ok I have been trying to get sounds similar to the leads and chords on these tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kup8efewachttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0j5dZcbKBsalso people like bt and adam k eric prydz and the op picProgressive House? IDK

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Skrillex 09/29/14 (Mon) 03:15:32 b17f30 No.89

ok I have been trying to get sounds similar to the leads and chords on these tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kup8efewac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0j5dZcbKBs
also people like bt and adam k eric prydz and the op pic
Progressive House? IDK
Problem is my versions sound like shit, really amateur. What I'm I doing wrong? I have tried countless tuts on youtube I have even gone as far as downloading the midi notes and playing around with that, but it still sounds super amateur. what I'm I doing wrong pls halp!!!11!!1

Skrillex 09/29/14 (Mon) 04:28:29 ca3dfc No.90

>>89
Post an example of your rendition of the leads, and we'll try to correct you

Skrillex 09/29/14 (Mon) 04:57:47 b17f30 No.92

>>90
>>90
hold up buddy

Skrillex 09/29/14 (Mon) 05:17:42 b17f30 No.95

>>90
here you go http://clyp.it/zuvwg3ss

Skrillex 09/29/14 (Mon) 05:23:06 ca3dfc No.96

>>95
which track is this the lead and shit supposed to be from

Skrillex 09/29/14 (Mon) 05:25:14 b17f30 No.97

>>96
my own

Skrillex 09/29/14 (Mon) 05:31:37 ca3dfc No.98

>>97
Ah I see. I thought you were remaking to practice

Well the first lead seems to be pulsing in between left and right, its a bit annoying. Its also quite metallic, might be caused by the reverb or the eq, so perhaps the waves you chose.

As you lift the filter at 24 seconds, you can tell the leads is quite thin and weak, id recommend thickening with a bit of bass and distortion, and also perhaps trying some unison if your VST has it. The leads arent horrible, its just little improvements to make it sit in the mix correctly.

Skrillex 09/29/14 (Mon) 05:45:27 b17f30 No.99

>>98
thanks for the feedback. Also I try experimenting with the "progressive" sound and it all I get is the same cheesy lead sound (the sound in the clyp) I can't get anything else

Skrillex 09/29/14 (Mon) 06:24:52 ca3dfc No.100

>>99
I have this problem also. Try a completely different VST or something. Subconsciously you're the doing the same thing over and because its what you know. Branch out. listen to new stuff, watch tutorials. Fuck around.
I know its hard, because it fucking is, but just fuck around and make crazy sounds and see where it takes you

Skrillex 09/29/14 (Mon) 07:15:07 b17f30 No.103

>>100
got any good tracks.
got any good vst tutorials I could watch?

Skrillex 09/29/14 (Mon) 07:38:42 ca3dfc No.104

>>100
I listen to a lot of hardstyle, and the leads vary alot in the genre, the tutorials arent so great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC6XU_cFqYw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zmn-kq4nEA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdM688ciwb8

Here's a few tracks, all ones that i love too

What vsts do you use?

Skrillex 09/29/14 (Mon) 08:06:52 b17f30 No.106

>>104
sylenth, fxpansion stuff zebra arturia's minimoog and prophet. other odd ones here and there as well

Anonymous 09/29/14 (Mon) 09:10:20 ca3dfc No.107

>>106
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EuATddUqFk

Here's a cool one on a Square lead fir sylenth1. Really all you can do is scour youtube and pick through the crap. harderstate is an ok forum (its actually pretty shitty) and I dont really frequent many others, virus ti forums and gearslutz are a few that I rarely visit for sound design stuff i guess

Skrillex 09/30/14 (Tue) 00:30:16 b17f30 No.110

>>107
>>108
yeah just got to keep at it I guess what vst do you use?

Skrillex 09/30/14 (Tue) 03:04:19 ca3dfc No.113

>>110
I mostly use my Virus ti2, which is a hardware synth, but I also dabble in sylenth1 and massive mostly. Tried Zebra 2 and hated it, but that was years ago. I hear Dune and Dune 2 are good as well.

Skrillex 10/01/14 (Wed) 08:34:39 b17f30 No.123

>>113
ok I'm back do you think one of the tricks is to layer a lot?

Bass Freq 10/01/14 (Wed) 08:46:53 ca3dfc No.124

>>123
Layering is super important to leads, its what helps get that thickness and variety in the sound. The hard part is fitting layers together

Skrillex 10/01/14 (Wed) 08:56:22 b17f30 No.126

>>124
fuck this you think you have something and you come back later to it and it's shit

Bass Freq 10/01/14 (Wed) 09:55:41 4d015b No.127

>>126
I had that all day today. Make a lead, think it's great. Comeback 20 minutes later and it's fucking garbage

Skrillex 10/01/14 (Wed) 22:48:06 b17f30 No.128

>>127
are you the hardstyle dude?
what kinda music are you producing?

Bass Freq 10/01/14 (Wed) 22:51:03 8e57d5 No.129

>>128
Yeah I'm the hard style dude, I like to dip into to other genres a little to mix it up, but I mostly do hard style. It's a hard genre

Skrillex 10/01/14 (Wed) 22:54:18 b17f30 No.130

>>129
I think the arp2600 would be good for hardstyle You could get some weird sounds from that thing

Bass Freq 10/01/14 (Wed) 23:20:24 8e57d5 No.131

>>130
Is that a software synth? I'll check it! Always like adding new sounds to my library

Skrillex 10/01/14 (Wed) 23:29:40 b17f30 No.132

>>131
yeah it's from arturia but huge learning curve. My tip is to browse the presets the fuck about with one you like

Bass Freq 10/02/14 (Thu) 03:09:53 ca3dfc No.134

>>132
That's really one of best ways to learn synths. I had no clue how to route shit on the virus, but then I looked at a few presets and it turned out the routing was exactly like on massive, except presented differently

Skrillex 05/17/15 (Sun) 10:00:37 8279e6 No.402

>>134

anyone here? I'm the op. kek