I have so many favourite synths, but I'll just list the ones I use regularly:

Serum
FM8
Massive
Sylenth
Absynth
Alchemy
Razor
Tal-U-No

I actually said "we should make a vocoder" at the (kilohearts) office today. If anyone has good opinions on what a vocoder should contain, hit me up.

YES! A talkbox style one like the mda one but not as annoying to route and more options and better sound would be amazing. Please make this happen!

I have a frequency analyzer, that's it

That was porter's lead sound, and I can't remember exactly what was done, but you can make it in pretty much any synth. A saw and pulse/square wave together plus a bit of chorus and vibrato and a LP filter envelope with a slow decay. The processing was pretty simple too I think, just a bit of reverb under some multiband compression and maximizing with maybe a touch of bitcrushing.

For the time being, we're letting people connect on other parts of the forum and gain some mutual respect, and then if people want to collab they can always DM each other. We're just afraid of a section like this becoming too impractical, cus collabing is a very private thing between two or more producers who've already spent time getting familiar with eachother's methods and ideas.

Quote from: Xyroid on January 08, 2016, 06:17:51 am

I don't know how to mix the kick and subbass

What I'm doing is I'm using the sidechain compression method

How about the EQ? from what hz range should the kick be where it doesn't clash with the subbass, or how should the subbass be eq'd

As Mat mentioned,really quick sidechaining , but that isn't always getting good enough results .The best way I find is actually cutting a hole in the element I want ducking and tailoring the volume curve to the curve of the kick/whatever I want prominent for that split second .I also look at a bus with both sources going to that and make sure I manage to keep the volume about the same as when the kick/snare goes by itself to maximise headroom overall .A loud,punchy mix is made on the channels,not the master .-TeeBee

Do you have any tips on getting rid of sidechaining clicks? this is something thats always bugged me

We've been trying to come up with a quantifiable system for how we decide who gets verified, but to no avail. The problems we have are these:

1. We can't make it about how many followers you have, because there are artists who have acclaim, but not a lot of followers
2. We can't make it only about if you've been signed or have had releases, because there are acclaimed artists who have the respect of top industry people, but aren't necessarily signed yet.
3. For other industry people, like bloggers for example, it's extremely hard to say which blogs have notoriety and which ones don't.

For now it's going to have to be on a case by case basis, but this thread is for discussing what the criteria should be

No that I think about it, my brother. My brother used to play around with 'coolmixpro' (i cant remember exactly what it was called) in the late 90s and I would sit and watch. I got my own computer when I was 11 and started making general midi versions of Daft Punk tracks and stuff, eventually trying to do my own compositions. It was Daft Punk ultimately who inspired me to start making electronic music though