trying to make music. just a very rough start

Re: trying to make music. just a very rough start

There's a whole book of pointers people could post on this thread. After listening to what you uploaded, my first suggestion is to go on youtube and watch people use FL Studio. I don't mean watch tutorials, though that's one way to do it, but just watch people who are fluid with the program work. It'll give you a better understanding of how to do things and it'll make you more familiar with FL Studio. That's the other thing, even though you just started and it's totally ok now, in the future, stop using the sounds FL Studio gives you. Find drum samples elsewhere if you're going that rout, and make your own synths. Even if your synths sound worse than the presets at first, I promise it's incredibly important to keep at it.

In terms of that track specifically, I can see how you were experimenting with some things so this criticism doesn't entirely apply, but your form is really boring. You wait for 4 measures, add something, next 4 measures, add something else, rinse and repeat. It doesn't make your track flow very interestingly and without transitions between sections, your "exciting" parts aren't going to be as exciting.

Re: trying to make music. just a very rough start

That sounds pretty good for just a barebones project. Add transition effects, EQ everything a bit, and make an outro that's not abrupt. That's about all the I can say about what you have so far. Keep going! You did much better than me for my first try at anything. I was and am still too embarrassed to post it. LOL

This.
I worked with presets for the first year of FL just to understand how to make them (jk I was a preset whore and I didn't understand shit). But I eventually took time to learn Sytrus better, and I've been making my own stuff (they're bad, but they're getting better).





It could also confuse people, too. If they're doing things too fast and not really explaining anything anyway, it's harder to understand what's going on and how things are changing.

I'm adding more than necessary to this post.

Re: trying to make music. just a very rough start

You're not wrong about that, Herogashix.

The reason I suggested watching other people work in FL is just so he can see where people go in order to do things. For instance, for the longest time I thought you couldn't automate anything from a VST outside of FL Studio natives until I saw someone go to tools>last tweaked>create automation clip in a video and it changed the whole game for me.

Re: trying to make music. just a very rough start

@midnight Can you make a video of you doing a track in 1-2hr?

Re: trying to make music. just a very rough start

I knew about going into the generators list in the current project, but I didn't know about last tweaked.

That's gonna change the whole game for me as well, won't it.

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If you can point me in the direction of good screen capture service I would love to.

Re: trying to make music. just a very rough start

Making anything is always tough. Keep going though it's always worth it.

Re: trying to make music. just a very rough start

Miles Davis, Michelangelo, Claude Debussy, Pablo Picasso all had rough starts haha

no matter what medium, you don't start an expert
keep at it duuuuude