this general is officially D E D editionschizo post, argue, talk about phase shift, post vocaroos. it doesn't matter anymore
https://vocaroo.com/1awzf4gM6e9o something psychedelic i did with a friend and my brother
Where did all the good posters go?
>>131410264What's this level of nepo called?
>>131410226super sick sounds. I love listening to people jam. Really cool spacey effects!https://voca.ro/1aIMfrfFKOohStarted this one the other day! Gonna flesh it out some more and add more layers. Then adding some vox at some point.
https://vocaroo.com/13Fe3E1UQufhThe middle part here isnt done needs an 808 plus getting chopped up, i also have an idea for adding a speech during that part. I need to add a sax during the guitar part and something bigger at the end. https://vocaroo.com/1fHuDtOPdO0WThis is kinda fun i wanna finish it but idk what to add.
>>131400873Yeah, np. Not that it matters now, but I had a version laying around where I tried to push the loudness as hard as I could without any obvious artifacting. Might help uploading it as a dithered 16/44.1 wav instead of using any extra lossy compression. https://files.catbox.moe/nies02.wav
Sometimes I make music so good it makes me want to cry
https://voca.ro/1faaLz676oNwThis is how the fuck I turn up
>>131410264I'm right here, bro
>>131413410https://voca.ro/1oc5SHvwIfC0
>>131413410>>131414086https://voca.ro/12Jh2wKqWyHM
>>131410264i’m the only good poster ITT
>>131413410>>131414086>>131414342Now run it through a granulator. You might get some actual usable results
>>131414681idk howhttps://voca.ro/1jvRT4HIOtXL
more of an intro on this. all the transitions need some massaginghttps://voca.ro/1jXey0cerRse
Being forced to sit and wait to be able to finish my songs has drastically improved my production and the final versions of my songs.What I mean is, I've been in a sort of living situation where I can't really record vocals and stuff and even songwriting a lot of the time which has led me to sit a lot longer on my demos and the songwriting and production process than I normally would. Instead of being able to do a song in less than a week I am forced to sit on the idea and develop it over months and this has led me to making way better versions of my songs I otherwise would have made shitty fast versions of.
>>131415419cringe
>making less music is better
>Erm I go for quality over quantity!>Nerd Emoji
>>131415419Are you homeless or something? Why is your music creation so hindered?
>>131416549why are you asking this like not living alone in some isolated place with a bunch of free time is some strange foreign concept
>>131416838excuses excuses
>>131410264no one was ever good, they just projected dunning-kruger confidence that fooled you when you were a newfag
>>131411269This shit is fucking badass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5t6MI1lviI
https://voca.ro/11X7NJnrACtz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtPpeq8_6Qg
>>131419050you and joel are such fucking losers
>>131415419I'm the opposite. Most of my good songwriting happens when I'm able to sit down and draft a song from start to finish. Otherwise I just make good 1-minute demos.However, I agree with making it evolve over time too. I'm working on an album - something that might have been good enough for a random Soundcloud release might not be up to par with the rest of your tracks. Maybe the style is too different, or you've done something too similar in another track. So making that 1st version quick (work horizontal rather than vertical), polishing the production, then making it fit into the palette of your release.Anyway, here's a Bark Psychosis inspired thing. https://voca.ro/15um4dBFtNI7The drop is more of a post-hardcore, La Dispute thing.
>>131419295i didn't like his music because i have good taste, his fanboys are faggots who like it for vapid reasons like nostalgia because they associate it with some childhood memory or whatever or they like the sound quality when listening with a good sound system which may be true that his music has well above average sound quality if you stick to certain genres or even that era of pop music when people were more optimistic about digital processsing. some anons pointed to him as justification for using a DAW like fl studio but he used it basically for arrangement and then ran that arrangement through hardware. even on his live streams he supposedly ran everything through a rupert neve designs master buss processor even while live streaming. part of the reason why valhalla vintageverb is so popular is because they saw him use it on a livestream but valhalla vintageverb didn't even exist until the end of 2012 so he wouldn't have actually used it on his most popular tracks.
He obviously has fuck you money, but Joel 100% wasted money on that 5088 and it was so a mid life crisis purchase lmao
Why do people hate Waves so much? I see a lot of shit talked about them across the internet. Feels like the people most angry with them are longtime customers, so I'm guessing it's them being priced out or forced into subscription cuckery, or something, but is that it and it's not actually anything to do with the quality of their products or the companies ethics or something?
>>131420432https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obH28WZ8fxAmeanwhile at 12:20
>>131420534The only people still using Waves plugins are boomers who think that the only limiter in existence is the L2. There are just way better options these days. Yeah, their plugins still work and they pioneered a lot of stuff (pretty sure they were one of the first to have lookahead limiting in plugin form), but again, it's not 2002 anymore.
2 clarinets and several bells. https://vocaroo.com/16mkvW56Wld5https://vocaroo.com/1fHFEiXFLStYWould love feedback! On anything, composition... sound.. audio..
>>131410264All that gear to produce dog shit lol I mog u with 20 dollars rheadphones faggo
>>131421034>There are just way better options these daysReally, like what (not arguing actually curious)? I thought most things were practically interchangeable from a certain point in terms of quality, with maybe some minor differences in sound that you probably won't pick up on. I am admittedly beginner and haven't tried a lot of different VST's, but this is the kind of sense I get.
>>131421682both are very strange across the board. Sounds like a patch you might find that's programmed to do random bleeps and bloops when you hold the key. Kind of quiet. Doesn't really go anywhere or feel very purposeful. Not sure what you’re trying to achieve, if anything, but if it's confuse randos on a dead general, then you got me at least.
>>131422371normies can tell the difference even though they can't really describe the specifics they know if a song sounds good that's why me despido (mixed with plugins) has 1.4M views and despacito (mixed with outboard gear) has 9,112,339,275 views (went up by like 8k just while i was typing this).
>>131422431Thanks for your feedback.Does it need to be "purposeful"? I mean, I am not rejecting that music should have a purpose. That sounds good to me. I'm just wondering what purpose you think my music might aspire to. What purpose do you does other music have? Maybe I could try and make music that has that purpose.
>>131422733Shut the fuck up, anon. Get your psued discussion from someone else. Ask the dull cunt above your post what he thinks.
https://vocaroo.com/1iIParFMgEdGMarching band type beat
>>131422371I can vouch for FabFilter's stuff, namely their EQ, compressor and limiter. And I don't mean the quality (even though Pro-C2 has 4x oversampling and Pro-L2 goes up to 32x, but not that it matters in the real world). I've never used it but TDR Nova seems like a good EQ and most of their other stuff seems good. Decapitator is a distortion staple at this point. And going back to the quality, Decapitator has no oversampling whereas FabFilter Saturn 2 does (32x IIRC), but in the real world... I wouldn't worry about it.
>>131422930>>131422371Basically, Waves have fallen behind and have been overtaken by competitors that offer far better functionality (and quality depending on if the plugin is non linear).
https://voca.ro/1jvRT4HIOtXLI'm getting hella paranoid.
>>131420534they came up at a time when there was no quality competition (i.e free shit and solid stock plugins) and only coasted on that reputation into shitty business practices (eternal sales, subscription bullshit).almost none of their plugins are actually good by todays standards.
I plugged in my shitty MPK Mini Play 3 and loaded up Ableton for the first time in three years. I forgot about how much joy creating terrible electronic music brings me.
>>131423436me too. it's so simple just take a dope song with a dope song add some drums and make myself retarded with drugs till it sounds good.
https://voca.ro/1l6xxzmGm1eY
I'm trying to copy songs I like using my own instruments so I can improve. I'm wondering if I could get some help getting the drums to sound like the ones in this piecehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujsh5HjMvPcI suspect heavy compression + dry reverb, but surely I'm missing somethingHere's my interpretation using my own instruments.https://voca.ro/15xJPw5NGuzpAny tips appreciated my dudes
>>131424240you're not playing the same beat or sounds so it's never going to sound like that unless you change it
>>131424347I'm aware. I'm still learning how to translate beats. I'm particularly interested in the tsch sound which sounds very heavily compressed (or crunched? Idk)
>>131424384ah, okay. well you should consider the likely source (one of those old sample cds etc) or use something similar like any old break.that crunch sounds much more like the result of light distortion or the colour of a sampler imo.when it comes to transcribing drums, or anything really, it helps to manually slow it down and put it on loop.
>>131424481This is a great idea. Let me try that. Thanks anon.
it's bad ON PURPOSE you just don't understand ART>smug froghttps://vocaroo.com/19HxYoPwDSqs
>>131410003maybe best production and mix ever in ableton free version. of course i did it so if you don't agree you are probably listening to civil rights government musichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3d4bmd1zcA
>>131424953kill yourself
>>131424962naaa, id rather kill you. you like usaid rap and hippie jazz, therefore you lose
I'd be lying if I said that the resident "ngmi" analog gear schizo didn't make me laugh
Could I get some advice for a beginner? I keep running into this same problem where I make something that sounds alright, but after ~1min into the track I don't know where to go from there and it just dies out and I start over. I haven't actually managed to finish anything yet.For example I made this today but I can't think of a good way to extend it: https://vocaroo.com/1jtuYCvHEw7UAlso any feedback on that piece would be appreciated. I only started 3 days ago and I don't have any musical knowledge or experience other than a 15 minute video on music theory so you should assume I don't know anything.Here's another piece I made which I would also appreciate feedback on: https://voca.ro/11DduPu7H2HUI suppose that one sounds finished. I'd have liked for it to be longer but I ran out of ideas at 1:30 so I just forced an ending.
>>131425092Huh? Why? I don't see the humor
>>131425105They are nice anon, they have a clear structure and movementFinishing pieces is the bane of every composer because it means collapsing all that potential into choices. If you run out of ideas, you can add another register with a similar melody and repurpose the other instruments to play harmony instead for example. You can feel proud of your two pieces. Keep it up!
>>131425186>add another register with a similar melody and repurpose the other instruments to play harmony instead for exampleSorry if this is a dumb question. What is a register and what do you mean by "repurpose other instruments to play harmony"? Do you have any examples perhaps?
>>131424924>it's bad ON PURPOSEBro, I swear to God, we're all part of the same soul family.
>>131425279Sorry. A register is a range of pitches. If you playing say a melody in a higher octave, for example using a Piccolo, so very high pitched notes, and then you take the same melody and play it on a bass instead, you changed the register (because the bass naturally plays only lower pitched notes) by changing the instrument.So take your midi track for your main melody, copy and paste it on a different instrument, or move the pitches one or two octaves below. Experiment with that.The second part of the advice meant, take the instrument you were using to play the melody previously and use it instead to play the chords (the harmony) that underpin your melody. Makes sense?
How come none of y'all told me that Reason is free now?
>>131425526Reason is a tranny DAW, and this is a chud general. Deal with it.
>>131425505I think I understand what you mean. It's difficult for me to know for sure though. Do you mean switch the instruments around? When you say to take the instrument that is playing the melody and use it to instead play the chords, I'm not sure what part you mean. In the first vocaroo I posted, can you tell what part is the melody? To be honest, half the time I don't even know what the melody is in the piece I am making. I just kind of add instruments that sounds good but I don't really know why I am even adding them or what the "parts" of the piece I am making are called.Are you aware of any songs that contain an example of these techniques so I can know exactly what you are referring to?
>>131425574will I become a tranny if I use it, or will I use it if I become a tranny?
Ableton good workflow for recording live instruments?Would also like to move around the layer to see where certain riffs sound betterHow are plugins & samples?
>>131426928The latter. Only a tranny would choose to use it.
I wanted to make something where it is never obvious what is coming next but it still connected and makes musical sense. Does this accomplish this? its called Sick Masochism: https://vocaroo.com/1r5e6UxJeK0XAnd this one is about being in the ocean but having really good WIFI: https://vocaroo.com/1g7GhsUjutNdThis one is about secret sisters, in a cult inside a cult. Zealotus women who would do anything in defense of the Light: https://vocaroo.com/1lYTNhm9mFKJ
>>131425186I managed to finish my song. If you are still here please let me know what you think! https://vocaroo.com/1iUGWbzlAD5D
>>131410264>using logic instead of pro tools
>>131425939Ok, I remade your piece with my instruments more or less to try and exemplify. You have some kind of key playing an ascending 4 note melody. The notes are D,F,A,D, basically doing a minor triad (your piece is in D minor, so a minor triad means D F A, then you add the D on a higher octave). You don't need to do that for the entire piece. So for example I took that part and altered it to play chords instead, after your initial piece stopped, instead of the DFAD repetition. For me it made it feel a bit more intimate and tender. And I took the synth you were using for texture and gave it a new variation of your melody. See if you can hear it.https://voca.ro/1iws355gaMfb
I am finishing mixing a kick these days with SSL emulation plugins.
What’s stopping me from just buying two MVAVE FM-1s, a drum machine, a midi controller, and a guitar amp and doing a bunch of industrial underground shows
>>131427670so you DONT want your kick to punch? lol
>>131410003Can you tell if that's the Logic Pro interface??
>>131428066Good. It's a 90s-style production. Mid based, not V shaped. Good to confirm it's going well. Thanx.
My guilty pleasure is those really loud hip hop masters that are brickwalled and clipped to death but somehow still sounds pretty good
been 3 years streak now since I quit music, normally I'd always come back after each "quit", but now it seems to be actually for realI'm almost living a normal live now, I even began listening to normalfag music without overanalyzing it or seeing frequency range or how sounds are made, feels so good to finally be free from this curse and addictionI wish you all to come clean sooner rather than later as well, my old frens
https://voca.ro/1fSeJc0G5bupWould love some feedback on this - bit of Underworld/Portishead/Thom Yorke influence I guess.>>131419727>https://voca.ro/15um4dBFtNI7Was listening to this record the other night!I like this a lot, those simple spare piano lines really ape them for sure. I think your mix is leaving something to be desired, but then I guess you weren't able to record in a church like they were. The harcorey sound isn't totally up my street but yh nice job.
>>131410003Does anyone know the synth used at 1:03? deerhunter used it as well https://youtu.be/nnHJhy68Q98?
>>131422930>>131422971>>131423304Thanks, that's genuinely helpful to know, cause I have also fallen for reddit tards posting about how nothing can do it like certain Waves plug ins, so while I was always dubious because Reddit, I thought I'd try some out and yeah, not really blown away compared to stock stuff. They take a bit to load up and have an annoying loading icon at the start of any project using their plug-ins. Might just demo some other stuff and see if I really need to switch or not. Don't get me wrong, the quality on them is not bad either, but if it could be better and they are technically outdated, I'd rather get something more modern that probably gets updates when needed as well.
>>131422989>8minsI managed 7 seconds. Are you genuinely mentally unwell?
