warfighter67

Looking at my mix: I forgot to pan the L/R rhythm guitar tracks! They were both panned center :/

Also, I had a similar problem in a pattern I was working on. For some reason, whenever I played the pattern, if it was less than 5 bars long, it would loop through 5 bars. I had a VST called Magnus Choir that I was using, and I decided to check and see if there was any automation and whatnot going on with things like channel volume, panning, etc. Turns out the voltage reading on Magnus Choir was automating past 4 bars. I removed the automation and everything was fine again.

Since I don't have a keyboard, I do everything in the piano roll I usually start out with a chord progression, improv a melody, stick a drum beat over it, and start with that. Often times what I make better suits the first verse or chorus of the track I'm making, so I then proceed to make an intro, and verse, and so on until I find a place that my first pattern fits. I have each section in a single pattern (verse, chorus, etc), and clone them to add fills/transitions to the next section. Many of my song do not follow the usual Intro-verse-verse-chorus-verse-chorus-etc, and usually end up ending a totally different song then I started out with. I do not name my patterns or tracks. For mixing, (drums take forever to mix sometimes, so I do that before even starting the song), I start by adding all of the effects to my drums, testing various drum loops and patterns to test the quality of my mix. Everything else, I tend to mix on the go. For any non-bass instrument, I cut out everything under 60-100Hz, and for some bass (if not acoustic bass), I cut everything or lower it a lot above 1kHz or so.

Thanks for your views on it. I will have a ton of free time today when I get out of school, so expect a version 2 by the end of the day I will look into smoothing out the transition, adding in a solo (as use FOR the transition, e.g. start out fast solo and get slower near the end), and some more lead guitar parts. Hopefully I will also be getting EWQLSC w/Wordbuilder to work so maybe some nice choir sections as well. I could easily make this song 10 minutes long, hahaha.

Thanks! I will try this this afternoon.

Well, this is the first mix of this song. It is symphonic progressive metal with a lot of changeups. http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10392359 Would love your thoughts (technical, artistic, content) on this song!

Hey everyone. I'm warfighter67 (or Weylin, as people who get to know me well will know me by). I am 17. I have been playing my guitar for 2 years and fucking around with FL 9 for about 6 months. I also went into graphic design for about 4 months, and currently aspiring to be a video game developer. I average a 3.7 GPA, very logical person, familiar with the internet and its general rules and customs, and get along well with everyone. Well, because this is a music site, I deem it appropriate to add a link to my artist page: http://www.soundclick.com/weylinsslayerorchestra

Alright. I took the time to read all of what has been said here, and yet I still seem to have a problem. I will post a screenshot of some stuff I think is necessary. Well, some other things you should know are that I am using Maple MIDI, do NOT use a keyboard (instead, use the piano roll in FL Studio 9), and kinda new to all this MIDI-porting stuff. This setup does not work and I would really love to get it working to have singing choirs in my music.