Hmm, I'm just gonna sit back and listen to the entries (mostly the drum & bass ones).

I enjoy critiquing stuff :D

At 12/5/09 08:51 PM, durn wrote: sorry to say, dude. those aren't epiphanies. that's just you learning shit. :P lol. an epiphany is a relatively life-changing event that opens your eyes to not only different ways of doing things but a whole new understanding of what you've been doing in the past.

soooo, yeah, that's just you becoming more technical, sorry to say. :P

idk, maybe the last 3 weren't epiphanies, but the first 2 definitely were. I didn't learn them anywhere, they just kinda hit me.

Wow, I've had a few epiphanies on my way producing drum & bass, a few of the larger ones were:

- How to make a (good) reese. This was a huge one.
- How to modulate a reese (well). Another huge one.
- How to process my drums to make them tighter.
- Using a spectrum analyzer to help mix down the track.
- And a more recent one, stereo imaging to make the track sound "bigger" and give it more space.

Of course, I've had little epiphanies on how to make certain synth sounds and such, but these ones were definitely crucial to my growth as a drum & bass producer. I'll doubtlessly be having many more epiphanies in the future.

At 11/22/09 12:24 PM, tshah21 wrote:

At 11/22/09 11:51 AM, guilmonx wrote: Software problem.

Fruity Loops stopped reading MP3 files. It worked perfectly fine a month ago but now it does not read them at all.

I don't know when it happened exactly or how it stopped working but it doesn't work anymore.

I dont really want you to open the mp3 file in FL, but im just saying thats the longest my song goes and then it loops.. :( This is the flp file:

http://fileshost.com/download.php?id=886 6A1931

I don't think he was answering your question. But I think your problem is that you're not using the playlist, just the step sequencer. Look up some decent tutorials, and use the playlist to make your songs longer. The playlist is where you organize all of your patterns into a song.

At 11/22/09 12:57 PM, tshah21 wrote:

At 11/22/09 12:42 PM, Semperfi360 wrote: Hi,
I am wondering how to save my work as a loop?
Thanks.

You dont need to save as a loop, just save as mp3 file, then when you submit it to NG, make sure you select "Loop" and not "Song"

That doesn't make it a loop. You have to make sure that your song ends in such a way that it fits with the beginning of the song, then export it and change the "looping mode" in the export settings box.

At 11/19/09 10:03 PM, statueofdiveo wrote: Fl is quite cluttered, with windows everywhere.

Not with two monitors :D

In order to play a pattern, you have to put it in a playlist.

No you don't, you can play patterns on their own.

piano roll doesn't play sound when a note is clicked.

Last time I checked, it does.

Sytrus is the best synth, and that isn't good.

The best INCLUDED synth. Obviously they're not gonna include some amazing synth with the software. All the good ones are sold separately. Get over it and get some new plugins. And if you can't, then actually LEARN how to make your own sounds, and any VSTi can sound good.

Fl is completed by external plugins.

That's kind of the point... FL is not meant to ONLY use the included ones. Any DAW will be better with external plugins.

I actually own a regular MicroKorg, and I've got no problems with it, it works fine for what I need it for. I'm no expert at synth programming, so I don't need anything over the top, which is why I got a MicroKorg. If you want something with more features then I'd go for the XL.

The regular one certainly isn't bad though. Quite fun.

Why do you call it "DubStep DnB"? What is that?

At 10/16/09 10:07 PM, EmperorCharlemagne wrote: Can someone post me an example of a song made in Reaper? I use FL, but I've always been curious, because I'd like to see if other programs are better... Truthfully, I'd prefer Logic or Reason, but ah well, that's far off yet.

As far as I know, Reaper is similar to Cubase, but without the awesomeness of Cubase. Then again, this is drawn solely from screenshots of the program; I've never used it.

It's certainly not bad though. It's a complete DAW, and pretty damn cheap for what it does.

At 10/16/09 06:20 PM, Alchemist94 wrote: Nobody thought to suggest Microsoft Paint?

That was mean lol. OP, look into Reaper or Mu.Lab.

Mu.Lab is free.

Layering, EQing, and compression is usually what I do. You have to think of everything in the mix; it takes practice to be able to get a good mixdown, but if you keep trying you'll get it.

FL questions go here.

and no, I don't believe so.

At 10/11/09 12:26 AM, SolusLunes wrote: LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!

LOL

At 10/10/09 05:41 AM, Supersteph54 wrote: I need some help with genres as well. Was about to post a new thread until I saw this. I'm finding it hard to decide what instrument to use for Drum'n'Bass. I have a good bass, and the drum samples and beats are ready, but I need something to accompany the bass, which plays the main melodies. What synth should I use for that?

Use whatever you want. It's your song. If you want to get a real idea of drum & bass, look up some REAL drum & bass, not the stuff on NG.

At 10/10/09 04:39 PM, wtflolnoob wrote: Anything so harsh that you want to stab your ears will work.

Offense taken.

To the OP, you can use anything you want, it's your song. Only real advice I can give.

At 10/10/09 12:29 PM, loansindi wrote: This is hundreds of hours you have to pay musicians, recording engineers, caterers and god knows who else. It's a really massive production.

I lol'd when I read "caterers." lol.

And yeah, I know the tonality changes, and you may not have as much control over the sound, but most of the time it gets the job done. However, if the OP is going for a real-sounding track, yeah, he'd be better off with something that allowed more control.

At 10/10/09 10:48 AM, l-minus-l wrote: what's the difference between samples and vsts? if samples are real instrument recordings then that's probably what i'm looking for

samples don't have to be real recordings, they're basically just sound files, whereas VSTis are generators that make the sound in real time. I think some VSTs use samples to get their sounds though, especially the orchestral/"real instrument" ones. Not sure about that though.

I think you'd find it a lot easier to just look up "Japanese instrument samples" on google. Then you can download a single .wav (or .aif or whatever you want) of an instrument, load it in a sampler, and play it as you would play any VST.

Do they have to be VSTs? I wonder why everyone always asks for VSTs here... what's wrong with samples?

At 10/6/09 08:05 PM, AeraDynamic wrote: MOAR!
BECAUSE MOAR!

lulz lol rofl

i love rig too

Alchemist, find me on MSN and I can explain some stuff lol

Does it need to be a VSTi?

Well if the only rule is to have fun (and not cheat lol) and the only prize is the honor of winning, why set a due date? It's more of a challenge than a contest.

At 10/4/09 05:45 PM, MH16 wrote: Here's what i made.

Nice job! I like it.

Yeah seriously... if someone cares enough to learn what makes a certain genre, they can Google it..

At 10/4/09 05:28 PM, Mystery-Moon-Pie-Aud wrote: I just thought, if a person already makes a song, then loads that sample into one channel, that would be pretty lame. So people, no song samples in one channel.

That's essentially what I was saying.

It's a good idea, but it's really easy to cheat. To make a full drum beat in one channel, I could make it with many samplers and then bounce it and load it in a slicer as a single channel.

lol. Now maybe a challenge like two instruments only, that would solve this problem...

Well if NG still has that 2-song-per-day limit, then you won't be able to submit 2 songs today, as you've already uploaded one today... but one should go through...

How do you know you're approved then, if they didn't show up?

At 10/4/09 03:45 PM, Fuiste wrote: Hey guys, sorry it took so long to get back to my own thread, but real life happened there for a few days...

Either way, here's my own piece of electro. I really like the way I got the bassline on this one, and it's one of the simplest songs I've written from an instrumentation standpoint, so that's something new for me.
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/2 77534

Not bad. I like Mid-Night's bass better though :D But yours was nice and distorted. One question... why is it in Heavy Metal?

At 10/4/09 12:33 AM, Mid-Night wrote: FINE be that way :P

You just need to mix better imo lol. Most importantly, turn your bass down and get some monitors!
Then you'll go on my list lol