it's almost 2am here, meaning everything i produce now sounds weird as fuck since i am just throwing a bunch of random fucking noises into a track, hoping it sounds good.
https://clyp.it/csdgdbak
>clyp related
if this thread doesnt get any replies, hilary clinton will be elected for president of the united states
Im looking into audio interfaces. are there certain brands that are always great or on the contrary ones I should avoid? I found one of those Scarlet 2i2's for 100 leaf loonies, is that a decent price?
https://clyp.it/mzxs5nnr
https://clyp.it/vyouxus2
copy pasta from old thread that closed just in time :(.
/prod/ come on give me some suggestions. this was realized on a sp303. does it sounds too bad? how the fuck am i supposed to master something recorded straight from a sampler like that? do you dig the beat?
bb senpai
how 2 stop being overly self critical?
>>65037876
bump
>>65038989
What do you mean anon?
>>65038344
In my honest opinion this sounds like a very fun freestyle rap battle beat, the idea is nice.
I don't know much about recording though, but I'd say you should record the beats and samples in seperate tracks so you can balance out the mix.
>>65038082
Sounds a bit dull in my opinion, maybe work a bit on the stereo field? The song itself sounds good.
Here's some Dubstep stuff I made for my upcoming youtube channel, any ideas for the composition or anything? I tried to make it more ''commercial/generic'' sounding.
Also if anyone of you know something about saturation, how should I apply it?
>>65039302
forgot link:
https://clyp.it/ze5x3hyt
>>65037795
but that'll happen either way
>>65038989
self critical is master race. if you don't think your music is bad then you have no need to improve on any of your shortcomings.
>tfw my kaoss pad 3 is starting to make weird little bursts of noise and change the loudness of the left vs right channels when the input volume knob or the slider get moved
don't you die on me god dammit, you were my first piece of gear :(
>finally come up with lush chord progression
>realise after playing it back it's pacific state
fuck sake
>>65039844
>can play interesting free jazz chord progressions with ease
>can't make a normal chord progression for shit
i have all these sounds in my head but i can't put them in to FL Studio pls save me
>>65040184
start by writing them down
>>65040184
Sing them into a microphone, and load the way into your daw to reference as you try to replicate with synths.
>>65038989
Give up on music. Do you fucking think Richard D James goes into the studio and shits gold? He's talented because he's waded through an incredible mire of crap to get to the good shit.
>>65039844
but I like sake
>>65039351
this sounds great. do you have a longer version?
https://clyp.it/idjy4sel i dont know what im doing. how do i fix this?
>>65044789
You're listening to too much '80s synthpop
may i post a soundcloud link please
>>65045125
did gandhi ask if he could post soundcloud links?
no, he just did it anyways. who are you gonna be?
rate my beat pls
https://clyp.it/ktlu1mur
>>65038989
I just got comfortable with the fact that for the first 10 years of production everything is going to sound shit...sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised though.
Being self critical is a lot better than banging on about how fucking good you are all the time because you have a big head and mommy and a few friends humoured you and said your tracks are great...when they quite clearly are a load of shite.
>>65037876>>65037876
Scarlet 2i2 is a really priceworthy interface. Is does what its supposed to and never fucks around. I did some tests recording the same re-amped guitar through the same speaker with a sm57 but with different interfaces. 2i2 was good but i prefered my steinberg ur22mk2. Its a LITTLE bit cheaper but does the same job as the 2i2 and has better sounding pre-amps.
>>65037470
i kinda dig it
been working on this loop for the past 20 mins.
is it any good?
https://clyp.it/hxa1vrb5
>>65045861
best reply ITT
>>65045125
>>65045861
>>65048352
no soundcloud
if you post it we're going to at best tell you to fuck off
gandhi was a faggot terrorist subhuman
>>65048323
i would make a version without the high pitched like uptick
just so later you can have 1 without and 1 with incase you need to get fancy when laying it out for a track, I think it's fine without it and would only use it to spice things up
it's a good loop to rap over about an existential crisis
>>65044789
you just created the theme song for a kid's show congrats
for real though, add some low frequency sounds e.g. a bassline, change the synths (pretty sure you only used square wave synths that generally sound very game-y on their own)
the drums don't help either so see that you can get better samples
>>65048405
meant video game-y
>>65048323
>been working on this loop for the past 20 mins
>20 mins
>working on
>20 mins
>is it any good?
I very much doubt it.
Come back in 2 hours. The transistors in Fruity Loops have hardly had time to warm up in 20 minutes.
>>65037470
its fucking good
>>65048478
it's a loop bro, if you spend more than 20 minutes on making a loop you don't know how to use your daw properly
>>65048400
nice dubs, thanks for the feedback.
got anything you want me to check out?
It's the weekend /prod/ what are you all working on?
https://clyp.it/dejrrm1v
Been sitting on the production on this one for ages, to the point of listening to it so much that I can't really perceive anything of it anymore.
Can't find any motivation to continue, so any feedback is appreciated.
I have another similiar song but I have uploaded the shorter one.
Too much bass? Very unsure on the snare, too much reverb perhaps? Or maybe the track itself is boring.
>>65037470
This is great!
Very new to Production here
for what reason would you use a compressor
and how?
>>65039971
It's take time to be normal again.
>>65048925
I use it on drums and bass mainly
Detailed reasons for why and how here:
https://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep09/articles/compressionmadeeasy.htm
>>65048925
there are lots of yt tutorials out there. basic explanation is:
your song got loud parts and not so loud parts. compressor takes loud parts and makes them less loud so that the volume level of the track is evened out
pro tip: don't overdo it
The drums are too loud, just like in every fucking clipit posted in /prod/ ever
Anyone know any good sample packs with drums that sound similar to the intro of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkp05lmogIM
>>65048947
>It takes
sry
>>65049018
no you fuckface.
samples are for fags.
even buying a drumset is for fags.
you need to buy a baby goat, raise it lovingly, slaughter it and strech its skin over some circle.
it's what real musicians do
captcha: 420
>>65049033
what if i cant get a hold of a goat, or even a real drumset? is a sheep ok?
>>65048734
Nothing? :/
Anyone working with logic:
Do you have a nice "mastering" preset (for the Main Output Track) for Electronic Music? I use the presets "Basic" or "Hyped Mix" slightly adjusted because I am too stupid to make my own setup.
Any advices?
>>65049152
>>65049152
I think mastering will totally depend on how your track sounds to begin with. If you don't understand what each of those mastering plugins do enough to make your own mastering chammel then just slapping a mastering preset chammel on your mastering chammel isn't going to help you much.
I'd remove that mastering chammel and start learning how each individual plugin works. Start by eqing each individual chammel, compress (if needed) and setting levels on your mixer to get a nice sounding mix, then maybe add a master buss compressor to your master chammel, learn what it's doing and how it works best on your track. Once you've done that do the same for each of the other mastering plugins you want to use.
Each new track you write will probably be different so will require different settings on those master buss plugins.
I tend to try and get my tracks to sound right first before adding minimal mastering, but some people like to set up the mastering then mix into that while building the track. Most modern computers you can get away with running compressors etc on each chammel so I prefer that approach as it gives me much more detail.
https://clyp.it/0tf2m3xp
can i get some feedback on this track?
anyone got any good tutorials to share that aren't in the pastebin?
Is there ever anything to learn in /prod/ threads?
>>65049543
Thanks ;)
made some progress on that loop.
thoughts?
https://clyp.it/twgejaie
i added an extra synth/thing and did some restructuring
https://clyp.it/vamaqpad
would it be classified as future music?
>>65049892
>https://clyp.it/twgejaie
i like it
that part where it shoots upward is kind of left hanging though
you should figure out some way to resolve it
>>65049930
>https://clyp.it/vamaqpad
nigger this is insane
fuck you
>>65049754
Probably not for you as you obviously already know everything?
>>65049930
not to slob on your dick, but i would like to rap over this, could i get an mp3 or some shit?
i would pay you but im broke + i wanna rap over it just for me (wont upload anywhere)
>>65049973
nah you can upload it senpai
that pluck thing is a sample so I can't sell it anyway
you wanna wait til i finish it tho?
has /prod/ produced any decent producer/songwriters? If so are there any clips of their work to check out?
>>65050003
i will wait, thanks a lot man. you're a good lad.
[email protected] (yes, mail not gmail)
>>65049949
lol i appreciate that
>>65050011
I can't email it the file is too big
just link me your soundcloud and I'll send it to you there
>>65049754
Some people link useful resources sometimes
>>65050054
https://soundcloud.com/vine-plaga
>>65050054
soundcloud.com/vine-plaga
>>65050063
alright just followed you senpai
i'll have that finished instrumental for you in a few days
>>65044789
doesn't sound like the synth is in the same key as the bassline
https://clyp.it/xygfhdxl
i posted a small clip of this yesterday
today i ffinished it off kinda
How do you start a new piece?
I usually hear something or think of something, then hop on my computer and try to mimick that sound with my midi and piano.
But this past week I've just sat here in front of my computer playing with keys and progressions, but nothing sounds good.
>>65050063
bump
>>65050249
first i have to have an inspired song structure and progression planned out. than i will usually write down pages of notes in autistic/serial killer fashion listing every element and track and layer i plan for the song, in order of structure and recording, along with a list of all the effects and mixing shit i'm gonna do for each part
>>65050117
you are a saint man
>>65050225
5 listens. Can noone give feedback ? I mean that is why i posted it here. No matter how shit or good id still like someones opinion.
>>65048682
>what are you all working on?
trying to play a synth while skiing
>>65050225
>https://clyp.it/xygfhdxl
the drums are too loud, i wanna hear the pretty synths and atmosphere but the drums are raping my ears
>>65050451
Thank you!
>>65050005
If there were you wouldn't credit /prod/ for their ascent, in fact the place is probably a hindrance. Every problem posed here can be answered better by google.
So I was trying to mess with some voice samples to get a result similar to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUhr77e8Eho
The guy's "normal" voice is much closer to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFs4_8sJTT0
So the clip is pitched down, even with him talking lower, and the lower part of the EQ is turned up to make him rumble a little bit.
Thing I am most interested in though is how they are getting the effect leading into each line. It is obviously some kind of re-sample of the original clip, but without doing a ton of manual work in taking the original clip and cutting many times to match some of the emphasized syllables and dragging their length out (and adding some reverb / echo / pitch shift further down / level blend), is there any remotely "automatic" way I can replicate this effect in FL Studio?
Any advice appreciated on how to replicate this effect or even just get something that sounds cool.
>>65050906
It's reversed reverb - and the single most asked about vocal effect probably.
Take your vocal track, reverse it and add reverb (with a little slap-back delay if you want a more pronounced effect) - record the reverb to a separate track and then reverse it and line it up with your original non-reversed vocal so that the reversed reverb tails precede the vocal - you can delete the reversed vocal as you only needed it to generate the reverb track.
>>65051016
>Take your vocal track, reverse it
Meant to add that it's best to make a copy of the vocal track to reverse.
>>65051016
>>65051042
Thanks I appreciate it
>>65051042
I'll also add (as I usually do) that this effect was originally done on multitrack tape by flipping the tape spool over, which also reverses the track order - with tape the vocal and the reversed reverb would line up perfectly when the tape spool was back in its original orientation.
is there a way to make Ableton's ruler thing start at 0 instead of 1?
>>65051706
oh god lol why would you want to do that? do you count bars in your head like "0-1-2-3, 0-1-2-3"?
>>65051739
because when I'm working w/ loops I find it annoying having to remember that 1 bar on a 4/4 loops ends at the 5th marker. add a bar to that....9th...and so on
>>65048230
>>65048506
>>65048734
thanks guys
>>65048478
sq-1 is fun as fuck
https://clyp.it/4yxy0avl
Is this any good? I'm having issues warping vocals to make it fit the beat. In the raw file, his rapping is slightly off beat and I'm having a hell of a time getting it to sit right without making it sound muddy.
>trap, chill, rap
>>65051966
what does muddy sound have to do with the guy being on beat?
>>65052039
stretching / warping the wav and getting distortion. maybe muddy wasnt the right term
>>65052105
muddy usually refers to something having too much low end and not being very defined in the highs
as for the problem you're talking about, you might have to get the guy to re-do the vocals if none of the warping modes will give you a clean enough sound
>>65047024
not autechre/10
try harder
>>65051966
his style of rap don't fit the beat
>>65052105
>getting distortion
You mean artifacts ?
>>65051966
>https://clyp.it/4yxy0avl
meh same old shit desu mate
how do u learn ur sound design?
>>65052105
thats not going to work obviously idk why you'd think it would
https://clyp.it/czaigdat
made this in like 4 hours. needs a bit polishing but has a lot of potential imo...what do u think?
>>65052770
please change the intro synth, it's killing my cancer but at the same time also my healthy ear cells
https://clyp.it/3w1rl3ft
based racism freestyle
panda remix
https://clyp.it/lgfizuau
the mixing is total ASS but im fixing that asap
(also i messed up while exporting the track so ignore the last bit)
anybody use a kaoss pad with their daw?
i'm trying to get mine set up on the midi in/out of my interface so i can record midi clips of the touchpad activity and play it back but there's some weird shit going on
instead of just making the touchpad send an x and a y signal as cc's it also sends another one called touchpad on/off that just goes between 0 and 127 only depending on if you're touching the pad at all or not.
it records the touchpad x and y as cc's just fine but the touchpad on/off seems to be cuasing some kind of issue. it didnt play back the motion at first so i deleted the automation curve in the clip that the touchpad on/off made, which then made it start working, but then i was messing around with some of the other controls while the clip was playing and it started not playing the touchpad automations again, even though i hadnt made a new automation for the touchpad on/off
this shit is so close to being within my grasp, i just wanna figure it out already
>>65053713
okay so after a little more fucking around it seems like having the touchpad held down when the clip starts recording is what is fucking it up
when the touchpad on/off clip starts at 127 (touchpad on), then the pad motions won't play unless at some point in the touchpad on/off clip the value goes to 0 (touchpad off) and then back to 127 without the clip restarting
drawing in a 0 breakpoint at the start of every clip seems like the obvious short term workaround but i'd really like to not have to do it every time and just figure out what's fucking me up here
any help is appreciated although i dont think there are a lot of kaoss pad users here
>>65053843
>>65053713
even weirder still, if you stop the clip in a place where the touchpad is activated, you can press play and it will restart the clip with the pad motions going even if the touchpad on/off curve in the clip starts at 127. if you touch the touchpad while it's stopped though, the touchpad won't be activated anymore and the same thing i described above will happen when restarting the clip that starts at 127
https://clyp.it/wn514y2u
Does this work as a good intro track?
Samples are USSA and The O-Men by the Butthole Surfers, and some porn clip for the screaming guy.
How do you write long and repetitive tracks without getting bored of them?
If I go into detail, I lose sight of the big picture and I write garbage. If I try to work top-down, I write garbage because my melodies are really inspired by the sounds and the sounds suck.
Is there a certain synth that can make dark lo-fi shit like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqqsOWQXbIE
>>65053713
>>65053843
>>65054180
starting to suspect i may be on my own for this, but another update:
going into the kaoss pad editor and disabling pad touch from sending any cc data is also not working, the automations won't play unless you're actually physically touching the pad (or if you engage the hold button for the touch pad)
>>65054916
This article helped me out: http://innerportalstudio.com/articles/ArrangingSongs.pdf
what genres do yall even produce?
hey everyone, it's me >>65055390 again.
doesnt look like im gonna have much luck with this, but i'd like to at least settle for using the kaoss pad as an external effect instead of as an external instrument that i have to route other tracks into.
the x and y and pad touch all get recorded into automation curves in the clip when i put it on a midi track and record a clip, but it doesnt seem to be sending it back out when the clip plays. do i need the external instrument's "send midi to" option or is there a way i can just get it to send the automation curves back out to the kaoss pad?
>>65055488
Thanks, that does help.
>>65056537
looks like i cant do this for audio clips even if i do get it working since they dont record any cc data in the envelope section like midi clips do
this fuckin sucks, all the pieces are there and they just dont fit together at all seemngly
>>65056667
You'll need a separate MIDI clip to hold the kaoss pad controller data, and (if you're using Ableton) you'll need to disable "Arm Exclusive" by right-clicking a record arm button and unticking "Arm Exclusive".
This will allow you to arm (and record to) multiple tracks at once, so you can record your MIDI data and your audio data in a single pass, if that's what you need.
>>65057170
yeah, that's what i was doing before... was just trying to figure out if there was a way to do it without making the kaoss pad it's own track.
i'm still pissed about this stupid touchpad on/off thing though... could they really not have made it so that a 0 value for x or y signified the pad not being pressed and the controllable range with the pad was from 1-127 thus eliminating the need for the pad touch parameter? or just programmed it so that a clip starting with the pad touch engaged would actually start with the pad touch engaged instead of having to engage it after the clip starts?
https://clyp.it/rn0kbzbx
am i dj premier yet?
>>65057250
I can see from your previous posts that the touchpad does send an on/off control (touched/not touched) as well as the x-y data - I guess also that the device itself connects to the computer as a MIDI device through USB?
Usually for these things you'd need to select "Remote" to "On" for the MIDI in and out ports for the device in Ableton preferences - that allows changes in the automation lanes to reflect in the device - have you tried that, or are you just using "Track" in the preferences? That doesn't always work.
>>65056043
house/techno/bleep
>>65057467
i'd put some subtle white noise in the back to help glue it together
>>65055092
pretty much all of them, it's just a filtered saw with LFO modulation
>>65054225
needs cymbals
>>65057578
that's the most useful thing someone has ever told me in one of these threads
>>65052443
Who?
idk how to describe this but when making a whistle sound it always has this high screeching ringing sound i just can get out. it sounds alright(i guess) in the mix you dont hear the high end ringing but i feel like it just adds to much unwanted noise to the mix.i tried to make a new one but the whistle sounds always have this high end ringing sound. i tried eq but it just takes away the whistley sound and i tried compression but my compression skills are very ehh and not good.
https://clyp.it/s23xltd2
>>65057513
>I guess also that the device itself connects to the computer as a MIDI device through USB?
no, usb is only for the editor, it works through midi in/out.
now it seems to also be fucking up when the 0 and 127 breakpoints are vertically lined up so i have to offset the 0
korg really dropped the ball here, it's so fucking sporadic about when the automations will and wont activate.
this is a really huge disappointment, i tried to do my homework before i grabbed the audio interface with all the ins/outs i needed to do this but i couldnt find anyone trying to do what i'm doing and i couldn't think of any reason why recording 3 cc clips and then playing them back would cause so many problems
this is bullshit
>>65058391
and to make matters even stupider, you can manually engage the hold button if it's not activating the automations and it will activate them but in the places in the automation where you let go of the touchpad it will just stay in that position until the movement picks up again
>>65058490
aaaaand now the editor has just decided to stop recognizing it altogether... i am getting very close to throwing this motherfucker out a window
>>65058617
and now it works again? korg stuff has always been so simple in my past experiences, this is fuckin weird as hell
>>65058617
What model is your kaoss pad?
>>65057718
oh fuck you're so right.
>>65059004
3, the original non-"+" one
Anyone knows of some good VSTs/samples/whatever for things like drumsticks being hit together, or hitting the rims of toms/snares/whatever?
There are a shitloads of packs for all sorts of percussions and drums out there but I can never find good drumsticks hits, for some reason.
any of you familiar with this midi controller?
any recs better than this with faders, knobs, and good pads for around $400?
>>65059073
just grab a used 49 key and get a separate controller with whatever combination of pads/knobs/faders... it'll probably come out to less than $400
>>65059275
any recs for something that is just pads, knobs, faders and etc?
>>65059031
I just checked the manual - you can transmit MIDI over the USB connection with that model.
From the manual:
>NOTE
If you connect the USB connector to your
computer and install the USB MIDI driver, the USB connection will transmit and receive the same MIDI messages as the MIDI connectors.
Install the USB MIDI driver and enable the kaoss pad as a MIDI device in Ableton MIDI preferences, choosing both "Track" and Remote" on both input and output ports - let us know what (if anything) changes.
>>65059309
Maschine
>>65039351
reminds me of this. what kind of wave did you use to make the bass?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ip79C4glyA
>>65037470
What program ya using?
https://clyp.it/vkdb1yss
feedback plea
>>65059329
well, i'm ATTEMPTING to do this, but for some god damn reason it's saying it requires a digitally signed driver when i try to install it on my production computer even though it installed on my laptop without problems and they're both windows 7
why is this such an odyssey of bullshit?
>>65048323
this is awesome
>>65060792
tried the previous driver versions and still no luck
i was such a huge korg fan but after today i just wanna mail them an envelope of my pubes
>>65048323
>https://clyp.it/hxa1vrb5
What someone else said, leave off the REHHH scratch at the end or replace with something else if you can
is it that my production computer isn't hooked up to the internet? is that what's fucking me up with these drivers?
>>65049930
>>65049973
>>65050003
>>65050011
>>65050054
>>65050063
>>65050088
>>65050275
>>65051871
>I can only count in even numbers
Nigger every damn DAW works that way
>>65061845
I feel for you anon. Software can be a real ball basher sometimes. Quite often something like this won't work and you can spend days wasting your time pulling your fucking hair out and you can try using it in another DAW and it works just fine.
My only advice is I'm sure someone else has had the same problem before you so maybe somewhere like gearslutz might have the answer?
How good is the reverbs on the Kaos pad? I've thought about getting one myself a few times but the whole thing kinda confuses me a bit.
>>65062335
i like the room and the hall reverb quite a bit, don't much care for the spring
>>65062335
>I'm sure someone else has had the same problem before you
you'd think so but for both the driver thing and the touchpad on/off messages fucking up the playback i'm getting fuck all trying to google around for it
>>65061762
Is your production computer running 64-bit Windows? 64-bit Windows tends to require signed drivers for everything - you might have to look at how to turn that requirement off.
A year old improv """"production"""" I found :^)
https://clyp.it/bgg444dt
>>65062569
it is, but so is my laptop that i successfully installed it on
i got nonsense for days sonnn
>>65062609
If your laptop came with Windows pre-installed as an OEM installation it might be the case that the signature requirement was already disabled by the manufacturer, so that they can slip unsigned drivers in.
that might be the case, i got it refurbushed from some discount electronics place
fuck it, i'm giving up for now. i've spent way too much of my day on this. i'll settle for using it as an external effect that automatically syncs to my daw's tempo for now.
i guess on the bright side i didnt run out and buy the extra midi cables i was gonna buy today for this...
>>65062754
whoops, meant to reply to >>65062666
>>65062754
It's a new day tomorrow and you now have a clear idea of what you need to try.
*Google "install unsigned drivers in Windows" and follow the instructions
*Install the drivers
*Test kaoss pad in Ableton as dedicated MIDI device
Do it tomorrow when you'll feel less like smashing the fucking thing.
>>65059530
ableton live and push as my midi controller
https://clyp.it/vdctbgu5
I'm just posting a short loop from my song. 2nd half adds synths.
Any suggestions what kind of snare I should use here? This one plain does not work. Maybe the hat also, idk.
who /autogun/ here
Recommended stringed instrument sample packs/libraries? Right now I'm looking for like, a nice deep and full upright bass sound.
>>65063263
>Enhances the phatness yet full but not too steep
... what?
>>65063993
yeah some of the descriptions for the different settings are nonsense
are there any free VSTs that are at least almost as good as massive or sylenth1?
>>65064246
>>65063263
>tfw you will never sound like mozart with more balls that sounds like a broken car battery
>>65064316
massive or sylenth... but for free
nah but serious answer? synth1 is something people keep talking about, some people use to recommend oatmeal but i havent heard anyone mention it in a while
Just copped a pair of Adam A7X monitors, best purchase i've ever made!
>>65064551
>buying shitty metalcore speakers
>>65064551
>150 watt
kek
>>65064476
I've used synth1 a couple times but i fucking suck with it, guess I'll give oatmeal a go
I've finally developed a habit of recording all sorts of stuff with the H2n in my bag, but now it's getting weird.
>holy shit this is amazing I should record this and
>oh wait.
>this is pasta sauce. It's a flavor, not a sound.
what do you suggest? i have krk 8s but they are on the way out
I'VE MADE ABOUT 10 RINGTONES ON MY DX-7 AND I WANT TO SELL THEM SO I DON'T STARVE CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF THIS IS POSSIBLE
>>65065240
I was joking brah.
>>65065051
welcome to the crazy, friend. it's been a bit lonely in here by myself lately!
i got my rig all setup ready to roll for tomorrow morning. i'm going out innawoods at about 4:30am to record the dawn. it's the most active time of day for wildlife, and getting out early is gonna be great. if i can record about 2hrs it's gonna be a beautiful gradual transition as the sun comes up. also note my new SJCAM (GoPro knockoff) strapped to the front. lot of deer and turkeys and maybe coyotes or bears roam about just before dawn, so as long as i bugger-off back to the house and leave the recorder out there alone some cool stuff might happen!
>>65065276
How much are you trying to get for them?
Anybody here ever buy from loop masters or the like but still own actual gear to design sounds and synths with?
>>65065329
can we hear some of your previous recordings?
>>65065434
mhm :3
https://www.youtube.com/mjcrecordingsaudio
>>65065276
Do people buy ringtones in 2016?
As a fellow povertyfag I hope for your sake they do.
I had a fucking bowl of cereal with no milk for breakfast and I won't be eating again until dinner, which is at least 8 hours from now.
is me >>65058297
well i said fudge it for now and got one with my track.
how does this sound so far?
https://clyp.it/w2q0d1xv
I've been working on an Ellie Goulding remix for a few days, Thoughts?
https://clyp.it/r10vlwgh
>>65065494
whats your story
>>65044752
in the works
>>65059477
You mean the mid basses/synths?
I made a basic wobble bass an duplicated it into a few tracks and tweeked all of them a little bit to make them sound different.
>>65037876
I only have personal experience using a scarlett 2i2 amd an Akai Eie Pro. In my case, the scarlett was faulty with my macbook pro...
The Akai is really durable and has all the qualities you may want
>>65065276
>>65065494
Check audio jungle I made a few bucks there bro, like 200€ in 2 years
bumpan' an otherwise healthy thread
blimp
just got ableton but dont wanna create music with all the sounds and instruments that came with it. Don't want to sound like everyone else or use the default shit. how can i make my own sounds? do i need to learn a synth?
>>65067324
download massive. its the best vst for learning cause its extremely easy to use and is well.. ya know..an extremely good synth
>>65067324
I don't blame you. I never use any of the preset devices or samples in any DAW.
A few of Ableton's default mixing devices are pretty good (EQ, compressor, multiband compressor), but beyond that you should just use 3rd party VSTs (plugins).
Look into synths like Serum, Massive, and Synplant. There are way more good ones out there, but those are all good for beginners.
For effects, there are hundreds of companies out there that make plugins, so you'll just have to do your own research and experiment with lots of things.
Don't rely on Internet forums for basic questions like this, though. You'll need to learn to be self-sufficient and autodidactic, otherwise you'll make no progress.
I don't know where I could go with this
https://clyp.it/vogluhzo
>>65067430
>>65067766
how do you use samples to create a synth? is it really as simple as taking a super small sample size and looping it? what i hate about doing that is you get the same sound no matter what sample is.
>>65056043
classical. sometimes unsual singer-songwriter tracks. Did one with microtones once.
used to make electronic /mixed media shit, and metal, and even produced a hip hop album when I was 18.
>>65066484
WutFace that spectrogram
Is there a /mu/ guide to production I can use?
>>65067963
You might be confusing some terminology. A synth is an instrument. You can't create an instrument out of samples.
Generally, samples and synths are completely unrelated. Some synths do allow you to import samples, which it uses as a source for generating sound; it usually changes the sample quite a bit. What you're referring to (tiny samples, or tiny pieces of samples, repeated) is called granular synthesis; re-sampling is also an option. But the most common form you'll use is subtractive synthesis.
>>65068352
>You can't create an instrument out of samples.
... yes you can
>>65068778
You can create a synth SOUND out of samples. You can't create a synth itself out of samples.
People often mix up "synth" with "synth patch" or "synth output".
I guess you could argue a wavetable synth is made out of wave cycle samples, maybe.
>>65068838
>People often mix up "synth" with "synth patch" or "synth output"
mmm semantics
>>65068927
Yeah I was being pedantic, I guess.
What are some production and composition techniques that Oneohtrix Point Never uses?
I'm brand new to this stuff so this is mostly just a guess, but here's what I think I've heard:
-Background noise and pads with subtle, quiet melodies and volume patterns
-Varying use of timing and syncopation
-Some loops are 1-2 beats shorter or longer than you'd expect given the time signature (like a 4 bar loop followed by a 5 bar loop followed by two 4 bar loops; or maybe I'm just incorrectly identifying the actual time signature)
-Sudden volume shifts
-Hypnotic loops that are very long, but somehow manage to not be long enough to bore the listener
-Almost no percussion, and very light in the low end
-Samples that usually aren't tuned or pitch shifted, or are only pitch shifted subtly
-Clever use of stereo imaging, with sounds moving around different parts of the head space regularly
-Loop layers that change out sync with one another other (maybe polyrhythmic?)
Anyone experienced able to confirm or deny some of this, or offer other info about his production? I find a lot of his tracks to be pretty unique, so I'm interested in his style.
I'd love to hear your opinions on this one, /prod/. Please.
https://clyp.it/lff5wkqx
>>65069461
Reverb is a bit too loud and muddying the mix somewhat. Cut the tail or reduce the wet %.
There are some other mix issues as well.
Definitely not a fan of the horns. They feel kitschy and vaguely dissonant. Are they tuned and in-key? Even if they are, I don't think they fit very well.
It also feels like it needs a top line melody, but otherwise, it sounds like it'd be a good backing track with mix improvements and the horns replaced in some way, IMO.
I'm not a musician but synthesizers are really interesting me and I want to get one to have fun with. I found the Volca beats, bass, and keys for $300 altogether, which seems like a pretty sweet deal, but I want the volca sample. So should I get the bundle or the sample plus keys/bass? or should I just get a microbrute or something? Thanks
>>65069632
No one can really answer that for you. Just watch videos of people playing all of those, and decide which you like best.
Generally speaking, it's good to have at least one "regular" keyboard synth. Keyboard playing is fundamental to most kinds of music. Volcas aren't really keyboards, even though some have chromatic keys.
So, you should probably get a Microbrute or another cheap-ish keyboard synth as your first or second synth. Then you can choose one or more Volcas, or some other sequencer synth.
>>65069609
Huh. Thanks, anon, I'll meditate on it.
Fun fact, the horns are actually ZUNpets.
>>65069632
Also part of the reason I wanted the volcas is so I could jam with friends
Anyone here own volcas? What do you think about them?
>>65069679
Yeah, the volcas definitely don't seem good for practicing keyboard. I know the notes but that's pretty much it so it would be good if I could practice that. Maybe I'll get the brute and the volca sample together, seems like a good compromise. Or I could get the volcas and a cheap midi keyboard.
>>65069871
Yes, 1-2 volcas and a MIDI keyboard would probably be ideal. At the moment the only gear I own is a Microbrute, Volca FM, and MIDI keyboard. And a cheap MIDI controller with knobs, for playing with VSTs.
I love my Microbrute, but it's overkill if you just want to learn to play keyboard. Plus, soft synths are arguably better and more versatile than the Microbrute, unless you're really looking for that specific warm analog sound (which no soft synth has ever been able to quite replicate perfectly, yet) or really like the interface.
>>65068258
please
i really want to get into making music
>>65069979
There's probably something on Reddit you could use, depending on what music you want to make. Not kidding
Does anyone know anything about the Korg X2? There's one on my craigslist for $125 but the disk drive's broken
>>65069995
Not him, but I wonder if anyone uses any particular mixing tips and tricks here. I'm not too experienced, so I just slap an equalizer on everything and cut the freqs on some instruments and boost them on others.
Then I slap a Maximus on master, boost them bands and give lows a max stereo merge and a max separation for highs.
'Cause I'm a jackass like that.
>>65069871
>Or I could get the volcas and a cheap midi keyboard.
i'd go with that over the microbrute/volca sample
it's a barebones synth that costs a lot because it's analog and a sampler that doesnt actually sample
Just figured out that volca deal was EU shipping only, so I can't do that. Still considering volcas though. Here's the link https://www.absolutemusic.co.uk/korg-volca-beats-bass-and-keys-bundle.html#
>>65070223
>a sampler that doesnt actually sample
Elaborate please
>>65068961
Just plug a synth into your computer and record yourself fucking around on it, and release it to acclaim
>>65070461
I know you're joking, but R+7 and beyond, he does some really complex shit. Replica to some extent, too.
Each individual synth layer sounds like it's just semi-improvised playing, but the overall mix is really rich.
>>65070494
OPN is what happens when a gearhead tries to be a musician
Just read through this thread and the majority of you sound so impatient and moronic.
Read the manuals of what you use and put time into understanding how it works. If you don't want to do that then just go back to playing computer games.
I bet half of you who posted clips stopped working on what you wanted critiqued already.
Have any of you actually signed any records? Or been producing for over a year?
>>65070649
What don't you like about him? Have you heard all of his work?
His latest album was almost purely ITB.
>>65070673
I'm being a little hard on him. Its better that his album exists than not. I liked one of them, but it does feel like the good parts are totally accidents
>>65070782
You should consider trying to get into him a bit more. He's stated that while Replica was basically random experimenting, R+7 and GoD were meticulously planned beforehand. R+7 had some random MIDI triggering, so some parts are accidental, but GoD didn't.
And regardless, even if some of the composition itself is accidental, the post-processing definitely isn't.
>>65067324
>>65067766
What I find really annoying is all the shit that comes with these daws and the way there is no option to not install all this shit!
I have Komplete Ultimate and it fucking drives me crazy the amount of shit that comes with it and the fact that it all shows up in Maschine along with the thousands of plugin presets.
I've tried deleting them but it's a fucking nightmare as they are everywhere.
>>65070290
>>65069632
I have the Volca bass and sample. I really like both. My advice would be to get the sample over the beats, I have my sample loaded up with 4 classic drum machines (you could load yours up with all the Volca beats samples if you wanted) which makes it pretty flexible as a drum machine and also good for other stuff too. I'm actually thinking of getting a second one as I like them so much.
>a sampler that doesn't actually sample
The sample doesn't have any physical inputs so you can't plug a microphone or any other sound source into it to sample from. All the samples need to be loads onto it from either your phone, tablet or computer. This seems to get a lot of people red with rage but it's actually no problem at all. Editing samples inside the actual Volca would be a real cunt anyway so sampling on your computer, editing and transferring them to the Volca works well for me, besides its a £100 sampler so what do people expect!
If you actually want to play the synths then get some kind of controller I use a pad based one but a control keyboard would be better, or even a old synth should work as a controller.
Also Absolute music is my local music shop!
>>65071150
I never did install the Logic factory content. After you have kontakt there just isn't any point.
>>65070667
>Just read through this thread and the majority of you sound so impatient and moronic.
it is 4 chan after all.
>Have any of you actually signed any records? Or been producing for over a year?
I've been on a couple of compilations and played a live show in London about 10 years ago...been producing for nearly 20 years now!
I rarely post my music here or online, but I come here often to help out the impatient morons with their silly questions. I like it here.
>>65071429
>I never did install the Logic factory content. After you have kontakt there just isn't any point.
No same here. My sample library is getting quite big now but my actual source sounds for making that library are pretty small. I can never understand all these huge library's. I've sat and gone through pretty much every sample and synth preset in ultimate now and at most I'd use a couple of drum kits, a couple of bass sounds and a couple of keyboard and pad sounds. The rest can go in the bin.
Last year I decided to cut my own personal sample library rhat I've been building up over the last 10 years plus right down to the best samples I have and decided no more than 16 samples in each category 16 kicks, 16 snares, 16 hats, 16 basses etc might do that again next time I have a week or 2 spare.
>>65038989
actually start showing friends/senpai your stuff, you'd be surprised what sounds great to the untrained ear.
>>65071423
i have the volca bass/sample. i too am pretty happy with them.
i recently bought an akai tom cat on a whim. figured i'd fuck with it, throw some pedals on it, whatever. if i hate it i'll sell it. (bought it using my ex's credit lol)
i'm trying to get a legit drum machine tho.. looking at the korg esx or an akai mpc 2500 or 1000
ideally i'd want to get my hands on a tempest or an elektron but those are kinda of a luxury.
anybody recommend or have some insight on a good or one of these sample drum machines???
please don't recommend one of those meme software drum machines like what arturia and native instruments offer. they're awful and they look like toys.
nothing beats analog
>>65071730
btw i know the tom cat doesn't upload samples ;)
>>65071730
I guess a MPC would fit that well. I'd be tempted by the Roland TR-8 myself
I have no st1 output in the ableton side of kontakt. I have aux and unassigned and sometime surr but I just can't get it to record. Any thoughts?
>>65072416
What exactly are you trying to do? Your explanation is very vague.
Do you have a multi output instrument loaded into Kontakt that you are trying to record into Ableton?
>>65072416
Use the aux ones. I had the same problem last week
>>65072940
..as in st1 (Kontakt side) to aux kontakt 1 (on the ableton side)
>>65071730
>nothing beats analog
It's 2016, man. That analog meme died a couple years back.
>>65071730
why would you want an ESX or MPC if you want analog stuff? Those are not analog whatsoever.
>>65071730
FI you're on ableton why wouldn't you get a launchpad, you can do it all on that
>>65072937
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/support/knowledge-base/show/994/how-to-route-kontakt-5-to-multiple-outputs-in-ableton-live/
i tried doing that but the st1 in ableton is nowhere to be found no matter what i do. also how dio i
> Note: If you do not see the KONTAKT outputs listed in the field as shown above, please remove the Kontakt 5 16out plug-in, then reload it to your Ableton Live instrument track and repeat the steps in this tutorial.
>>65072940
for some reason it tells me to restart every instrument.
the problem is that i really want to get into ableton because i am having some issues with FL [new to this whole DAW thing]
>>65073522
*do
>>65073522
>>65073546
i am just pissed
>>65072953
>>65072940
Should i leave this like that or will i have problems in the future?
>>65073662
In the pic that box comes up by depressing the 1/2 button on the kontakt output channel what does yours say?
>>65073662
>>65074121
>>65074161
well i can tell you that it doesnt say st1. that siad i dont knw what the problem is even though i can get some sound via the surr thingy [dont jnow what that is either]
https://clyp.it/2isj3ws3
new thing i did, r8 or h8, i'd appreciate it
doesn anyone know why i cant record a whole pattern in FL? (it cuts abruptly)
https://clyp.it/nuor1rpq
>>65074213
And this is what I have on the 2nd channal - you don't need to mess around with the in/outs of the channel strip in ableton, that's probably whats confusing the path
>>65074226
dude that was seriously off key and not in a "it's off key but that's what makes it interesting" kind of way but in a "it's off key and slowly kills my soul" kind of way
>>65074247
>https://clyp.it/2isj3ws3
too many sounds that are overlapping. either clean things out or redo your mix.
sorry
>>65074257
i suppose it is, how can i unfuck it though? the reason why it sounds so dissonant is probably because i aranged the piano parts in triads to make them sound beefier, but it didn't work out so well.
