I've never heard of this one before to be honest, but it looks quite interesting. Thanks for the share, I may not have much knowledge on it but its cool to know it exists.

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A lot of the time when starting a new track I'll have tons of ideas to try out but not tons of time. So I sometimes do this if anything really sticks out to me that I want to remember.



I think that is particularly the effort needed to draw the MIDI stuff in that helps it all click, but idk just wanted to share.

General Effect / Mix + Master for me goes to Madeon

Songwriting / Composition goes to Haywyre

Soundesign for me is either going to be Tennyson or Virtual Riot

The Logic X built-in synths Alchemy (originally made by Camel Audio) and Sculpture are fantastic.

Magical8bitPlug is a killer 8bit-era softsynth and is super easy to use

Native Instruments Reaktor is an absolute beast at digital modular synthesis.

Serum and Massive are both respectively very excellent wavetable synths, each with their own outstanding features such as serums custom wavetables and massive's fluid routing.

I don't own FL studio but I know many who do, and from what I've seen harmor is on a level of its own, handling all kinds of wonderful sounds with such ease and it has great flexibilty.

Other really good ones you should check out are Omnisphere, Absynth, FM8, IRIS 2, and Sylenth1.

I third this idea!

I'm more into creating my own sounds but IMO sometimes presets can be useful when I get a creative block or if I want to learn how a certain sound is made, and then fooling around with it to get a new sound

This is basically what I do; I look for a placeholder sound to toy around with musical ideas, and then from there I like to create more deliberate, detail-specific sounds.

For me it depends on what kind of mood my pad is trying to help fill.
From there decides what the actual midi structure will look like and the tone of the harmonics.

On softer pads I like to use very dark sources w/ maybe +7 semi a little quieter than the root and then make it ring out with some reverb.

Harder pads tend to move a lot more than the dark ones and I will often balance the oscillators with ROOT about on a +7 and a quarter on a +14 semi. Usually the sound stays pretty close to the original oscillator (minimal filtering) but I do like to play with detune and voicing here. I often might add a plate reverb to brighten the sibilance area a smidge and almost certainly always layer pads together for large parts.

For me it isn't always about how incredibly unique a sound is, but rather how well it fits. Sometimes crazy pad design works well, but never doubt the minimalistic choices, too.

I've tested out the BX5 D2s and I thought they were pretty good for their size and price range, however they didn't impress me as much as the JBL LSR305s which are the same price range.