>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.
RESOURCES:
Sound Design:
>SeamlessR (in-depth music production and sound design tutorials, based on FL Studio) youtube.com/user/SeamlessR
>Syntorial (widely considered the best place to go to learn synthesis) syntorial.com/
>Mr. Bill (Ableton based, some of the best sound design tutorials on the planet. Aimed more towards IDM-type stuff. He also posts his music here) youtube.com/user/MrBillsTunes
>BusyWorksBeats (mostly talentless hack who explains hip hop in very elaborate ways in FL Studio) youtube.com/user/busyworksbeats
>Sadowick (mostly talentless hack who explains old school electronic music in very elaborate ways in Ableton) youtube.com/user/SadowickProduction
>grab bass to practice a song i'm wanting to cover >play song a few times >a few times technique start getting real sloppy and stop doing inspired lines >try to play exercises to a metronome and fall asleep
Gavin Edwards
who else /del/
Landon Morales
you must be new here, ive been shilling my reaper rock covers here for an year now
Nathan Thomas
what the fuck thats not ableton
Evan Reed
I tried producing electronic music in REAPER for like a month but it's just a giant pain in the ass. I downloaded I don't know how many VSTs trying to replicate all of the functionality it's missing from DAWs like Ableton, and it still wasn't as functional.
It's definitely got some awesome features, and I can see why it's popular with recording artists. Definitely not a DAW for me, though. I get so much more done, and done faster, with Ableton.
Austin Russell
I'm usually in the gg threads. How do you like Reaper?
Robert Morris
i spent some time in all the different major DAWs and for some reason just liked reaper the most. however, im not a producer, i just like to fuck around with hardware. and every now and then i end up mixing and mastering a song. pic related
Alexander Reyes
>little stickers showing what notes are where wish i had thought of that. i went at it with a knife and a chisel, carved the notes into the plastic because the whiteboard pen i used just rubbed off really fast..
Jeremiah Russell
Just learn the notes you tards
Xavier King
wow
Owen Peterson
yeah maybe i should like put little stickers on the notes so that after a while i'll know them by heart or something you fucking pea brain
Aaron Cooper
There is no need for stickers. Just lean where C is and the rest will follow. I'm mostly calling the other guy a tard to because HE FUCKING CHISLED THE NOTES INTO HIS KEYBOARD
Caleb Reyes
was 2 slow 2 make op with this pic, but everyone needs an 808 or at least samples
Leo Cooper
>808 I don't really like them They are so overused that I'd rather hear almost any other drum machine at this point.
Caleb Bell
>I downloaded I don't know how many VSTs trying to replicate all of the functionality it's missing from DAWs like Ableton, and it still wasn't as functional what funcionalities?
>retarded hahahaha retarded
i shill in there too a lot, its very lightweight, very easy to edit clips... i like it better than cubase
David Long
>what funcionalities? Simpler/Sampler, in particular. REAPER's included sampler isn't even a sampler, it's just a sample player. So you're going to need a third party sampler and even then, it won't be as integrated as Simpler/Sampler is with Ableton.
Add to that all of the great effects Ableton comes with. I'm consistently surprised by how good Ableton's included effects are. REAPER includes very few effects plugins, although the ones it does have are generally quite good.
I don't think REAPER is a bad DAW, and it's obviously much cheaper than Ableton, but Ableton's price is justified by how much stuff is included with it. Ableton's workflow is just much quicker for me, too.
Parker Fisher
I think the thing with Reaper is that it's meant for actuall musicians
Xavier Thomas
can i live
Thomas Harris
Must have been stolen
Brody Price
Yep. Reaper isn't for recording and looping patterns really. It's for laying down tracks.
Josiah Roberts
this makes me very angry
Matthew Hernandez
>mfw I bought a minibrute instead of the micro because it was supposed to be better >mfw I'm getting into modular and I don't have the micro's patchbay
Levi Young
...
Landon Lewis
This image makes me unreasonably mad
Adam Richardson
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa you deserve suffering
Blake Hughes
actually it loops stuff pretty well, you just drag the item like youd do when you stretch it (with just the mouse, no alt or ctrl pressed) and it will repeat the clip/midiclip
Carter Morris
giant dicks
Hunter Howard
please STOP
Charles Fisher
that looks bad
Bentley Martin
quality post
Gavin Nguyen
Can’t afford an 808.
Wave alchemy have a very nice 808 drum emulation though. I usually just use samples. I can usually just about get a whole kit on one floppy disk
Andrew Mitchell
>tfw you have absolutely zero experience with prod but you still admire really REALLY good production >ywn make a track with crisp production like this soundcloud.com/mountkimbie/10-mayor
Noah Hernandez
Is it just me or does a lot of the older produced albums sound better?
Charles Perez
So I've finally gotten to the point where my sequencer is working flawlessly in Excel, and I'm moving on to envelopes. Obviously one of the most basic envelopes there is would be for filter cutoff, but I still for the life of me can not figure out how to mathematically filter a signal. If anyone here can tell me how to look at an array of numbers that only go from -1 to 1, and filter them by frequency, I would give you all of my love. I understand doing a DFT, but for fucks sake theres gotta be an easier way than doing two separate Fourier Transforms with a fuckload of harmonics constantly to just filter out parts of a signal
Jaxson Campbell
what do you think about limiting vs intentional clippin? most modern music seems to be carefully clipped, how would you go about this, any tips? ill just let the master clip and just use g-clip for a little softclip and than maybe round it a bit of with izotope to get rid of artefacts.
any ideas?
Jeremiah Clark
To all the """producers""" here: You can't do shit. I am an actual artist and going to change and mix shit with different samples etc to make not full songs, but whole albums that include bridges, intros, outros and many different technique's to approach the samples I find. To me it's disgusting how you wannabe artists come here, take three seconds from Blue Shift Emissions for a loop and think you're the shit. You are nothing.
Levi Gray
Oh shit. I never knew that
Luis Turner
epic, simply epic
John Martin
I almost always reach for the soft saturation in Maximus before limiting. Sometimes even on the master
Benjamin Robinson
depends on the music. prog rock albums sounded probably better in the 70s
Hunter Peterson
the moment you go anonymous you start shitposting, right?
Nathaniel Garcia
what the fuck? is this a joke you go around bragging about shit and thinking youre an actual musician while everything you do is sample shit? i make songs by playing a instruments and actually programming drums, you dont do shit but playing with daw-toys.
Chase Bailey
fuck that, synthesize your own drum sounds from scratch
Lucas Ramirez
Is the terrible writing part of the joke too, or are you just dumb?
Isaac Brown
Where can I find midi instruments compatible with Abelton Lite 9? I downloaded a few .99 cent packs and most of them use effects that are paywalled by Lite 9.
Julian Ross
wow so well produced you're right
Camden Collins
Nope. I only use LinnDrum
Xavier Moore
Loudness war. Everything has the dynamic range crushed down until the waveform looks like a fucking square.
It's hilarious that people spend big money to have their albums mastered by people like Rick Rubin, whose entire mastering process appears to be "TURN UP THE MASTER FADER ALL THE WAY!"
I THINK I CAN STILL HEAR SOME DYNAMICS, PUSH THE LIMITER HARDER
Eli Howard
I'd just pirate Suite and avoid all the headaches.
Owen Thompson
It sounds very clean for the following reasons:
>Good sound selection Having a good ear to choose good-sounding sounds from the start is the single biggest factor in most cases
>Simple arrangement Notice how there's little going on at the same time? It's easier to mix when you've composed the song with clarity in mind from the very beginning. Good producers rarely compose music with conflicting elements in the first place with the intention of fixing them later.
>Good mixing and mastering This is just the product of time spent doing it to develop an ear and an intuition of what needs to be changed to sound good. It applies to polishing the individual sounds and to the actual mixing and mastering process (the latter is likely done by a professional who's only done this for many years, and maybe even the mixing).
>Good composition If you know how to compose each individual element so that it attracts your attention at the right time, the listener's brain will know how to focus on the right stuff while keeping the rest as "background", which helps a lot in giving a feel of clarity (as opposed to having two elements fighting for attention, which our brain sees as a mess). This is also done with the help of mixing.
Just take your time and focus on practicing the abovementioned points, and in a few years you'll sound as clean as the cleanest producers you know. It's not unachievable at all. Especially with non-cluttered music like this.
Oliver Garcia
Goddamn that image triggers the shit out of me every time...
Levi Bell
ty for the tips, kind user
Camden Sanders
Eh.... lack of mixing and mastering....
starving? LANDR....
Just adhere to the -6 db peak.
indeed..... works for 99% of the nonsense floating amongst the clouds of sound...
Scrimshaw WAITS.
Connor Clark
Recording a full orchestra and 70-member choir in concert tonight. Rigged up a Decca Tree for the job. Trying to balance the two ensembles is difficult without using spot mics on the choir, but when I add them it just seems to muddy up the high end and I lose some of the depth of the stereo image. If I could multitrack in the field I could fix things in post, but I'm stuck with having to mix on site and record directly to stereo. What do?
Does anyone know if there's a difference between using a normal cord and [send]/[receive] objects to send data, in terms of CPU hit? I tried googling but only found stuff about latency.
Pic related.
Thank you very much in advance.
Jordan Wilson
I'M SO BAD AT STAYING ON BEAT EVEN WITH A METRONOME
Juan Edwards
practice practice practice
Aiden Richardson
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Jeremiah Lewis
Quantization, friendo.
Jose Fisher
>tweeting on Sup Forums Kek
Landon Johnson
I've seen that shit posted here like 5 times now, and people fall for it every damn time
Blake Anderson
This thing has some lush effects yo
Bentley Gonzalez
How do bands like Lighting Bolt mix their stuff? Do they compress a lot because its so loud? How these noise rock bands keep from making their shit a muddy muddled mess
with my usual master processing, even though theres no vocals and guitar solo yet
Ian Ward
i have a question. where is a mastered track supposed to peak, for digital? close to 0dB? -3dB? -6dB?
i know i have to make them quieter for soundcloud, but do i have to make extra masters for each platform?
and if i upload wav files to bandcamp, do i have to make them -1.4dB cause i heard converting tracks to mp3 makes them louder.
Josiah Cooper
>i know i have to make them quieter for soundcloud is that a known fact? huh it explains why all my soundcloud tracks sound distorted and lowbitrate i limit my stuff to -0.4 to -0-1, except when its a quiet track on purpose
The teenager in me likes it, but dude, get a better drum set.
Benjamin Reyes
MP3 duh
Andrew Diaz
this is good
Landon Kelly
i thought Vbr AAC
Ryder Stewart
*Drum lessons I have a drum set i just cant play it cause my hand eye coordination is lacking a bit for that instrument.
Jace Bennett
The drums are just single shot samples i got and arranged.
Logan Harris
why not just torrent superior drummer lol
Gabriel Williams
i can never find a good link to that among other vst's i really want
Christopher Green
cheers
ogg is the right answer
Ryder Miller
i used to have a sample folder that was like, "classic drum samples" and it came with a million folders like 808, 909 and so on. all the essentials. anyone got an idea where i could torrent this again?
Joshua Sanders
>mfw have to make a 1,5 minute guitar solo for a song recording ive been delaying this for literally an year now i figured ill record multiple improvised takes then put the best parts together on the daw (paying attention to the structure of course) and then record that i wish i had done this before, when i was more hyped with it and the lead ideas were clearer on my mind
I was asking for advice, you dolt. Evidently I came to the wrong thread.
Ethan Davis
Hey that's actually pretty smart. Associating notes with color is probably a useful learning tool, as the link with the visual part of the brain allows additional brainpower to be used for music. And it probably helps with visualizing your guitar playing.
Done a new sampler rip, even renamed all the 00.wav 01.wav etc conversions to their proper names from the manual.
Produced in 2000 and full of drums, vinyl scratches, sound effects, some synth/bass one-shots, vocal snippets, etc. You'll recognize several samples due to its use by Nine Inch Nails, The Crystal Method, A Guy Called Gerald, Mouse On Mars, Dead Silence, Praxis, The Prodigy, Crystal Distortion, Freddy Fresh, and the Chemical Brothers. Even has the speak and spell vocal sample used in Sticky Fingaz's Let's Do It.
And the older rip from last week:
E-mu Drumulator - All kits (Standard, Electronic, African, Rock, Alternative, etc)
Converted straight from the EPROM dumps, combine with Emu SP-12 samples from for some choice 80s kits.
Hope to hear what you all come up with!
Jason Stewart
thanks brother
Jackson Hughes
I learned the notes after I adopted the 2 black 3 black key pattern as my method of orientation. The note under the 2 black keys is C, under the 3 black keys is F, then the mental mapping filled out from there.
Matthew Bennett
Does anyone want to collaborate? The only thing I'm good at is songwriting (´・ω・`)
Any thoughts or critiques on this song? I imagine it in Silent Hill 2.
Nathan Barnes
My god he's done it again
Ty based user
Jackson Bell
what other drum machines do you have
Alexander Hill
None, I just hunt down firmware dumps and convert those so I know I'm getting the cleanest samples and not some digital to analog -> analog to digital conversion with added noise and such. I do it myself to know it's done right.