gen_ + arcane :),
You guys are all awesome, thanks for your helpful suggestions!

I used Ableton 9, Battery 4, Massive and Omnisphere (plus Heaviocity's Damage for "industrial" percussion)
The second drop has a (badly mixed) sub, the first one doesn't
There is a tempo change half way through

Wreck-It Ralph? Nice Mastering.

It's well good

Thanks for not laughing me off the forum :)
I'm by NO MEANS good at sound design. I've barely scratched the surface, but I'm happy to bumble along the learning curve.
My biggest problem is EQing/mixing. In my 1-minute track up there, the 2nd loud section has 2 different massive leads but I can't ...

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I have graduated from using sample packs of premade noises to actually programming Massive from scratch, but I'm crap at it.

Any advise on layers and mixing etc would be awesome

http://8dio.com/instrument/dubstep/

Does anybody have any interesting opinions about the new 8Dio dubstep library?

After years and years in the waiting, anyone upgraded to Live 9?

What you think?

That is a Wurlitzer 200a, although a Rhodes would sound more or less indistinguishable under all those effects

Making electronic music as a solo producer is very lonely compared to making music as a band.

It's a pity that electronic musicians don't work together more to counteract individual weakest points.

My weakest point is: I don't know production .

I've been a live keyboard player for 15 years but when it comes down to it, being a composer or whatever is meaningless unless it sounds professional to regular people.

Up until recently I've had the attitude of..

I don't need to care about mixing ...

Same. Perhaps someone hasn't been paying their domain fees

You know the word meme was invented by Richard Dawkins in 1976, as a "memory" version of gene?

Some classic memes here, some slightly uncomfortable ones...

You've already fared better than me, I can't seem to figure out anything in FM8

So many useful ideas to investigate!

Thank you Electric_Head, kreutzbube, lightshapers, lloydy and Katharsis

Yesterday I posted a topic about converting audio drum loops to MIDI and now I have my answers...

However , what happens when you really, really want to use a specific loop ? Surely the hip-hop guys get away with using sampled drum loops all the time?
If there are any experienced producers here ...

I have thousands of drum loops archived away (some even paid for), but as my Producer Experience Level gets a +1, I've decided to use individual hits instead of drum loops.

But drum loops can still be used as templates for rhythms, right?
Often drum loops have a particular bit of syncopation or ...

bassinine wrote: anyways, virus' are badass hardware synths. hardware. that's what this topic is about.

i call total, crazy, ridiculous BULLSHIT on your statement, because the super-saw is fucking pro.

if you say so

wub wrote: Drums are quite weak though, kick is getting lost behind the synths more often than not...could maybe benefit from some layering and/or creative EQing of the other elements to create a bit of sapce for it in the mix.

Thanks Mr. Wub, I have a lot to learn

I used to have a Virus TI Snow , but like so many hardware synths I sold it because it wasn't as good as Omnisphere !
The famous hyper-saw was the most disappointing aspect of my Virus experience. The effects are very good, but that's not enough

I wouldn't recommend buying a Virus under any ...

I present to you a one-minute-long sketch-pad scrawling , to be annihilated by forum-hatred . It's only my third or so attempt at making dubstep but at least I programmed all the synths ( Massive , Lazerbass , Cyclop , WOW ) from scratch!

C'mon gimme your best shot ...
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