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In a thread like this a new thread won't change much, there aren't enough people who visit the section but don't post.
In all honesty, this section doesn't stand much hope of reviving itself with the current level of skill diversity and number of members it has.
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We should all pitch (like my pun y/n) in and post on Garry's user wall to ask him to bump MGR to the spotlight for a bit
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If anyone ever wants to get into classical / contemporary composition or piano performance I'd be more than willing to offer CC, if that helps the section expand at all.
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This is pretty cool. If you'd make it a bit slower, and took out the happy lil synth at around 1 minute, and add some documentary samples it could pass of as a Boards of Canada track
This is cool too. I'm really digging those speak'n'spell samples with the wobbles in the second half of the track.
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I can hear what you're going for and it could sound quite neat, but the synchronization is off for the party rock bits in particular... I'm having trouble telling if it's because party rock is too fast or simply because the piano (I forget what it's from) could be time-shifted slightly to match up.
The rest seems to work rather well and achieve what you were going for, however.
Oh sheesh, I was going to wait a bit to post this but since you mentioned that and it is exactly what I need, cool. It's only 42 seconds because I just reached a point where I was out of ideas, but I'm interested in expanding it in the future until it's a decent length.
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I want to submit my tracks for feedback, but I am running out of minutes on Soundcloud.
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Buy lite or remove some tracks, then.
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You could always upload them to YouTube or something too
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Or make a new soundcloud account
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I wish I could post my band's stuff with Soundcloud links, but our record people won't let us make one for some reason. We have to promote it through Bandcamp and physical copies which is shit because I reckon only 50% of people will click a Soundcloud link and then maybe 10% of that will click an actual offsite link.
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You can link to the shop with a "buy now" button on your soundcloud track tabs though?
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Something I am working on for a game;
I realize it sounds a bit "midi". It's intentional
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The pentatonic scale gives an almost floating feeling, but it's hard to achieve movement with it. Maybe change up the scales you're using at different point. Debussy moves from the pentatonic scale, to a scalar mode, to the wholetone scale, and everything in between. It still gives that relaxed, floating feeling, but it has a bit more purpose. Along with that, try to take parts of your material and reuse them in different ways. As an example, perhaps you could take the single descending note in the beginning, and have that in octaves over the faster moving section later on.
I know that you're using a lot of the high register to contribute to the relaxed feeling, but try and use different parts of the piano. One way to help with this, as well as increase the length, is to plan out the composition to an extent. That doesn't mean plotting the form in a 'A' 'B' 'A' manner (though you can if you want), but more along the lines of, "I want a calm opening, with a small moment at 1:00 followed by acceleration up to the high point at 2:00. Afterwards, the music dies down till the end at 3:00." I don't do this with words, but with lines - literally. Take a sheet of paper and a pencil and draw out the course of the music in a more abstract way. Different things work for different people, so play around with it till you get something that works for you.
Also, remember, you don't have to always have chordal accompaniment in the left hand. The lower registers are great for carrying a melody, or adding accompaniment in different ways. You can become contrapuntal and harmonic at the same time. Pretty much whatever you write can be played if the performer is skilled enough. Just make sure that the span of the notes in one hand at any one time is no larger than a tenth. You can do twelfths and the like, but most people will have to roll them to get all the notes in the chord, so just make sure they're not fast.
Lastly, I'd encourage you to listen to some piano works by Debussy and Ravel. Here are a few:
All of the Debussy Preludes are great pieces. Ondine is verging on atonality at some points, but it's still very beautiful and relaxing. Don't be afraid of atonality and dissonance, it can sound amazing in a piece like yours.
I almost forgot: You can change the tempo slightly, slowing it down gradually at some points and speeding it up at others. It can make it a bit more free.
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Started on a hardstyle track again.
It says WIP, but I know I'll never finish it (just like everything else).
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Started on a hardstyle track again.
It says WIP, but I know I'll never finish it (just like everything else).
Really like this, please finish it?
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I've acquired a cheap midi controller (using the computer keyboard feels weird) and FL Studio. Time to learn.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/nfxbeats
He makes good FL studio tutorials.
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post is brilliant everyone please make all future posts like this one
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Another remix contest, can I get some C&C on this?
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I looked at the thread title and it said <country edition> so i dont know if this is like a country music thread or not ;w;
anyways i see other stuff in the thread so im going to post my IDM
i really hope you enjoy it. there isn't enough IDM on these forums. most of it is pretty much dubstep x.x
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Are there any tutorials out there not specific to a DAW just teaching you the fundaments of making music i.e concepts like modulation and compression etc etc that I don't really understand
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You know full well I meant like a personal recommendation of which particular tutorials are really good but by all means seize the opportunity to make a hiiiiiiiilarious joke
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Yeah the thread title is meant to be a joke, I don't think anyone has actually posted country music in here before
I like the song, I'm not a huge fan of the intro but I like when it kicks in! I'm going to start my attempt at making Hip-hop influenced IDM type stuff soon, kind of similar to Nosaj Thing, so hopefully I'll have some stuff to post in here eventually. What DAW are you using?
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I really liked this actually. I can't comment on how well you made it your own or anything since I haven't heard the original. The drop at like the 4:35 area was sweet aswell. Nice remix. Clap/Snare is a bit weird, try make it a bit more punchy? That's all I can really say, it's a good remix.
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This contest was actually pretty cool, all you had to do was use some samples in your track. I was trying to go for a specific sound for the claps (i think it's called pre-shifted?) but it didn't really come out the way i wanted. But anyway, thanks, I'll remember this on my next track.
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Hey, I just recorded a shitty demo the other day, it's an acoustic emo thing I've been working on. Figured I'd post it here.
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Recorded this today. It's pretty bad quality but I like the general idea of it.
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A new dubstep WIP I've started... Not liking the drop AT ALL, but there's no time limit on this, so I'll make it sound as best I can.
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Sounds like arctic monkeys, not a bad riff but yeah fix the quality, hard to make out the different parts
Either you were being lazy or you really need to work on your guitar playing - pretty poor intonation and not in time, also that strumming pattern isn't too imaginative either sorry
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I recently got a a Bentompi electric organ (cheap as all shit shitty little reed organ that sounds like the middle ground between a harmonica and an accordian) and found out that it was so out of tune I could not use it for standard music so I made some drones with it
Didn't turn out too bad, quite messy in some places but yeah
I used the organ, an old harmonica I found in my drawer (probably got some sort of disease from using it), some cool other noises and some loopin software
Also that's not me cawwing
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Intro seems a bit simplistic. Maybe try change up the timing for some of the interesting. Also I quite liked the drop. Also you guys who are doing this sort of style might be interested in the "How To Bass" series
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I think there's quite a few videos of him explaining how to make these type of bass sounds with FM synthesis.
Anyway here's a collab me and some redditor never got to finish
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Agh fuck you found the guy that taught me how to make growls shit
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Top notch producing mate, I really like this.
If you're going for that Johny Hobo and The Freight Trains sound I suggest you get yourself a taperecorder or make it lo-fi in some other way. As of now there isn't really anything catching me, too clean to get that feeling for me.
Here it's the other way around for me, some cleaner recording could really make this pop. As for the song; it's pretty damn cool.
Sounds like dubstep to me.
This is pretty eery, I'm loving it! Best thing I've heard on this page for sure!
Sounds pretty nice, like the progression, like the lead, nice producing; pretty cool track. It sounds really full too, in the good way.
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i used many many different things. alot where recorded samples and put through many different effects to get certain noises. but as far os software i used pro tools, cubase, audacity (for recording) and flstudio because i like the piano roll. it makes it easier to place complex beats like in IDM. for each effect of the kicks i used each kick in a different channel of the mixer in cubase and just got a ton of vst fx, slapped them in there and put them in the right place to make it sound nice.
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extremely rough cut of something that's still heavily in wip
anything that you can pick out that's shit is still subject to change, unless it's the overall of the track
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I've been contemplating about posting here for a while. Because I tried making house music but then that didn't happen... it never does. But, I hope the result is cool.
If this gives anyone ear cancer then I'm very sorry and I will send out a letter of apology. Any pointers on production at all?
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Has a nice Aphex Twin-vibe to it, I like the drums. I could give some production tips, but I don't really know what you want to do with the track. The production sounds all right to me.
Also here's something I spent a day making, was inspired by the grinding and repetitive house music they play in Berlin
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This is amazing man, beautiful melody's. As for production, maybe something like the "DensityMK2" plugin might make the sound a bit bigger and fuller but this is pretty good as it is; doesn't sound unbalanced at all.
I'm liking this, got that really industrial feel to it. The bit at 1:00 makes it come together and keeps it from getting too repetitive.
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Francais Home.
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The Union Jack would look a shit ton better with a Hammer and Sickle in the middle of it
November 2007
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the synths individually are good, but that intro does not fit the drop whatsoever. in all fairness i prefer the drop to the intro, and i would replace the intro with something a little more synthetic (maybe go for for low-fi synth leads with trancey stabs ala feed me's blood red)
another part of the intro you could improve is that drum roll, i don't know why but i totally hate the building kicks because they just feel like such a cop-out and rarely even fit the track. i would just go with a buildup, to silence, then straight into the drop.
so heres what ive been working on lol
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