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WIPs / Re: dubstep drop trying some bass :O
« on: February 04, 2016, 02:13:43 pm »
Sounds not bad. Could do some cool things with this if you add some variations and some other sounds.
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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: Starting from scratch, what areas to address
« on: February 04, 2016, 02:11:58 pm »
Be prepared to fail a lot and often. It took me 3+ years to get where I'm at now and I'm still growing/learning.
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Composition/Arrangement/Theory / Re: MIDI vs Audio
« on: February 04, 2016, 02:10:50 pm »That being said, a great workflow to develop is bouncing and resampling so you can jump back and forth between audio and MIDI. Make your basic idea in MIDI, then bounce it all to audio so you can do fine tuned editing, then adding more MIDI to add more polish and detail, bouncing that, etc.
thisthisthisthisthis. ever since i started doing everything in audio, my life got so much easier and my workflow became way less headache-inducing.
Whenever I'm finished a track, I bounce everything to audio and cut reverb tails/general clean up or artifacts. This makes the mix so much cleaner. I can then use the audio and warp it, resample it or destroy it to create new sounds and effects.
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Sound Design / Re: Tips on making fills
« on: February 04, 2016, 04:34:17 am »
syncopated rythmns.
Turn off the grid when making em.
Turn off the grid when making em.
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Sound Design / Re: What are some techniques you use to make your supersaws bigger?
« on: February 03, 2016, 02:01:06 am »I told my lil' supersaw to drink a glass of milk everyday so he would grow of big.Do you sport with it? Because I showel a bottle of milk down my supersaw's throat every single day and it doesn't get bigger. It gets fatter, lazier, depressed about bass being more strong and punchy, but it just won't get bigger.
Worked for me.
Get his fat ass to the gym then.
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Sound Design / Re: Panning
« on: February 02, 2016, 06:42:54 pm »
I pan my drums all the time. Typically I don't go any higher than 25L or R.
But it gives the feeling of a real drum kit.
I'll keep kick mono.
Snare, I'll create some top end width for anything above 10hz.
I'll usually have 2 crashes. One panned to each side
Hi hats panned to the left. Ride panned to the left.
Toms panned to the right at varying degrees.
When doing complextro type synths or dubstep, panning is helpful for adding a flow or swing to the sounds coming in and out.
But it gives the feeling of a real drum kit.
I'll keep kick mono.
Snare, I'll create some top end width for anything above 10hz.
I'll usually have 2 crashes. One panned to each side
Hi hats panned to the left. Ride panned to the left.
Toms panned to the right at varying degrees.
When doing complextro type synths or dubstep, panning is helpful for adding a flow or swing to the sounds coming in and out.
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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: what are non electronoc music you listen to ?
« on: February 02, 2016, 12:35:32 pm »
The Dear Hunter.
Really should be required listening for any musician. They are just so goddamn talented.
Really should be required listening for any musician. They are just so goddamn talented.
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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: dissapointments and frustrations
« on: February 02, 2016, 12:34:23 pm »
I have found that failure is the key to success.
If you do not try and fail, you never learn.
If you do not try and fail, you never learn.
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Sound Design / Re: What are some techniques you use to make your supersaws bigger?
« on: February 02, 2016, 12:21:46 pm »
I told my lil' supersaw to drink a glass of milk everyday so he would grow of big.
Worked for me.
Worked for me.
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Finished Tracks / Re: SUTT'N - Roaming|Progressive House
« on: February 01, 2016, 07:31:36 pm »
Feels very muted to me. Like it's missing some shine on the top end.
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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Mixing: Adding Power and EQing Kicks
« on: January 29, 2016, 07:23:59 pm »
Who is edmtunes?
1. Look at your wave form. Very dynamic. You can probably compress that and get everything punchier sounding
2. Your kick is so low in volume. Like super low.
1. Look at your wave form. Very dynamic. You can probably compress that and get everything punchier sounding
2. Your kick is so low in volume. Like super low.
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Sound Design / Re: Madeon - The City
« on: January 29, 2016, 05:27:04 pm »
Well kudos for acknowledging the fact that we have a ton of madeon and future bass threads.
Having said that, you're pretty close. It doesn't have as much swing as the original, but it's better than I could do.
Having said that, you're pretty close. It doesn't have as much swing as the original, but it's better than I could do.
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WIPs / Re: Little piece i made at night
« on: January 29, 2016, 03:54:27 pm »
Good chord seq, good atmosphere. Good start.
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WIPs / Re: Protanopia WIP
« on: January 29, 2016, 03:51:53 pm »
Cool bass sound. You could do some cool things with this.
It has a good stock, now throw in some spices!
It has a good stock, now throw in some spices!
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Composition/Arrangement/Theory / Re: How can I make my progressions and chords in general more interesting?
« on: January 29, 2016, 03:49:16 pm »Absolutely nothing wrong with starting to write a song like that in my opinion. When you have that spine, you can start to vary the chords inside the bars by
* creating inversions with the bassline: for example, say you have a progression IV-I in C major, so there's one bar of F and one of C. In the first bar, instead of using just a whole note F in the bass, write F (half note) A (half note), or even F (whole note) A(quarter note) B(quarter note), so you get a little melodic line in the bass.
* thinking of the highest voice in your chord progression as a melody line. You can later move this to another instrument if you like, or just keep it in the pad/piano/whatever as a sort of counter-melody.
* "visiting" other chords during the bar: let's say you have that two-bar IV-I chord progression. Inside the first bar, you could write a small sub-progression IV-I6 (so in C you'd have an E in the bass)-IV
* varying the rhythm. The chord doesn't have to change on the first beat!
Also, check out the other threads on this forum about the topic, I think there's already a lot of good info about the theory behind chord progressions.
What this guy said: typically it's all about the rhythm of your piece that really gives it the swing you're looking for.
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