Quote from: Joseph on January 06, 2016, 07:05:02 am

soundcloud track check is a chrome extension that tells you the key and bpm of a track (100% accurate)

I'm intrigued.. I thought key detection software was still pretty imperfect. Whatever Beatport uses seems to get it wrong at least a third of the time.

Yeah, nothing is 100% accurate except your ear. Especially when it comes to major vs minor (Beatport is terrible about this).

Vengeance loves using too much compression on everything, so I guess there's your answer?

This thread is yelling for this:
I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I then thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. I then thought that programming it was cheating, so I learned to play drums for real. I then thought using bought drums was cheating, so I learned to make my own. I then thought using premade skins was cheating, so I killed a goat and skinned it. I then thought that that was cheating too, so I grew my own goat from a baby goat. I also think that is cheating, but I’m not sure where to go from here. I haven’t made any music lately, what with the goat farming and all.

-unknown

A copypasta in a thread about pre-made midi. Can we just stop for a second and appreciate what just happened?

Look at it like this: pre-made elements make a pre-made track. If you're buying anything canned from someone else, be they samples, presets, or melodies, that's one less possible way to make your track sound different from all the others, and considering how saturated EDM is, you've got a lot of competition already. Canned melodies might be "good enough", but they're never preferable to doing it yourself.

Right, but when two sub frequencies are out of tune, you can hear the beats from when they come in and out of sync. That's where the mud comes from.
Listen to a typical trap beat. Trap kicks make a point of only having one sub frequency going at a time. You get a nice clean sine wave that you can bump in your car. Then, compare that to this. That sub kick's made from two detuned subs, and you get a nice wash of noise (except they did it deliberately).

Going back to the OP, maybe not if I had to deal with a family and make every note count, but imo music doesn't always need a "purpose". Sometimes music is the purpose, just testing what you can do in a DAW and making something that sounds cool.

Thanks for the mention, man! When I saw this post I thought I'd contribute, but looks like a lot of people covered it.

(fangirl squeeing)

Making music is, in a way, an ability that allows us to transcend past this fleshy shell that we are encased in. I think you're alluding to translating your thoughts and concentrating them into sounds that are synonymous with the person you are at that moment in time.

A bit too philosophical for me, but I get what you're saying.

Not just your thoughts, but the human experience. People like music they can relate to. The best songs are the ones that can reach out into the listener, find something inside them, and dig it up. This goes for fiction too; even if your fictional universe has giant robots and magic lasers and yellow rats that shoot lightning, if the characters are believable, and they go through real struggles and deal with them like normal people would, it'll have an emotional impact.

One of my favorite albums of all time, Skyforger by Amorphis, is set in pre-christian Finland. I've never even been to Finland. But it deals with some very real themes, like finding your limits, and never being satisfied with your own work. The music is great, but it's the lyrics, which in turn inspire the music, that make it universal. And if you let your life seep into the music, you won't even need lyrics.