It took me about 4-5 years.
I originally came into this knowing NOTHING about making music on my own or even electronic music for that matter.

It took a lot of hard work, time and money to get where I am. It's pretty amazing that I am here considering how easily I give up on hard things haha.

This is something I just made. I'm not sure where to go with it I'd love some feedback! Or if anyone wants to work with me on it that would be kewl.

Sounds good to me, but don't throw that out cavalier. Someone else's input may ruin/change the original idea you had. Be careful what you wish/ask for. Some people don't work well with others.

Technically the synth is more than capable of producing the majority of sounds available from subtractive synthesis. Look at what Dance was made with originally, with the likes of the Bellefield Three and 808 State using cheap old kit like the SH101 and DX100 and learning the fuck out of it. Coupled with a good sampling instrument, you've a huge sonic palette already.

It's easy to get too hung up with Pokemon collect-em-all with plug ins!

To be fair, you remember how huge pokemon was and still is?

so you wrote your bassline, added a synth, sylenth or massive or whatever,

you need a sub underneath all that so it sounds nice and good for the ears, basically you just need to duplicate the same notes to your sub channel, you need to eq it with a high cut at around 300hz i think, you must have compression and sidechaining

this is the most basic technique, there are more advanced techniques where you can start mixing things up with the notes...with amazing effect, i've heard it a lot in the electro house stuff..

if you are adding sub for your leads, you can put the sub bass notes at the 2nd lowest note of your leads,
say your leads start at G1, then layered into G2, then put the sub bass notes on your G2

You have your sub go up to 300hz? Shit. I cut around 150 and layer a mid level bass from 150 to 2k.

Quote from: Xan on January 26, 2016, 10:38:37 pm

You trying to be Porter Robinson too?

They're expensive, that's all I know. Seem not that hard to use.

Haha I guess you could say that. I can't personally sing nor do I have the equipment to record so this seems like the logical next step. And being around $60 USD doesn't seem too bad for a VST, so I'm debating whether I should even bother.

I've seen more than that. Really, the expensive comes with buying the specific vocaloid 'packs'.

I like Massive better if I had to choose only 1.
Followed by Serum
Then sylenth.

He's talking about this: http://www.razerzone.com/store/gaming-systems
they have different models and if you know what you are doing you can take apart most laptops (be careful of course) and upgrade ram and ssds yourself.
It's a PC and probably one of, if not, the best windows based production laptop out there, I would say if you are into Macs a lot of producers use them as well but depends on your operating system preference.
I personally hate laptops with a passion, so I built my computer and sacrificed portability for infinite cpu and ram! Most people are on the go though and laptops are extremely versatile so there is a definite tradeoff.

I am going desktop. I agree with you, I hate laptops.

Interesting. Moody and atmospheric.