Oh it can't be that bad... I think it's actually worse in FL 12 though, lol.

Don't you have to completely change the layout of FL to do it?

1000 stronk

 

 

Goin' to Japan to study the next two months so don't expect anything new for a while unless I can get to produce there.

Ugh, I'm jealous as heck

Splatoon's credits music totally sounds like a thinner Volant song.

 

 

If I could emulate his style I'd totally do a remix like that.

So have any of you guys tried doing other timings than 4/4? That future bass thing I'm working on is in 7/4...

I would've probably tried something different by now if changing time signature in FL wasn't such a massive pain in the butt :/

Nothing wrong with mainstream. What's wrong is when a certain trend limits producers too much into the same thing over and over again (big room maybe?). There are complex songs with complex harmonies that are mainstream. Strobe definitely is classified as mainstream (40 millions plays on spotify), at least some years ago. I still hear it very often on the radio and on LANs I go to.

 

Limits are what's wrong. Your mindset is good in one way but I also think it limits you since you are almost afraid of doing something mainstream. You are almost doing what you were afraid of doing from the start, doing mainstream stuff that limits your works. Why have that in mind all the time of hating something when you could simply just ignore stuff that you don't like to listen to or create and just only create stuff that you like without being afraid of breaking your own rules which you have set up without knowing it yourself.

Yeah like I said, there's nothing wrong with mainstream, it's just that mainstream and the crapiness I mentioned tend to go hand in hand because label s have orchestrated it to be so.

I'm not scared of mainstream at all. I mentioned it in passing a while back, but i've done a lot of "mainstream" stuff. Not in terms of popularity obviously, but in terms of build and composition. I have about 300 projects and i'd guess at least 250 of them are mainstream stuff. It just doesn't present much of a challenge for me any more. Not to mention I was actually strating to find it really boring (not just the product, but the process). I much prefer doing unique stuff. I especially like being able to play to write. Really enjoy that. I do have my hangups on rules that I've just randomly made up for reasons I couldn't say, but I know what they all are, and the mainstream thing isn't one of them.

Basically my hatred of mainstream comes from my view of the arts in general which is something I've been thinking about pretty much daily since I was like 10. I've come to the inclusion that while I don't think all art has to be life changing and otally unique and incredible in every way, I still wouldn't want to be the guy who has only ever made mediocre art that just follows and copies other people's genius (or lack thereof). 

Oh yeah, Grabbitz submitted this song to deadmau5 like 2 months ago. I totally forgot that they would be finishing it lol

 

And if you nail the mixing of that song and mastering and such, I think it's going to be pretty good. It has that mid tempo with a mix of minimal in it. I like it XD

Awesome, i'm glad to hear that since that's pretty much exactly what i was going for

Well... Here's an attempt at a Porter-style feelsy wall of sound... I'm actually pretty happy with it.

 

So what do you guys think of this now?

 

Really good stuff, although the part that's in the first one sounds more porter like since he doesn't usually use portamento on his leads, but he does love that bell-like sound for them. So if if you're going for exact porter I would switch that up, but it sounds fine if you're not going for that. The same kind of goes for the kick, although I would have to mess around with it in FL and stuff to tell you what's really "wrong" with it and I'm super busy this week, so I can't, sorry

Like, are you guys seriously discussing whether Monstercat or OWSLA would be "right for you"? 

Gotta aim big/believe in yourself if you want to make it. I actually have an (unfinished)  track that i'm planning to send to mau5trap someday right now. If it fit I'll send it, as long as they don't expect a certain number of fans I don't care.

I won't be posting here any more.

chime someone took your alias

 

;_; Could've sworn i checked i before i signed up...

Oh well like i said earlier, planning on ditching it soon so i guess I'll be nice and let that guy have it... *sniff*

Man this thread is gltichy as heck right now... Anyway i made a little more progress on my logo, but I've been too busy to finish it Hopefully will be done soon and the forum issues will be fixed so I can post and get your opinions

Like, are you guys seriously discussing whether Monstercat or OWSLA would be "right for you"? 

Hey man you gotta believe in yourself/fake it 'til you make it. I have a track (my magnum opus) that I'm planning to send to mau5trap someday, as soon as I have the followers I need to get the track signed.

I have indeed heard of it.

 

BTW, you must have that track privated or something, cuz I can't listen to it... Instead of just copying the URL, you have to go to the track and click share, then get the share-able link.

oh right I forgot I had to do that lol

Hopefully that works

Also deadmau5 released a new song tease thing feat. Grabbitz. Didn't know the guy had such a good voice. 

Finally done with this song.

 

 

Name is cheesy I know but I think it fits.

That was pretty good. I liked the music, but i wll have to agree the name is a little cheesy

Congrats on 500 followers btw. Don't know how long you've been over that threshold, but congrats anyway.

Also here's a thing I'm planning to submit to balloon party. I don't know if you guys know what that is or not. Matrix might.

Anyway, I've had it kicking around my drive for a couple months now, but they don't need to know that eed to mix and master before it in, and I'm kind of dreading that. It's my biggest file with about 60 tracks. I don't even know how may instruments. 20-30 maybe? I think the most I have going at once is 18.

So yeah that should be fun >.>

Ah, I can see that being a problem. I encounter stuff like that all the time where one sound drowns out everything. It's a pain to fix lol. This arrangement doesn't actually look all that unorganized to me. I mean on mine I just threw stuff down into the mix where ever I saw room XD

lol a lot of people do that. i just don't because it gets frustrating to me to try and find the thing I'm trying to change. Even when I do organize I still end up spending way too much time trying to find stuff sue to big project size :s

Yeah lol. I'll see what I can do, might just go with what I have right now.

 

Oh and I'll check out your song later when I have time. :3

 

Oh yes, I need it. You can finally use ASIO and stream and do other stuff at the same time. This'll be great...

 

Sounds great!

Well, I just did a few more tweaks and decided to release it. I just couldn't be bothered to mess with it more, lol.

 

How come that private track you posted has 300 plays? O_o

You don't want the bell sounds or the awesome rain sample of awesome?

Thanks. I actually turned off all of the compression and EQ on the master channel for that song. I don't want to give out a free song just yet. I sent it into sunsetmelodies to see if they could possibly master it for me or something.

 

As for your track I think it has a nice arrangement, but I can't help but think that there is something missing. I want to say it's the reverb, but I'm not a pro at this kind of thing. You can post a shot of the project file if you would like to. I actually enjoy seeing how other people organize there music... because I don't organize mine at all. I don't know if you can tell by the screenshot I took of my song keep up the nice work though. I'm rooting for you to get signed!

Hmm I did use reverb, but very lightly and in small rooms because that way the bass from the synths don't drop out that much. Oh well. That's the prolem with trying to review pretty much any audio/song. Very little definite stuff you can point fingers at as "wrong". But thanks, means a lot. Will let you guys know if it does happen

Oh and here's the screenshot. It's actually a prettyy old song, so the way I organized is a little outdated lol.

I liked that song Chaos.

Felt like calling some crappy people nearby me in life out today and verbally crushing their skulls beneath my boot, for being the soulless backstabbers they are.

A good thing I suppose, since it inspired me to try and finish up the master on that track I'm going to send to that label as an attempt to calm down. So here it is:

Can post a screenshot of the project file if you guys want as well.

 

日本人ですか？このサイトで日本人をいるが珍しいですね。僕はハーフですけどなので、日本語をそんなに話せません。とにかく、よろしく！

いいえ　わたし　は　がい人　です。　でも　日本ご　と　日本　の　 文化　が　すき　です。 Hopefully I can teach there someday (lol i can't say that part in Japanese )

lol... I posted it to a thread on the EDM production subreddit, and I guess people liked it...

 

Thinking back, I wish I had uploaded the finished version and linked to that. I could've used some publicity on that, lol. Oh well.

oh the feed back and advice thread?

I kind of forgot about that subreddit. It's good up to a certain point of learning, and then it just becomes really repetitive. I probably learn more from it's circlejerk counterpart than I do that actual sub lol

Someone suggested Porter (i think it was porter) do an AMA there, his response was something along the lines of "So I can get asked if I tune my drums 200 times?" which unfortunately is pretty accurate lol. The advanced production subreddit could be pretty good but it's deader than Boston Brand unfortunately :/

Nah it was a thread asking about whether anybody on the subreddit was able to compose good music without knowing theory. I guess they think so.

 

But eh, it's kinda fun to lurk around on there.

 

 

I did replace the link with the final version, but I doubt anybody will be looking through that thread any more...

 

On another note, I made some future bass!

Oh that's definitely possible. Idk if you know who twitch is (figure you might since you're a brony) but he makes some really great stuff for someone with no instrumental or theoretical knowledge. It's still a great thing to know though. Did you post your song as an example of as much then?

And the furture bass is nice, but could use some more bass(that's kind of important, lol). I can hear that it's there for sure, but there's kind of disconnect between your main kick and the sub. Sound like your main kick ends around 50ish hrz and your sub is at 20-30. Makes them sound like two completely separate entities instead of a nice conjoined one.

also chaos, since you love worlds so much, I'm guessing you heard his Nero remix right? I only ask because I want the opportunity to  talk about how absolutely incredible it is.

Girls tend not to like to create things and do technical stuff. I don't know why but that's just kind of how it is. Applies to a lot of different things as well. Why no female engineers? Construction workers? Game designers? Girls are more interested in interpersonal stuff, and so they pursue different things than guys. It doesn't usually show up this much, but it is what it is. Visual art is kind of an exception. Sort of. A lot of girls are kind of into it, but not as many make a name for themselves, and fully dedicate themselves to it for life from what I've seen.

Not sure exactly what that article is supposed to be saying... But I think it's a little silly for Zedd to say he only like music that's possible to play by hand. So many of my favorite songs would be impossible to play. I do agree that we need more musical EDM.

i can kind of seeing where he's coming from. I don't think he minds several different instruments making big chords, but that chords by one argument with so many parts kind of aren't natural, and can take the humanism out of music. A lot of better producers will purposely play certain parts of their songs so that those little tiny "mistakes" make it more natural. Sometimes things like that make the song nicer to listen to. A good example is Language, at teh beginning near __ you can hear that the note has less velocity, and I'm pretty sure that came from natural playing. I would see there are more important things to ward making songs musical though.

Anyway, I'm sure you guys have seen a lot of people posting Hellberg - the Girl Remixes, so  I thought I'd share the only one I've voted for so far.

Also Ephixa is making a remix. When he released a song a couple days ago. And another remix like two months before that. I think he may actually be back for real

Here's a WIP. This is the the technically my most "recent" song I've posted. As in it was started more recently than anything I've posted so far, so it's a better idea of what the music I'm making right now actually sounds like:

I think I've heard of him before... But yeah, I don't really know any theory...

 

I don't know about needing more bass... Maybe I need better speakers, but it sounds to me like about the right amount... And a lot of future bass I've listened to is actually very bass light... We'll see, though, Maybe I'll change my mind later on.

Well... RIP that project... Messed around with the project pitch and the whole thing crashed... 

 

Ah well, now would be a good time to upgrade to FL Studio 12... Anyways, here's the last export I did... Pretty much the same, but whatevs. It's a shame, I liked where this one was going.

 

https://soundcloud.com/scootrix/fyoocher-base-2

I have heard of him. It's pretty gosh dang XD I don't know if you've heard this, but one of the artists I follow made a song inspired from Worlds https://soundcloud.com/pra2music/worlds-is-amazing I'm sure you can hear the similarities

I couldn't tell if you're talking about twitch or the Nero remix, so i'm gonna link to both.  Also linking so you can confirm whether or not you know Twitch, Matrix. Also also because both are really amazing and I want to share them as much as possible. Mainly that last one tbh.

Twitch:

The Porter Remix (aka Musical Viagra): 

https://soundcloud.com/porter-robinson/nero-the-thrill-porter-robinson-remix

Also I do hear the similarities, to worlds in that song for sure, though there are some production issues that stop it from quite matching up. These guys do a better job of recreating the style. Though they're working from stuff porter actually created so it's only really the production they've done better.

https://soundcloud.c...terrobinsonlive

https://soundcloud.com/gezus-2/say-my-name-fellow-feeling-worlds-remake

*posts link to my own soundcloud* (kidding lol)

Ah cool, you were the one who followed me like a week ago XD It's nice seeing a new person on this thread lol. That's a pretty cool song though. I'll follow you back now that I know who you are. Hope to see you post more here

Oh hey guys, I added more to the song. It's still far from finished, but I think I have solid beginning and middle now at least.

 

haha yup, that was me. Followed all of you guys once i set my soundcloud up.

Will definitely be around a nd posting a bit. Might post a song i'm planning to send to a label in a couple days.