/prod/ - music production general

>Don't get mad cuz you have no talent of your own :/
>I come here for brutal honesty and shitposts

hm

I do my fair amount of shitposting

gay shit like this makes me not want to come here. you guys are wasting your fucking time making ass

how do i make it, guys???

It's just Justicefag and that guy, who could be the same person.
You just gotta ganbaru real hard. There was a good post about being on the cusp of a new popular genre recently -- like, be similar, but have some spice that makes you stand out. If you're too weird, you'll always be niche. If you're too similar, you'll just be another drop in the ocean.

LOA

When I was in high school I went to Sam Goody and bought a Rachmaninoff CD and I had fallen in love with the Prelude in G minor but I never told my piano teacher. I listened to that track so damn much and imagined myself playing it for people, then a couple months later my piano teacher gave me the option to learn one of two pieces with the Prelude in G minor being one of them. I think I almost started to cry I was so happy. Of all the pieces in the piano world, she choose that one. LOA is the real deal.

3 Options:

Be yourself; develop a core sound that defines you; slowly grow a following of ultra dedicated music listeners who appreciate your sound; slow and steady growth plus you don't loose your soul.

or

Follow the popular trends, copy and study other people's techniques, replicate the marketing of other succesful artists, quickly grow a following of generic trend followers but you won't appeal to real music listeners.

or

lurk and post on Yas Forums and never achieve anything because nothing good has come out of it in the past 5 years.

LoA "works" on principle that it maximizes external signifiers related to the desired outcome. Plenty of people in the world are more nuanced and won't be impressed by a charlatan trying to fake their way in.

If you're already good but have imposter system, "fake it till you make it" could work

hey im new here, whats loa

LOA
Law of Attraction

>Plenty of people in the world are more nuanced and won't be impressed by a charlatan
>a few reddit witchhunters and Yas Forumscontrarians randomly dropping into fan threads to call them shit
oh no

>feels too fast
Please actually knock my ego down

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B U M P

Any tips and suggestions for making happy poppy "girly" music? Besides just using a major scale

exagerated pitch envelopes that aren't just for adding snap. Staccato.
/prod/ needs more feminine music (:

>/prod/ needs more feminine music (:
for the love of god please no

>exagerated pitch envelopes
can you explain that a bit more?
>/prod/ needs more feminine music (:
yeah that would be cool

redo on the 2814 dnb

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I mean personally I would appreciate it. Most of the music here isn't very polarizing- more overtly masculine stuff would be cool too.

so common knowledge (among sound designers I guess): on plucks and stabs etc, to get that little punch at the beginning, you don't just use your amp envelope, you use super fast pitch envelopes going down (I like to have an extra oscillator for an even heavier click if there's one still left over in the patch too)

rather than make them fast, you can use a medium decay to just make the sound more exaggerated and playful. Synths with good envelopes can have a second decay stage as well (MASSIVE GANG (also v helpful for 808s))

and then this sy dnb thing

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I guess I skipped the basics of production bc I have no idea what you're talking about still but I'm gonna try to figure it out now
Most of stuff I'm finding is about pitch bends and not pitch envelopes though

at least in serum you go to global-> and then patch the envelope to global pitch

Are there any projects you always wanted to make but never did either due to low skill level at the time or just never got around to it? for example for as long as I've been into making beats I've always been obsessed with old memphis tapes. I'm not talking mystic stylez either I'm talking those tapes from years prior from more underground people that sounded like they were recorded and mixed on a water bottle.
They sound objectively horrible no matter how you look at them but I've always wanted to make a tape like that even if it's just a couple of tracks. As authentic as you could possibly get sound and aesthetic wise.

>envelope to global pitch
or just each oscillator

probably learn basic sound design first then

>mystic stylez
pfttt that's some new school shit mane I don't know anything about that kid stuff.
There are a fuck load of random ass one off tapes that bang, I really like everything that blackout produced especially

I've got like 3-5 main sounds/projects that I want to give serious attention to along with slutting it up in every genre...
This experimental hip-hop deconstructed idm tinged thing i'm just now returning to and am pretty sure is the first I want to pursue is actually a sound I came up with 3 years ago, but I was way too shit to do anything with it

Minimoog Model D app is free right now on the Apple store
Shit has Ableton integration lads

>tfw just playing the same melody on my midi over and over again

coming up with melodies and chords feels impossible lads

not even an /x/ related topic. it's been discussed by several artists for decades. the will is all

Meme of the day guy here.
I'd make a meme about this makebelieve shit but it's too pathetic and I can't bring myself to do it so just pretend I just posted one and tell me it's a shit meme ok?

lazy and unfunny as usual. you entered a downward spiral as soon as the first thread you posted a bunch in ended with less than 5 after ever being funny. Truly disappointing, just quit.

Thanks user, I'd have preferred the usual 2/10 but this will do.

i'm pretty sure I started a song that could be a stylistic step forward today....
but EVERYBODY knows that feeling when you think you did something good and then wake up the next day and you think it's shit :^(

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should i keep working on this?

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I'm so fucking bad AAAAAAAAA FUUUUUCKK, please tell me it gets better

THE ONLY WAY IT DOESN'T GET BETTER IS IF YOU STOP TRYING!!! :D

well any other ideas on how to make feminine music in the mean time? I read that the Greeks used Lydian as a female scale

You have to... get in the headspace (:

>Law of Attraction
what if I'm mentally ill

Are you telling me to crossdress?

Yes. Also you have many varieties of porn to choose from to assist you in this musical endeavor

I JUST TORRENTED ABLETON

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sounds very cool, keep it up brother

wow i didn't expect to be validated. hollywood here i come.
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Anyone else here absolutely hate arrangement? I just don't understand it and can never make an arrangement interesting. Not sure what to do with this :\
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Unironically, stop posting here.

wtf do ppl do to make drum break samples so heavy hitting and crispy

>Not sure what to do with this :\
imo once youfeel stagnant writing a song it's already over.

recycle these drums and write a new fucking song dude lol

EQ, VOLUME, COMPRESSION, (tasteful reverb and saturation) NO TRICKS

what do you mean. do. release it. drop it.

then come back and remix it when you feel inspired. once you lose 'it' take a step back and just chilllll bruh. breathe. go outside. it'll come to you. just never force it.

kick on 2 n 4. snare clap and closed hihat on 1 n 3. then eq volume and compression. sidechain shit to the drums so it ducks for ultimate boom bap

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