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Hey everyone, what's a light DAW I can use if mhy PC specs are limited? I've been using ableton live cause it came with a license when i bough a midi controller but I find my pc-soundcard have a little trouble with the processing burden.
I mainly do stuff with plugged piano/guitar, and MIDI stuff with a midi controller. Any recs?
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is this a meme or is it really lighter than ableton lite?
It's real but also a meme (see #6 below)
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How do I make lo-fi dungeon synth sound good? I use LMMS I am not sure what filter to use. Want it to sound old-timey. Also want to put in backmasked whispering to make it sound more mysterious and ethereal.
Here is some Dungeon Synth I have been working on. There is something wrong with all of it and I don't know what. I do need to change the timpanis in the last one and add tambourine type sounds instead. Not to mention the Timpani sounds horrible and fades out immediately.
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Obviously I don't expect feedback on multiple tracks I just wanted to post them all because fuck it why not. Do you think adding whispery sounds would be good? How do I get that old-school feel with filters and effects in LMMS?
Ableton runs pretty light without 3rd party plugins. You need to make Windows stop saving resources and give Ableton and audio priority over useless bloat. Research how to optimize your computer for audio, and how to give programs priority over others. It's easily googable. You dont want to be kept from using better software your computer is very likely able to run just because the people who design your OS are completely retarded.
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>search YouTube for FL Studio beginner tutorial on how to make a track
>guy has his midi controller set up to control everything
>"you can cycle through instruments like this"
>doesn't show or say what's he's doing. all you can see if his screen with the selected channel changing as if by thought alone
>"oh, I was using my midi controller to do that."
>doesn't go into any further detail.
>makes a kick and hat beat in a single pattern
>"it's a good idea to keep the different parts on different patterns."
>"so, we recorded this hat part and if you want it on another pattern, we can just do this..."
>"secondary click on these notes here" *deletes hat part
>"now go and click this plus and create a new pattern"
>"ok, now let's arm record and play the hat part again"
Fuck this shit. There was no reason to delete and rerecord that hat part since FL has a built in "split by channel" function that he never mentioned.
Who makes good tutorials for FL Studio for someone who knows music, but not DAWs?
>How do I get that old-school feel with filters and effects in LMMS?
Find a bit crusher... but that kind of seems like it could be a PITA with LMMS.
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Good luck.
Do you plan to sell your music?
ok ill do that, thank you
why the hell Reaper's midi editor doesnt have a built in chord library and a scales thing
it's basic shit nigga
is there a 3rd party script to add that?
>it's basic shit nigga
So... you should just know it, yeah?
>it's like spellcheck
Whatever.
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Does this do what you want?
>So... you should just know it, yeah?
yeah but im a wagie with no time or patience to manually draw dumb shit
>Does this do what you want?
yes but do you also have one where it highlights a certain scale's notes?
How noticeable are my bedroom's wall reflections on the vocals? Does the added digital reverb hide it?
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Most bigger youtubers do not even try to teach you anything, they literally just do stuff for you to see them doing, even if pretending to teach, because kids grew up watching game streams and the retarded idea of sitting there seeing someone else doing something you wanted to do feels more natural than actually doing shit. And smaller channels are usually guys with weird accents and/or bad mics. So you need to select videos by staying between the two extremes, stuff that has some traction and views but definitely not a lot.
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MAY I PLEASE HAVE FEEDBACK???
>clyp.it
Yes, you may. I would have thought this was going to be a jungle banger based on the first ~10 seconds if I didn't see the rest of the waveform. This is just too weird for me. I loved those first ten seconds though.
>yes but do you also have one where it highlights a certain scale's notes?
On the grid itself? I wasn't able to find anything... but there is this "key snap" checked box which highlights the keys off to the left.
"In the Mix" and that one black guy that does orchestral music with FL are the only good ones that I've found so far. Busy Works Beats had one good video about keyboard shortcuts.
I'm not sure if anyone use LMMS here but can someone help me find the key combination to start recording instead of just pressing the button with my mouse? I checked their wiki and there is no such key but maybe I'm just retarded.
>Key snap
how come i never saw that fuckin button
I'd be happy about some feedback. Just got LIVE 10 and spend some hours screwing with that thing. Where to go with this stuff?
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I really like it but once things start to pick up, I wish the keys had a brighter attack and a sharper decay because they sound pretty mushy -- which is cool in the beginning, but not when the drums go hard.
learn by doing, nigger. stop looking for others to spoon feed you information you can only learn on your own
Never ever monetize your art.
I'm just looking for a good overview of the functions of the program that you use while putting together tracks to enhance workflow to watch while doing things that occupy my hands so I can't hold or turn pages of books (or press keys to change pages of pdfs).
>brighter attack and a sharper decay
Thank you dear user, I will try that.
There's literally dozens of YT-Vids with tutorials for FL, LIVE, Cubase ... Invest some time, watch. try and learn.
...and I'm saying 99% of those are shit, so having literally dozens of them makes things that much more difficult to find the quality ones.
The one I mentioned in my first post was from fucking Sweetwater.
how do I go from no music theory to being able to express what I'm feeling even if it comes out shitty
Years or even decades of practice with an instrument.
start playing an instrument
Well, it's up to everyone to comb that haystack or not. Needles will be found.
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attempt at making some lofi-ish dreampop/gaze thing. gonna add some vocals soon but fitting any vocals in here are gonna be hell honestly. and i think i chose the wrong key for my voice to sound good as well
Any recommendations for a good Microphone?
I don't know if I should make a thread or if this is the right place to ask
But feel free to address me to the proper place
Might be better off asking over on /g/. My only experience/advice is just don't get a USB mic, the convenience of it being USB is outweighed by the audio driver hurdles you're likely to encounter getting a DAW to play nice with it.
Anybody mess with this?
Oh and on the chance you're asking because you need something good for podcasting or whatever live stuff then go ahead and grab a USB, the issues I had were only related to recording into the DAW.
Also look up Voicemeeter, it's a program that allows you to reroute audio inside your computer so you can use a VST host to put software effects on your voice before sending it off to any telecom software.
>tfw still suck at mixing
Fuckin save me
In all honestly, I was asking pretty much for "general purposes". I haven't ever owned a mic and wanted to buy a starting one, and try out recording my voice better than my phone does (I'm a beginner singer) and maybe learn to record myself talking or talking to people over the internet.
compression on the drums, cant hear them at all. vocal fx/chorus. piano should be stronger to compensate for right pan guitar. Don't know if you're down to re-record but there needs to be more going on between the guitar and piano, I'd say the piano has weaker structure (not just mix wise)
I know you asked for mix advice but wanted to throw that in
the drums were supposed to be quiet like just a little complement
who fuckin uses chorus on lead vocals? theres already a little slapback delay on it.
yeah the piano could have more treble or velocity.
i just took the piano from some midi, i really never edited piano midis, just simple lines so i dont know how to deal with that.
>who fuckin uses chorus on lead vocals
everyone. i don't just mean a vst, i mean record another track. Your vocals are really dry.
When i said i can't hear the drums, i mean they really fucking aren't audible. they don't have to be strong, they can be emotional & low energy while still being actually audible. Right now its as if they shouldn't even be there.
Just rework your midi
and of course you don't necessarily have to record another vocal track if you don't want to. you could just do a vst or something. More importantly just do the other things first and see how it sounds.
im not recording that shit again, i already closed the daw and i didnt save the project once
Based. Done-in-one or bust.
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what's the name of this "effect" (I know it's a physical thing due to the poor quality of the tape but there's probably a name for it)? not the distortion but the super fast tremeolo-esque sound the whole thing has.
I didn't listen, but I'm going to guess you're talking about wow & flutter.
>who fuckin uses chorus on lead vocals
>everyone. i don't just mean a vst, i mean record another track.
That's not chorus, then. That's double-tracking.
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ear training
music theory has nothing to do with it
i'm doing qebrus right now and my ears are bleeding
Really really good dude
What ear training can you even do without knowing at least the basics of theory first? Just training to emulate other people's music for years, until you understand instinctively what theory (coupled with ear training) can accelerate to extreme degrees?
lmms comes with a bitcrusher plugin yes
Can anyone recommend me some fun and interesting reverbs with rich coloration? I need to use reverb a lot for sound design, and I'm simply getting a bit bored of what I have. Wanted something with an exciting, unique sound that would open up cool ideas. I use for this purpose:
- Toraverb
- Convology XT
- NI Raum
- Ableton's Grain delay which can be made to sound pretty much like a verb
But I just spend so much time listening to them that I've been developing a kind of repulsion for reverb sounds. Needed something to spark some color. I fucked around with brainworx MSRoom and it gets some pretty interesting results, but wanted to know what else you guys are using when needing something more unique.
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Dunno, maybe just stick some firecrackers in your ears to get the most bang for your bucks?
i'm assuming you've already tried valhalla?
custom and "weird" impulse responses are the obvious answer.
Probably Altiverb for the amount of real spaces it has in its library.
>Valhalla
Actually no, although of course I heard a lot about it and have been curious to try it since forever. Really could be the answer. Do you know if it can be pushed into even more alien territories than Toraverb?
This one I didn't know, this looks pretty amazing. In general I'm going for the least realistic and more just outright interesting sounding as possible, but this seems so vast that I guess anything could be found on it. Will try it for sure.
>alien
I haven't used toraverb so I can't comment on that, and honestly i'm not that well versed on reverbs, though I use raum now somewhat frequently so I think I know what you're talking about.
The only truly weird sounds valhalla helped me achieve were with the smooth plate in vintage verb (ironically lol), which has some nice reflections and usually pairs well with whatever other resampling I tend to do with it.
... can't say they're great for weird stuff, though reverb isn't huge for me with sound design, so mine isn't the best opinion. They're free and super quick to install demos so it's definitely worth checking out though
Awesome, thank you. I will try that out and see how it does.
Memorizing a bunch of theory won't magically make your ears better, nor does it inherently give you an intuitive connection to your instrument, nor will it help you translate the music you hear in your head onto your instrument or piano roll.
Ear training, playing by ear, and active listening to songs you want to imitate all do those things. Learning theory will only do those aforementioned exercises indirectly (by applying whatever techniques you learn to your instrument; note that playing an instrument is NOT a pre-requisite for learning theory) while leading your focus down a rabbit hole of increasingly irrelevant techniques. There is no shortcut to ear training. But yes, do learn some basic theory. Just don't go so far up your ass that you can't even hear what good music sounds like anymore.
Critique from the music connoisseurs?
>though I use raum now somewhat frequently so I think I know what you're talking about.
Raum is kind of the perfect tool for what I do, because it can sound very unique and rich right away and also be pushed to weird territories - except that it's somewhat limited and simple. That's bad in one hand because since I'm looking for a lot of variety and unexpected responses, and it gets old quick. But it's good in that it takes very little time to find a sweet spot, and it has so many of those.
>Toraverb
Yeah, by alien I mean stuff that quite easily become totally unrealistic, physically impossible spaces that are there more to create textures, harmonics, etc. Toraverb explicitely uses that as a selling point. It's pretty awesome, but eats CPU like very few things.
>though reverb isn't huge for me with sound design
Can't imagine such workflow. I use reverb as a layer for designing almost everything. Either to alter the envelope of drums, and make the reverb tail directly integrated as a sustain stage that is differently textured, or to beef up low end, or to create through modulation varying pitches being 'sang' by the reverb under the drums.
>They're free and super quick to install demos so it's definitely worth checking out though
I will do it for sure. I remember first time I heard about Valhalla was on a Venetian Snares interview. So that alone should have made me download and try even before asking here, and what you said just added to that.
>stuff that quite easily become totally unrealistic
>Can't imagine such workflow
fuck, completely don't mind what I said, we have very different understandings of these words. What you're describing as sound design I would say is heavily overlapping with mixing
maybe pick a snare that breaks through the mix more and mix up your synth timbres
heres my mix feedback appreciated