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olyko12 wrote:How do you guys feel about recreating someone elses songs to learn the software you're using? Just when you're starting out of course. I'm still pretty new to a lot of the parts of production.
That's what I spent my weekend doing.

It helps a lot, when i first started i was really into dnb, like current value and the likes, recreated dark rain and it was a really big help in getting to grips with that distorted metallic drum sound i wanted to work with, plus it helped me get to grips with vocal processing and reese basses.

But yea, been messing around trying to mix that sort of minimal dnb percussive sound with my own crispy panned stuff, was fairly unsuccessful yesterday, but things are picking up now I think. Fairly boring weekend.

olyko12 wrote:How do you guys feel about recreating someone elses songs to learn the software you're using? Just when you're starting out of course. I'm still pretty new to a lot of the parts of production.

I still do that from time to time

Been working on a new tune all week and today is dedicated to putting sub bass under it. Also gonna put all my Reason bass samples into my EXS.

Been working on a new tune, chilled, watched some TV, some gaming n BBQ

I've been screwing around with tempo changes all weekend. Pretty fun stuff

wub wrote:

Electric_Head wrote:I got the nova3 alpha vst installed on Friday night.

Nova3 is a MIDI sequencer plugin that generates MIDI sequences based on a set of rovers that move through a matrix emitting notes when they strike a wall and changing directions when they encounter obstacles and other rovers.

http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?p=750290

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4538807

Ooooo....that's purdy

Not only purdy but freakin effective.

So, what we all got planned for the weeked production wise?


I'm going to try and recreate a Kode9 track style percussion that I was trying to figure out the programming for

work all weekend

Sucks


I've managed a 16 bar loop that I'm happy with since I last posted - reckon might try and develop it over the course of the morning and see where it ends up

up till 3 last night- listen to it this morning its awful

hutyluty wrote:up till 3 last night- listen to it this morning its awful

Hate it when that happens. I had a hardcore day at work yesterday so decided to give my ears and brain the night off and just watched a Jason Statham film instead


Feeling a lot better for it today though - the quiet night, not the JS film

wub wrote:

hutyluty wrote:up till 3 last night- listen to it this morning its awful

Hate it when that happens. I had a hardcore day at work yesterday so decided to give my ears and brain the night off and just watched a Jason Statham film instead

haha really is giving your brain the night off

Ok, 16 bar loop. Got a beat, bit laid back but good. Nice sub pattern going on through, some pads to give it some movement and just added a subtractive synth pattern thing for some flavour.

Copy the drum pattern twice so I've got three copies of it, then slight varation on the drum programming to drop in every 4 bars to keep the beat varied. Going very well this is

This weekend my girlfriend is away so I have all weekend to make tunes...I'm making hazy, woozy atmospheric...stuff, lots of lowpassed, overrdriven reverbs and the like, a la:


If anyone has any tips on making things extra hazy, it would be much appreciated...

Reverse reverb a couple of your hits with a long tail so they 'breath' into the track before they hit.

Got next week off and overcame some writers block yesterday, fixing up my entry for the Oldies Vs Youngens comp...
Double checked i had all the jackdark stuff,
.planning to clean the comp. (software) at the moment i dont even have any space on the desktop
'wub n hutlyluty will you be posting the results? ^^

So how we all doing? I spent most of the weekend thus far working on a track, have solved the issue I was having with the opening percussion, but now have stumbled upon an issue with the hi hats that start after the drop. They're either sitting too starkley in the mix, or else they're sitting right, but are noticeably robotic sounding.

Tried switching up the programming, changing the samples etc etc but nothing seems to be working.