isn't half bad for someone who's only been at it for a month. Your comp skills will improve in time. Just keep working at it.
Isaac Gutierrez
forsure, would taking a class in music theory at com college be worth it if i already have a basic understanding? would i see a direct improvement to my comp skills?
Would like some feedback on this so far. Not sure how i'm feeling about it. I'm alternating between thinking its shit and thinking its decent. I've probably just been listening to it on a loop for too long.
Oliver Watson
>would i see a direct improvement to my comp skills?
nigger it's not a fucking skill you just inject, you get as much out of something as you put in to it depending on how efficient you make use of that time there's nothing you can't learn through the internet that you'd need to go to college for regarding composition, it's more about analysing genres you want to make and seeing the ideas they use and incorporating it into your own music
follow adam neelys advice: imitate, assimilate, innovate - in that order
Noah Allen
gotcha, thanks
Logan Ortiz
Any realistic piano plug ins? I was told pianoteq but it crashes.
Anthony Turner
alot of people use kontakt libraries but i have no experience with them
Brandon Thomas
slow synth melodic type song I've been working on, feedback in any area would be great
Works too, I don't know which to download tho. I'd prefer vsts but whatever gets the work done.
Thomas Richardson
Honestly mate if you're just starting out I'd recommend getting a cheap multi-fx, Zoom are good bang for your buck and cheap. Once you find out what effects you gravitate to more you can go buy the expensive stompboxes. Plus it's fun as shit to play with a wacky multi-fx
Lincoln Gomez
Can only listen on laptop speakers for now but I like this it has a nice vibe. For me that snare was a bit loud and cutting, and it's crying out for some vocals, good job!
Benjamin Barnes
In this day and age you might as well get an interface, plug your amp to the interface, the interface to a daw and back to the amp and have a huge library of effects for free. Pedals are more of a live thing.
Ryan Nguyen
Grandeur, gentleman, maverick, and giant for kontakt. They all come in komplete. Solid stuff
T. Doesn't play guitar
Line 6 m5 is a Swiss Army knife. Everything's good in there but the distortions. Not too expensive either
James Miller
I want to record stuff to make a demo tape. I'm also in need of a new computer. What should I look for as far as specs go when considering recording and doing basic editing/mixing? I'm not going to go crazy and I don't want to spend a lot of money, I just need something that can handle recording my shit and putting it together and playing it back etc.
Nathaniel Sanders
>T. Doesn't play guitar I play guitar every day. I'm poor as fuck tho, so I gotta come up with ways to make up for that.
Ethan Taylor
thanks!
Jonathan Nelson
I'd get a cheap audio interface, I have a focusrite 2i2 and it works fine, then just pirate any DAW like fl studio or ableton and use that for sequencing/effects/mixing
Grayson Adams
So the processor and RAM (and other things that affect performance) aren't that big of a factor if I've got an interface?
Gavin Gray
I'm looking at the focusrite 2i2 that was mentioned in
Do you have any other recommendations for interfaces?
Kayden Perry
I'm no expert but processor and all that bs is important when it comes to using a DAW as they're pretty heavy and lag like fuckers when you're stacking effects and heavy plug ins.
Cooper Jackson
CPU and RAM are very important for a music computer and having an interface doesn't change that. Unless you have an interface that uses it's own plugins and takes that load of the computer, but budget interfaces don't have that feature, that I know of.
Camden Hall
>he utilizes M-Audio products
David Bailey
>bidding on studio monitors on ebay >just a hs5 pair for my desktop >XLR cables and auralex foam isolators included >220$ starting price, no bids >bid 230$ at the last second >someone else also bid 230$, two seconds before I did >he wins I lose
sheeeeiiit
Christopher Cox
oh sorry I misread your post, I didn't see you were asking for computer specs
but no, if you record everything into an interface then into your computer, the CPU/RAM/processing stuff isn't too important since the DAW isn't doing a lot of work generating sounds, it's just playing them back
if you're going to be using a lot of VSTs and digital effects in your DAW though then you'll want good computer specs
but if you're only using your DAW as a basic sequencer and mixer then nah you don't have to drop a lot of money on a nice computer
Logan Brooks
You answered my question perfectly m8. Thanks
Eli Bailey
I'm not really worried about the sound quality. It would be to emulate the "play an instrument" mechanic, like in Zelda games.
Would it be that hard if quality is not a big concern? I might be able to ask a friend.
>incapable of making genuine connections with people or make friends >everything in life seems pointless and have to drag self through menial every day tasks and putt up with people caring about stupid shit >frequently thinking of suicide and nostalgia over good times >only time i'm ever happy is when making music and things start to click
i know there are more of you who must feel like this too
Lucas Brooks
>i'm so le sad
Jack Jackson
i've listened to literally a thousand of these shitty clyps to give genuine advice LEMME ALONE )))) ):
Jordan Rivera
It's ok, my life sucks too, I just try not to shit where I eat.
Levi Nguyen
Trip-hop inspired instrumentals some of the first beats I've created and made them for me to rap over I have no idea if my stuff is trash or not also any general feedback would be great, obviously not properly mixed yet:
Yea I was in that space a little while ago user a really dark place and making my music was the only thing that got me through it and gave me something to focus on so I could keep goin, you'll get through this man
:(
The snare could prob be eq'd more at the higher frequencies and some more reverb added to keep its volume but reduce its harshness, the melody and synth programming is excellent tho
The horns sound a bit too "synthesized" but that's just my taste the atmosphere of the track builds up well and the loop that carried the beginning of the track is really catchy, the short change ups are well done and not to jarring.
The background dissonance sound is really compelling and ads another layer to the song which I dig, the piano melody gets a little repetitive and the kick sounds really weak to my ears try filling out the low end more as the bass also doesn't really stand out
Brandon Gutierrez
I went through that for a while when I was on drugs. The only time I was ever not suicidally depressed was when I was smoking a bowl and working on a track. Some of my favorite works came out of that spell, though.
Jose Cox
>clyp.it/zqysbnlx fl studio has a bunch of them in the packs directory.
Nice track, me personally I feel it's a bit to long and would have shortened it
Some nice breathy vocals, or ahhs and oohs would be nice
Oliver Walker
Do any of you kind folks own an Akai MPC500?
I bought one recently and I'm having a hell of a time with it. It's tons of fun, but I'm also frustrated because I am learning the interface, but not any technique.
Does any user have a favorite finger-drumming tutorial to recommend?
Also, how the fuck do I get a perfectly-aligned sample? I chop and trim then chop and trim until it sounds tight as fuck as a loop, but it never stays in time with the drums? It always has a slight off-beat that turns things into a cacophony.
I've tried beat calculators and time-stretching. >mfw nothing works right
Any suggestions, other than "Kill Yourself," of course?
Andrew Ross
Get some rhythm.
Xavier Adams
cory brunneman has some good stuff, I can leech it to you if you drop your discord.
Carson Garcia
not sure if trolling, but i would suggest getting into piano
Daniel Morris
there's probably some free vsts out there if you're not too concerned with quality maybe also look for retro synths
also found this, maybe it's got what you're looking for but I think it's more for fx and not necessarily the instruments themselves but idk goldeneyevault.com/viewfile.php?id=212
Easton Mitchell
how do you stop abandoning genres when you start getting good at them? it feels like making the same track over and over again at a certain point.
Matthew Nguyen
depends entirely on the type of game you're writing the soundtrack for, you can't generalize what people are looking for in OSTs but if you're just going for that retro pixelgame aesthetic then it's either atmospheric bgm stuff like yours (although the bass is super jarring, you need to tone that down) or upbeat with catchy melodies, maybe some synthpop kinda stuff basically this the music is supposed to enhance the game experience without distracting from it for the most part
Nathaniel Gutierrez
You just don't..?
>it feels like making the same track over and over again at a certain point.
so do something you intentionally haven't done before? idk man, the only time i've ever felt like that is when i do a hip hop song it always feels the same if i start from the beat... so i just don't lol
Gabriel Scott
okay, do i put the sidechain compressor at the begining of the effects chain, or at the end, or in the middle? idk how to arrange all the effects on my instruments
Luis James
>idk how to arrange all the effects on my instruments
Put them where they sound good.
That is all.
Brody Gray
it depends what you want it to do and why you're putting it there
normally it would be toward the beginning (after eq)
Jayden Jones
that one's absolutely fine, a steinberg ur12 will also work just as well
Logan Morales
How do I inspire myself to make music again?
Dominic Wood
Find a used Zoom G1X, the one with the expression pedal
Jaxon Jenkins
listen to new music revisit old music
who knows
Thomas Flores
Hello Sup Forums, I have been using FL Studio for some years as a hobby but never really got into it (I don't have a decent computer). So I started learning about music theory and such, and I made this. I want to improve.
Sounds really generic/fake desu, the synth sounds are jarring and the beats really boring.
Kayden Thompson
this, but also usually before delay and reverb, but before everything else (usually, but it's what sounds good)
Ethan Clark
I'll look into it. Thanks!
David Fisher
Thanks!
Carter Rodriguez
Thanks for replying. How can I make it sound real/interesting/not boring?
Lincoln Ross
I'm not him but the answer is simple, just practice. Try new things every single day. Really learn the ins and outs of your DAWs, your VST's, and any hardware you have. All of your favorite artists, assuming you don't just listen to drivel, developed their sound(s) through years and years of experimenting and learning as much as they could about the instruments and tools they were working with.
That being said, you can never listen to too much music. Inundate yourself with music daily. Listen to new music that interests you, revisit old music that made you feel certain ways. Listen to the albums that made you want to pick up the hobby.
tl;dr just do shit. Practice and study every single day.
