Esperado
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Whew I'm glad I can still vote!
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Excited to submit something this week! This source is quite a bit of fun to work with. maybe with all the love for it lately, ill play shining force too.
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sweet extension! i should be able to submit something halfway nice this time!
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i think the idea of comparing yourself to what is right is akin to learning the basics of something. You have to learn the basics before you can break the rules. A good example is picasso, he knew fully well how to make art according to "what is universally right" and then was able to break the rules in a manner that worked well.
Thanks for all the great advice! this is such a supportive community ,which in itself makes me feel less discouraged. It turns out i just need to have more patience with myself and the things i make. If i give up now, ill never really know what i could have done.
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So I've been working with music production for more than two years now, and while i can sometimes produce pleasing results, it seems the majority of the things i make either never reach completion, or still sound horribly amateur ( to me ). Lately ive felt quite discouraged whenever i sit down to make a mix. I'm curious what other people do when theyre feeling like theyre totally stuck.
One thing i really struggle with is creating dynamic and interesting arrangements.
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Woooo hoo! OCR in my city!
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I HAVEN'T been gigging with ableton for 10 years, BUT, Ill weight in my two cents.
Investing in Ableton is a good idea in my opinion, its very versatile in terms of live performance and controllerism. If i understand you correctly, what youre trying to do, is pretty much just that. I dont think FL studio is quite as well equipped for live performance as ableton, or at the very least, not as user freindly.
I would also suggest that you plan out your sets in some manner. Im not saying prearrange the whole thing beforehand, but perhaps choose the samples and synths you'd like to use, keep in mind some compelling melodies you'd like and mix it in a manner that sounds pleasing so that it sounds good when you go up on stage. In my mind, the more prep and practice you do, the better its going to sound in the end.
as for the equipment, you have everything you need to do a live show already. Any further equipment would complicate your setup. while thats fine, you should learn what you have and be comfortable with your setup and workflow before buying new equipment that may not even fit with your style of live performance.
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Im in again! It should be much easier to get the time off because of the dates.
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while on the topic of extravagent piano VSTs. For real, how DO you tell the difference between which pianos are good and which are not?
For example, i can tell the difference between 4frontpiano and say, alicias keys because alicias keys sounds a bit better. However Im not so sure i could tell between alicias keys, and say, vienna imperial, especially when used in a mix. is it in the subtle tonal differences?
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Excellent example! Are we talking only recent soundtracks or just in general ?
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Im looking to improve my percussion arrangements in my mixes (not necissarily just the drums). I feel i have an alright understanding of how variation works, but I would like to dig a little deeper into what makes up good percussion. It seems like theres plenty of stuff out there about music theory in terms of chords and melodies , but not as much about percussion.
Any good percussion related articles, blogs, books or other media? Any must-listen songs for drum arrangement?
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Was the Production class really useful? It seems like the technical stuff is pretty basic, but how you use it might be good. I don't really have 6 hours a week to sink into it, though.
For you it might not be too helpful since you seem to have been doing this a while. The main section that was most useful to me was the Effects segment of the course. They do a good job of explaining what each basic effect does to an audio signal. Otherwise, its best for a beginner looking to get a well rounded look at basic production concepts.
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I signed up for it too! what a coincidence
Should be a good one. theres a music production class too! https://class.coursera.org/musicproduction-005
might be useless info depending on your level of skill, but its worth a look, i learned a few technical things from it last time around.
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what a nice source tune!
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As for me about my own music: I don't like to listen to it because it feels a bit boastful. It is an uneasy feeling, and sometimes I even skip it.
Personally, that's the best part of asking music . Standing back and really listening to a mix after working on it for hours. There's something special about that
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I definitely think its hard to tell a freind that you dont like the work theyve done, so mindwanderer is spot on with that. Another thing to keep in mind, is that if they dont make music, they probably dont notice all of your mistakes. I can think of plenty of songs that i loved before making my own music, that i realized were pretty amateur AFTER learning how to make music. Perspective plays a definite role in how others view your work.
As for my own music, it depends on the day. Some days i love it, other days i wonder if i should keep making music.
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Maybe if you wanted to test it, you could try using a spectroscope (like smexoscope) and looking at what happens when you do the compression with the built-in EQ turned on, on a pure sine wave or a pure square wave with the Sustain all the way up on the ADSR envelope. That way, you're testing it on a completely flat sound. If it looks a little different after applying the EQ, then it works without the side chain feature.
genius. not sure why i didnt think to do that before. thanks as always ! it would seem that it is indeed a general eq for the whole compressor
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any interest in midi related stuff? I sometimes see the coolest midi devices that people cook up using arduino.
and while im on the topic of arduino, can you use it to make synths too?
edit: i hope this takes off, because this actually sounds really fun.
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Ah, but isn't there a button to turn the side chain on and off on the far left?
yes there is, but i dont think that the eq works on the compressor without the sidechain. of course i could be mistaken.
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Wait...people on OCR didn't know about Xenogears CREID? Am I that old????
I never actually got around to playing xenogears, despite enjoying the demo a lot. So as a result , I never paid much attention to the ost which I'm sure is great . Also I'm relatively new to OCR
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I've heard of multipressors before, but never tried them. I'll check that out ! I found out the function of this particular eq though. It effects what frequencies are being effected by the side chain compressor but not the regular old compressor
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ok so if you want the higher frequency content to be crispier without touching the low end, youd use the high pass filter at whatever frequency best fits the content?
so then youre basically EQing the compressed content to your desired effect
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ok so I was looking at the compressor i use the other day and i noticed that i never used the EQ on it, and was curious what it is used for. heres a picture.
While i know what the eq section does in theory, im not sure what use it has in the context of a compressor. Is the eq section used to only compress a specific frequency range, like say the low end of a bassline while leaving the higher frequencies intact? If not that, in what scenario would you use the eq section of this compressor?
also, im sure there are better compressors out there, than the built in ableton one. if anyone knows of a better compressor, i wouldnt mind suggestions
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excellent turnout! sad i couldnt come up with anything worth sharing, BUT, im real excited to listen to all these entries! good luck guys!
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is there anything that we can do to help out? I'm thinking of volunteering at the event itself, but if theres more i can do on top of that?