/musicprod/ - Music Production

I guess, it's really just me then, thanks m8s.

I just post the song online and ask for my m80s to identify it.

>>1459

I need mates like this

if I can't tell what something is by ear, I do a few things

Liner notes for the song, usually says what instruments if there's any live instruments, and must say what samples if there are any,

if that doesn't tell me the specifics like it just says "guitar" i'll look up things like "guitar rig set-up for [band] [song]" and see if anyone's already figured it out.

for non-obvious sounds that you can tell the instrument type

"what is that stringed instrument they play in paint it black, that isn't a guitar" or "what is that buzzing string harmonic noise in that one beatles song that I can't remember the name of at the moment"

to "how was this synth string made in this song"

and "recreating sound from X song"

or, post it on /mu/ and say "yo, wtf is this sound"

>>1460

I'll be your m8 ;*

When he put*

>>1477

Also, nothing is timed on purpose of course. Original trailer and the song and the trailer play at the exact same time.

>>1465

yup, heard three loud pops between there and the end.

>>1466

Sweet. Thanks.

>>1451

If you specify what kind of drums you want, I can probably export some samples from East West Hollywood Orchestral Percussion, EW Symphonic Orchestra and EW Stormdrum 2, assuming you just want hits and rolls and shit. Optionally I could make the drum track for you if it's simple enough. I don't think there are any cheap + good percussion libraries.

>>1454

I'm just lookin for some basic drums as an introductory to orchestral/cinematic music. If you're still offering, if you were able to export a few basic hits and rolls that you think would be good to get started with orchestral/cinematic music that would be pretty awesome

>>1455

I'll get on it in a couple of hours.

http://www.filedropper.com/percussion

There's a readme.txt in there.

Also, if you're planning on making more orchestral music in the future, I highly recommend EWQL Symphonic Orchestra. Because they recently released the huge Hollywood Orchestra series, Symphonic Orchestra is very cheap right now, unless you have to buy it with the Complete Composer's Collection, which would not be very cheap (still great value, though).

Samples like these just don't give you control over velocity, mic position, release times, articulations, etc.

If there's anything missing you'd like to have, let me know. I have virtually every instrument on earth.

>>1463

Also, you might wanna make loops out of some of these, like the rolls.

I recognise SF, but nothing else. A modular interface or something in FL? Yeah I don't get it.

Woah, calm down there carnage

>>1444

So I can do shit like add a pitch envelope and time stretching to make drum samples out of these samples, and warp the ever living shit out of them in harmor. sure, but i'll probably end up with just shitty bad sounding drum loops made from them, with weird textures made out of them. but yeah.... i'll get on that... hopefully... got lots of shit goin' on.

>>1445

Yeah, that's pretty much how I made the kick for mine, out of the Light sample.

so I uh.... I started messing with the samples. I was feeling pretty uninspired for some reason, then I started just randomly fiddling with glitch.wav using harmor, and I came up with this over the course of about 10-15 minutes, and then got bored. the other one, what was it, grind? that one is a more fun one to granularize, I can tell that right now, ESPECIALLY using harmor as a granularizer, just switch it to square harmonics instead of saw, and adjust a few settings first and you can get some crazy sounds with that... I might use that at some point, but.... not right now... just... not feeling it at all.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1yHTZhshkId

Can we use serum to manipulate samples?

>>1452

I've never used it. If you see a piece of kit in the thread that is similar, and that is OK, then yes.

I say build a small amp to test your circuits because it's a bad idea to run a test circuit through an amp that cost you a couple of hundred or more.

It's 100% possible to build better gear than "Professionals" because professionals are trying to market to everyone, and 99% of those people are looking for "That tone." The older Boss distortions are good to modify, like the DS-1 can become a really brutal distortion if you tweak it just right. Also, Boss pedals are made by engineers, not musicians that know electronics also, so they're built to an engineers spec.

Beware of "Voodoo" components, people saying that this one diode from 1962 that cost $900 to buy each is the best blah blah, those people are faggots and are deliberately driving up prices like a pack of kikes.

Also, try to socket things like ICs and transistors, anything with more than two legs, it makes modifying / fixing easier.

>>1440

if you have compression on your kick before the EQ, then yes, reducing high frequencies reduces headroom, and your compression will adjust accordingly.

Mixing is not about just arbitrarily cutting out huge chunks. don't adjust more than +/- 6db on EQ except if it's part of the sound design in the first place. unless it's got something really horrible that needs notched out.

As for specifically the kick, a kick is a sweep from high to low, very fast. this is where it gets that thump, and with a higher starting point and a different rate, you get more of a click. Otherwise, all you have is a sub. so when you EQ Out your high end, you're altering the phase a tiny bit and distorting it, and you're creating a sub, in the most counter-intuitive way possible.

Unrelated, but is Omnisphere 2 worth the money? Also, does it require an iLok or similar? Because I couldn't find a torrent.

>>817

there used to be torrents of it but it got taken down for some reason, might have been fake

Good luck finding a Omnisphere torrent. I've never come across one.

>>1438

https://kat.cr/usearch/omnisphere/

Does someone care to share a pdf/ebook/epub ?

>>1116

This is why I love this board, thank you

>>1116

Wow, nice one, anon.

>>1422

It mostly comes down to marketing. Without a real crowd pleaser or live shows for exposure, you can't expect anyone tostumble upon your music for any reason besides chance, and if someone happens to stumble upon your music, you also have to take into account that they didn't do so because they like the genre necessarily. I listened to a couple of tracks (no time for more at the moment) and thought it was really cool despite the fact that I listen almost exclusively to punk, orchestral and ambient music. Your problem is marketing.

>>1423

I don't have a way to perform live short of just throwing them on a CD and pressing play, so that's my problem. I am legit thinking about making a tumblr page for my music, and interacting with random communities and dumping music on there. I dunno, maybe they'll treat it like other art and do commissions "lol make a theme for my OC fan character shit here's $20" and then I can just crank shit out while experimenting and working on my next album, and then promote there once I have a following and boom.

buuut it's tumblr, and that's probably instant suicide. considering how hyper-critical of tumblr I am I'll only end up with a niche of a niche. what else am I gonna do, go on youtube and be like "yo, random youtube channel, I'll make you a theme/BGM" I feel like there just isn't a market.

I keep feeling like the music market is over-saturated.

>>1424

It sure is over-saturated, and it isn't much of a "market" at all for most of us. Even successful underground bands struggle to live on music alone, and because most music being produced today is electronic, electronic artists have it even worse, unless you're pretty big. I don't know what to tell you except try to make music you could perform live somehow. Find a way to make the performance flashy and manual, like playing synths on a keyboard and looping it, make it obvious that you're pushing a "big, red button" to initiate some effect and such. If you do that, your first gigs will probably be DJ-ing gigs, so you'd have to write music that you could dance to and stuff. Easier said than done if that's not even your style. Besides that, your only option is to write very good music and read tutorials on marketing online.

I've got one of these MIDI controllers and I'd definitely recommend them, though I'm not sure it's what you're after:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005FNCLMM?keywords=acorn%20instruments%20masterkey%2025&qid=1445644684&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

>>1400

Just be aware that the one you linked is semi-weighted. If you want maximum realism you want a fully weighted one,

>>1401

I'm thinking of buying this now that you bring that up.

Thanks for the heads up Anon, you really saved my wallet.

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/NP31?adpos=1o1&creative=55670335561&device=c&matchtype=&network=g&gclid=Cj0KEQiAyIayBRDo4vjdqJrgxZ0BEiQAhOYCYPkZQIBk-s87GNHBRVk_G-fCiHr_K0hl5gwiTRVnKz4aAkeQ8P8HAQ

>>1420

But that one isn't even semi-weighted.

I love this thread.

>>1413

alright, I re-made them.

Using the exact same method I used in >>1367

I did skew 20, and then skew -20 to show you what that effect sounds like.

Here's skew 20, which is leaning this way //////////

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0ZEhLHNiZSp

and here's skew -20 which is leaning this way \\\\\\\\\

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0x3xC4qeNly