Well What Makes You So Special?

[sdfmusic]

:)

What do you do that no one else does?
Any really fucked up techniques that you use frequently in your music that might contribute to your own originality?
Post a small example of your oddity, for everyone's consideration :D

I use dblue Glitch a lot. I know if you're really going to make breakcore, you've gotta chop yourself, but I don't really want to make breakcore, it's not popular or good sounding all the time, I just take elements of it.

Something really weird I do is use dblue's gater to get a harsh chop in on relatively simplistic Arp basslines. If you've listened to "mental overscan," it sounds like a really complex, really fast bassline, but in fact- it's only 3 or 4 arpegiatted notes at 85 BPM with dblue's Gater set to Speed: 8.

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/59353/buy%20p roducts%20game%20mix.wav

2 3xOscs, FPC, and a distorted Kick- for this weird rappy thing.

It adds an illusion of the psytrance bass complexity and syncopation, really easily without having to steal Infected Mushroom's blippy/syncopated 303 stuff.

:no one else is going to share their techniques :(

[Kaizerwolf]

What makes me different? Combine a classical type artist (Gravey1) and myself. We made a killer song which has challenged the laws of physical music.

Hell yeah i'm different. :P

On a serious note (no pun please...) i do most of my drum work first, the build off of that. Most artists have told me to start with the melodies first, but i find that hard to do. :P

[Gorgorothx]

At 4/19/09 07:39 PM, Kaizerwolf wrote: On a serious note (no pun please...) i do most of my drum work first, the build off of that. Most artists have told me to start with the melodies first, but i find that hard to do. :P

I usually do the drum work first, too. I find it's my strong-suit, and I pull out the most creativity that way. Plus I find that my melodies usually suck, so bad-ass rhythms are my way of making up for it. ;)

[gregaaron89]

Yeah I mostly start with drums and bass first. I feel if I can't get that working nicely, my song's going to fall apart.

[gregaaron89]

doublepostfail

Also, I'm a complete beast when it comes to automation, definitely my strong point asides from mixing.

[Pure-Metal-UTA]

The system in which I make my music is different
I start by getting the idea, then I write the drums for it, and record off that.
I write the drums on another recording window to prevent Virtual memory loss.
Then I do the rest.
Then what sets me out as different music-wise...
The riffs I make aren't seen anywhere else...?

[Gravey]

At 4/19/09 07:49 PM, Nithalahk wrote: I make the worst music on NewGrounds.

Cookie please.

Lawl! Lawl! Lawl! Lawl! Lawl!

This truly had me Lawl! X-D

[sdfmusic]

I kinda thought of another fucked up thing that I do, sorta wondering if anyone else does this one:

Does anyone use MIDI Velocity for synths like 3xOsc? It has a weird sound, and I use it for different effects and articulations, but I haven't really ever heard anyone adjusting per-note volume, most people seem to stick to filters...

I also like mangling samples out of recognition, like using resonance to get a pitch on vocoded noise, and then controlling the pitch on that with like antares.

Music is fun .-.

[HaniiPuppy]

I apply classical techniques to Rock and Punk music :P

And when I write lyrics, I think about storyline, meaning, and poetry more than how it sounds, but that really just reflects how I listen to music - I prefer music with some kind of meaning or tale behind it that's told well to music that doesn't make any sense - hence my love-hate relationship with Prog-Rock :P

[HaniiPuppy]

Oh, I also use the Guitar Amp Pro plugin (available in Logic) over the top of the Slayer 2 plugin to create different sounding guitars. Now that I think about it, it's like using 2 amps.

I recommend everyone who makes rock music in logic to try it, you can really get unique sounds doing this.

[Don-Sanchez]

I got two things. Firstly, I make my samples through Audacity. They are pretty ambiguous until I find a melody or beat to apply them.
Secondly, I have very very very minimum drum experience. As hit the thing at a friend's house once. So, I really try to feel out the beat, see if it can garner enough focus or bob a head. I also try to visualize a drummer at a set to check how realistic my beat is.
Sometimes a beat comes first, sometimes a melody.

[ChemicalReaper]

I wouldn't say I have a particularly special or original style. I just study a lot of Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Romantic composers (so far, I've studied Gregorian chants, Britten, Chopin, Mozart, J.C.F and J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Vaughn Williams, Salieri, Brahms, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Vivaldi, and Haydn). For non-classical stuff, I've studied various 80s and modern rock and roll and metal bands, the styles of Koji Kondo, Karl Jenkins, and Gustavo Santaolalla.

So I guess my music is just kinda... influenced by everything I listen to. Which is why the next piece I'm working on has a classical/romantic feel, even though it's in the style of classical Spanish guitar.

[sdfmusic]

Well, this is just ridiculous. I just realized that in general I write my music in a march style.

Intro -> Chorus -> Refrain -> Chorus -> Refrain -> Trio -> Chorus -> Outro

What the hell >_>

[Pure-Metal-UTA]

At 4/19/09 11:25 PM, HaniiPuppy wrote: And when I write lyrics, I think about storyline, meaning, and poetry more than how it sounds

Holy shit I do the same thing too!
I usually try to base the lyrics around the title, in which the title goes for the feel of the song. When I write the lyrics, I try to go for a storyline. Most of the time try to make it rhyme.

[wyldfyre1]

CUZ I'm WF1 MO FO's! Lol. nah, really i think i just have a distinct sound is all that some people like and others don't like. I'm no one special. I just like music like everyone else here ^_~.

[Phyrnna]

I dabble around in genres and compose whatever suits me at the moment. But what makes my music different? I guess it's that my music is very melodically oriented moreso than any other aspect of the song.

...that and I'm a girl on NG! xP

[loansindi]

What makes me different?

Not a damn thing. My music is generic and unremarkable.

And I'm okay with that.

[btriangle]

I can compose almost any style of music, and sing almost any style.

I have an original style, which is my ability to do any style :D

[unowned]

only one to do remixes of my chem

[Kanped]

Raw PCM data, transient modifying, making my own instruments, circuit bending and a load of crazy free VSTs.

[B0UNC3]

I'm Swedish

[Kazmo]

At 4/20/09 09:08 AM, B0UNC3 wrote: I'm Swedish

Well Said! :P

I think my music has it's own sound to it, considering I make all my synths from scratch in 3xOsc. That way my music tends to sound different from the rest, even if it's slightly.

I also usually start with a rhythm, rather than a melody, because I'll make a beat, and then a bass would follow, and then I'll try and make some melody/synth that fits nicely on the said beat and bass.

:D

[DarKsidE555]

At 4/20/09 09:08 AM, B0UNC3 wrote: I'm Swedish

That's nothing special, that's a disease! ;D

lawl

[B0UNC3]

At 4/20/09 09:21 AM, DarKsidE555 wrote:

At 4/20/09 09:08 AM, B0UNC3 wrote: I'm Swedish

That's nothing special, that's a disease! ;D

lawl

Ohgawd, spamplz?

cockjokez

[ApproachingNirvana]

What makes us special?

We'll we're two people, with unique backgrounds. One classical, One Techno. Then we fuse stuff together and awesome comes out sometimes.

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And we work exceptionally hard?

.... oh and teabagging. Haha, i love Republicans.

[Alchemist94]

I make love to my computer and it ejaculates awesome.

[PeckaPrime]

Im Slovenian !!!!! (that beats being Swedish by unimaginable amounts)
+ I make trance !!!

So let's absorb that, a slovenian.. making trance.
NOW that's something you'll never see or hear again in your lives babies.

Apple sauce bijotch !

[Zero123Music]

erm, I'm 13? (and not a, "LOLOL EAr rApE xDxD!!!111" 13 year-old either^^

[Swerve]

I'm not special.

But everyone here is.

Does that make me special.

OH THE PHILOSOPHY

[AKACCMIOF]

I added vibrato to a piano. Plus I spent half an hour behind school recording the sound of the storm, and then recording the drip drop of the wet patch in the toilets. Of course, I had to cut down these fifteen minute recordings to just the best fifteen seconds and then fade this in and out only to get ZERO BOMBED THE FUCK OUT OF!

I also add auto wahs, chorus and tremolo to random loops that were fine before! I also add an auto-filter to a bass drum track to get an incredible "thump" for the odd drum n bass number, the only existing example being my House Of The Rising Sun remix, which i am now wondering whether to delete due to intense zero bombing. Whilst not wierd, it gets quite a powerful effect.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/2 15033- Vibrato piano.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/2 25497- How unnecessary effects can change the soul of the song.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/2 31160- Hardcore bass cut in half way through and watery recordings!

And I remixed 300, but thats not weird anymore!

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/2 30242- THIS IS SPARTA!