https://vocaroo.com/18wKTgWsZsXD
jazzy loop

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WWWWHAT'S GOOD LARPERS

back with some more nostalgia bait (2023) sent the midi over to my HARDWARE (massive x and the 909 for the single effect in the whole song KEK) this one might sneak it's way in

https://vocaroo.com/1bQ22kQqBQqs

>>130784357
tnx nigga senpai 部長
very nice いいね

>>130784665
why do people keep talking to me like this who do you think i am wtf

>>130784698
>why do people
excuse me, I'm not the guy with multiple personalities. there is only one me.

/prod/ is a psyop to keep me sleeping i'm actually a famous musician already she's going to wake up any second now. MIA and Diplo poisoned me for saying current music actually doesn't suck and it didn't peak in the late 2000s (seriously who the fuck grows up in the 90s and ends up thinking that lmao) i can't imagine being that successful and still becoming bitter wtf is their problem

til you can hotkey the metronome that’s crazy

Shit I just realized all this time I’ve spent re-writing and mixing old poorly arranged tracks could have been monetized on Youtube as a series.
I’m not a real business minded minded musician.
Not a true capitalist. NGMI…

anyone got good guides on making guitar vsts sound as realistic as possible? i use ample and shreddage, yes i know they generally pale compared to the real thing but virtual guitars are all i have and i have heard really good stuff from others using them. but i cant understand a single thing about how to make them sound 'realistic', keyswitching and stuff goes over my head and i don't really get the functions like the strummer and riffer in ample. anyone know of any good tutorials that explain it to me like im retarded?

>>130784911
i collabed with kanye west

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_9vLu_stQ8
he's calling you preamp deniers. Pre-Anon

>>130786054
you watch too much youtube

>>130786173
you hide from the truth

>>130786265
i do not seek out false profits to shelter me from my own ineptitude or to make sense of the world.
you scurry to and fro all day bleeting somebody else’s words for nothing. (((they))) won’t save you.
so, which beast shall you worship?
it is not hidden behind your computer screen.

>>130786313
you're delusional lmfao you think you know shit but you deny basic things like that classic era artists used pitch correction just because they didn't have cartoonish robotic autotune that snaps to the notes. you believe that there's nothing special about preamps but doctor luke specifically fell in love with chandler tg2 which is based on an abbey road preamp as used by goated artists the beatles and pink floyd. now many of the other successful producers use chandler tg2 as well.

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i use auto tune purely for the effect not because i can't sing in tune

>>130786425
even in 2026 you can't really find a single person (let alone four people or two if you only count the girls) who can sound like ABBA. only a handful of artists like sabrina carpenter can do something similar while hiring the most elite producers to manufacture the sound. your music doesn't sound very good at all and that's why you're not successful, it's not your cope excuses like not having a marketing budget etc

>>130786457
how is that relevant to what i posted

>>130786470
you think you can sing in tune but no one at the big record labels is chasing you down for your talents lmfao. you're delusional little bro

>>130786481
a lot of people can sing in tune who aren't big artists. it's not really even that hard unless you're completely tone deaf

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https://vocaroo.com/1l4SkyffCn4M

What do u think of this so far. is it horse shit? de(bating) if i should flesh it out into a real song or not.

>>130786564
I clicked because of you image expecting something like Ace Combat or a shmup and it was definitely the right call; good stuff.
The autist side of me also wants to point out that songs are generally pieces of music with words that are sung (b-b-but Mendelson's songs without words...) ssshhhhhhh

>>130786552
so what's stopping you from being successful like ABBA, when you can sing in tune and your focusrite scarlett sounds as good as a neve etc

the irony of insinuating that someone else is tone deaf when you're the one who doesn't appreciate nuances in how great artists sound better than mediocre artists

>>130786564
glitch effects in the beginning sound cool

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIafcHhrAVU
for /dmp/, remaking this in style of deftones/incubus/chevelle/butt rock. current progress, levels are all over the place but you get the idea
https://voca.ro/1jczIWoOHBZM
issue is I can't sing so i had to use a (non ai) synth singer because i changed some melodies and lyrics. my voice is more for cash and townes and stuff like that..im not sure whether to keep developing it or more on to another song.

https://vocaroo.com/1nP3SnQGRHQr

I want to move to Linux but it's not as easy if you prefer certain software :(

Do any of you guys take the sample folders you download and put the audio into separate folders? I did this with some midi data I got and I'm considering doing the same for my audio. I just have a fuck ton of files so it'd be a while.

>>130788959
Well, Unshuffle just came out, that's a pretty good sample organizer.
I've only used it to delete duplicate files, though.

I recently stumbled on an EP that sounds better on every bass capable speaker I tried than on my earbuds. What black magic is this?

>>130789197
it's the new plugin

>>130786801
your kick is too resonant on your room mics for that style of music.

>>130789197
>https://vocaroo.com/1nP3SnQGRHQr
low end is truly a lost art on most producers.

bois how do I make blues

>>130789751
Rip a fat, soulful solo on the harmonica and the rest will follow easily.

>>130783996
this VST is bugged, it will randomly sound like shit and not at all like what it what it was supposed to. had to remove it from every project. maybe it's the cracked versions but still.

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>>130786625
>>130786650
>he thinks being able to sing automatically makes you popular

>>130790623
works on my machine

i just got the lain firefox theme and i need ableton to match for the VIBE please help i cant make music without VIBE

>>130784052
https://vocaroo.com/1oFNEZZkMzpT
anything i should fix on the mix

dnb project
https://voca.ro/1f5YC9ss5evc

hit a wall with the mid bass
no idea what kind of rhythm works

>>130790692
kick-bass mud.
guitar high mid harrshness.
cymbal reaches too far down
keys/reverb are causing mid buildup once everything comes in (mult it). especially the clap, which you'd probably want to eq the other elements for.

not that you asked but the rhythm isn't playing cohesively either. most egregiously on those climbs, which would be really cool actually if they actually fit with the main rhythm idea. the hats are really taking away from that on the whole aesthetic front actually.

>>130789465
It's fucking 6/8 favella bass, not much lower end subtility that I noticed but I'll check. On earbuds bassy things sound distorted and thin, higher pitched percussions sound earpearcingly forward yet on speakers it all sounds homogeneous and balanced.

https://voca.ro/1fdK12k647F1

UVI's Tape Suite is free for The Collective users.

>adds 60ms latency
No, thanks. I can't believe this shit. Why does it add so much latency? It can't be used with direct monitoring.

>>130792159
>direct monitoring.
what are you recording with it?
just print it and commit you coward

>>130792194
I use it to jam with my guitar or MIDI keyboard. It's just a delay, saturation, phaser and chorus. The fact that it has 60ms of latency is ridiculous. It's almost 2GB and is 50$ on sale. I pity the fools who actually buy that.

i never really got around to input testing ableton drum buss just because i knew right away i didn’t like it (but today i was working on something extremely old that used it and it just sounds right with it whatever)-
tell me why this *one* plugins unity level that it wants you to gain stage to is like -15/-18 for saturation onset (at ZERO percent drive, when it defaults to 20 (don’t even get me started on percentage bs)).

Awful design. They really tried to pull the “default setting gives you a tiny boost to trick you into thinking it’s a magic more better-izer ;)” to the extreme.
wtf

https://vocaroo.com/1oD2TrP1KjJo

how to write melodies like paul mccartney ?

>>130790645
you pick up a hammer for one day and you start calling yourself a carpenter. you think you can sing, but no one is hiring you to sing, you're not a professional singer, you're not a good singer.

>>130786564
Reminds me of Air with a little more percussion.. would be nice with more of that toward the end and a cute girl's vocals :3

unfinished bullshit music :^)
https://voca.ro/1hzdm7ndA14H
Only audacity used!

>>130793272
would be great background music for a tech product

>>130793700
was it autism

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what do you call this phenomenon when you make music that sounds good before you go to bed but sounds like ass when you wake up? how many plugins do i need to install to make this stop

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>>130794484

>>130794583
it’s called lack of perspective and shit taste.
your focus gets narrowed as you make it, honing in on something “good” about it- maybe just one thing that catches *your* attention, or the fact that you had fun with it, and you end up losing sight of the musical context (if you’re even capable of it) or whether or not it even sounds good to somebody who just hears it as it is. ear fatigue and lack of experience exacerbate this.

>>130794635
this guy is barely literate wtf are you doing screen capping this crap lmao

>>130794680
it's funny his autismal rambling response. but he's more redpilled than most anons who are in the camp of that preamps and interfaces don't matter for the sound qualilty.

>chuzo is up already
lord free us from this never ending hell

>>130794694
the specs are freely available online.
the science and math have been digested and presented for us all in like a billion youtube videos by now.

this is such a boring tired ass discussion you need to get a grip

>>130794700
i made the thread and keep it alive retard you should thank me

>>130794719
ok so with your science-based approach why aren't you sounding anything like a successful artist. even before autotune, artists like the beatles and ABBA used every trick they could get their hands on to succeed, they used very expensive equipment. you claim to be able to sing, you claim that your gear sounds good, so what gives, why does your music sound like shit.

>>130794729
you know what actually i think you’re right.
gear is the only factor. my music is amazing i just need to use better rack gear. thank you.

>>130794764
this is crazy how little you understand. you're being sarcastic because you think you know better than those cargo cultists who are spending thousands of dollars on placebo gear. that's not how it works. if someone is a galactibrain like picasso, they will naturally want to seek out the art supplies so that they can actually make the art. but a casual hobbyist will settle for a drawing tablet so they can make furry cartoons on tumblr and deviantart. you are like that casual hobbyist so you think you can get a good enough sound with basic gear and plugins but you're not making the real top tier art like john mayer etc.

>>130794583
I call it overexposure to shit. Everytime you listen to it it becomes more and more tolerable. Your night was just a big break. I'd advise taking such breaks early in the process.

someone asked me to make some obnoxious shitty DJ dance music. Here you go https://voca.ro/1936tCYcLwWT

>>130794583
I very more often have the opposite problem :
the track becomes absolutely unbearable awful shit, i should stop making music and kill myself.
But then the next day the track is actually cool.
I nailed it down to becoming emotionally numb : when you can't FEEL anything you can't judge any piece of music.

>>130795371
that one was mostly a joke. After a little while I made this instead https://voca.ro/1dLDPNGNCmTs

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https://voca.ro/174F9V6y0mTk
Why is it impossible for me to make good sounding synths that don't sound "80's"

>>130786564
1. because of the image, i listened to it as a sort of hangar plane selection menu theme from a game, which i thought worked quite well
2. on dt 770 headphones i found the bass to be way too much
3. dnb esque drums coming in at the end got me worried for the track's future as dnb can never be good

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Updated setup from
>Live 3
>Onyx 16
>404
>bass
To
>push 3 standalone
>L6Max
>404
>bass
Been going through a lot of different gear the last year but I'm settling with this. Got rid of the live 3 because while I like the workflow of the MPC and how quick it is to start something, getting them into ableton was a pain in the ass. Also the sync would pick and choose when to work. Needed something i could integrate into my setup easier. Lucky checked Facebook marketplace and some guy was looking to trade his standalone push 3 for a live 3 yesterday. Spent the night fucking around and it's way better for my setup. Also got rid of the onyx 16 only for saving desk space and I was only using 4 of my 16 ports. Now I'm down to 2 so even less of a need for it. Also with this mixer it's portable so my setup never really has to be adjusted for travel. Last thing that made the push worth it was the connection. So right now its
>PC plugged into 404
>404 OUT into channel 5/6 of L6
>Push 3 OUT into 404 IN
>Push 3 connected via usb to mac
Even in standalone mode, now I have access to all my sound no matter what and I can manipulate everything I hear with the 404. The end goal was making sure I could do that or else it wouldn't have been worth keeping. Now im waiting for 98GB of samples to transfer over wifi then I'm going back to push 3 videos. With even the little bit of knowledge I have now about ableton, I have been picking up on the controls pretty fast.

>>130799032
please triangulate your monitors ffs

https://youtu.be/fzepGtfHL9A (from start)
https://youtu.be/QEhfWoPCdq0 (from 0:39)
What is the name of this sine(?) in these songs? I mostly hear it in games and anime songs and want to use it. Does it have a name and can it be made in Serum?

>>130799071
Which way would you have them?

>>130799323
in a triangle the way they’re supposed to be, centered around whichever screen you use your DAW on

>>130799377
I use the Mac as my main screen which is off to the right but I don't have a long enough cord for my monitors to reach both side of my desk. I also use both horizontal screens and the mac screen so only 3 not 4

>>130799503
so they’re not even pointing at you when you mix? damn man

>>130799541
I just did some googling and I'm a retard I can easily fix this with a longer conductor wire. I'll post a fixed setup later

>>130799105
it's just a sine with glide/legato turned on.
second one has a bit of second harmonic.
iirc the harmonic series table in serum isn't crossfaded or it's snappy or normalized but you can just draw the bins in yourself.
modulate the clean sine on your table to bring up that harmonic/add vibrato for flavor/playability

For this genre, I think I finally understand the benefit of hardware. Asked to exaggerate things a tiny bit but seemed to keep things in control.
https://vocaroo.com/16KLJVRD29hD

>>130801437
when is the fucking drop jfc

>>130801463
I'd imagine someone familiar with this genre to skip ahead, because they might know the beginning is more or less a lead in for the DJ.
If that's too much too read, 2:13

>>130801503
no i did read it that’s why i asked

that was mostly a joke and i liked where it eventually ended up; i just wish the build had presented more ideas.

>>130799583
please don't, we don't care and by we i mean I (i am every poster in this thread)

is it a reasonable practice to gain stage all possible elements in a mix so all faders can sit at unity prior to mixing?

>>130801980
i don’t either and the only reason i responded was that i felt such an egregious offense needed to be pointed out.
such a thing is fairly normal for him but that one is especially given the overall time and monetary investment.
chuzo should have put that anon in his place, he really has been slacking lately.

>>130801998
no and that’s going to lead to silly mistakes at best and a stupid noise floor at worst.

>>130802030
also this anon keeps posting his workstation like he's the only with a workstation. i think he needs to go outside more often (like me)

>>130802034
please elaborate. my autism has lead me to trying to get elements to sit at unity because this way everything is uniformed and has full resolution on the fader. moreover, what is your example of a "silly mistake"?

lol

>>130801998
Yes and no. It depends on what you're recording
Is anything going into hardware? So many factors. It seems to come down to the specific element and how it's being processed.

On the other side, if you're completely in the box making synths and routing them into digital emulations...big maybe and then it all depends on what the implementation calls for. Like most things are generally -18LUFs input. Why? Is it a compressor? Is there any preamp emulation that might introduce distortion if you go over?

Life other anon said, noise floor can be a huge make or break down the chain especially when recording real instruments.

>>130802038
tbf i don't have a workstation so it's actually twice as annoying (i still mog you all though)

>>130802096
t. extremely insecure poster

>>130802098
i'm the most secure poster here. i'm so secure in my status here that i can just say such things unironically and not present them as a joke because i just know that i'm the best.
i'm not being arrogant, it's simply a matter of fact. many people are much better than me. however they are not here in /prod/.

>>130802137
t. high strung AND extremely insecure poster

>>130802144
you are incorrect but i will respond one more time out of respect for your dubs.

>>130802152
you forgot your meds this morning (I did too)

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probz never making music like this i just love that drift

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https://vocaroo.com/1o4sp8aqpXVx
something posty/alternative

>>130802356
it is almost okay but the vocal is pointless and adds nothing to it

>>130802374
noice

>>130802333
>against all logic
Kind of reminds me of Caribou.
Now you got me hooked, nigga senpai.
...sorry, couldn't resist; I'll stop now.

>>130802507
i’m too woke for you

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any blockfish bros in here? literally one of the top 5 free plugins of all time. pretty much every mix i've done since 2012 has had at least one instance of blockfish. it's not a transparent compressor. it adds a LOT of coloration to the sound. but in a very 70s sort of way.
>acoustic guitar
>clean electric guitar
>bass
>snare drum
>kick drum
>808/beats
>vocals
i've used that shit for everything. go download it NOW. it's fuckin FREE.

>>130802586
Cool, ill check it out. I like obvious compression. Sometimes transparent compressors dont do it for me, i like something with an obvious character