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This may sound a bit noobish (well of course, it's from me).

As long as I have the kick and the bass, I know how things work. Just equalize both cutting useless frequencies, making room for each instrument. Boosting a little the key frequencies, lowering others, etc.
Let's start to add another kick: no problems. Claps, snares and hats are all fine too, if a good EQ is done.

Problems come when we start to add other percussions. With all those drums there is small room for other percussions (there is still a lot of room for other instruments, though).

What are the solutions?

1) Lowering some channels' volume?
2) Removing unnecessary channels? (2 percussions instead of 3, only claps and no snares, etc)
3) What else?

Basically the question is: when there is no room left for the mix, what do?

At 3/8/13 02:10 PM, DavidOrr wrote: Thanks! Also, one thing I forgot to mention: LISTEN to music. If you are unmotivated to write, one of the next best things is to actively listen music. By actively, I don't mean blasting music while you jump up and down (hah!), but by listening intently and critically. If you like something in a song, what is it that clicks with you? The mixing? The harmonies? The instrumentation? What don't you like? By trying to focus in on as many details as possible, you'll not only improve your ear, but you might get some awesome ideas to inspire you to write.

Yes I totally agree on this.
Sometimes when I'm listening to music (I've got a big garage with some big speakers :D) I have 2, 3 methods of listening: one is just listen and enjoy, another one is ofc dance and the last one is "Why the hell is this song so good/catchy/awesome?"

When in last mode I try to get a general view of all the instruments and the "patterns" and how they're used. Like, every 8 bars there's a variation, the effects and transitions, etc.

; )

At 3/8/13 12:03 PM, DavidOrr wrote: Lots of good suggestions already! I like to consider composing in terms of using a muscle. The more you do it, the better (stronger) you will get at it, the quicker you'll be able to do it, and the easier it will be to come up with new ideas and execute them (endurance).
etc

Great tips David.

For me, I'm still a noob and a beginner, but I keep practising almost daily (when I have time ofc). Today, things that years ago seemed impossible are now easier ^^

Good luck

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVERYONE ON THE AUDIO PORTAL

At 3/5/13 03:12 AM, Fig-9 wrote:

At 12/22/12 08:07 AM, kopacetic wrote: If that person used Refx Nexus, I think that sound could easily be found under the Voice category, called 'Voice Flute"

He's right, there's one that sounds the same on nexus

don't want to sound rude, but if you read all the thread you can see that we already found out the first one; there was another one, solved this one too.

thanks anyway for checking out ;)

Everybody stop

GEORAMA

holy balls sounds cool, who cares if it's already used

At 3/4/13 02:28 PM, zag wrote: Keep it as it is.
People need to stop changing their usernames.

i have like 20-30 usernames all along the webs, one of the oldest is from 2000-2001, "mercuri_test+". yes, there is the "+" also because I mistyped it.

btw Nitrorama has the R problem.

NITROSAUR is good, but it seems too "explosive" and "aggressive".

Chances are Nitrosaur or a new one

Once, I touched a Korg M1.
If I had more money (correction, if i had money) I'd buy one

I'm trying to get a general name, btw it's for music.

At the moment, the best one is "Nitrorama", but it sounds, as someone said, too explosive.

Let's go with Nitrorama?

Pretty much the same when if you eat your nails and skin near them you get a better immune system. Probably not true, but I've eaten my fingers since the beginning of time, and hardly I get sick

If bestiality counts, I'd say dog on trans
else, lolshock dot com has some nice and funny short vids and gifs.

also scat and vomit

At 3/3/13 04:02 PM, Nor wrote:

At 3/3/13 04:00 PM, Lachi wrote: I'm thinking about a new name, tell me which one is the best.
Does the topic fit this forum? Well anyway I'll try

Synthomatic

That one

Sh1t I just googled Synthomatic and.. yes... it's already taken ;(

I'm thinking about a new name, tell me which one is the best.
Does the topic fit this forum? Well anyway I'll try

Synthomatic
Synthenstein
Synthorrific

Nitrosaur
Nitrorama

Meditation Zone

My best guess would be "Nitrorama". Feel free to suggest or close the topic, see ya

dance/trance, probably not what you're looking for

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  Warrior by Lachi

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  Qarak - Liquid piano by Lachi

  First real track. I hope I did well. Commercial trance?

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I used to lurk here since the beginning of the time, probably 2004-2005 I honestly can't remember.
Then I started to get interested more and more into music, etc.
Btw my first submission was and still is shit, but I called it Ground's Gate in honour of this site lol

Good luck everyone guys

frootza managed to do a nice replica of the Mega 'Lo Mania synth, good job there froo.
There are various ways to do it, but it seems the faster/easier one is make a choir/flute sound, add a piano/plucked or mallet instrument (froo did it with a guitar, and it sounds good too!), layer all together and tweak it with some effects and volume balancing.

Case closed (for this synth...) =)

Thank ya all

At 3/1/13 03:26 PM, Jammio wrote: Erik and Johan at http://www.extremeaudiorecording.com
can definitely help you. Their email is extremeaudiorecording@gmail.com
I talked with them a couple of days ago actually and they specialize in sfx

OMG SP4M

To the OP: You mean SoundFonts? There are a lot of torrents (containing free downloaded sfx) and giga pack out there. You're impling we know what would your next project be, so be specific pls or how do you except someone to help? Maybe ask Erik and Johan lol

At 3/1/13 03:59 PM, SourJovis wrote: There are definitely no mandolin nor xylophone samples in this song. I donâEUTMt even know what frootza means by this. Probably the Bright Piano (in the left speaker), which is also a preset on even the cheapest MIDI keyboards.

Yep, probably the easiest solution is just a bright piano with low volume and good settings, by the way thanks guys I managed to replicate a similar one using the M1 vst (I wish I had the keyboard), it sill needs some tweaks but it's a good raw sound lol ^^

Thank you!

Music theory for computer musicians, by I don't remember but it's a good book trust me, the author wrote other books about music, ok I got it let me find it

Michael Hewitt

@frootza
Awesome how accurate you explained it all, going to experiment asap, thanks a lot!

@blackhole
I know what Ogun is, but is one of the VSTs that I never used, will look into it. Btw for the choirs in my song I used Dsk Choirz and a bit of Galactix, both cool vsts.

Thank you both guys!

At 2/28/13 12:15 PM, SourJovis wrote: I can move my ears though. Can you?

rofl no, only if I move all the scalp (is that how you say it?)
Btw yes you got my point, thanks for claryifing =)

At 2/28/13 11:00 AM, SkyeWintrest wrote:

At 2/28/13 09:33 AM, Lachi wrote: I wonder why so many people say making electronic music (is easy) and still they're not famous

Advertising, luck, and possibly a bit of originality (at least, at first). No, I'm not kidding. (assuming you meant to add the "is easy" above)

Yeah I ate some words.
I still don't see why someone would say "doing x is harder than y", when obviously it comes from experience, skills and other things.

I can touch my tonsils with my toungue, but for some people is hard (if not impossible), lol

peace out ^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25OKpehBC3o

I'm so stupid and noob I can't even figure out this simple synth... After the eargasm that come at 1:43, the sound I'm talking about is heard. It's obvious a layered sound, the lead itself and a second sound, the second is simple to reproduce, I took an instrument and modified it a bit; the main sound is unreproduceble (at least) for me. What kind of wave/filter is there? With VSTs do you reccomend? Maybe I can get the same results layering some other similar sounds?

Thanks

I wonder why so many people say making electronic music and still they're not famous
btw it all depends, there's a friend of mine that plays pianoforte, violin and another classical instrument, and he doesn't even know what a DAW is

pointless arguments everywhere on this forum

At 2/27/13 11:37 AM, MetalRenard wrote: If you didn't make it, don't upload it without explicit permission. Quite simple.

Not that simple, people have different opinions about making a thing.
I made a song, but I didn't use my drums. Someone else made a song, but used a melody of a videogame; someone else again made a cool dancefloor track, but the bassline was copied... etc.

There was a guy here who said a cool thing about making things, like we never make things (you produce music with pc? you didn't make your pc, etc)

At 2/27/13 09:46 AM, TheEyeOfMusiK wrote: There's so many holes in ya'll system, I think it's bout time to patch em up, do some revamping, or get some better mods that actually understand music and copyrights.

Ok, but not today

At 2/20/13 02:07 PM, Sequenced wrote: All i hear from him are long ass build ups and then 32 beats dancable climaxes. It makes no sense.

we cant argue about music dear seq, taste is personal, period.

also, calling techno this type music... well i'm not the perfectionist guy but techno is a really different thing. also, trance music is too generic, and whatever see ya all

musician is not a job, get over it

At 2/18/13 03:29 PM, wandschrank wrote:

At 2/18/13 02:58 PM, Lachi wrote:

At 2/18/13 10:15 AM, wandschrank wrote: I don't see why this is such a big deal.

This is the question that should be made at the start of these threads

Yeah, let's not discuss anything at all, sounds great. :p

Seriously though, apart from the "I don't give a shit, so neither should you, stop crying"-attitude - are there any logical, comprehensible reasons for adding pointless categories (chipstep, nerdcore) while NOT adding categories that would improve the overall organization & usability (World has been mentioned, another Metal category, a chiptune category and so on). "The admins want it" is no good reason, it's just disinterest / obedience / trolling / whatever.

It's not about adding 500 categories. A few important ones would do, instead genres someone just pulled out of his arse get added. Which is funny, but not really beneficial.

Not making any advertise, but try to listen to my last two songs (I have only two btw): they are just inclassificable, like 75% of the work here. I'd suggest making some macro-categories, than adding what you need with tags. If you ask me I don't even know what chipstep is

At 2/18/13 10:15 AM, wandschrank wrote: I don't see why this is such a big deal.

This is the question that should be made at the start of these threads