My music stuff

I tried to learn Fruity Loops. Wow... what a program I will never get.
 
Absinthe, seriously, Proto Velvet Thoughtnaught is god damn amazing at 3:12, too bad it stops right after, really really love that part though :p

Whiskey Foxtrot Tango is very.. IDM. Like the high piched subtractor poly thing you did. Nice switching of the beat and flow at around 1:31.
 
Your beats seem to be very repetitive... Variation goes a long way!
 
Very nice. It could use some tweaking, as parts of it seem sort of muddled up (ie. tunes quite not matching up, EQ issues), but you've really got something going with it and it's great.

Polish it up a bit and perhaps work on the outro. If you do that, I think you will have made (IMO) your best track. :thumbs:

I recently visited a music shop with my uncle and they had a pretty well-sized section of synthesizers, drum machines, vocoders, mastering racks, everything. I think I spent two hours in there just playing with all the shit. It's really opened my eyes. Of course, I think the cheapest thing there was $400, the most expensive being $9,850. :O Gives an incentive to save up.
 
Awwwwesome. All your stuff is great Crazy. :D I wish I could make music like this.
 
Depends.. Alot of my earlier crap was made in a few hours. Nowadays it's really a matter of whether I get things "right" or not. If I have a good basic idea, melody or something it may take some time before I am satisfied. Usually the time is spent experimenting with sounds and instruments.

I try to keep things simple, melodies are often in the same scale.
"Funk soul machinehead" took roughly a day or so, same thing for "Mainframe".

I remember "Your body" took like 3 days, mainly because I had the pad chord set just perfectly and wanted to match it.
 
3 days or less is extremely quick. I think you could improve a lot by spending longer on percussion, structure and levels in particular. A lot of the percs sound a bit lo fi, thin and unprocessed to me. Most of the synth work is good, even if it isnt to my own taste. Take that fwiw, im not into this type of music.
The pad in your body is nice. Sounds like the one in komodo.
 
Nice thread - Not seen one packed full of this quality content in a while :)
I got to go out in 3 mins, but from what I've heard so far, I quite like your stuff Harij - listening to 'Lost' atm - it's holding together very well. I'm gonna try listening to more later, but for now, I'll post a link of some of the stuff that has been released from Sourceball.
http://www.sourceball.com/music/SBintro.mp3
It's not entirely original - it's sort of a variation on a theme. Big Milky Cookies if you guess it ;) That track is actually an earlier version than the working one though - lol can't get the staff these days ;).
 
Didn't strike me as DnB as much as it did Industrial. No problems with that though. I liked those rapid fire synths you had throughout. Some bits seem like they need a bit more sound though. As in more things going on. Try some more FX. A standard filter sweep can do just fine.
 
Heheh... The beginning reminded me of a candy rave.
 
No, it's fine. I was just kind of like "WTF" when it began playing. I expected a 4/4 to drop on my ass. :)
 
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Reaktor4 said:
what was wrong with it?
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The USB drivers for XP apparently, and the company was really lazy with updating it. The entire CM-pro.com forum is filled with people complaining about this.

The drivers are simply not good, causing some people to have extreme problems (like me), i.e hanging notes, random note playing, sometimes no input at all etc. And their system of delivering midi signals via USB was some crappy personal system or outdated thing.
 
CrazyHarij- just listened to most of the stuff on this thread. There's a lot of really sound ideas coming out, excellent potential. What you need, however, is to work on your beats; and to do that you need to do some sampling.

Do you have recycle, or some software/hardware that does the same thing? (my SP505 chops up beats, and there's nothing like tapping out the break with real pads; newer versions of ACID also beatmap/chop AFAIK).

Using a very old studio beat of mine, here's a basic example; the chopping is made obvious in the second file to show what I've done-

find your sample

the easiest way to get a break going is to use the same base set of sounds

That way, there's a coherent ambience layed out and you can get around to layering individual hits on top.

It's also likely with a good sample that you'll have snares of different velocities, meaning backbeat/flam hits are a breeze and sound consistent with the break.

There's a fantastic resource of old samples athttp://www.phatdrumloops.com/old_site/


Trust me, start sampling stuff, best thing I ever did. Using individual hits from samplebanks was a nightmare for me.
 
I disagree with jondys post. Shortcuts like using loops will do you no favours in the long run and will not make you a better producer.
 
Reaktor4 said:
I disagree with jondys post. Shortcuts like using loops will do you no favours in the long run and will not make you a better producer.
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I didn't advocate using loops; and I know exactly what you mean. The above example is very basic, with a minimum of chopping, but extracting hits from loops and starting from scratch is a great way of getting a consistent sounding break. The layers on top of the base in that example aren't looped, anyway; they're single hits.
 
You meant taking a loop, chopping it and rearranging it etc, right? Thats what i meant when i said using loops.
It might be a great way of getting a consistent sound but part of being a producer is being able to get one-shot samples to sound natural together. Of course it seems impossible at the start but becoming a good producer takes years, thats just how it is.
 
Reaktor4 said:
You meant taking a loop, chopping it and rearranging it etc, right? Thats what i meant when i said using loops.
It might be a great way of getting a consistent sound but part of being a producer is being able to get one-shot samples to sound natural together. Of course it seems impossible at the start but becoming a good producer takes years, thats just how it is.
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Believe me, I'm no stranger to doing that;

But sampling was where I started, and it seemed an ideal transition to me. It helps with your understand of which sounds sit nicely together, and gives better sounding results that motivate an understanding rather than jumping in the deep end and coming out with a wooden break based on one-shots, which in turn doesn't inspire. Personally, it did wonders for my use of compression and equalization, but that's more than likely just me
 
There's nothing wrong with beat slicing. It's done all the time.
 
I'm not really a fan of sampling, especially not with beats when you already have individual hits to work with. Getting it to sound good is half the work.

I know I'm shit at pretty much every aspect in making music, but I'm going to do my best to learn everything the hard way.

I've started learning alot more on making DNB breaks from scratch, DNB is an area that you'll probably see me revolve around more from now on. With that said I'm not going to limit myself to any genre, right now I'm really experimenting alot (which is why alot of my pieces are incoherent)
 
Nothing wrong with sampling a beat so long as you can do something interesting with it ala ****ing it all up Squarepusher-style. Loops aren't some easy alternative to individual hits. It's an entirely different paradigm and it takes work to make them sound good.

There are some sounds I've created using the Amen break, for instance, that I wouldn't have been able to create otherwise. But you'd never recognize the break unless you listened hard.
 
Felt an update was in place. Alot of changes are going on in harijland.

First of all, I've changed my soundclick profile to www.soundclick.com/derelic7. Update your bookmarks (yeah, right :p).

I'm getting into reaktor and even though I'm not quite able to create anything beyond a basic synth from scratch, I'm finding plenty of things to do with the cool synths that come bundled. Really powerful program in my opinion.

I'm honestly a bit tired of reason, despite finding lots of new ways to make and personalize sounds.
But currently I'm pretty much stuck with it, Cubase and Sonar not working and all.

Other than that, I feel things are getting abit better and easier. It's more about the music and emotion, coming up with ideas, rather than spending endless amounts of time trying to come up with a cool sound but not knowing what to do with it. I spend much more work on my tracks and have gotten abit more selective with what i finalize and upload.

I want to write my own lyrics, I'm not that good a singer, but I'll wait and see.

I've finished a new track, all in reason:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=444719&songID=3270222

More an experiment than anything, I wanted to do more with it but the CPU load got too heavy on my computer, so I left it at this.
 
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