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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
yeh if u have an extra couple hundred thou layin around
Hudson White
you can still hear the original beat at 1:15. mid/side eq, take out the side
Lincoln Turner
Who is your favorite poster from the discord
Jack Myers
milk
Levi Lee
Ableton 10 when
Ethan Barnes
thanks for making a thread.
what music production software do you use? i only know how to use ableton but i was wondering if there's something better.
Blake Stewart
There's not really anything 'better' theres just what you can make the best use of, certain DAWs tools, workflow etc might be more suited to what you want to do than ableton but we don't know what that is.
Ethan Ramirez
Last month I put an hour or two aside every day regardless of what i was doing and made a bit of music. I then chucked it online whether it was close to finished or not. It was a very different way of working for me, I've done live albums before but not without a lot of planning and my more common routine is usually do nothing for a month and then blast out an album in a couple of days. I enjoyed it a lot and it reminded me of when I first started making music in the year 2000 and was doing it all of the time without preparation or post production.
I recommend switching up your compositional routine.
Thanks for reading my blog.
Nathan Morgan
The soundcloud shills are strong today
Nathan Foster
really the only situation where it would be worth it to switch from ableton is if ur in an actual studio tracking instruments in which case i'd recommend pro tools
if you're just screwing around with production on a laptop regardless of what anyone tries to tell you about versatility of DAWs ableton is going to let you anything any other DAW would do, but allow you to do it faster and cleaner
Nathaniel Peterson
>dictating your creative process through a perpetual lens of overthinking
yeh i bet that yielded great results
Nathaniel Reyes
It was the opposite of over thinking actually. My music is a cathartic process and always has been, i dont share it here or with anyone except a couple of friends and the change of pace yielded some nice surprises.
Levi Nguyen
>...when I posted it on soundcloud TM
Jose Myers
I don't have a soundcloud, I have a personal website.
Chase Turner
i've been making more emotional music than u since i was 13 with my laptop..literally just getting stupid high and humping the shit out of the keyboard
so like the idea of u breaking down ur creative process like this is kind of ridiculous
Luke Cook
What are you even on about? I used to do the same in my teens. I even said it reminded me of my early years when I was just bashing music out without a care in the world. Over time my need to make music became less frequent but no less emotionally resonant for me.
Thomas Rivera
I'm experimenting with stacking loops in multiple tracks but I'm having this problem where it becomes noticeably louder as they're stacked. Here's what I'm looking at. I can't seem to find a way to assign tracks rather than clips to a mixer and, if such a thing is even possible. I'm trying to do an early Steve Reich sort of thing, so if anyone knows a better way to do it than stacking them like this, be my guest.
Luke Russell
>I'm having this problem where it becomes noticeably louder as they're stacked
wtf did you think would happen
Wyatt Robinson
Reminder to add Rick Beato to the writing section
Justin Diaz
february or march I bet because live 9 released in march
Jaxon Peterson
that guy is certainly a pro, but his videos are so fucking boring. I hate when youtubers talk for hours about how they learned something or how they got their skills instead of just giving the information. the same goes for multiplier and orchestration online. 8bit music theory and 12tone are slightly better. Best youtubers are Richard Atkinson and Ashish Xiangyi Kumar
Jacob Clark
The problem is more that it jumps up in volume abruptly
Noah Johnson
his Steve Vai interview had good music business insights
12tone doesn't even gear his channel towards composition. He usually just quickly analyzes some particular song or musical element. Beato normally just tells you a scale and its modes and gives you the chord tones for each. If anything, he's too brief. Also 12 tone is an insufferable SJW faggot.
Sebastian Murphy
That was probably made in ableton anyway. It has everything you need to make meme blown out shit-hop
Hey guys, can I get some feedback on this house remix I'm making? Inspiration was some older house like Golden Boy. Lemme know what you think!
Levi James
bump
Juan Russell
I have decided to do something similiar this year. Every day I'm going to spend about an hour working on a new track. Hopefully I'll have 360 random tracks by the end, with some major improvement happening. Any tips for doing this?
Jonathan Harris
There's no better DAW, it's the producer and it's creativity that makes something sounds good. I use Pro tools and Fl Studio and i work fine with that, i passed through Cubase, Studio One and Digital Perfomance and working with PT and FL i feel nice
not my sort of house music, the vocal cuts are good, although it starts to feel like a massive drone as the song progresses, i think you need contrast. things feel kinda sterile. Maybe it's because it's doesn't really have any elements that stick out as "excellent" or "unique". definitely a good track with quite a decent production value
What are the strengths and weaknesses of Logic compared to other DAWs? I've heard Logic is a good "all-around" DAW.
Lincoln Cruz
cause General Midi has been done to death
Chase Baker
>clyp.it/ltasvvji pretty good. people be sayin' you can hear the original underneath. so I guess you stole it or something? I dunno. sounds good though.
Landon Thomas
On Ozone's maximizer are the IRC I and II modes any good? I'm thinking about buying Ozone Elements but it only comes with those, not III and IV.
It comes with a ridiculous amount of good instruments and effects. The Alchemy synth alone is worth the $200. It's also great for recording because of the quick swipe comping feature. My biggest complaints are that drum programming doesn't feel the best with the built in tools, and sampling can feel tedious compared to something like Ableton's Simpler.
Evan Robinson
Gibs Fairlight III CMI sounds pls...
Jaxon Campbell
I use lmms, musescore, audacity, vst host with vst sequencers and synths, a midipiano combined with vmpk.exe, caustic 3, and hydrogen drum machine with some extra drum packs.I have tried the free trials of: fl studio, ableton live, reason, and Cubase. (I have not tried logic) out of all of them: I'd actually say fl studio is still the best. ableton is less grey though...never liked grey.
this is the first track I've made completely with lmms (except for the noise at the end, but all effects, compression, and otherwise was done with lmms.) I usually use the program just for the keyboard typing with vst host and then I export that onto something else for a quickie, but this was 100% lmms. clyp.it/bpgjb51w
Alexander Powell
This is me
I see what you’re saying, I was thinking I need to cut some parts out especially during the intro. It’s not really meant to have anything “over the top” or super jumpy, because I wanted to keep it a classic house feel that kinda bumps the same vibe the whole way trough. Glad you enjoy it though.
Thanks, I think it for sure needs a couple sections cut out. I’ll see about making some revisions!
Easton Martinez
Alright so I've found a way to solve my problem but it's created a weirder one. I created 3 clones of my initial loop so I can mix them differently, but whenever I try to put it into the playlist it keeps putting in loop #4. wtf?
Juan Edwards
>clyp.it/jd11begb?token=84170fedb3a8ad790059997cf513d3aa HARD VAPOR what R the samples user? I feel japan. and water and that good lowpass saw bassss. (or is it distorted sine?) and flutes. ohhh it's a slowed down cherry blossom? how did you get that good shuffle is that by hand? I like it.
Hudson Anderson
layering works like that: the more things you add on then the louder it gets. and abruptly. if you want to do it not abrupt then you fade the tracks in as you add them but that's not going to stop the entire track from getting louder. If you wish to do one track here and one track there then cut some parts out and fade the cut on some parts. or another option would be a slow fade in and out of tracks with an envelope. if you simply don't wanna hear them I'd mute them. listening to steve reich right now... I think this is what he's doing.
Joseph Bailey
>Rocket Powered Sound >quality
Chase Martin
so good. the nostalgia makes me wanna do a mass shooting.
clyp.it/2gcogij0 just played bass for rhe first time my rhythms prettt awful lol also i know its just a loop gonna cut it and use it as a lead in to a song but hows it sound
Notice anything odd about this? No? Just sounds like a well done recording of a rock band on a roll right?
Wrong, this was entirely done using sampled instruments from the default Cubase library. Even the singer isn't real.
Andrew Garcia
you ok
Noah Rivera
are you drunk?
Sebastian Evans
this is really good
Justin Long
Nice quadubs.
Aaron Collins
Can anyone tell me what machine produces this rimshot? I've been looking through a lot of the classic drum machines, but just can't find it, it's annoying the fuck out of me.
the whole thing is a 303, 707 and 727. the rimshot is from the 707
Landon Ross
either a pitched down casio RZ-1 or a roland compurythm 1000.
does it matter that much? take any rimshot, I'm sure you can find percussion packs with a 1000 rimshots and just pitch and eq one to sound just like it.
Austin Bell
Who are some composers whose most popular pieces are among their worst compositions?
Ravel- Bolero Mozart- Eine Klein Nachtmusik Mahler- Symphony 5
Jayden Morales
whoops wrong thread
Ryder Reed
wrong thread buddy
Easton Richardson
+1 top vintage 50's style vinyl record slowed down psytrance totally blew my mind.
Benjamin Adams
sounds good for a lead in. really nice. like the organ, like the kick. you could start a lot of songs with this. reminds me of rhcp for some reason.
Nicholas Sanchez
I want an external device with knobs and sliders to control macros, filters and stuff on my softsynths. What should I get?
No because your voice comes from your fucking MOUTH not your chest.
Juan Ortiz
omg leave him. he clearly has the tism
Leo Davis
orly thats why people dont put mics on guitars fretboards and on the back of guitar amps'
why you think that the voice resonates in the chest, when you want your voice deeper you pull it lower, to your chest
Logan Foster
>mics on guitars fretboards The strings produce a sound. every played one before? >the back of guitar amps' They are recording the ambience of the room.
>the voice resonates in the chest, when you want your voice deeper you pull it lower, to your chest >voicebox? what's that?
Jason Russell
Jeeze guys how hard can it be to get some sounds from an outdated synthesizer?
Justin Cooper
how do you make "latin" inspired/style music?
Kevin Morris
Just take inspiration to what has been done before.
pretending like I know how to use this limiter plugin i just installed. excuse the sloppy playing. questions i have about this mix:
does it sound over-compressed? I try to set slower attack/fast release on the master bus and then limiting as much as I can without trying to over-compress.
would you EQ anything differently? I'm still fucking with EQ'ing and mixing my drums. I don't know if my intro guitar sounds relatively harsh from the source or from mix.
Luke Phillips
i'm not really sure what effect you're trying to go for here
Kevin Barnes
Have a portable yet versatile way to make music on the go, I have an ipad with korg gadget for example.
James Scott
I'm surprised at how handy Caustic 3 is for only 6 bucks.
Been using it a lot and its portable too.
Noah Stewart
Waves is having a VST sale. anyone else too?
Alexander Mitchell
izotope is too. Everyone i work with swears by waves but ive never used them myself.
Zachary Jenkins
I kinda wanna try the neve 1073 vst. and the abbey road plate reverb. They are both only $29 right now. so I think I'm gonna try the demo versions.
Ethan Mitchell
alright so after about a year of using FL studio i'm deciding to give ableton a go
it's nice and all, but my biggest question is are scenes useful at all in recording? or should i just focus more on arrangement view?
Half the reason i want to make the switch is that everything i do in FL feels way too formulaic. Just cranking out pattern after pattern and just copy/pasting as i go to build a song with no real foundation. After watching some tutorial videos and doing some work in it, it's starting to click but i don't want to just go down the same path of dropping in different scenes and essentially "playing lego" with them in the arrangement view.
Aaron Johnson
>>the back of guitar amps' >They are recording the ambience of the room.
wrong. Jerry Cantrell uses this trick in the studio all the time. he mics the inside of his cab to get the lows in order to beef up his sound without using effects that could muddle other frequencies.
why would anyone on earth try to mic the ambience of a room unless you're doing some half assed "ironic" field recording bullshit
Ethan Lopez
You're right but room ambience is an often used tool
Christian Russell
are there many videos teaching basic notes and chords catered to braindead retards?
So what sort of things are you even coming up with after an hour or two of making music time? I’m a pretty relaxed slow worker when it comes to making music. I have no problem spending an entire day or two working on samples, chopping/EQing/effecting. So starting to wonder if I’m just zoning out for hours. I’d probably spend at least an hour or two mixing, but seriously what are you actually getting done quality wise in an hour?
Colton Price
haha thanks man, those are water samples. it's a distorted 808, flutes are saxophones, the hi hats were all done with a mouse, i'm pretty autistic with high hat patterns so yeah
great panning lmao
thanks dude
ahhaha, idek how the original song has 100 mil views
