/Prod/

hi, how do i make my drums have more impact, any feedback is appreciated.
im trying to use nothing but my own drums
https://clyp.it/codiagy3

>>74470080
use different samples, those are awful honestly

>>74470080
multipressor compressor eq's layer 2 different kicks.

theres a lot of shit you can do to give them more impact
but it all comes down to practicing sound design and
understanding what is going on in in the visual eq.

lower your rimshot a little bit it's taking too much focus off the cool stuff

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Are there any other cool mono synths in production? The only other one I can think of is the poly evolver, but it's out of production and the early DSI filter sounds like shit. Also why does the company called make noise have no noise source on anything at all?

i´m gonna try to just start doing shit again

doesnt matter if its good i love producing

>>74471278
Looking to buy a laptop today! Never give up

Any of you making a profit? Where do I start?

>>74471247
poly*?

>>74471278
same it's fun (:

>>74471422
>Never give up
>Never give up
>Never give up

>>74471515
well what do you want to do

>>74469940
Question: Why do so many beginners seem to know about multiband compression yet lack basic knowledge in many areas?

Was there some sort of how to make skrillex youtube video with ozone on the 2-bus making the rounds?

>>74471685
I guess multiband compressor sounds cool and advanced so beginners try to learn it to sound/feel cool and advanced.

Also OTT.

>>74471685
because people keep on bringing it up to fix problems that should have been fixed elsewhere.

idk every time somebody tells somebody to do it in these threads it bothers the shit out of me. Like don't just throw one on your drum bus, turn the hats down instead! or low shelf that harsh synth!!! fuck man

What's your favorite compressor?

Specifically one that adds a lot of colour when you smash it (preferably free but whatever)

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>finally get on audionews
>mfw all those VSTi's and sample packs

>>74471685
Some yt tutorial fag said that the best way to mix is using compressors instead of faders and kids where dumb enough to believe it. Also this >>74471735

I been making music for 10+ years and only used compressors for mastering final tracks, and I use it very lightly.

>>74471247
There enough monosynths already out there, why do you want another one? The Monologue is near perfect and the SH-2 looks good for old school sounds. Also theres the beringher moog clone coming up.
What we need right now is a good sampler, Roland dun goofed with the SP-404A, so much wasted potential thats insulting
Make noise is a meme company that hit momentum with the 0-coast and thats it, kinda like TE with the OP-1.

>>74471862
>I been making music for 10+ years and only used compressors for mastering final tracks, and I use it very lightly
You mean multiband compressors or compressors in general?

>>74471852
>audionews

i'll ignore the blatent meme pushing, please explain your enthusiasm

>>74472117
In general. Althou been using izotopes multiband comp lately but I'll probably go back to waves, I like simple stuff

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Pencil Fag Here. How do I into rhythm?

>>74471681
Meant the mono evolver
>>74471862
>If it's not standard subtractive it's a meme

>>74472305
im not sure what you mean but i guess just listen to rhythms and steal what you think sounds nice

play with the beat repeat in ableton (or similar in your daw) and try going in to triplets

>>74472398
I mean I don't play anything. I don't even want to because I would rather understand how rhythm works than to play it. Playing keyboard is an entirely different skill and I am Parkinsons tier when it comes to dexterity stuff

>>74472315
>If it's not standard subtractive it's a meme
I never said that, just wouldnt trust a company that will most likely dissapear in a couple of years. A friend bought a 0-coast, its fun but filmsy af, build quality is PO tier and good luck fixing it if you accidentally break something while turning a knob (which is too possible).
The concept is good, hope someone builds something similar that I can gig with without having to worry that it will break in the bag

>>74472516
i was talking about programming rhythms in to a daw
i cant play worth shit either

>>74472398
also I meant transcribing rhythms I already have in mind not just noodling with specs.

I recently started to make more ambient, kinda "Nujabes-esque" tracks. Still haven't quite got it down yet, but here's a track I did recently. Any feedback would be welcome.

https://youtu.be/4cVP6x1GIgI

>>74472553
See if you can get a Volca sample or better a cheap drum machine with midi out (like a sr-16). I sucked hard at programing drums until I started fiddling with hardware.
A launchpad with the 95 script can be good too, but step programing is just not my cup of tea

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>>74471681
only thing that spooks me is that tinnitus or whatever this loud eeeeEEEEEE sound between my ears is, isnt going away. its been like this ever since the festivals

>>74473456
earplugs no headphones breaks every hour, you know the deal

>>74473456
i have tinnitus and slight hearing loss in my right ear

you will be fine as long as you dont do stupid shit to your ears

do you guys cut your sub off at 30hz or 60hz?

>>74473792
i hope you mean roll off and not cut

>>74472536
Can't talk on the quality of the 0 coast, but every Make Noise eurorack module I've played has been pretty good quality. I doubt their gonna be going out of business any time soon unless people start losing interest in eurorack. Maths is the most popular module on modulargrid.

>>74473864
isn't a roll off still a cut?

>>74473864
>not going full talk talk and rolling the bass off at 200hz

Is rock dead?

>>74473888
Not much into euroracks, maybe thats their forte, the 0-coast is like a big eurorack module intended to be used as a desktop synth. The fact that it's imposible to build a case for it and have to deal with a naked circuitboard with very little space is a major turnoff, and its not cheap.
There are rumours of a buchla clone made by.... Behringer
That should be fun if true

>>74474189
Do you have a link to the Behringer Buchla clone? It's possible they're doing it because some company connected with Behringer is manufacturing vactrol esq optical components since that other company is going to stop production.

>>74473997
I think there's deadness all around.

I haven't found any new music I like for a few years now. To me it sounds like recent debut and sophomore albums sound like when good artists from the past released their 10th album when they're 50 and taste-dementia kicks in.

so it's better to write the vocal melody on the piano or by humming it?
I find that on the piano I have a better idea of it

>>74473456
if you're too cool to wear earplugs, you're too cool to not have a constant ultra-minimalist avant garde one-note song playing in your head at all times, cool boy, no pussy plugs for you tough guy

>>74474333
by singing placeholder lyrics, or using a saxophone patch otherwise it won't do it justice

I think Abba used a sustained Clavinet or Solina as a placeholder for the vocal melody when they wrote songs.

I wonder about this shit too, I know that you can't just use a simple monosynth patch or piano to realize the vox because it won't let you hear what it will sound like. Has to be a breathy/resonant sound I think.

>>74474298
Just rumours on synth forums and groups, no link available that I know of.
Uli said there preparing 30+ clones of classic synths, the buchla should be cheap and easy to build now. So far only the model D was confirmed, but SH-01, 808 and more moog clones are coming for shure, also an OSCar and Synthi A clones are also very possible
Uli is a rich troll, anythings possible

>>74474326
>there's deadness all around
Hip hop is alive as well. Indie/alternative stuff still prevails. But yeah it's not just rock. I just wonder if I should replace the guitar with digital instruments if I ever wanna show my music to people.

>>74474454
well I actually meant to find the idea, naturally you'll need to work it with your voice for the final result

>>74473928
desu it's just a difference in terminology or whatever

when i hear cut i think notching out or a brickwall high/low pass

roll off would be a shelf or a less steep hp/lp

>>74473997
in terms of innovation/new sounds, yeah sure (excluding metal)

I got serious about making music wanting to form an industrial (experimental whatever) rock band to make something new

ended up spending the last 5 years making idm/leftfield whatever because all of the innovation is in electronic and hip hop right now, and everybody i meet who plays instruments wants to imitate another band or established genre. It's trite at this point to say really

>>74474326
idk man i think there are plenty of hip hop acts out there getting weird

>>74474333
whatever works for you

>>74471681
I want to turn a profit producing. Maybe booked to DJ shows

>>74474566
>and everybody i meet who plays instruments wants to imitate another band or established genre
god I hate this, why do so many people waste their potential by playing in cover bands?
what I like in hip hop is that at least you're forced to write new music

>>74474566
>everybody i meet who plays instruments wants to imitate another band or established genre
Consider yourself lucky. Everyone I meet who plays instruments just wants to play the most complex, technical possible thing they can play. Even if you tell them to just play four chords they start going full retarded and ruining music with unnecessary wankery.

>>74474659
>cover bands

i don't understand the desire to do this at all unless you're just trying to get paid or you literally can't write a song.

>>74474682
i'd trade situations with you desu. worse still is straight up not being able to play or keep a beat

>>74474614
look into ghost producing. alternatively pitching beats to rappers. you've really gotta be top notch there.

dj'ing is a lot easier to get into. i don't know how to go about learning it outside of all that matters beyond a certain skill level is image.

>>74474763
>dj'ing is a lot easier to get into. i don't know how to go about learning it outside of all that matters beyond a certain skill level is image.
yes I think the best dj sets I've heard are from underground djs
I've seen some of them spinnin records folks, they just put a pre-mixed set and just stay there acting, but they're actually just puppets with songs made by ghost producers

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if i don't making something good in 24 hours i'm going to kill myself

>>74474763
>straight up not being able to play
I think that's the best one out of the three. I enjoy teaching and get to use my own songs to teach so it's fun. Not many people over 20 are interested in learning an instrument tho.

>>74474763
I can understand that.
I have a rapper friend that I want to push forward cause we like making music.

>>74474890
meh i guess, i just don't want to have to tell anybody what to do, otherwise i'd just play it myself. i want to write a song WITH somebody

>>74474881
get off 4chan then buddy
(suffering from writers block and no inspo but i wrote 2 good songs yesterday lol)

:(

>>74474763
Playing covers is acceptable only for practice porpouses. But having a cover band is the lowest of the low. I rather have a regular day job and do whatever I want with my music, even if no one likes it.
Took me 8 years of gigging and switching members to gain a small following with my band, I just write a shitload of songs and filter them out while rehearsing to see which ones work and which dont. Democracy on a band doesnt work (unless you're playing with the same ppl since forever)
Got a lot of shit, played for literally a dog or no one lots of times but its worth it. Now I'm finally getting some recognition and "cult following" in the local scene. Its fun when someone tries to compare my band with another and just cant find any reference.
Its basically a shoegaze influenced industrial with some noise and power pop in the mix, idk, just do what you feel and fuck everything else

>>74475010
>But having a cover band is the lowest of the low.
/r/watmm trigger

got a clyp? i'm curious

>>74474977
Oversimplifying a song helps seeing it from another perspective tho. Got a bunch of songs that had complicated basslines that improved significantly after teaching them to a dude and realizing they sounded better by just playing the root note once and holding it.

>>74475107
I have about 5 "albums" that I recorded by myself over the years, the first ones sound like shit and we only made a handfull of CD-r and gave them away at shows. Never used clyp but most of them are on bandcamp/soundcloud/yt etc. Lyrics are in spanish so that might turn some ppl off.
Here's our last release, probably the most chill and "accesible" we done so far, the old stuff is more fun to play live. https://youtu.be/p42QLyLHhz8

How to I get a bass to have more of a "pop" on the attack?

>>74475358
I made it 22 seconds in and had to abort homie.

>>74475358
ngl that singing is bad. the music is good though.

>>74475349
good point

>>74475618
The song actually starts around the 1:25 mark, that intro is basically a joke

>>74475711
>that singing is bad
ik, thats why the first track is the only one with "clean" vocals at the beggining, the rest have shitton of fx on them. Got sick of complains that the vocals have too many effects on the previous stuff, so we decided to start the album like that. Not shure if it was the right idea but fuck it, its done

>>74475603
pitch it up at the beginning

>>74475603
transient designer, expander

>>74475603
ALTERNATIVELY use the massively underrated envelope of a sampler

>>74476575
Newfag here. I didn't know this was a thing. You just saved me 9000 hours of manually editing samples.

i'm having this issue where I add synths and drums and shit to my projects with my melodies, then deciding that it's just not good enough, and adding more bullshit until eventually it becomes convuluted and I just give up and feel bad about myself.

then I hear motherfuckers sounding good with the most minimal things. How the fuck do you make things with very little instruments/drumming sound good?

>>74477152
Good sound design, good mixing and good composition.

Actually making something good and simple is very hard. Probably the biggest challenge when it comes to making good music.

>>74477247
how??

Is this like some sort of god tier mastering???

I got a few questions.

How can I make simple music like nujabes that isnt boring as fuck? Its usually a sample with break/chopped drum breaks and a sub bass but sounds so nice. And how did he get such a full warm sound when mastering/mixing? I dont sample directly from vinyl so i assume that has something to do with it.

>>74477314
Idk man I'm still not there, but I think it has more to do with being clever and putting everything in it's right place and adding no unnecessary bullshit.

>>74474881
Slow down there, kiddo.

>>74477152
how long have you been making music you may be comparing people who have much more time put in than you

>>74477139
yw

i can't understand why that's not always the first thing mentioned. if you need snappier attack, that should always be the go to- simplest solution with the least processing.

>>74477152
don't add to something just because it doesn't sound good- make sure the core of your song sounds good and then go from there.

>>74477314
>mastering
not what that means

>>74477334
>I dont sample directly from vinyl so i assume that has something to do with it.

that's a meme. it sure as shit sounds cool to say you sample from vinyl but it's not necessary to achieve that type of sound. i'm not into that lofi shit but i've dabbled in it writing beats for a friend to rap on; the key things i used were vinyl distortion in ableton (izotope makes vinyl something for free or your daw probably has an equivalent) eq/filters, reverb and ***sample selection***

find some drum samples from vinyl and breaks, simple hats, set up a reverb send for the hat and snares and make your vibey whatever the fuck beat. low pass/low shelf more than you would with other genres, leave more "mud" and don't highpass what you normally might.

shit's pretty simple

>>74477496
hey be nice!

Is it true that most popular musicians these days (without connections) get big by buying fake YouTube views? Like i've heard they'll buy 1 million fake views for their music video and it'll take off after that.

Is this true? Should I try it (assuming my stuff is actually good first)?

sources for free soundfonts? I'll take anything but especially the Fairlight library.

>>74477543
>make sure the core of your song sounds good and then go from there.

This, and as >>74477247 says
>Good sound design, good mixing and good composition.

The order of procession is composition first, then sound design and then mixing.

A lot of weak production stems from impatience, the misconception that good sound design can fix bad composition, and that good mixing can fix either (or both) of the former, and mostly it leads to laziness in the composition phase in the hurry to get to mixdown.

I'm just as guilty of this since most of my enjoyment comes from mixing, but if there's one thing that can be learned from years of frustrated attempts to make good music it's that if you're wanting to make music that has any sort of impact or staying power the composition has to have some merit.

>>74477543
Is there a way to make nujabes-style or sample based music and not be compared to lofi shit?

Is dilla, madlib, or knxwledge considered lofi?

>>74477571

That's a good way to kickstart your music if it's GOOD. That's the key though. Make something decent first and then you can start "cheating" your way to success. But there's no way to cheat your way to good music.

>>74477152
>>74477314
It's art. You have to use intuition to make decisions about what notes to choose, what sounds to pick and how to process them in order to convey an emotion and you have to do it very purposefully. There is no paint by numbers way to do it.

You can whittle down the creative speedbump by learning an instrument/music theory and knowing your tools inside out but you have to build a map in your head of what all the different techniques at your disposal are saying emotionally. Like you need to know words before you write a book. You need to go beyond 'major chord happy, minor chord sad' and get specific associations, like a slow sus4 to major could mean 'bittersweet' or a flanger could mean disorientation or whatever.

It's not some rote thing. There isn't a book or yt tutorial that will tell you how to write good music, slapping a bunch of effects on random notes will not make it into a banger. All the decisions have to be made with a sixth sense kind of thing that you sharpen with practice. Make something that you would actually listen to, don't just churn out crap and be like look ma I made a music.

>>74477756
>Is dilla, madlib, or knxwledge considered lofi?

i consider dilla precurssor to the current lofi trend- madlib is on some other shit, idg that comparison. what's some good stuff by knxledge? i'm assuming he has to be pretty good for you to name him next to those guys

https://clyp.it/4hzh0i2p

Main things I know I need to work on is percussion selection and adding in more low end. Still a work in progress, but could use feedback on its current state

>>74477152
It's tough. One thing is to make sure you save multiple versions of projects. if its sounding good, do a final save and then a "save as" so your working in a new project and you can go back if you screw it up. Another thing I have trouble with is that once somethibg sounds good but "lacking"your next instinct shouldn't necessarily be to add something else. instead, try adding variation in the parts you have. Just simple fills, filter or fx sweeps, or dropping the part out for a few bars can "add" to your composition without just adding more sounds

>>74477973
intro is garbo cheese desu

change the kick. highpass some on that snare rimshot. use a different clap.

when the main thing comes in again at 1:03 use a different patch or change the higher pitched thing going- it blends in with the other stuff too much and it would be cool to hear the main theme bigger/as a variation

has potential

>>74477817
I was just listing people who have sample based production. Knxwledge is pretty good. I'd recommend Hud dreams or Kauliflowr

>>74477990
I 'save as' constantly adding a revision number to it and if I hit a point where I hear potential I save it as 'xyz11ok' or if I really like it 'xyz12good'

I usually find that if I go back to the revision I saved as 'good' it's better than subsequent revisions.

>>74477973
lmao this is fucking horrible

>>74478419
thanks

>>74478419
u tryna fite homie i'll reply to u all night bitch

>>74478500
I'd recommend throwing that shit in the trash and going back to the drawing board. it's irreversibly bad.

>>74477973
Don't listen to the people saying this is shit. It IS very bad, but it has some merit. You're just clearly new at producing, but the idea is all right. Get better at everything and come back to that track in a couple of months.

>>74479706
>Don't listen to the people saying this is shit

it's one person. they did the same thing last thread

>start working on a track
>sounding really good
>can't tell if it's just cause I like the smell of my own shit or it's actually decent
Can't wait to finish this one and get told it sucks.

>spent like half an hour looking at vst compressor clones
>distressor emulation by antress
>FREE
>32 bit only and all of the download links are dead anyway

fffffffffffuck my shit up

https://soundcloud.com/basedlordjorffy

how u like my beats?

>>74477973
If that rim was pushed back, this would be alright

/prod/ how can i record stuff without spending alot of money? i tried using my laptop mic but it barely picked up anything. what should i get?

>>74480556
If you want your stuff to be listenable get an SM58 and a preamp or an interface. If you just wanna dick around buy an usb mic.

>>74480661
This

Also, I'd suggest picking up a decent mixer. I have a couple of Alesis Multimix 8s. One is an older Firewire model and the other is more updated and connects through USB 3.0. They cost about $120-$150 used depending on where you go and are definitely worth it.

Avoid Behringer products. They're low-priced for a reason

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Was anybody following electro house around here in 2010/2011, I remember when this thing appeared from some dude "cirkut" that nobody had ever fucking heard of and you couldn't find out anything about him because the name had like one credit and you couldn't even figure out what his real name was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08X5bhBHpkg

good times.

do you guys listen to your own shit?

>>74482680
I hear so much of it when I'm working on it I can't stand to listen to it when I'm not doing that.

>>74482680
it usually goes like
>make something
>listen to it a few times over the course of a week
>go back to tracks I remember being exceptional several months later
>listen to them again and wonder how I did it

>>74482720
>
huh i feel that

>>74482737
yeah i think like damn i was creative back then wtf am i now

>>74474520
I've been fighting this idea with myself for a while. I mostly record with guitar, bass, and drums but I also do electronic stuff on my computer. Never fused them together. I think my music needs to evolve to that point. I feel stale and stuck where I've been at for a few years.

>>74482720
yeah as soon as I finish something I don't really listen to it. When I finish an album I never listen to it again. I get too used to critical listening.

>>74480556
Steinberg ur22 and an sm57 or condenser. Not great quality but whatever

>>74482680
Only stuff that's at least a few months old. 1 out of every 10 or so is good enough to show other people and listen to. It's mostly a trip into the past for me, so rarely

>>74482680
I've been trying an experiment this year where I haven't listened to a single idea or song I've taken the time to work on. I want to collect so much to go back and indulge on to form several albums from. Shoegaze, chillwave, stoner metal is my goal. Probably a dumb idea but I'm 8 months in deep so far.

>>74483558
Didn't even read the op gtfo out of here faggot

>>74480556
it's very difficult to produce anything remotely decent without spending a lot of money

Late night bump

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>when I just don't feel like even trying to melody and am reduced to pirating random workbooks

>>74477754
>The order of procession is composition first, then sound design and then mixing.
>>74477247
>Good sound design, good mixing and good composition.
At least we can all agree composition matters.

I dunno guys, you spend 3/4 hours mixing and designing sounds, but some of you barely spend 20 minutes composing. Fair enough I try to do the same, but /comp/ is dead so I'm here.

>>74482680
Yeah, my stuff gets old QUICK. It's only good about 2 or 3 listens.

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>>74485187
Yes, it's actually correct to end "minor" keys on a major chord and yes all that parallel movement is necessary at the end of a phrygian progression. That cadence on bars 10 to 12 took me 10 minutes, rest of the half hour was all the rest.

I'm not going to enjoy writing a melody to this.

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what's a nice plugin fir changing pitch?

>>74485725
nevermind

>>74485725
I'd use melodyne, chances are you don't actually want to change pitch and if you want something to work on formants, or the sound's frequencies, you need a program, even if the sound isn't a voice.

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>>74486082
I'll start using it also
fuckin a, everything's out of pitch..

>>74482680
I'll listen to mix down renders like 50 times each over a 2-3 day period, then go back a month later to get a clear understanding of why I'm shit

>>74482680
All the time. Since I started /prod/ing I barely listen to other stuff.

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>ableton changed my automation envelopes while it was closed

what's a good beginner software for learning how to mix?
preferably with an interface that's similar to hardware mixers that I can understand

I tried audacity but having to open a menu and mess with settings photoshop-style on tracks to EQ stuff was extremely frustrating

>>74487943
also forgot to mention that I exclusively record live instruments, no software sounds

>>74474950
just dont become beats by saif

>>74488013
Is this a plug? Looks like a twitter troll.

>>74488013
>>74488253
He is. He's pretty pathetic. Like I feel bad for him. I feel like he'd go places of his shit was actually good. You think he lurks here?

>>74488297
Why? He marketed himself regardless. I don't have that many twitter followers :(

>>74487794
It was a ghost producer.

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>>74487943
the mixer in the more recent versions of cubase can be arranged in a way that's very hands-on and a lot of fun if you're into mixing consoles

>>74487964
>>74487943
Pro tools

>>74485187
Buddy you need to listen to more music

Certain genres are completely dependent on (or the composition is a result of) sound design or rhythm. Hip hop and industrial being prime examples. There's a name for working from the sound first that makes it sound cooler than it is but idr.

Lls has anything actually good ever come out of these threads

>>74490410
I think some guy got a job doing soundtracks for some anime/game.

>>74490448
That's lame. I mean actual music

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Jewgle homepage is pretty lit

>>74490461
>>74490410
>(You)

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I'm so sorry for being a newbie and dumb, but please help:

I'm aware that if I want to make the kind of techno that I like, I need a TB-303. The problem is, any free VSTs I find are terribly hard to use. Is there any free, baby-tier VST that I could use to start getting a good acid/techno bassline sound?

>>74490410
Yes.

>>74491199
Synth 1 I guess. no sustain shortish decay on the filter envelope with a lot of resonance. Bandpass maybe. The distortion is kind of shite but could work for acid

>>74488328
a good reputation is more important than a shit one

>>74492247
re-branding? It's possible.

>3 hours left
GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD

>>74492419
still haven't made anything huh?

why not?

>>74492426
nothing sounds good and when i play shit back it just makes me feel bad about myself.

https://clyp.it/ianrv0wg

I've been trying to strip my sound down, used to use loads of channels

Recommendations appreciated

So I'm working on a concept album, and I want a lot of the endings of tracks to fade into the beginning of others. Any tips on crossfading between songs?

>>74492532
so long as you don't give up you shouldn't feel bad man

>>74493072
just bounce and crossfade..? reverb(/reverse reverb) as a replacement can be cool in spots

>>74492645
cool but that panning seems like a bit much.

Also i'd like to actually hear the singing to make it a complete track lol

>>74494236
vocals too loud

sounds like you just stuck a drum beat on top of a pitched down song tbqhwyfamilam

>>74494266
Not at home rn, trying to mix with 1$ earphones.
I'll turn down the vocals.

>>74469940
Does anybody here work from home just making beats and selling it to wannabe rapper and musicians? I've always wanted to do that since I don't like leaving my house. Anyways just ignore that but if you do work from home producing music and don't have to go out is it as comfy and easy as it seems?

>>74494393
So you really don't need to go outside, and all you do is just make music at home. Nice, sounds uber comfy! But does it pay the bills though?

>>74494289
reference tracks kid

>>74494352
if you take out the money part i'm basically doing that right now :^)

>>74492394
lol
https://twitter.com/saifk/status/888103445122756608

>>74494445
>if you take out the money part i'm basically doing that right now :^)
How do you pay the bills? Do you get neetbux?

>>74494493
>But do not quit your day-job just yet lol. Try it out for a couple of months first.
But why? It sounds super nice and comfy. Also, do you make enough money off of it to live on your own and sustain yourself?

>>74494451
that's.... actually hillarious

>>74494482
living with parents and haven't started the last semester of college yet. lucky fuck i know

i've been making beats for a couple dudes and it's meh just because i don't like the music that rappers are looking for (though it helps to find a crossover of what interest you and what sells)

desu i couldn't imagine making a living writing music you don't like for other people, it would defeat the purpose for me. if you love what you can sell then it seems like it would be awesome.

>>74494601
Since you're doing it how has it been for you? Would you say that you are relatively successful in this? If so how do you keep yourself from ever failing and not earning money one month?

I just made the laziest fucking trap song in 10 minutes and it sounds good and my guy is probably going to eat it up -________________________________________________________________________________________-

>>74495255
Where do you learn how to make beats?

>>74495376
uhh youtube i guess. i went off trial and error

cop some samples off /r/drumkits, learn to program synths to where you don't have to rely off presets and it's just second nature for you. maybe pick up kontakt.

just pick up a daw and get real familiar with everything... is there a specific aspect you need help with?

>>74491199
Just pirate D16 Phoscyon.

should i stop trying to make everything sound perfect and just power through everything knowing it kinda sounds shit aside from composition?

>>74495791
i mean sure if you don't ever want to learn to make things sound 100%..?

if a song is good go all the way with it, if you know it's shit and you'll do better on the next one move on

>>74496078
my dude i keep getting stuck with unfinished projects it's doing a number on me. I just gotta finish something

>>74496177
>unfinished projects

yeah i've got a folder of about 200 songs that have been bounced with the project files deleted. scrap completely, bounce if it's kind of good or you just like it for some reason, follow through with shit you know is good

that's it. even if it's just like a 30-80 second thing with into and a few variations i'll keep it to feel like at least i got something out of a song i worked on for a couple days lol

>>74494451
That's meme worthy!

don't die

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>tfw you get to open up your DAW after a long hard day of work

>>74498139
(:

Hey guys I need a little help. I pirated Logic Pro X and it works great, except for one issue. In the main mix where all the virtual instruments are, no sound is coming out. If I go into the downloaded Apple Loops, those play and sound comes out, but the moment I drag the loop into the project there's no sound. Any ideas?

>>74498282
audio settings (idk what it is in logic) what is it using as an output/driver?

>>74496177
When you get to the point where you're changing the EQ by 1 dB and then changing it back to where it was, you're done.

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>>74498315
Here's what it looks like. I'm just baffled because when I press down on my MIDI or use the keyboard for Musical Typing, Logic is showing the output levels rise. It's receiving a signal, but there's no audio. Only in the loops to the right side.

>>74498482
wtf (Assuming you're working off headphones or something and not monitors/with an interface)

what about your monitoring? does the output level rise on just your instruments or is the master out rising too? (sidenote- leave your master at unity always lol)

i'm not on mac so i have no idea if that would be something to do with it

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>>74498315
>>74498649

I FIXED IT. Thanks for trying to help anyway

So here's where I went wrong. In the top part I had selected MIDI, because well I have a MIDI controller. Well, for some reason when I selected Software Instrument, that track is now making sound. Oddly now my MIDI is also working on it. Dunno what to say but it's fixed so, yay.

>>74471862
Meme company that hit momentum with Maths

anyone got a working download of VocALign

>>74498974
*rips off DUSG*
heh nothing personal serge
t. tony