Music Works In Progress Thread

[Herogashix]

Alright, forgot to bring the 0.9 version of Spectrum bootleg, but damb, it's REALLY good now. Might be uploading it later today if I go to my sister's.

Ohaider. I didn't take your suggestion. No such thing as sidechaining. Sorry.

[Herogashix]

https://soundcloud.com/thesapphiredragon/zedd-spectrum-sapphire-bootleg
there

[YoshL]

https://soundcloud.com/daeris/sburb-ambience-v3

any comments/stuff?

[Ohaider]

Originally Posted by Herogashix

Ohaider. I didn't take your suggestion. No such thing as sidechaining. Sorry.

oh god x.x

[Herogashix]

Originally Posted by Ohaider

oh god x.x

Don't worrym, it still sounds acceptable.

[TC_ORMIX]

Originally Posted by YoshL

https://soundcloud.com/daeris/sburb-ambience-v3

any comments/stuff?

I love were this was going, the whole song is like a dynamic lift O: gj

edit: lol I posted on my gambling account, oh well.

[Ohaider]

Originally Posted by Herogashix

Don't worrym, it still sounds acceptable.

Not if you wanna hear drums

[YoshL]

https://soundcloud.com/daeris/sburb-ambience-5
idk the ending seems abrupt

[m3t4kn1ght]

my third (not sure if actually) completed track, just started out making music and I really like it! was not sure what genre it would be labled so I made it progressive house.
https://soundcloud.com/dist-5/heliotropium

any tips on flstudio are much appreciated, I still need to learn more about it!

[Herogashix]

@m3t4, It sounds like the bass is disrupting the natural balance of the song with the kick build-up. Make sure to always watch your levels and EQ accordingly.

Also add some sidechaining like crazy. I'm not one to sidechain often since I'm more experimenting with the engineering side of production rather than the production side of production, but even I know sidechaining is key to create amazing tracks. Your piano also sounds like it could use a lot of reverb and some delay.
I highly recommend getting FL Studio 11. And if for some reason you don't like FL anymore, head straight to Ableton Live 9. Don't even look at Pro Tools.

@YoshL, the ending doesn't seem too abrupt to me. It sounds pretty damn nice.

@Ohaider. How do you usually sidechain? I end up placing a peak controller on the kick or whatever usually goes every quarter bar anyway. (Or end up making another kick but mute it.) Then add a Balance or on say the saw bass or noise then link the volume to the peak+lfo. Is there a different way that isn't using Gross Beat. Cause literally, that thing IS gross.

[m3t4kn1ght]

Originally Posted by Herogashix

@m3t4, It sounds like the bass is disrupting the natural balance of the song with the kick build-up. Make sure to always watch your levels and EQ accordingly.

Also add some sidechaining like crazy. I'm not one to sidechain often since I'm more experimenting with the engineering side of production rather than the production side of production, but even I know sidechaining is key to create amazing tracks. Your piano also sounds like it could use a lot of reverb and some delay.
I highly recommend getting FL Studio 11. And if for some reason you don't like FL anymore, head straight to Ableton Live 9. Don't even look at Pro Tools.

@YoshL, the ending doesn't seem too abrupt to me. It sounds pretty damn nice.

haha, I have no idea what sidechaining is, I'll look it up. I actually did put on a reveerb on the piano, but I can see now that it's barely hearable. when I first put on the effect it sounded way to echo-ish.
I can also see what you mean about the basskick, thats actually a mistake. I meant to lower it down in the final production, I was testing how it sounded when I turned it up a bit.
Sidenote, I am absolutely horrible with playing with effects. Thanks for the tips though! very helpfull. I hope to make more in the future and also get much better! (watched back by the way)

[Herogashix]

Originally Posted by m3t4kn1ght

haha, I have no idea what sidechaining is

Originally Posted by Herogashix

@Ohaider. How do you usually sidechain? I end up placing a peak controller on the kick or whatever usually goes every quarter bar anyway. (Or end up making another kick but mute it.) Then add a Balance or on say the saw bass or noise then link the volume to the peak+lfo. Is there a different way that isn't using Gross Beat. Cause literally, that thing IS gross.

Originally Posted by m3t4kn1ght

I actually did put on a reveerb on the piano, but I can see now that it's barely hearable. when I first put on the effect it sounded way to echo-ish.
I can also see what you mean about the basskick, thats actually a mistake. I meant to lower it down in the final production, I was testing how it sounded when I turned it up a bit.
Sidenote, I am absolutely horrible with playing with effects. Thanks for the tips though! very helpfull. I hope to make more in the future and also get much better! (watched back by the way)

Reverb and Delay really help (use Reverb 2 and Delay Bank then lower the delay volume a little bit) with Pianos and even melody synths. Plucks usually piss me off if they have a lot of delay.

With Kicks, open up Parametric EQ 2 and make the mid a little quieter, then up the "2" to the first line (should be +3db/+6db iirc?) and the "6" to the right a bit and up a little more than the "2" was at.
That's how I usually make my kicks punchy and have bass. I also suggest downloading VEC-1 pack for a shitload of premade kicks, snares, claps and hats/cymbals. I've ended up using 3xOSC to make my kicks (hella layering, awye) though. I personally say NEVER touch "Fruity Bass Boost" at all ever for kicks.

Very great VSTs to use for pianos and other synths is ReFX Nexus2. I'd stay away from NI Massive since it's actually really a huge CPU eater depending on your computer. With Nexus2 piano presets, they usually already have reverb and delay so it's close to useless to put any of those effects there.

inb4 someone tells me how wrong I am with the EQ shit.

Also holy shit I'm dying of laughter. This is the greatest shit I've ever heard.
https://soundcloud.com/osaka-noise-ensemble/kore-wa-wareware-ga-sore-o

[Ohaider]

Originally Posted by m3t4kn1ght

haha, I have no idea what sidechaining is, I'll look it up. I actually did put on a reveerb on the piano, but I can see now that it's barely hearable. when I first put on the effect it sounded way to echo-ish.
I can also see what you mean about the basskick, thats actually a mistake. I meant to lower it down in the final production, I was testing how it sounded when I turned it up a bit.
Sidenote, I am absolutely horrible with playing with effects. Thanks for the tips though! very helpfull. I hope to make more in the future and also get much better! (watched back by the way)

It's basically compression in which you copy a drum wave form (like say a kick) and clone it onto another channel, and whenever you have the kick of the cloned channel play, instead of hearing a kick, it is set to quiet down the rest of the track just almost immediately just to get the drums a transient pop

It makes the drums way more audible (especially the snare)

[Herogashix]

New WIP. I have no idea what I'm doing.
https://soundcloud.com/thesapphiredragon/tsd-hellogentlemen

[Coolboyrulez0]

hey man your stuff is starting to sound pretty damn good already, nice build and progression, good use of automation now you just need to start introducing a sick melody and you'll have a very enjoyable track

[Herogashix]

Originally Posted by Coolboyrulez0

hey man your stuff is starting to sound pretty damn good already, nice build and progression, good use of automation now you just need to start introducing a sick melody and you'll have a very enjoyable track

@?

[Coolboyrulez0]

well somewhere its just arps so far, starting right before / after the fadeout slowly introduce a melody, then a counter melody keep building etc.

[Herogashix]

Originally Posted by Coolboyrulez0

well somewhere its just arps so far, starting right before / after the fadeout slowly introduce a melody, then a counter melody keep building etc.

I meant "at who?" cause m3t4 also posted something.

I do plan on adding a melody. I might scrap the mix I'm making and use a melody from that, or I could be creative and come up with something.

[V-Ormix]

cool stuff hero 8)

I might not do much more to this other than eq it and add a diff melody or lead sound

https://soundcloud.com/ormix/solar-storms-wip

[Ohaider]

We should collab!