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How to use FL studio while playing live and spooky lunga edition
Production Resources:
>Pastebin - Links, books, videos, articles, tutorials and stuff
http://pastebin.com/pYGCLu6q
>/prod/ wiki - still looking for contributors (wink, wink, WINK)
http://mu-sic-production.wikia.com
There's a severe lack of DAW descriptions in the wiki. If you're good with your tool of choice, consider writing a paragraph about it.
Learn that Image-Line is going to bring back graph editors eventually, and that you should just buy whatever you fucking want to buy though
Remember to use clyp.it to post your tracks/WIP : posting a clyp.it is just providing sound for a question, posting a soundcloud link is making self-advertisement and the thread doesn't need that.
Remember to check other peoples' clyp.it links to keep the thread healthy.
best today
>>61226054
thanks
>>61225394
that lunga's 3spoopy5me
>>61225394
Happy Festivus guys
I have a broad question for the folks in this thread.
I asked in the last thread and got some good answers, so I wanted to ask one more time.
>How the fuck do you make a sexy song?
Like, for real. How do you make something that makes someone want to fuck to your song or because of your song.
That's what I want my genre to be. Just, "Songs to Fuck to" or "Songs that Put You in the Mood."
What are some characteristics that you've seen in music that are inherent to most, if not all, sexy songs?
Let me boil this down into some questions:
>What's your favorite sexy song?
>What makes it sexy?
>Is sexiness something that can be learned? How?
>What reading or listening do you recommend for learning the art of sexy music?
I just want to be boner fuel for people, /prod/. Is that too much to ask?
I analyzed all the music on my Clip and determined that the average sexy tempo is 117 BPM.
Not sure what you can do with that info, but whatever.
so i have an lp ready to release, release date is in 2 weeks, how do i promote the shit out of it?
should i send it to some cloud service and message blogs with the link to it for a pre release review?
Why does my cpu usage all of the sudden jumps from 20% to 100+%?
>>61226904
I've never been turned on by a song, is this normal?
>>61227133
You open a plugin with shittily written gui.
Hey /prod/ how does this sound?
https://clyp.it/qgk05cam#
Do the vocals fit? Do they sound tinny? Does the bass or kick need to be boosted?
>>61227133
poor optimization
please reupload the Audio Engineering and Acoustics ebook bundle link PLEASE
>>61227547
the vocals sound fine in context with everything else but the whole thing sounds a bit heavy on the high-end imo
>>61227801
Thanks for the fb! I'm guessing the "high-end heaviness" is from the hall reverb that I have on the vocal track. It's probably carrying over for too long and making it a bit muddy sounding.
https://clyp.it/qztc1fpz
feedback plx
how to play live with fl studio
are drum machines necessary in CURRENT YEAR?
I mean, you can just load samples in a drum rack...other than playing live what benefit(s) does a drum machine has?
>>61228894
Is acrylic paint necessary in CURRENT YEAR?
I mean, you can just do everything in Photoshop...other than making art what benefit(s) does acrylic paint have?
Where would one download version 2.3.2+ of refx nexus?
>>61228894
>CURRENT YEAR
/pol/ nobody likes you
>>61229070
>refx nexus
>>61228894
Your post sucks, and your music sucks. You no talent.
>>61228894
Some people prefer hardware.
I know I do. I make music just for the fun of the process, so putting together gear and pushing fun buttons is rewarding to me
>>61229070
Refx' website.
I wonder how many famous artists frequent /prod/ or /mu/. I have a feeling like someone like deadmau5 would at least lurk for shits n gigs
>>61230238
I bet theyre the ones who shitpost threads into oblivion
>>61230238
There was time time deadmau5 posted on /mu/, and the mods stickied the thread, viper the rapper was better though.
>>61230403
I'm pretty sure that was just Four Tet who was shitposting here
>>61228894
Not specifically drum machines but hardware in general: it's nice to have a purpose-made physical interface tailored for whatever bit of hardware you're using instead of using a shitload of unlabeled knobs arranged in a grid on a controller which you have to map manually.
>>61230238
>he doesn't remember "go to bed joel"
you're 2new4me desu senpai
>>61230461
i just look up that old deamau5 thread and it just seemed like attention whoring. i hope there are pro producers on threads like these doling out advice while keeping anonymous
>>61230486
>wasting years of life on 4chan
meh, go to bed anon
>order used Beatstep Pro because cheapass
>doesn't get sent by quoted date
>send message whining about it
>they decide to send me a brand new unit for the inconvenience
I mean, I'm sure it won't be any different, but man, that's pretty based.
>>61230822
>it just seemed like attention whoring.
Yeah, hence why Viper was a better thread.
Who /synthfreak/ here?
>>61230888
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbp8PtBcM7A
oh wow, I didn't even know he was a thing. This is like the tommy wiseau of rap...kind of reminds me of Babycakes from China, IL
>>61230932
I absolutely hate synthesizers because the gods of rock hated synthesizers. \m/
RIP in peace Freddie
>>61231009
>kind of reminds me of Babycakes from China, IL
Holy shit, lmao.
I was playing a show monday night and I lost control of my hardware and I fell into an absolutely horrifying loop through infinite delays and distortions and half the crowd was recoiling in pain. i tweaked a new knobs too far and it just turned into chaos. it's just me solo on stage with multiple synths and drum machines. i have a large pedal board and was feeling creative on stage and strayed away from my usual set.
i felt super amateur and a few of the guys i played with that night were off stage cracking up.
i just shut everything off and started over, in dead silence, when i finished there were a few claps here and there but mostly no reaction.
how do you guys recover from shit like this? i feel like i never want to go on stage again.
>>61231206
just go on stage again, and try again
seriously, remember that there are guys playing covers in a shitty cover band, and they keep going even if they play like shit
This is just one fuck up, later it will be a cool/funny story to remember
>>61231206
what kind of stuff do you usually play that could devolve into such a chaotic mess so quickly?
as for getting back into the gig game, it's probably just going to take some time. if you think it fucked up your reputation to any significant degree you could rework your setup/material and start performing under a different alias.
>>61231294
i play psychedelic, beat oriented stuff with lots of heavy synth sections, ton of textures and pedals being used at once. i have one particular pedal that can be a bit unpredictable when there's a lot going on and i tweaked it a bit too far, panicked, tried to drop the pedals that go into it, this just made it worse. it all looped together and picked up a ton of gain and drowned everything out. it was awful.
>>61231206
Turn it into a story you tell to your friends. Like, tell it to everyone, and soon it'll just be another quirky anecdote. And perhaps you'll get to hear about someone's else's fuckups.
That's when you get your ass back on the horse.
>>61230864
i hope you're prepared for firmware issues. Arturia always fucking up.
>>61231795
I heard the latest firmware patch fixes most of the issues.
>>61231999
still no chain saving and it's real iffy when controlling other hardware and software.
>>61232092
Software isn't really an issue for me. As for syncing to hardware, it's going to be the master clock, kind of the point of the whole thing for me.
>>61232203
well good luck with that. For your sake, I genuinely hope it's not as bad as I've heard when it comes to hardware sync. Hopefully they've got a good return policy if it is though.
>>61230932
I asked for an Arturia Microbrute for Chrimbus and I really hope I get it.
I have written over 100 songs under different names and genres, but I always used FL Studio. I want to get into more hardware production. I have vowed to produce my next album with the following gear:
>Arturia Microbrute Synth
>Tascam DP006 recorder
>Electrix Warpfactory Vocoder
>Boss DR670 Drum Machine
Anyone know of anything I am missing?
>>61232454
>Anyone know of anything I am missing?
really depends on your personal taste in gear and what kind of music you're going to produce.
you might want to look into getting a sampler and an fm synth so you've got both those bases covered though
Sorta new producer here, been working since early October.
Is there a MEGA file that has some good VSTs? Preferably synths/delay sfx/filtering stuff.
>>61232983
start off with some free ones
>brainstormer
>Combo Organ
>Synth1
>TyrellN6
>PianoOne
>OBXD
>Zebra Lite
>>61228894
Even if it's a shitpost, people use them in modular setups for gates and route the drums in as signals for envelopes or sidechains. This is how I see many vermona's and other vintage machines being used. Modern ones (that come with a sampler) are useful to keep everything centralized so you can easily tweak patterns to find something that works as a foundation for your percussion.
>>61231025
Led Zeppelin loves synths though. Same with the beatles.
https://clyp.it/atoov1zu
advice please dudes
Guys I've been watching cringe videos all day and I've been getting really down. Tell me what kind of song I should create.
>>61231206
hahahahahhahahaha, sucks man
It was just a bad set, everyone has em, and you'll have many more probably, don't worry about it too much .
>>61221708
>Xenharmonic Piano Roll
Most DAWs allow you to do this, but usually you just adjust the fine tuning of each note. If you want all your A5s to be 25 cents flat, you select them all and make them 25 cents flat. It sounds like a mission but its pretty easy if your DAW is decent enough. Once one note has been retuned, whenever you copy that note the pasted note will be the same tuning, which helps.
FL handles this very easily, not sure about others, Reason supports this but its a bit more fiddly.
I've done a few microtonal tracks using FL. pretty easy to do, just choose a microtonal scale and retune all the notes you want flat or sharp in the piano roll (note fine pitch parameter)
pic related. In the piano roll you can only go in 10 cent increments, but if you use the channel fine pitch you can do 1 cent increments.
We used to play games here on prod to see if people could tell which note was 1 cent higher than the other.
>>61233903
I'm just taking the piss m80. Why would anyone ITT not like synths? Fuck, Here Comes the Sun is one of my favorite Beatles tracks thanks to the Moog shit on it.
All of My Love is also how I test string patches
>>61234109
Dancehall
>>61233270
Are there any free ones that sound similar to a Mellotron?
>>61234373
Different guy here
Tweakbench tapeworm
Grab all of the tweakbench stuff, cause that shit's all for free. Definitely throw the Dev some cash if you can ever spare it though, it's pretty based that he does what he does for free
are there any good sample libraries for kontakt that would give me these sort of drums/percs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfGsArRQjKE
>>61226904
björk-come to me
>>61232454
Korg MS-20 Mini
Akai S-series sampler
So you guys excited about any upcoming tracks of yours?
>>61236874
not really
>>61234513
Try some of the Stormdrum electronic kits?
I've always loved this score, I might try to do a pastiche using stormdrum and some synths
>>61234513
>>61237714
Here we go:
https://clyp.it/hzp0e1sg
This was just quick, using stormdrum 1. I could have payed more attention to the drums to try to get them closer, and done lots more variation. Also the sub kick isn't exactly the same but meh.
>>61234109
90s pop
what does sidechaining mean in simple english
>>61239410
Using the amplitude of one sound to do something on another, like compression on the second sound while the first sound is >X dB, etc
>>61239434
thats not simple enough
>>61239410
the volume of the rest of the mix ducks out a little bit to accommodate one particular sound or set of sounds
>>61239410
when your kick goes doof, the rest of the song goes quiet for a split second.
That way the kick cuts through the song.
This is side-chain compression, you can use other effects. Basically one sound controls another through an effect.
>>61239410
Nothing.
Sidechain is the second input to an audio processor, so to speak.
For instance, a compressor may have a sidechain input for the peak detection circuit, which is then used to change the volume of the main input with the envelope of the sidechain input.
The term has since become synonymous with sidechain compression.
https://clyp.it/mlgw1j0s
Opinions? First stuff I've ever done
i've been using ableton for years now
i want to try something new, should i consider buying cubase for christmas ?
What do you guys think of algorithmic melodies?
Like using mathematical formulas to create notes and stuff.
Is it cool?
Is it a lazy attempt to replace creativity?
>>61240199
As someone who recently used ableton for years, don't switch to cubase. At least for me, it was very clunky and non-user friendly. I suggest BitWig. It rivals ableton in variety of features and is pretty smooth to transition to.
>>61239781
Tips:
>keep a solid drum beat for at least 4 bars. Stop dropping hats or snares/claps randomly. It throws off the groove
>@ 0:35, the crash/cymbal needs some sort of reverb or delay to fill in the gap and needs a high freq shelf to get rid of some higher harsher tones
>sidechain the bass and lead to the kick
>select a different sound for the bass other than a sine wave and maybe drop the bass -12 semitones
I'm no pro, but hopefully this will give you some ideas
How do I get motivation?
>>61241363
>try at life
>fail
>write songs about that
>get enough songs to do gig
>do bad at that too
>write more music about it
>>61241493
hahaha are you the guy that fucked up the live set
>>61241879
No, it happens to everyone.
>>61241953
Can't happen to me because I will never have the opportunity or courage to do a live set.
Checkmate.
>>61241363
Nofap helps
>>61242559
with music? i've never really found one to affect the other in any way
>>61241363
>>61242559
actually the key to succes is to save up for 3-4 days and burst it all out on an fappin session desu senpai
>>61242777
Idk if this post is funnier with desu senpai, or t.bh f.am
>>61242777
trips confirm
I promise that if I ever make it, I'll do an informal /prod/ Q&A (i.e. AMA only about production shit).
>>61242777
PIC RELATED
>tfw NI killed Spektral Delay even though it was one of the most interesting sounding plugins available
an angry beat-turned remix i've been working on, would love to hear some constructive feedback on it. it's a heavy work in progress.
https://clyp.it/uq2ddkye
>>61244090
That was a shit move on their part. I'm still using it, but can't buy it even if I wanted to.
And I do want to.
And there are virtually no interesting alternatives - I mean, there's Obelisk or whatever, but it's unwieldy compared to SD.
Wonder if they'll ever recreate it as Reaktor ensemble or whatever.
>>61240653
shut the fuck up and just make the music and worry about whqt other people think when youre finished w/ it jeez.
>>61244969
We don't use that kind of language here in /prod/, my nigga.
>>61240653
Autechre use it and they're the most creative bunch around.
Where the fuck do I find Max for Live cracked? I've saw a shit ton of packs for it but never the program itself.
>>61245578
You don't need cracked Max. Ableton hosted the installer last I remember.
>>61245729
In their site they only sell it afaik. Gonna check it again.
>>61245578
Max for Live comes with Ableton Suite 9 but if you're not using the suite you can find an installer for Max that'll drop Max for Live into your Ableton installation - Max v7 is the one that comes with suite 9 - Max 5/6 comes with various flavours of Live 8
Search for Max MSP rather than Max for Live, or search for Cycling74
>>61245888
Yeah, I just checked Cycling74, they host its download.
Thx m8s, happy holidays
>>61244969
how about you shut the fuck up and just let other people start the discussions they want to start?
anyone else internet slow as fuck today
I literally cant get on any websites except here without it taking forever
>>61247694
where do you live?
>>61247735
south usa
it is super annoying and I know it isn't like malware infection because I checked that out asap when I found out
maybe it is because of holidays
what does /prod/ wants for xmas?
>p-pls bring me an octatrack santa-kun
>>61247784
for Christmas I am getting 50$ and a guitar stand and going to get some music related books
>>61247784
>wanting a machine... that makes music?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8qqPjpOlZI
Idk, I kinda want the Volcas. Anyone here using them?
>>61247803
lmfao what in the fuck is this? swedish humor?
>>61247784
Santa better bring me my Arturia Microbrute or I will cut his face.
>>61230932
i have a korg ms20 mini and some doepfer modular stuff
>>61231383
learn to use volume knobs/faders i guess
or just take less drugs
or do what i do and just go on
>>61247784
>what does /prod/ wants for xmas?
musical talent
>>61230822
>i just look up that old deamau5 thread
Where does one find this thread?
>>61247784
Got enough cash for a TR-8.
Getting a TR-8.
>>61249123
try it first!
>>61249139
Going to foxtone next week. I owe them business for playing on their ARP 2600 too much
>>61238347
neat, what'd you use to get that sine lead synth
how do i make this not sound like shit?
https://clyp.it/fsmuhdrz
>>61249911
bin it and start a new project
>>61249911
get rid of that bitcrusher on the pad
increase bass synth volume
get a little bit of reverb in the mix senpai
https://clyp.it/koqigak4
Can I get some feedback on the mix , and some thoughts on the overall composition of this hip hop sort of electronic thing? I personally think it's a bit boring.
>>61250289
>I personally think it's a bit boring
there ya go
do free, good-quality ableton packs exist?
if so where might i find them
>>61247803
>Volcas
I have Beats and Bass, both are a lot of fun. Not flexible at all of course and a little cheap sounding but good enough for the money.
>>61247784
i got my microsampler early so it's already a good christmas
>>61250289
sounds fine, I dont think its boring
I dont like the snare tho
>>61247803
Keys and beats.
Use the beats constantly, great kick on it. The Agogo and Clave with the PCM speed are great.
Keys are fun, but they have never ended up in anything.
>>61250663
>great kick on it
i always eq some bass out, i think it has way too much bass when you open the sustain
>>61250691
I turn the volume on that channel down through the volcas itself. If I modded it for individual outs, I would get around to EQing it and compressing it separately. However, I'm the guy getting the TR-8, so it's not worth the effort at this point.
>>61247784
Cirklon and Octatrack
So I'm in this weird gray area where I know what sounds good in a composition and I know what sounds good and everything, but whenever I go to make something it just ends up corny and I don't know what to add to it to make it sound pleasing.
So my GF just got me a Novation Launchkey 25 for christmas. Pretty pumped. I've been playing guitar for about 3 years now but I have a deep interest in making hip-hop beats. I don't know much about theory but I guess now is a good time as any to learn.
There's no real point to this post, I'm just psyched. Merry Christmas, anon.
>>61247766
could be. sucks. at least fewer distractions haha
does this shit go or nah?
https://clyp.it/pbnhsykn
my attempt at a trap song, I goofily based it off Dogmeat from fallout but I think the musical elements are ok. wanna know if it's arranged well
Merry Christmas, /prod/
https://clyp.it/jawdzw2w
>>61251223
And some caviar? I'm a richfag, and that's still too much to ask from the old fucks
>>61249404
Its a pure sine wave. Just used 3XOsc with the other 2 oscillators turned off.
Do a bit of a high pass, add reverb and done.
>>61252334
no port? sounds porty
