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hi i imported and older song into granulator 2 and fucked around with it, is it at least kind of interesting? my ultimate goal is to make music that is interesting enough to warrant being listened to more than once i imported an older track into granulator 2 and fucked around with it for a bit, are the results at least sorta interesting? clyp.it
Is there any point in purchasing a drum machine when you can just manipulate samples in a DAW?
yeah. the input method and the real time tweaking (if the drum machine allows that) via knobs. "playing" a drum machine is completely different from filling in a grid, it is live, it is energetic and it is fun. while in truth you are still just selecting boxes in a looping 1 or 2 bar loop, if you are able to record each channel separately into your daw from the drum machine, you can actually get a performance of the drum machine, opposed to having a loop in the DAW which you then copy and paste, maybe draw in some automation, maybe change some velocity or placement.
if you live somewhere where you can easily return products from music stores, buy one and try it out.
i had a 909 and have a tr8 and although it does sound quite pompous, they are instruments and you can get more life from them, quicker, than you can in a DAW drum grid.
>are the results at least sorta interesting?
no. it sounds like you just let something play through some fx. i have seen that type of music live plenty of times and it always has some sort of structure or flow to it. your track has a bass sound come in around 2 minute something but that is largely it. there is no real indication that there are multiple tracks/channels going on, that you have composed or made anything besides recorded a loop through the fx.
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i need feedback on the arrangement, sound design, rhythm, and progression
arrangement wise there's not going on much, there isn't even a proper ending. Sound design sounds fine to me, except I'm missing a kick drum
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i could hear the kick fine in my headphones
redpill me on limiters, ive always heard that I shouldn't be using them on my master and have avoided doing so for like 5 years. but my shit is never as loud as other peoples stuff. are they actually fine to use?
that basically is what I did, thanks user, I will try to keep some kind of structure when I do this again.
i think a limiter just limits peaks so you can get overall louder with a compressor.
having a hard time with these chords. they sound fine enough on their own I guess, but whenever I try to write a bass line or any other melody on top of them it won't work, some of my lead notes get caught somewhere in a dead space. I think its because theres a ton of harmonic confusion happening in this framework here. What can I do to make this have more sense? inb4 fl studio and you have no idea what you're doing. here's a sound example too: clyp.it
first, I wonder if you know the chords you're drawing and what function each single note has. Second, your base line probably sounds off because a lot of chords are in first or second inversion and doubling the bottom note in the base means doubling a leading note, which often sounds bad. Besides that, the amount of tensions makes it even more confusing. The fact that you hear that it's off is a good thing, though, that's how learning starts.
I think if you figure out the chords these bass note should work
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thanks. no I don't know much. I'm trying to learn from the basics, but whenever I start with elementary chord writing, I dont like the sound of it and want to try and make something more melancholic or ambiguous sounding, so I abandon ship and just write whatever I think sounds fine, but then I wander too far and dont know how to get back. For starters I'm going to look up some of the terminology you used and go from there
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Any thoughts on this, Yas Forumstards?
How do I make it better?
How can I achieve an LCD Soundsystem-lite sound?
Does the Miley sample land well?
What does the original song sound like?
This is really cool in a weird abstract kind of way, can we hear the original song? Sorta agree with the other user that it doesn't have a cohesive structure, but neither does the the things I make soooo
This is granulator 2 in ableton?
did you record and play the instruments yourself? If so good job user, sounds nice. Having the guitar hard panned like that gets a little old (at least in my headphones). The miley sample is really weird and teeters on ridiculous, but I think that's kind of the point, I find it fun.
Everything but the drums. They're a Lana Del Rey sample for now. I'm waiting for our drummer to record them.
Thanks for the feedback!
>but whenever I start with elementary chord writing, I dont like the sound of it and want to try and make something more melancholic or ambiguous sounding, so I abandon ship and just write whatever I think sounds fine
I'd advise you to learn just enought chord theory to figure out those chord progressions in "whatever [you] think sounds fine". It'll be easier to write other part on top of that, be it leads, pads or bass.
Or just use a chord detector/analyzer and build a bass on that, lol
Where can I learn about the mathematics of rhythm? Everything I make is so simple, but making it more refined in a timeline editor is so unintuitive compared to playing drums (which I can't).
>made a banjo in serum
sounds more like a koto
What synth should I buy with my trump bux and why is it the Moog Grandmother?
is izotope insight worth if i buy it by itself? would i get a better deal waiting for the summer sale?
You can get a better deal if you pirate it.
How the fuck did he get such a thick sound out of this sample?
I tried it once along with the nugen stuff and found both to be worse and more annoying that the metering built straight into the daw
so I wouldn't spend any money on that
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How the fuck did he get such a thick sound out of this sample?
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>swing/groove maping
>euclidean rythms