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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
This is a program made for a Raspberry Pi that takes an input sound, like an instrument sample, and then generates a bunch of random DX7 presets, compares them all to the target sound using MFCC analysis, picks the closest one, makes random alterations of that, compares, randomizes, repeat.
It's really neat, too bad it's not out yet. Check out the sound examples.
Does anyone know of another program that'll generate synth patches to match a desired sound?
Lincoln Richardson
dx7 is very buchla esq desu. slap some lpgs on it and you could sell it to gearfags for $$$.
Samuel Cooper
how do make music like grimes do
Thomas Hill
you have to smell bad and use ableton
Henry Evans
I've been trying to produced some industrial hip-hop and I feel like I don't really know what I'm doing. I don't really know what I'm doing going in to making a track, I don't any idea what I want it to sound like. I just fuck around and keep the stuff that sounds good.
Can anyone offer some constructive criticism on these tracks? They're the only ones of my experiments that I think have anything worthwhile in them and I want to know what ideas I can work on. clyp.it/mzitvl0z clyp.it/wtznh0ld
Robert Johnson
i don't know if it's just the genre but the timing on some of those drums seem off
i'm a beginner myself
Carson Wood
ah i remember seeing that frequency rolloff button. thanks for the explanation man
Jayden Johnson
That's because I wrote it with 5 steps per beat instead of 4 to try to give it a sort off kilter feel.
lmao should i keep trying to record this shit or start looking for a internet singer clyp.it/fiup2xi4
Jose Anderson
suicide is an option
Isaiah Johnson
You think you can just download a DAW, install a couple of VSTs and PLAY WITH THE BIG BOYS?
Jace Taylor
Agreed. He takes forever to make a point. He needs an editor.
Elijah Baker
Try it with an increased playback speed, I find most tutorials fare better sped up.
Evan Smith
clyp.it/vcvnbeah rate this besides the singing performance, that is
Easton Cruz
anyone have experience with a roland sh201? i have an interest in one since i see one on craigslist for a good price. is 240$ worth it? i have a electribe and have used microbrute and microkorg regularly in the past. ive wanted a full keyboard synth but am not too picky and dont have a huge budget.
Isaac Hill
gfo needs to be cranked at a higher rate
Michael Lewis
>mfw i torrented dozens of VST's and saved probably over 1000 dollars
Hey boys i've been hunting for a yamaha vss 30 vst and havent had any luck.
Also what do you lot us for a autotune vocodor thing?
Carter Clark
why nobody replies me
Thomas Hill
whoopps didnt meant to quote
Jordan Morris
I fucked up. My life's been a mess since graduating high school a few years ago due to depressionmeme and a few false starts with education. About a year ago I decided I'd go for a bachelor's in music with a focus on technology instead of just going to a cc or using online tutorials because getting a well-rounded music education is important to me and I want a degree.
After procrastinating all year, the portfolio's due in 20 days and I have holiday plans. I have no experience or background with technology but I'm looking at some reaper tutorials. I know some music theory and can play instruments. How unrealistic is it to think I can throw something together by then?
Colton Smith
It looks like it's literally just a sampler, I don't see where the problem lies. You could maybe try TAL-Sampler which has built-in lo-fi effects if you don't want to just put it in the effects chain.
Well there's Autotune which is obvious, Melodyne for doing things that need to be manually moved around and aligned with manual pitch bends and all that and also polyphonic tuning, and Kerovee which is free and is capable of sounding very robotic and gritty.
Jackson Gutierrez
Why get a shitty VA when you could get a kick ass rompler like the JV 2080 for the same price.
Cameron Baker
j dilla busts out banger beats in 10-15 minutes and he did that 12 hours a day
Zachary Sanders
>reaper
Install Ableton and if you follow the standard youtube tutorial route you should be able to produce 1-2 dece tracks a week, implying that you put in hours and not just dick around sending snapchats of your keyboard
Brayden Campbell
the middle guitar section was rad. Dont mind ya voice but its not in key i think, feels like it doesnt match the song.
Maybe pitch them down? outro is good
Ethan Peterson
What are college level electronic classes like? I've heard that they expect things to be non pulsed and fine art music.
Nicholas Hernandez
i wouldn't know yet, but i'm sure the goal is to give you a foundation in all the skills you'd need to make what you want to make eventually. a lot of people who get into film/video game music are composition majors and they might have higher standards for the musical aspects and go more depth into genres you care less about
Nathan Rivera
anyone updated yet to Live 10? I'm only now understanding Live 9 after 2 years of using it.....
Adrian Hill
unableton
Wyatt Diaz
What's wrong with Reaper?
Hudson Lopez
ableton is for fucking faggots. the only two daws worth mentioning are pro tools and FL
Grayson White
do you not know about cubase and logic pro?
Blake Young
i haven't used those so that means they're shit daws
Chase Harris
What do you do if you've got a synth lead melody that has crowded frequencies that rub up against each other? It sounds too resonant and crowded
Tyler Cruz
lol
Aiden Thomas
Haven't installed it yet, but from what I've seen it looks pretty much the same. You'll just have to get used to that "Automation mode" stuff, but for the rest I think it hasn't changed.
what album, geidi primes has asian melodies recorded lofi, software drums with broken-tier rhythms, and harmony is achieved through layering of vocals
then you just sing like a retard on top of that
Brody Rodriguez
Thinking of buying my first synth, I'm torn between the Roland SH-01A and the Korg MS20. I've heard the ms20 somewhat of a steep learning curve which I don't mind too much. Which one should I buy? My budget is about $600 but I could go over if there's another alternative
Colton Ross
I'd probably go for a korg minilogue instead; it's not monophonic, and it's analogue so it will sound pretty nice.
MS20 shouldn't have that steep of a learning curve if you want it though. There's no menu diving and everything is laid out on the faceplate.
Jayden Nelson
I hope you're still alive man
Colton Clark
What if we tuned each instrument in a track a few cents apart to avoid them occupying the same frequencies?
Liam Jenkins
Nice meme -____-
Change the melody or change the patch. Probably the patch
Elijah Allen
kek
Anthony Martinez
T R A N C E R A N C E
Kevin Roberts
I literally took a signal processing course. I learned about Fourier Transforms, all kinds of filters, modulation, mixers etc.
I even used MatLab.
I thought this shit would be useful in music production but I open up a software synth and I have no fucking idea what's going on. What is up with these interfaces?
Analog synths are at least intuitive, digital seems to be trying to replicate them but fails hard. I'd honestly rather use math on pen and paper at this point.
Tyler Lee
Well first of all analog/digital =/= hardware/software
Second Lol
Gabriel Ortiz
Degrees are worthless. Experience is everything.
Henry Kelly
Sorry I meant software not digital. Here's an example of the shit I'm talking about. This is horrible. I've looked around a bit more and there are a few decent soft synths but most of them are really badly designed and seem to miss features that are common to all synths.
Eli Sanchez
You're partly right, experience is just as important as theory.
But I have a lot of experience with actual instruments, as well as music theory, and there was a nice bridge between theory and practice there.
Here instead there seems to be a mismatch. I took the class to learn some theory while I started my electronic music journey, and the theory does not complement the practice at all.
Theory in electronic music production should be a manual for these plugins or some shit.
Logan Allen
Making a lil tune with plucky arps, what should I do next with it? thinking of layering some pizicatto harmor chords.
you have to work w one daw for the rest of your life
cubase logic pro tools fl
pick one
Elijah Green
fl because free updates ;)
Jason Cooper
FL studio because it's intuitive and you can do everything you can do on ableton but much faster.
Brayden Harris
cubase because its what I know best
Adam Garcia
FL because it's pretty, easy to use, and
Dominic Peterson
tfw can't afford an s950
Joseph Nguyen
If you wanna be an autistic engineer using software, just use max msp. It's what autechre uses.
Kevin Bailey
doesnt have as much resources for electronic producing
Jayden Lopez
hey
Aaron Hernandez
either that or you're a shit producer?
Lincoln Jenkins
>>mfw i torrented dozens of VST's and saved probably over 1000 dollars
mate you’ve not saved a penny as you weren’t ever going to buy them anyway, come on man try to keep up
Josiah Jenkins
As someone who has used Microsoft excel to do Fourier Transforms and then use the data from those to generate .wav files that are actually musical, you're being a fucking mong.
You took a *SIGNAL PROCESSING COURSE*, not a *SYNTHESIS* course. Learning about the time/frequency domain puts you at a huge advantage in music production, and having an understanding of the maths behind it all is certainly useful, but neither of those are a replacement for actually learning how to use the tools that are out there.
Let's talk about the synth you're using as an example here, Harmor. If you read pretty much anything about it (*cough* the manual *cough*), then you'll know that it is an additive synth. That basically means it is starting in the frequency domain, before doing an inverse FFT into the time domain. It achieves this effect by generating 512 independent sin waves. It then offers a very great deal of control over those sin waves by making extensive use of what's called a line editor (the blue graph taking up most of the bottom right corner). Virtually every parameter in the synth can be very easily controlled with its own modulation on the line editor, and as a bonus, there are also controls over eazch harmonic that can be done in the line editor (like Local EQ, which affects the volume of each sine based on what you draw in it). All those knobs that you can't be bothered to read give you controls over 2 filters (that actually work before it converts to time domain, meaning they are essentially perfect linear phase filters but with none of the problems with linear phase), unison, a phaser, an automatic filter envelope, a unique harmonizer, an extremely unique process called prism, tremlo, harmonic blurring, controls for the phases of each harmonic, and volume controls for the bottom 3 harmonics. You also have the option to add a B version, effectively giving you double all of these controls.
How would you rather this be laid out?
Nathaniel Russell
Maschine master race pls
Evan Adams
>tfw hooked casio dg-20 to volca FM
also what would be a good 90s laptop to run cubase midi?
Brayden Cox
RTFM
Lucas Hernandez
windows XP embedded POSReady on an old thinkpad
Cooper Scott
Any guitar players in these threads? What do you guys have in your home studios?
Nathan Rogers
Marshall mg30, fender bassman tube head, tweed champ clone. a few strats, les pauls, a tele and a squier 70s bass.
I use a behringer condenser mic and SM57 a small mixer straight to my PC.
For acoustic i use a ZOOM H2
Ayden Taylor
How the fuck do I just drag an audio file into the playlist? it's impossible.
Julian Morgan
Good post
Lincoln Wilson
I just bought a Moog Mother 32
what am I in for
Owen Stewart
I don't believe you. Can you prove the purchase of sad unit
Carson Green
Very expensive but it is a Moog so you just know it is worth it.
Alexander Brooks
Is gearslutz a reputable resource for production?
Colton Brooks
I've looked at their discussion occasionally when googling something, and from what I have seen it seems like a shithole.
Grayson Turner
The absolute state of DJs
Luis Ramirez
Probably a fun time. Depends how much you like moog sound specifically, and how radically you're going to patch it. I haven't been on gearslutz in like 2 years, but I remember it being really mixed.
James Cox
Does anyone know where I can download the Nexus VST for free?
Isaiah Robinson
I would really try to support the developers
Ryan Butler
ah, yes. I know, but I am actually really broke just wanted to check it out, it's OK though I'll wait and get it when I can
Adam Lee
who else gives bad advice on purpose to mislead strangers on the music section of an east african female circumcision board?
Ian Morales
I never take any of the advice provided here because every is a poorfag and music production is expensive.
Colton Johnson
Youre not alone. everyone here does that
Zachary Ross
Also, the entire process of music production is a subjective experience. There is no "right" way to do it.
Bentley Russell
>post anti modular and analog sentiments >actually use and enjoy both on a regular basis
Jason Green
Fucking why dude refx is the literal shittiest thing to happen to dance music
