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057b4a No.290

Hey guys.

I just spent ~12 hrs nearly-deaf in the left ear after cleaning my wax. Standard procedure, but I guess I fucked it up this time and clogged it.

While dubstep went on a whole new level (I could hear muffled, so the bass was intact), it was an overall shit experience.

>/musicprod/ nightmare stories thread, I guess.

12cd96 No.292

>>290

This happened to me for about 2 weeks a month ago. Consider yourself lucky.


6b6285 No.293

File: 1432499634926.gif (434.99 KB, 500x336, 125:84, rr2.gif)

just nightmares?

all i got is a sort of shitty scenario.

currently in a band who has a lot going for it.

rehearsal and studio space for free at a low budget cost level.

lots of materials and lots of ideas.

the major speed bump in the way is half of the members are lazy.

lazy to a degree i've never seen before.

they just are. they barely have any sort of activity besides the band and they contribute barely.

certain members of that half can't even play their instruments properly, it's a right old mess.

i barely have any contacts and the people which surrounds us are just more of the same ilk as that apathetic half.

the worst thing is that half is infectious, it's spreading and getting the best out of the other half which myself am included in.

my plan is simple, release my reliance on that half and if the good half wants in, that alright by me.

sorry if it's not a nightmare but just forgot to sage some shitty shit just like the above mentioned scenario.


057b4a No.295

>>293

Well, your plan is sound. Get your ass in gear, along with whomever is actually interested and leave before the cancer gets everyone.


1eb8b6 No.296

>lose creativity for several months

>[daw] has stopped responding

>wait until responds

>doesn't respond

>sample not found

>automatically search for sample?

>automatically search for sample!

>lol jk the sample is gone faggot

>record vocals

>can't sing


6b6285 No.297

>>296

>can't sing

oh man, that is actually quite horrific.

especially when you thought it was a good take and everything is some very noticeable cents away.


12cd96 No.301

Whenever I make something that sounds really good it gives me a high and then I can't focus.


057b4a No.304

>>297

>can't sing

le_autotune_face.wav


1eb8b6 No.308

>>301

You can't focus on finishing the music? When I know I've hit gold the entire song reveals itself to me automatically.


12cd96 No.309

nope, I just sit there and loop the part over and over again before I realize it


6b6285 No.310

>>304

yeah, no.

>>309

for me it is when that high is missing that i'll like it more when revising.


f3ddf0 No.311

>haven't used any daws in +5 months

>haven't picked up an instrument in almost a year

>decide to try to make something anything, I don't care if it's techno, trance, house, dubstep, industrial, fuckin' ambient, whatever

>it could end up a witchhouse chiptune for all i give a fuck, i'm making SOMETHING

>start messing with synths.

>make some sounds

>yeah I can do something with this

>MFW.jpg <<<<<<<<

>start to get a rough draft going,

>Export to .mp3

>upload to soundcloud

>go to sleep

>wake up

>2 plays both mine when I played it after uploading

>play it a 3rd time

>MFW <<<<<<<

>What the fuck have I done

>delete from soundcloud

>enter music production nightmare stories thread

>copy /b oh god what have i done.mp3 + reaction image.jpg some output.jpg

>upload

>contemplate uninstalling DAW

>File too large to upload

FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU


c67bd8 No.314

>>311

Don't give up, anon. Are you saying you were afraid what you made isn't good enough? Everyone not up their own asses feels that way, it's part of the challenge.


7ddce9 No.315

>>311

get back in there.


f3ddf0 No.318

File: 1432612739387.jpg (5.56 MB, 298x533, 298:533, shit fusion.jpg)

>>314

>>315

here, I re-saved the MP3 as 192kbps so it would fit. I have made terrible things that are better than this.


f3ddf0 No.319

>>318

I am absolutely disgusted by this compared to my normal stuff. I am ashamed of it by comparison to my own work.

additionally, for some reason the mp3 doesn't work in WMP or GOM, and the only other player i have is winamp which I use exclusively for chiptunes. I have to name it .mp3 and import to audacity to make it play. I have no idea why, It's just a jpg saved with ms paint, and an mp3 made in fl studio, and the command prompt copy /b (binary copy) as jpg + mp3 output. this used to work so much better, I don't know why it doesn't now.


1eb8b6 No.320

>>318

Where's the mp3? Also this is a music production board, not a brag board. Your music can be the worst ever and hopefully people will still take it seriously and give you pointers if you want them.


1eb8b6 No.321

>>319

Isn't there an export function?


d7d1e4 No.324

>>290

>be me

>working on a track in fl studio

>some weird drum step thing that had dull build ups because I should have added more

>finally finish track and render it at 12:30 at midnight (I started at 1:00 pm)

>after rendering I try to save

>doesn't do anything

>ohno.jpg

>it crashed

>ultimately say "fuck this" and go to bed

>but I realize it had one of my best bass patches I've made at the time


d7d1e4 No.325

>>324

Note: I use serum and fm8 more often than I do massive now. Massive was made with this patch but unfortunately I later realized that this patch was me recreating a tutorial vowel and beefing it the fuck up with vocodex, eqing, an EQUO and a soundgoodizer.


1eb8b6 No.326

>>324

Why do you not save every 5 minutes when using FL?


418e42 No.327

>>326

I didn't back in the day.


057b4a No.328

>>324

I might be full of bullshit, but even if you don't have the autosave feature enabled, FL should store a backup which can be brought up by clicking "Revert to last backup" or something among those lines.

Also, the backup folder for more versions.

Again, I might be full of shit and that could work only if autosave is enabled.


d2c515 No.329

>>311

You won't get anywhere just from uploading to a soundcloud. If you want to actually succeed, it will require work.


1eb8b6 No.344

>>328

It only backs up if the project has been saved at least once. Don't know why.


057b4a No.346

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>>344

Then refer to the pic in the OP.

That's a fucky thing on behalf of FL. Speaking of which, I see they released 12 without fixing the (what I see as) problem when dragging multiple faders and undoing them. It undoes them individually instead of as a group and that pisses me off.


f3ddf0 No.347

>>320

>>321

go to >>318

notice the image file is "Shit fusion.jpg, Filesize 5.56 mb, 298x533"

open it in a new tab, and save as .mp3, then open it in an editor like audacity


f3ddf0 No.349

>>320

additionally, I wasn't trying to brag, I was saying that what I made was far enough below my average production that I personally found it repulsive. Like when you go back and look at something you made like 5 years ago and go "oh god why" and try to purge it from existence.

basically I got rusty and was horrified by how rusty I had gotten. I'm tempted to go through and record a bunch of cover songs and make chiptunes with breakbeats over it just to get back into the swing of making a song-structure of some kind. use the time making covers to practice and perfect my use of vocoders. It is my dream to re-create the voice of legion from Mass effect, and use that voice to sing. I'm getting pretty close, but I can't figure out how to control the pitch of my carrier to match the pitch of the voice/modulator, thereby losing any expressive/emotive things that don't work with auto-tune. but that's a totally different story and I'm rambling.


c9264b No.352

>>349

You minsunderstood me, I wasn't implying you're bragging, I meant there's no reason to be ashamed of your music because this board is a competition. I like to believe /musicprod/ would give advice if it sucks rather than tell you to off yourself. I'll check it out when I'm home.


c9264b No.353

>>346

Do other DAWs undo all at once? I think most people using FL use their mouse to click around, so few have an opportunity to move several faders simultaneously, so it hasn't been prioritized.

And yes, FL's backup system is pretty atrocious. It backs up only when you've saved, it sometimes crashes when backing up automatically, and backup files are stored and restored in a pretty clumsy way. FL is so good at so many things, but it seriously needs a better backup system (such as a hidden, separate, low-resource process remembering exactly what your project looked like the second before FL crashed), and the developers need to figure out how to avoid so many crashes. They need to figure out what's causing the crashes and find a way around it.


f3ddf0 No.372

>>353

okay uh. I'm just going to say this. I have only had FL Studio crash twice since I started using it back when it was Fruity loops 4.0

Once was because I used a VST that let me load a mixer rack that could load plugins (yes, you heard me, a VST rack that was a VST itself that fit inside the fx rack) and made a feedback loop. It crashed as soon as I added a sound into it.

the second time it crashed I had a 2 hour long 32bit floating point .wav file, which was saved into the project file rather than loaded separately, and it crashed when I tried to save at the end, and all, and I mean all, 100%, of the autosaves for the backup feature, where all corrupted. That wav file was larger than the maximum file size for a .flp and FL flipped the fuck out.

these are the only times it crashed for me. Ever. once I was trying to break it, and once I was pants on head retarded with how I was working with audio.

also said 2 hour long 32 bit float wav…. yeah. it was in edison. and then I click/dragged it. multiple times as new instances, to chop up and edit separately. because I was being pants on head retarded. I later had to re-create the entire goddamn project,

whats worse is it successfully was able to render to .mp3 without an issue, it's only when I tried to save it that it fucked up.

Just… thought I'd share, since I guess that later part counts as a musicprod nightmare story.


1eb8b6 No.373

>>372

The fact that it crashes often for me is probably because of my specific hardware and plugins, but it's still on Image-Line to make sure their software can handle all kinds of supposedly compatible setups.


f3ddf0 No.375

>>373

if it's a hardware issue it's both on the software dev, and the hardware manufacturer both. though you're right about plugins.

I once bought some physical controllers, from Korg. one of them was just a bay of knobs and the other was a bunch of sliders, this way I could just strap them to my completely featureless m-audio keyboard, and link all my controllers together…

No dice. the korg controllers and FL collectively shat a brick, because it seems korg designs all their hardware for mac, and don't give a fuck about pc compatibility except for ableton and and maybe reason, because they're the apple of music hardware, you're paying for a name.

so I took them back and traded them in for equal value and got… a launchpad… which DOES work in FL. holy performance mode batman, now I just need to give a shit about live performance.


f3ddf0 No.376

>>375

clarification on my comment on korg being the apple of music hardware, I do not mean for analog, for analog they make some solid shit, but for just random midi controllers, in that circumstance you are paying for the name. if 2 jackasses in california can make midi controllers out of arcade machine buttons, that work on practically every platform, then korg can do some damn troubleshooting before they release hardware and a SOFTWARE/DRIVER UPDATE FOR MIDI HARDWARE THAT DOESN'T GENERATE SOUND THAT SOMEHOW BROKE ASIO I AM STILL PISSED ABOUT THIS AND IT WAS A FUCKING YEAR AGO


1eb8b6 No.390

>>376

Just because of this post I'll never buy anything Korg.


f3ddf0 No.405

>>390

There's things from korg that I own that are well worth having, namely I have 2 korg monotrons which I plan on some day modding into being miniature modular synths (they have pre-marked solderpoints for fucks sake) and their analog synths are some of the best.

If it actually produces sound on its own, korg is good. just don't get usb controllers from them, that's not their area of expertise. unless you DJ with a macbook or something, then by all means it'll actually work.

I may have had some other hardware/software incompatibility, but the whole process made me ragequit.

Also if you have a DS/DSi/3ds, there are 3-4 different Korg software/game-carts that are damn good, including the original DS-10 which is 2 emulated MS-10's, 4 channel sampler, and sequencer. there's… some pretty good stuff, I mentioned it in another thread, but I'll link something here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jsLukV_SoQ

Don't be put off korg in general, you'll be shooting yourself in the foot. just don't buy random midi controllers that are not generators.


057b4a No.445

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>>372

>a VST that let me load a mixer rack that could load plugins

So that screenshot wasn't conceptual, someone actually made a fucking working plugin. Jesus…


f3ddf0 No.447

>>445

There have been several actually. the one I had didn't look like that. I only did that because I couldn't feed mixer track one into mixer track two, and then feed track two back into track one, because FL actually blocks you from doing that, but I figured I could cheat my way around it this way and at the time it worked, and sending audio through it, as I mentioned, Crashes FL, which is why it's blocked.

In retrospect if I still HAD that unstable as shit plugin, I could have probably put a delay effect with zero dry and used it like a layered tape delay which is what I wanted, but at the time I was fucking retarded.


1eb8b6 No.458

>>447

Why would you ever need to do that, though? Why not just route properly?


12cd96 No.459

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>>445

or you could just use patcher


12cd96 No.460

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>>459

>>445

as you can see patcher can be placed inside itself

note that you can also put generators inside patcher


f3ddf0 No.462

>>459

>>460

I have tried doing this in patcher, and it doesn't work, it greys out the last connectionit needs a "non intelligent, non-native" plugin wrapper.

>>458

Imagine for a moment, a delay/echo that repeats forever, like a loop. Now imagine that any effects put on it over time get fed into the loop and persist. so if you turn on distortion for 1 beat out of 4 in the loop, it keeps that distortion untill you clear the loop. then you could apply a filter, and then more distortion, and then you could bitcrush it, and then filter it some more…. It means you could open and close a filter rapidly and keep that in the loop, but then filter it separately,

this is important because instead of layering effect after effect after effect manually with automation on multiple layers, you could just use one of each used effect and just turn them on and off as needed.

what I was trying to do was put the output of channel 1, to be routed through channel 2 AND channel 2 was routed through channel 1, AT THE SAME TIME. no matter how many patchers or sends you use, you can never make a complete loop, it becomes greyed out. It means for an infinite loop you'd have to use a regular delay, and then the effects you apply post-delay won't effect the loop and you have to stack effect after effect for every new change.

reasonably you CAN accomplish the same sound just by resampling it again and again and again and again, but the purpose here is to be able to generate in realtime.

in analog, I know the korg monotron delay does exactly this, though it only has a lowpass filter to mess with unless you mod it. I know there are other tape delays that do this. but I have yet to find any software that does all of the things I want it to.


51a297 No.500

>Major in Classical Voice for music.

>Singing difficult opera arias.

>Get a throat infection the day I was having an exam.

>Had to sing, everything hurt, vocals were compromised by the pain.

Lesson Learnt;

Avoid important examinations involving the voice during the winter season.

>Have lots of different production tracks.

>Computer Hard Drive goes bust on random.

>Lost everything.

Lesson Learn't; Back everything up.


c53351 No.509

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>close daw after getting a lot of work done

>in a hurry

>"do you want to save?"

>click the "no" button on accident


057b4a No.513

>>509

Every fucking time.


f3ddf0 No.539

>>509

and that's why I always manually save whenever I do anything cool and I always manually save and then afterwords use the dropdown to exit rather than clicking on the X.


7ddce9 No.542

>>509

i just hit the save button every two minutes or so, it's a tough life.


83985a No.567

>>372

>2 hour long 32bit floating point .wav file

for what purpose


f3ddf0 No.575

>>567

I was sampling a documentary, so I imported the audio for the entire documentary as an MP3. and as I said I was in FL Studio, so I had this in edison, and when I found a bit I wanted to use, I copy'd the relevent part, and pasted it on the end. from there I'd edit part of it and paste it on the end so I could listen to the original and then all my subsequent edits in order, without having a pile of samples cluttering my playlist.

It started as a 21:41 documentary from youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1tEpjmFH9g

and turned into a nightmare of reverb, preverb, vocoders, and autotune. which I lost, and had to re-make, and only made half of what I did because I got better ideas.

the end result, if you're curious, is

https://soundcloud.com/milest3hr4t/sharia-london

I'll provide a warning. There's a really high pitch buzzing noise on the bass that sounds like a fucking dentist drill. using an EQ on it fucked up the sound of the bass in other ways and I couldn't do key-tracking with a narrow band-stop still can't for reasons. partially due to note slides and partially due to version of FL.

yeah, I went full retard, and this was over a year ago, and I was working on it at like 3 AM because that's when inspiration happened to strike.


f3ddf0 No.576

>>575

also to clarify, in the name of the track it includes "#triggerwarning" which was/is the name of an album i'm working on that is intended to be uh… offensive, abrasive and an expression of everything that I hate about everything, including the concept of trigger warnings themselves. Just thought I'd clarify that.


747f22 No.577

>>576

sounds like a decent concept although i must say that is a very big floppy bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RiJzV04UyE


f3ddf0 No.579

>>577

>floppy bass

that's one way to put it.

that's actually 2 sounds layered

one is an FM Bass from the sega genesis

the other is me attempting to re-create that same FM bass in sytrus and not being able to get all the settings just right and ending up with it horribly wrong, because one of them was 'out of 31' and the other is 'percentage' and that's hard to judge without pen and paper and doing the math.

And if you want to know what that bass was…

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


e32908 No.629

>Music doesn't give any feels anymore.

WTF is wrong with me. I've been like this for 2 weeks.


747f22 No.630

>>579

that surprisingly intricate for what was audible. ya got creative drive which admirable.

>>629

have you tried new music or just plain old silence?


f3ddf0 No.638

>>629

whenever I get to a point where music doesn't make me feel anything, i do the following

1: make a short playlist of music I know normally makes me feel things, but set it asside

2: burn myself out. completely. powernoise, speedcore, mindless pop music and dance, top 40 blandness, hyper agressive angsty shit, until I'm ready to just throw my hands up and say 'fuck everything'.

3: sit in silence for a while. relax. decompress.

4: play the music i set up in step 1, and just listen to the music and do nothing else. it doesn't even have to be the best of music, usually something like claud debusy, or the hungarian suicide song, or actually even some music that hit mainstream pop success despite not being very pop-y. you know, the things that they still play 40 years later.

That's what I do. mostly it's the complete overload, followed by decompression, which gives a newfound appreciation for things.




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