lol, yeah if you want lots of hits you can get your FF on, FrankJavCee has lots of tutorials on how to do various genres. There's a lot of good muso youtubers out there. As far as babby's first DAW goes uh, FL has a free version and you could probably get a fully featured 'free' version if you know where to look, lots of big shit people just use FL. Ableton Live has a 30 day trial version and if you're going to compose a bit by improvising while a beat plays that's probably the way to go. Of course if you want the full version of Ableton afterwards it costs as much as Pro Tools. :lolnot if you know where to find it. Besides, it's good to get used to dropping dumb amounts of money on shit out of the gate when you're starting out. Makes it that much easier to transition from neophyte to bearded nerd with a room dedicated to their Eurorack setup and obscure analog ribbon synths that had a 500 unit production run in 1976
electronic music seems to be on it's way out.... hopefully:trigger
electronic music seems to be on it's way out.... hopefully
electronic music seems to be on it's way out.... hopefully
electronic music seems to be on it's way out.... hopefullyYes, because if the music industry has shown us anything it's that it is willing to forego technology. :comeon
IMO 'creative' stuff like Ableton, FL, Bitwig etc is the way to go for someone starting out over Reaper, Cubase, Logic and the like. All of it's daunting as a beginner but I think having software that's intentionally build for experimentation and improvisation is a lot more 'encouraging' than traditional DAWs built for recording and editing. I remember starting out with FL and Cool Edit Pro (lol) and thinking back I don't even know if I would have bothered with CE if I wasn't recording into it. I'm glad I figured it out since once I moved to Ableton it helped a lot, but that side of things was always way more boring than actually composing in FL was.
IMO 'creative' stuff like Ableton, FL, Bitwig etc is the way to go for someone starting out over Reaper, Cubase, Logic and the like. All of it's daunting as a beginner but I think having software that's intentionally build for experimentation and improvisation is a lot more 'encouraging' than traditional DAWs built for recording and editing. I remember starting out with FL and Cool Edit Pro (lol) and thinking back I don't even know if I would have bothered with CE if I wasn't recording into it. I'm glad I figured it out since once I moved to Ableton it helped a lot, but that side of things was always way more boring than actually composing in FL was.
Hm, I only used Ableton (somewhat extensively) so I can't talk about more linear focused DAW, but one problem I had with the loop based approach that it often led to myself to myself not finishing tracks or making to repetive stuff.
I would come up with some beats, some chords (I mainly made old school house or Nu Disco style stuff). It sounded somewhat nice after an hour of fiddling. Then I pasted that stuff into the arrangement view and tried to built a track around it. In most cases, it ended up as sounding incredibly repetetive - and that in genre that's knwon for being repetetive.
I believe, at least for some people, that the focus on loops leads to ideas that don't work for full tracks. A more linear focused DAW might help to come up with more fleshed out songs or more focus on a creative arrangement.
Or I just suck at making music, could also be ;)
On topic, I think I will buy the KORG Gadgets for the switch. Seems like a nice tool to come up with some sketches. And I also need to find my license number for Ableton again, maybe I get some time for making music this summer...
@Toku: Are the ATH-M50x comfortable? Sold my Yamaha HS80 so I need something to make music again.
That phenomenon is really uniquely unpleasant though. I think the closest thing to it is when you have to read something over and over out loud, and after a while the words coming out of your mouth are totally divorced from any meaning. Just the other day I was cleaning up a really quick vocal hit, and after a while I honestly thought the sample playback rate had changed because I started thinking the pitch had changed. Played back the full sample from the record and nope, my brain had just flatlined after listening to it over and over
btw whatever happened to ur bandcam
I thought up the dopest bass line while I was sitting in traffic, and when I got to my destination I forgot it :(
https://metapop.com/pages/promos/native-sessions-bars?p=1
quickie but might enter it lol, kinda might be too industrialy tho (https://soundcloud.com/wldmarks/metapop/s-r8kZi)
Just uploaded a new track, I finished it in a day a few weeks ago. I just sat on my ass to find out if I could do anything to make it better but I just ended up keeping it exactly as it was in the end.
https://soundcloud.com/kkamaguicrow/slow-motionI thought up the dopest bass line while I was sitting in traffic, and when I got to my destination I forgot it :(
Always record musical ideas with your cellphone. I got a lot of ideas through just random shit that pops in my head.https://metapop.com/pages/promos/native-sessions-bars?p=1
quickie but might enter it lol, kinda might be too industrialy tho (https://soundcloud.com/wldmarks/metapop/s-r8kZi)
I really liked the hi hats and the main synth motif, awesome. Kinda wish it was a bit longer though
holy shit this was you dude? haha I was like who is this korean dude following me, this is really fucking good I almost sent an email seeing if you wanted to collab haha. Really good shit dude. Amazing atmosphere. I'm a big triphop/90s era dj krush kondo style shit and this immediately reminded me of that stuff. You're stuff is great!
Some fun with breaks:
https://soundcloud.com/wldmarks/rise-mecha-lord/s-Wh0Cm
i was actually gonna ask you about that. How often do you end up going back and working on older things? I probably have 300 various drafts of shit I've worked on and the amount I've gone back to work on is depressingly low. Sometimes I'll pull loops out of them for other projects, but I've probably only actually done real revisions on a dozen of them or so. Tough to get back in the headspace sometimes.
Shit knocks btw. Atmospheric. Low end pulls through really nicely too
r u and EVOL doing shit 2gether
havent heard from him
https://soundcloud.com/wldmarks/21st/s-pC6t5
Was listening to some Turkish music and it was actually kind of distressing to hear sounds I've never heard before. Didn't like it at all. Then I looked into it some more and it's because babies develop the full range of notes they hear really early, just like phonemes (and it's for the same reason). I thought that was interesting.Turkish classical music, I assume?
good looks. i've kept this in my bookmarks for a while and finally listened to the whole thing today. reminds me of steve rodenThat phenomenon is really uniquely unpleasant though. I think the closest thing to it is when you have to read something over and over out loud, and after a while the words coming out of your mouth are totally divorced from any meaning. Just the other day I was cleaning up a really quick vocal hit, and after a while I honestly thought the sample playback rate had changed because I started thinking the pitch had changed. Played back the full sample from the record and nope, my brain had just flatlined after listening to it over and over
William Basinski made a whole career over exploring this phenomenon, check out The Disintegration Loops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjnAE5go9dI
This track was absurdly hard to make, but I'm finally done with it. It pretty much consumed all of my free time, I'm a bit proud of it. It's a little bit less Post Punk, and a bit more Art Pop I guess.I really like this one. I can definitely tell you put a lot of effort into it. Good job.
https://soundcloud.com/kkamaguicrow/definition
This track was absurdly hard to make, but I'm finally done with it. It pretty much consumed all of my free time, I'm a bit proud of it. It's a little bit less Post Punk, and a bit more Art Pop I guess.
https://soundcloud.com/kkamaguicrow/definition
@toku
when is crush expecting to drop? :dogeThis track was absurdly hard to make, but I'm finally done with it. It pretty much consumed all of my free time, I'm a bit proud of it. It's a little bit less Post Punk, and a bit more Art Pop I guess.I really like this one. I can definitely tell you put a lot of effort into it. Good job.
https://soundcloud.com/kkamaguicrow/definition
This track was absurdly hard to make, but I'm finally done with it. It pretty much consumed all of my free time, I'm a bit proud of it. It's a little bit less Post Punk, and a bit more Art Pop I guess.
https://soundcloud.com/kkamaguicrow/definition
all your stuff is fucking killer g but this definitely next level. My honest advice is you gotta try to put together a body of work man, even like an EP or something. Don't stress or nothing like that but def. put it as a goal. You're super talented and I know you're gonna be busy with school soon but this is so good I don't want you to forget that. Don't sleep on passions. <3