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Sound Design / Re: what are some tutorial videos for explaining how to make sounds?
« on: May 01, 2016, 07:38:18 pm »
Instead of calling me a dickbutt, you could have checked google and done some homework. Or maybe opened up your DAW and listen to a saw wave and a sine wave, since literally every single synthesizer is capable of producing them. Put a spectral analyzer on top of it and look at what shows up.

The fundamentals are literally everywhere, why aren't you taking the initiative and finding it yourself?

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Sound Design / Re: Diplo Snares
« on: May 01, 2016, 05:26:54 pm »
These are pretty standard latin-style snares. Major Lazer (which is more than just Diplo) is a Dancehall group, so you're not gonna find their sounds in your typical EDM sample pack. Reggae/ton, Dembow, Cumbia, Dancehall, Moombahton - those are the keywords you should be searching for in your sample packs.

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Sound Design / Re: what are some tutorial videos for explaining how to make sounds?
« on: May 01, 2016, 05:17:22 pm »
You could have just looked at all the other treads on this forum instead of making a new thread asking for the most vague, broad spectrum thing possible.

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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Ableton help
« on: April 30, 2016, 09:09:40 pm »
To elaborate a bit more, there's a setting in Ableton's preferences as to how it scans your audio files. Under Record/WarpLaunch, the "Auto-Warp long samples" option defaults to on. If you want to do the warping yourself, you'd want to disable this.

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Samples/Plugins/Software/Gear / Re: How do i know what key my kick is in???
« on: April 30, 2016, 01:50:10 pm »
If you're a DJ and have Mixed In Key, you can also import all your samples and search them by key that way.

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Sound Design / Re: HOW TO MAKE THIS REVERB TAIL REVERSE
« on: April 30, 2016, 01:48:51 pm »
Yeah, just make a stab out of whatever sound you want the reverb tail on, record or flatten/bounce that to audio and reverse it.

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Sound Design / Re: Tips For Making Your Own Beats
« on: April 29, 2016, 05:42:39 pm »
Have to parrot how important learning theory is, at least for getting to the higher levels of production. The best producers either know theory extensively themselves, or know enough music theory to communicate to someone else who does know music theory what they want. Chtulhu does a lot of Deadmau5's theory work for him - thanks to Steve Duda. Diplo hires songwriters and works with other producers (we could argue over whether or not he's "really" making the tracks later) to account for what he's lacking. If you're not making good friends with someone who knows theory or paying money for someone specifically trained in theory, you're gonna hit a wall in your success.

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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Mobile phones dont seem to showcase the same sound as my studio monitors do
« on: April 28, 2016, 02:32:43 pm »
Ableton's Utility effect has a stereo imager built in - pull it to your master, drag the 100% at the bottom of the effect window to 0% and boom. Instant mono.

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Composition/Arrangement/Theory / Re: What is Drumstep & what is the structure it follows?
« on: April 28, 2016, 05:12:41 am »
I suggest going onto Mixcloud and listening to a bunch of mixes with the Drumstep hashtag to check out for yourself, genres are really hard to describe in words - and are imo going to become meaningless in the next few decades.

That being said, it's honestly better thought of as drum and bass in halftime than dubstep at drum and bass tempo, because it came out of the DNB scene, not out of Dubstep. Beyond that, the people who spin the songs are gonna have the most options - find tracks stand out, go buy them, and deconstruct them!

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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: DJing
« on: April 28, 2016, 05:01:38 am »
Quote from: Lydian on April 27, 2016, 08:00:05 am
I recall a porter robinson or zedd interview in which they said their first show they DJ'd with traktor and the mouse... Not really sure how that worked out.



Traktor has native keybindings on the keyboard. Learn those, DJ without decks.

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Composition/Arrangement/Theory / Re: getting stuck in the drop
« on: April 27, 2016, 01:36:33 am »
Instead of listening to some dubstep, actually listen to dubstep.

Pick 3 songs from each of those artists and bring them all into your DAW. Start examining them one by one and study how the drops work. Use empty MIDI clips to mark off the different sounds in the drop. Every drum hit, every bass shot, every background sound. While you're at it, see if you can figure out what happens for the rest of the song.

I promise by the time you're done with all 12 you'll never get stuck building a drop again.

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Sound Design / Re: Big room stabs
« on: April 26, 2016, 04:28:48 am »
Or you could just hire a ghost producer like the people you linked to do. ;)

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Mixing/Mastering / Re: "High Resolution Audio"
« on: April 24, 2016, 05:19:14 pm »
Whenever I have the option, yes. The larger the speaker and the higher the dB SPL, the more obvious the degradation, particularly in the high end.

Will the drunk, high, or rolling people notice? Probably not. Will the sober people? Maybe, but with how few people seem to wear ear protection at these events that could change. ;) But you'll definitely start to notice, and I think it's worth it in the long term to invest in something that won't risk being accentuated by a FoH limiter or a DJ Mixer's effects/EQ knobs.

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Mixing/Mastering / Re: "High Resolution Audio"
« on: April 24, 2016, 03:06:42 pm »
You misinterpreted what they were talking about. From their own website:



Nothing has changed in the industry. .mp3s and .m4as are still the same compressed formats they've always been, and are still the most popular formats for commercial distribution of music. The average ear cannot usually tell the difference between a 320 kbps .mp3 and a lossless .wav file playing the same data, because the sound isn't being pushed through powerful enough speakers. That's why Sony is offering these "Hi-Res" audio devices, which are basically just amplifiers or self-amplified devices that -can- produce the type of sonic clarity that will even notice a difference.

My personal library of music is a pretty fair distribution of mp3, m4a, mp4 and WAV/FLAC/AIFF files and even I would be hard pressed to listen to a song and be able to tell you definitively whether or not it was a compressed or lossless format just on a cold listen. I only purchase lossless when I'm able to make sure I don't have any problems when I'm DJing, but until they figure out how to compress audio without any degradation of quality mp3s are here to stay.

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You Might Like... / Linkin Park - Session
« on: April 24, 2016, 04:19:41 am »
Youtube Link, cuz Soundcloud Go is balls.

I'm sure I might get some hate for this, but I saw this posted on Reddit earlier and it hit me with a burst of nostalgia so I wanted to share.

Ain't no shame in it. :P

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