When I got involved in my local underground scene I was a young kid still bangin' and living that lifestyle, but the more I got involved in music the less I wanted to stay with the movement. My perception is any of us who've ever banged started because we didn't care about ourselves enough to care a...

So in order to save on CPU, I bounced out a 4 bar "C" note from massive as an audio file. Then I split frequencies, distorted, slightly phased & slightly detuned the mids and highs, saturated the low end. The only problem is that even after manually warping / repitching over a whole oc...

effectrix by sugarbytes has a preset on its x-loops function that effectively staircases up like you describe. not sure if it is in semitones though. but if you're using massive couldn't you just write in the midi notes that way? I could for that, but say, if I am using a one shot I've tweaked, I c...

Is there a way to transpose a single hit over say, two octaves, automatically incrementing by 1 semitone per sample? I normally have to copy a sample that I bounce out of massive 24 times and manually increment by 1 semitone in order to properly warp samples, since Sampler/Simpler don't warp the sam...

Maybe generate a really busy tone with massive, look at a frequency analyser then put it through the scream filter and compare the two frequency analysers to see what the filter is doing to it then attempt to recreate it Looking at an analyser will not really help in the way of trying to recreate t...

I've been doing a lot of sound design lately to get my chops up, and what I was wondering is if there are alternative methods to emulate massive's scream filter, without massive? I've got a bunch of waveforms I chopped up, would love to be able to see what I can come up with "from the ground up...

Ahem, there are other methods to gaining software for those who aren't as blessed as the rest of us as far as production / studio budgets go. that was a rather sad thing to read, ill refrain from ranting and going into why as im sure it's pretty obvious. @OP massive may be on sale, but the money sp...

With that said, all you really need is a good DAW, some VST synths (NI Massive, Albino, Sylenth) and plugins (Izotope Ozone, Sausage Fattener, etc), and a decent midi keyboard to start with (I'd suggest at least three or four octaves, though you could get away with a two octave controller if you ar...

FL Studio has an easier learning curve IMHO, but I am an Ableton user. I find the workflow in Ableton to be much more seamless and I think overall it has more power as a program, but in the end, it really comes down to how familiar you get. Guys like Skream used FL Studio for years (I believe he use...

Why not import some grime tracks into your DAW and attempt to recreate them? You will learn a lot this way (sound design, rhythm, mixing, arrangement and why it works). Plus you'll often develop your own sound as a result. Plus, grime instrumentals tend to vary as the genre has a lot of different in...

Overall I think it is pretty solid, but the mix sounds very thin. I listened to it through several setups, came to the same conclusion each time. If you thicken up the mix, specifically the basses, I think you will be okay. The drums are fine, I wouldn't change those at all. It could just be your pe...