Thanks for your suggestions. And also thanks for reminding me that ReWire exists! Depending on how much I enjoy doing stuff in Ableton I might actually switch to it because I'll be able to have the best of both worlds! Thanks again!

I'm not sure if you thought he meant you can run Harmor via ReWire, or if you just remembered about ReWire, but you can run Harmor without having to ReWire FL into Ableton. It does come in VST format, some of your other favorite plugins from FL might too, you should check on the image-line site!

One trick I've learned is humming your beat into your microphone directly to your DAW. Then you can place the drums according. I always beat box random beats while I'm going about my day. Once you've got the drums all down in midi I would recommend messing with the velocity.

If you don't really have a clue where to place drums at all; I would recommend you just listen to more music with drums you'd like to produce. Even listening to songs with drums you would never consider using is helpful to get your creativity flowing.

Cool tip, may have to try this as well! And +1 on the velocity, can really help a basic sequence of drums, same with panning!

Quote from: Heisenburgerz on January 22, 2016, 07:23:59 pm

Yeah, I get what you're trying to say. Should I have an eq on the master channel(not to actually EQ), but just to see where all the frequency ranges are peaking and where I have free space? Would that be considered a normal technique to do? lol

That's fine, but another option would be to grab a spectral analyzer. Most DAWs have one built in, and a very popular free one is Voxengo's SPAN.

+1 on SPAN, lot's of people like using SPAN & the fact that it's free makes it that much better!

I find myself doing it in spurts at times. I'll get a good section laid down, then go back & try to tweak up everything a bit, continue on, do it again, then at the end run back through everything & touch up on anything that needs it.

Quote from: matthewharrison on January 22, 2016, 12:04:44 am

Lots of emphasis on EQ here, I did see one post saying something about sound selection, that's going to be one of the most important parts. If the sound doesn't work to begin with, no amount of EQ is going to help fix that issue. All I ever remember reading about was EQ, but I never knew the importance of sound choice to begin with, and without proper sound choice EQ was not helping my matters.

To me the most important this is the right sounds to begin with.

By sound selection you mean choosing a sample with good sound quality?

Not exactly, sure you want good quality samples, but say you're layering a kick or clap/snare, some samples may just sound bad together, so picking the right ones to make a good kick or clap/snare is important. Even sequencing drums, not everything is going to work well together, picking the right samples for your sequence to work well is important.

I was more so talking about the whole mix in general though. Say you have a drop with a good lead going on but you want to add more elements, this is where you have to watch for what part of the frequency spectrum the new elements are most dominant, you want to be sure the sounds you are using are not going to over power or drown out your lead. If there's part of the spectrum you're trying to fill, use something that fills that part of the spectrum, don't throw any old synth in there & EQ it to fill that specific part.

Having a hard time trying to explain it, but hopefully that helps a little bit hah

Only gear you should need is a laptop & headphones or monitors and you should be able to get going. Plenty of software to do the rest!

Only spent a couple days on this, was kind of just a project to take a break from my other ones, not doing any more with it so it's up for free download now, enjoy!