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At 6/19/13 12:05 AM, Blacklawn wrote: Perhaps making each user post a link to the song they reviewed, thus proving that they are following the rules. If they don't, then they don't get reviews, either. It could work, no?

probably not

i will play along and review one of your songs anyway, although i will be honest. you may revenge-review if you like.

also: 3xOSC is kinda shit but it has some cool features and is compatible with note slides which are pretty great! and you can use effects to make things sound a lot nicer anyway.

anyway, this is a 3xOSC dub bass patch that doesn't suck which i made for you (and everybody else). at least, i wouldn't personally be embarrassed to use it in a track of my own.

here are some ways i've made "dubstep basses" over the years:

made a regular house style bassline, ran through dblue glitch, resampled it and cut it up, pitch shifted, timestretched etc

used note slides in FL, sliding between note cutoff frequencies instead of pitch

sub bass + distortion, used beat frequencies to created the "wubs"

granular synth with kickdrum sample, used keyboard controller to control grain size and spacing

seriously though mate, if the problem is

the actual sound is not big/fat enough and there is absolutely not enough bass in the speakers.

you need a sub haha

only other thing is that if you're running a 3.5mm to RCA cable to the monitors straight from your computer then maybe your soundcard isn't driving the speakers hard enough - if the volume is fine and you're just disappointed with how they sound then buy a sub and external/internal soundcard with RCA outs because you should have those ANYWAY

you need a separate subwoofer with those monitors. did you buy these speakers without researching this?
anyway KRK make the 10s subwoofer to go with the rokit speaker series, so that'd be alright!
any other 10" sub is fine though

At 6/17/13 11:24 PM, gridcrawler wrote: FL Studio will always glitch even on the highest spec setting. But on higher spec, it will glitch less. For example if you have 20 VSTs open in a PC with 2.0 GHz & 4GB of RAM, it will glitch but not a lot. Actually on the CPU rate bar it will glitch when things goes over 30 or 40.

you shouldn't get noticeable glitches (i.e. underruns) unless the cpu bar hits 99. do you have "mix in buffer switch" and "triple buffer" enabled? and i guess if your ASIO buffer rate is really low you'll get a lot more underruns but it doesn't need to be low unless you're recording audio or midi input.

At 6/17/13 11:48 AM, TomFulp wrote:

At 6/17/13 04:18 AM, midimachine wrote: there was another site i used to visit where we had a review system where you had the option to leave a link to a track of yours at the end for a return review. when the site was at it's peak (and at the time busier than the current active AP) you'd get close to a 1:1 return on reviews, and it wasn't even compulsory! seriously, fuck compulsory reviewing!

That is really really really tempting to try out! Could get more artists to participate in reviewing, in general.

definitely! they used to let you write a short description as the hyperlink text too, i thought that was worth noting
oh, and this is a thing that would be good for the other portals too i think. except maybe not flash. i dunno!

there was another site i used to visit where we had a review system where you had the option to leave a link to a track of yours at the end for a return review. when the site was at it's peak (and at the time busier than the current active AP) you'd get close to a 1:1 return on reviews, and it wasn't even compulsory! seriously, fuck compulsory reviewing!

so maybe something like that would be nice.
or, make reviews a 50 character minimum and then make another "best of" list for top reviewers (i.e. people who wrote the most reviews)
seriously though, fuck compulsory reviewing.

...or compulsory anything else really haha

^ lol'd, good job guy

fl studio, ableton live, reason, orion, cubase, reaktor, ohm studio (when it comes out)... google dat shit bro

At 6/15/13 11:14 PM, DarkantheHero wrote: The order of the inserts on your tracks matters.

If you have a master track with the following inserts:

EQ
Reverb
Limiter

Then the EQ will be routed through the reverb and limiter, but the reverb and limiter won't be EQ'd.

oh yeah, i getcha
the way you worded it confused me though, like you were saying the reverb would magically disappear entirely haha

still, placing an EQ before a reverb will definitely have an effect on how a reverb sounds, though. and also on the way the limiter reacts to the signal. in the end it really depends how you want the reverb to sit on the mix, making it first in the chain isn't really a necessity imo

oh yeah, the album is fucking great btw

also forcing people to review before scoring is annoying as fuck.
i seriously don't have the time or energy to write an essay justifying where i place a song on an arbitrary, subjective scale. seriously you all should have much better things to do than to explain to other people exactly why you didn't like their songs.

scores should just be removed entirely, because the general user base is clearly way too fucking precious about it. there should be more incentive to review but it definitely shouldn't be made compulsory.

At 6/15/13 10:14 PM, Cabbster wrote: Most of their sounds sound like rehashes of their previous sound.

it doesn't sound anything like human after all

or homework

or tron legacy soundtrack

or discovery, really

i self vote sometimes and it doesn't do shit lol

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i'll probably only submit chip related stuff this year :v

At 6/14/13 02:28 PM, DarkantheHero wrote: And also, if you're going to have reverb on your master track, I would make sure it's first in the chain, otherwise anything you want over the mix will not include the reverb.

what lol

At 6/12/13 08:02 PM, alternativesolution wrote:

At 6/10/13 10:48 AM, CrusadeOfficial wrote: 4. When building a pattern, use the default snare to trigger the sidechain when needed.

What does this part mean exactly? To "trigger the sidechain"...

basically it just means making the peak controller do stuff. if the peak controller has no input to trigger it then it doesn't do anything.

Now the snare is silent, but the synth I'm trying to sidechain isn't..sidechaining. Think anyone could tell me what I missed, or give a couple extra details at this step?

right click the control that you're sidechaining (e.g. synth channel or mixer track volume), select "Link to controller", select your peak controller from the middle drop down box (it'll say something like "Send 1 - Peak Controller (Peak)"), select "Inverted" from the mapping formula dialog (or replace "Input" with "1-Input")

if it's sidechaining but not making a big difference you can open the peak controller itself and mess with the volume, tension and decay settings until you get a more pronounced effect. if you need an even more pronounced effect you need to mess with the mapping formula (e.g. use something like "1-(1.2*Input)")

right

At 6/12/13 08:58 PM, Ecke wrote: Only if you do 100% chorus with severe offset and 8 step delay.

At 6/12/13 09:00 PM, Sequenced wrote: i have 10 soundgoodizers on my master channel

rly gud jokememes guys XD

At 6/12/13 06:08 PM, wandschrank wrote: Tolerance, respect, peace, love & harmony! <3

PLUR as fuuuuck

At 6/12/13 03:37 AM, DJDela wrote: I hate to ask this, but when using peak controller, there is always that clicky noise when the sidechaining hits.
Any way to deal with it?

the initial click can come from numerous sources.

start with the ADSR of the instrument that you're ducking, maybe increase the attack time just a fraction. could also try changing where the ducking occurs in the signal chain (channel volume vs. track volume vs. compressor threshold vs. makeup gain etc.)

At 6/12/13 10:48 AM, Calamaistr wrote: I suppose i will just have to keep putting it in videogame music genre right?

if you want to
pretty much all genre names are dumb though, really

chipstep = dubstep made with chip, basically. actual chipstep artists are zef, monodeer, stress_tn, cheapshot... among others of course. ofc most people posting in chipstep are just posting whatever chip-style music and wondering what the fuck chipstep even is haha

At 6/12/13 12:27 AM, jarrydn wrote:

At 6/11/13 12:22 PM, SkyeWintrest wrote: There isn't anything wrong with it, technically. It's just not the "pro" way to do it, as far as I know.

more pro than using a peak controller or limiter IMHO, as you have total control over the timing and envelope.

i think both methods can have a lot of control, you just need to know what you're doing and not have a "set and forget" attitude with the peak controller.

that said, automation is definitely better for sick wobs n shit

At 6/11/13 01:19 PM, Juicebomb wrote: I've tried, but I can't find any way to sidechain on my Cubase 4 or my Reason 2.5. Too bad, I guess

i think you need to output the sidechaining instrument to a gate cv somewhere, been a while since i used reason though. good god those are some old programs.

At 6/11/13 12:56 PM, Knoxius wrote: : I haven't used sidechaining in a while, but I use the Fruity Limiter method. Never tried with peak controller; is it a better option?

peak controller lets you sidechain anything. filter, EQ, pitch, whatever you like. dunno if it's necessarily better or worse for straight up ducking though

At 6/10/13 04:05 PM, Onsta wrote: I feel like I have crippled myself by not taking piano lessons/ owning a MIDI keyboard.

you really haven't! i pretty much never use my keyboards unless i'm recording audio from them (which means i sequence the notes on the computer and then send MIDI to the keyboard haha)

although i've noticed there's a disconnect between fretboard and piano roll for some guitarists which makes it hard to transcribe by ear into a sequencer. so maybe some piano knowledge would help in overcoming it?

At 6/10/13 06:49 PM, sorohanro wrote: I actually put it after the limiter because compressors and limiters might bring it too much up. I put really a small amount, about 3-5%.

yeah this, usually just a tiny little room reverb too
just need to leave a little headroom for it haha

If you deselect "remove conflicts" you can just link everything to 'peak'

I route everything to be sidechained through send1 to get some awesome effects with dblue glitch

oh cool, for some reason deselecting remove conflicts just made everything not work in older versions of FL (like 4/5 lol) so maybe that's a habit i can kick now haha. i should use dblue for stuff again, too!

also more preference stuff, but for a ducking effect i usually use compressor threshold instead of channel volume; it's just a little more aggressive sounding and it frees up the volume fader for other things if i need it.

you don't need to do any fancy routing or separate anything btw. you can have a peak controller on any channel, leave it set to mute and turn the wet/dry mix all the way down if you need the instrument to be audible

also, you can have one sound sent through multiple peak controllers, so if i want the "default snare" to sidechain the volume of one instrument and the filter cutoff of another i have them linked to two different controllers on the same channel. you can also leave the LFO off and use "peak + LFO" and have one peak controller sidechaining two different settings, but i like having multiple controllers because you can adjust the release time individually for each controller.

At 6/7/13 05:32 AM, Yoshiii343 wrote:

At 6/5/13 04:06 PM, ectsoman wrote: I've always wanted to uses samples to create an entire song

>uses samples to create an entire song
so...you're saying you want to make duplo music?

no, he's talking about doing what the avalanches or dj shadow does. or something dumb like "pop culture" by madeon. or basically any song from discovery. it's nothing at all like duplo music haha