Electronic music production can be a lonely endeavour if you’re doing it solo all the time- but it seems to me it’s not quite like being in a band that people just find each other as easily. How are you all finding collaborators and band-mates? I see so many duos and EDM groups. Wondering how everyone is finding pals to turn knobs and create funky tunes with. Suggestions? Thoughts?

I’m new to edm production, but I was wondering. Since this music is generally played to be mixed on the fly, do producers EQ various aspects of the track so that it’s easy for the DJ to take sounds out? In other words, the DJ mixer has three EQ knobs to twist…should I EQ with these knobs in mind?

Hi,

Im wondering how to get this metallic vibe to the stabs?

Appreciate the help. Thank you.

https://youtu.be/2m2UhVUA8IE?si=bf0WXbt2ZQm8WX22&t=200

Ps: I mean the syncopated stab line, not the 16th notes

I saw a question on twitter that asked about comfort zones in the context of writing, but it made me think, what genres or habits do I retreat to when I want to feel comfortable?

For me, it's trap and dubstep. I really love trance, drum and bass and house, but I have less experience with those, but I know I should probably leave my comfort zone and keep making things I'm less familiar with.

Thoughts?

Hey I am just starting, I want to add a basic kick and some hats on top of an existing song. I can’t really count the measure, so is it ok if I just do it by feeling ? Thanks

Edit: I am pretty sure it’s 4/4, sorry that was not my point, sorry for my english, what I wanted to know, like most song follow the rules of 4 or 8 measure for a musical phrase, in this case where are these « sentences » ? I hope it’s clear 😅

I have this pretty large midi keyboard, Panorama P6, and it leaves almost no room for anything on my desk. I also eat and do studies at this desk so constantly having to move it from my bed to desk and back again is very unhandy.

I have bought keyboard sliders so I could slide it out from under the desk but dont know if my knees will be in the way (its 9.5 cm high). I have a laptop stand coming and could replace the monitor for a monitor with an arm so I could slide the P6 under the laptop and monitor which would create a little bit more space. P6 on the side of the desk is not an option as there is no space left for it in my room.

Does anyone have any advice? Thanks in advance!

This is what my setup looks like now https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOMEhehHiHezCCojQ7Sg7SL1oX8i51KejnxRmTmZeNtQ6ugQNKMRkgIzzkG5Jll8g?pli=1&key=bUJ5eEs5OTUtSFZUSTV2dEwwSUdoMWZrTThSNk13

https://www.fabfilter.com/products/pro-q-4-equalizer-plug-in

New features like spectral dynamic EQ (similar to soothe2), instance view to see all instances of Pro-Q4 from any single window, and "EQ sketch" to manually draw an EQ curve that Pro-Q4 will then replicate

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Hi all, I'm a fairly experienced producer but more in the sense of songwriting.

Looking to learn more about the production of Jon Hopkins, especially when it comes to the sort of strange, rhythmical grooves and ambiences he makes. I am using FL Studio and do have some retro plugins, etc and effects.

Any advice on a starting point here would be great, is there any tips around recording in / what things to have active around this such as recording automations? Any tips on messing with loops that contain some grooves in them?

Thank you

I’m usually a ”if it sounds good, it is good” type of producer but I have some mental problem with having minimal synths. (I know but hear me out :D)

I started producing festival type progressive house and future house where layering is super important but now when I’m doing more melodic techno/melodic tech house or what ever. I feel like I can make solid drop with 3 synths (bass, pad and arp i.e.)

Still I have this mental barricade that track is not ready yet cause there is only 3 instances of Serum in the drop even though it sound good imo and as I said ”if it sounds good it is good”. And one Serum preset (or any other synth) can be super powerful.

I’m not looking in to a definitive answer of how many synths a track needs until it’s ready cuase there is not an answer to that. I’m more asking how many synths you USUALLY have in a finished song (playing at same part i.e. drop). Most likely genre plays a huge role of amount of layers used.

I havent found anything that leaves me as speechless as leroys production does.

It led me down a rabbit hole of trying to decipher what is even going on in these songs. I found a stream by xaev called “xaev berdleycore chapter 3 breakdown” and its crazy how much Ive learned from that one stream.

Even if you dont like the genre I think this will teach you so many things about sound design and layering.

This was just a big breakthrough for my production skills and I wanna share it for any of you who it may be helpful too.

Long story short I’m still learning the program (ableton in my case) I just spent 2 hour looking for a sound for my drum loop and got nothing, at what point do you give up on a project and just start from scratch

Can anyone tell me what's currently the best AI singing generator? Where I can upload a male demo vocal (maybe slightly out of tune) and the AI will replicate it with a pro sounding female vocal?

Need some good EDM drums and serum presets but I’m broke af. Is anybody willing to share?

Hope you can find use for this. It uses Roar from Ableton 12 (actually it uses 3 Roar units, first for distortion, second to generate a sub bass rumble from the kick and a 3rd for more distortion).

You can get the rack for free here: https://www.studiobrootle.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/01-Pumping-Techno-Kick-Rack-3x-Roar-Studio-Brootle.zip

There's a video how to use it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uLbsY66xYk

Any questions, please just let me know.

I don’t think this is a super novel bass sound, but love the sound of the Mersiv bass in Jump and uses it in Trippy Land and others I’m sure. Does anyone know a good video demonstrating this type of bass?

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https://www.reddit.com/r/DnB/comments/1hbv1w6

In tutorials infrequently see peope using fabfilter and using „low cut“ filters an then adjust it to raisee some other frequency. To my untrained eye this just looks like an equalizer. What am I missing here?

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so i have it and i loved it for a while now the only prob i got is the tons of preasets anyone knows top trap preasets names, i would really appreciate it and i have a real damn tasty presets for west coast produsers (synth basses) ,thank you.

https://youtu.be/TsxAVFQkXQ8?si=8QjcnFWqdaXWDRCE

Im having a very strange issue as of late. The issue is the I have a fully mixed and mastered tune that is finished that i'm ready to release that sounds great on the WAV and inside the DAW. The issue arises when i upload it to soundcloud private to test the upload. Immediately after the upload, once the track has been processed for playback the track sounds exactly how it should (minus the normal soundcloud playback quality, which is fine), then the track will sort of reboot itself and restart from where the track left off and then my drums will start flamming around the stereo image and randomly some snares will be mega spread out and sound really low quality (Its drum and bass so this cant run xD) but only on the DESKTOP version of soundcloud! I tested it on mobile on my airpods and it sounds normal! I honestly have no idea what to do about it as this has only started happening recently but its got a limiter on it and its mixed and mastered to be -5 lufs. Any help will be massively appreciated. thanks!

I’ve been making (progressive house) music for 3 years, still don’t have anything out on all platforms. I have two tracks that I love to death as instrumentals but would love to see what a singer & songwriter could do to em. I’ve tried writing lyrics and fiverr’ing a singer but I didnt get anywhere NEAR the result i was looking for.

TALENTED PEEPS HMU!

Genre: Dubstep

Hey yall! Just joined this group in hopes I could get some recommendations on some good youtube channels or mentorships that I could look into as a completely new/starting producer. I have Ableton Live and I just want to say that I was so overwhelmed with the DAW. I have no idea what everything does and why they do said things to make whatever sounds and all that. I want you to treat me like an idiot that has never touched a DAW. I know first things first, I need to familiarize myself with abelton and becoming knowledgable on what each tool does and why it does it. I have no music backround so that's also making it hard. I have serum and Ive seem some videos of producers making sounds and they are using vocabulary that is foreign to me. I guess that's where understanding music/sound theory comes into play? So any advice on those who remember their first time opening up their DAW would be super appreciated.

Thanks yall!

Things like Homework and Discovery are obviously very old fashioned by today's standards. But there's so much house music out there that sounds the same, and has sounded basically the same for 10-20 years itself already anyhow. Wondering if anyone's currently making more immediate, fun, 909, Juno 106 style dance music that isn't trying so damn hard to be cool or moody or pseudo intellectual?

Cheers!

Anyone in Santa Cruz want to make some tunes? I mostly make house type tech minimal deep stuff. Want to get more into the deep tech minimal like wheats, mahony, ag swifty, brad brunner. Let’s make some things and learn from each other.

How would I make the sounds that come in just after 2:15? There's a lot going on so it's hard to decipher. Any help would be appreciated!

https://on.soundcloud.com/Xma4FBoq4USpduLs7

I love having music as a hobby but find it can be quite isolating. I really want to meet/get together with like-minded friends if anyone is down! It'd be cool to learn from one another.

I live in Venice Beach and could potentially host a lil meetup at my place. Just comment below if anyone is in the area and is down :)

Hi!!!

So I have been producing/making original tracks for a while now but know NOTHING about DJ'i ng. I'm not sure what it is but I find it so boring compared to producing and can't get myself hyped to learn. Anyone have tips on where to start?

Did anyone else learn how to produce before mixing??? I don't know anyone else who doesn't know how hahah.

Okay so first off, this is not meant to be a brag or promotional post. I will not be including my artist name because this is purely just to share what I did and how I improved at a rate that I am very proud of. If anyone wants to see my work I can share at your request. I see a lot of newer artists on here that don't really know how to learn or what steps to take to improve. I also see a some people fall to some quite frankly elitist thinking that just ends up holding them back (I will expand on this), I am not particularly special (except to my mommy) and the only music theory I knew when I started was that a song is played in a key and the the scale you play in decides what notes you play. I'm also well aware of the dunning-kruger effect and acknowledge that I likely hold bias to myself as an artist and my skillset. But I'm also terrified of being a delusional artist and based off the reception and feedback my music gets in my community (listeners and producers in my genre) I don't believe I'm delusional. I will be naming artists/youtubers I watched and learned from but again this is not to promote only to share my path and choices that lead me to where I am.

This isn't the definitive way to learn. Just what worked really well for me through trial and error.

This is likely a cliche: I was depressed to the point of sobbing in my dreams and in a sob dream a old hippie in a dream asked what me what I want to do with my life. I had too much love for my family to kill myself and too much self-hate to want to live. I told him I want to create beautiful music, he asked me what's stopping me. He was right, I woke up and downloaded Ableton Intro and a subscription to Mr Bill's AOMB series in which he produces a song start to finish. He highlighted the different devices individually which was great, but what I didn't know at the time is that I made a great choice in starting to learn by following along a full song creation. This was probably one of the hardest things to start, I had severe stress headaches for 2 days because the combination of these raw sounds and overwhelming lingo and layout was A LOT. It took me 8 hours on the first day to create a very simple 4 bar drum loop.

But I stuck with it as far as the capabilities of my DAW could. I didn't finish it because once I hit my 16 track limit and he was using synths and devices that weren't available (not to say that I didn't try using free plugins and learning the basics of sound design in the process and relating it to for example "Operator") I broke off and took what I learned and started to create my own 8-16 bar loops and building out my intro and break (as far as I got in the series). I just kept making some songs and watching videos on music production nonstop whether it was while I was cooking, cleaning, pooping, smoking a j outside, basically anytime I wasn't making music. I then came across "Ableton & Music Habits Podcast" on Spotify and started thinking more about how I should try to think as a producer and how I should approach my craft. I think this was the beginning of my mind shift that accelerated my growth.

I made a goal to show up every single day. It doesn't necessarily mean sitting in front of my DAW (although now it does) but showing up at the time could be I make a playlist, study music, watch videos and take notes, do just sound design and think about the ADSR of random sounds like a horn or a bell or a even a passing car, basically make my craft a part of my day in some regard for a meaningful amount of time. That was showing up. Another thing I started doing was trying to create full songs in a selected genre. My first was dubstep so I made 10 songs in the parameters of dubstep. This was to help me focus on certain elements and build and improve upon them. They didn't have to be perfect. Hell they didn't even have to sound that good (they absolutely didn't lmao). Just finished to the best of my abilities. This created a habit of seeing songs through and not letting myself get stuck in 16 bar loop hell I see newer artists falling into. Plus they got progressively better and taught me so much that I apply to other stuff I make now.

I also started to experiment a lot. My mentality behind creating a song was to learn, not make something that I want to release. So I tried a lot of weird and random ideas just to see what sticks and found that a lot of my weird ideas and moments of "meh why not" created some very useful techniques and ideas that I still use. A lot of ideas were things that already exist but I stumbled upon them on my own via experimentation so when I saw them be explained by someone doing this for 10+ years things fell easily into place. Basically I started developing great habits early on like being consistent in my attendance (never miss a day twice), finishing songs, and constantly experimenting and trying new things for the sake of improving and for fun.

This is all month 1-2

Then I came across Ahee (an awesome dubstep artist with a youtube channel) and this guy knows how to study other artists and music. This was so valuable and it is insane what this moment set off. He has this awesome workflow for studying other peoples songs. Essentially taking a song you really like by an artist you like, putting it in your daw, place locators (intro, break, build, drop, etc.), and even breaking parts up between locators by cutting clips and moving them to individual channels labeled as break, build, etc. This helped me really learn song structure and start applying it my own songs as I started seeing common patterns and what works well in creating a song and what doesn't. I'm not saying to follow the norm in song structure but by learning the basics you can start to do your own thing as you have more songs under your belt.

Last thing I had to do before getting better: Shed the way of thinking that was holding me back. When I started making music I had a 16 track limit and when I looked for advice on it I saw a lot where using less tracks meant you were a better artist or more professional. And I found comfort in that and when I upgraded to Suite and no longer had limits, I would try to keep my tracks at 20-25 max. My girlfriend also started to make music and her technique was to take all the loops she could off splice and just piece them together. This actually annoyed me as someone that took the time to learn sound design and music theory. And I've seen a lot of producers shitting on people that do this online and even judging people that use loops in general. I wanted to be a purist and do everything myself. Then idk what happened but I had a sudden epiphany.

The only thing that matters when making music is the music.

Fuck what anyone says. If it makes the music happen then do it. I stopped caring about track counts and used whatever I needed until my cpu started to slow down. Then I learned how to layer efficiently to lower my cpu usage. As a result my mix became cleaner and I could make sounds stand out better. I started using presets and loops in my songs. But I still focused on my music and sound theory and using as much of my own work as possible. For loops I would take cool vocals or flutes and then chop them up and experiment with making the sound unique and fitting of my song and I learned a lot along the way. I became better at sound design because I was using great sounds and my skill now had to match what I was bringing into my pieces. Music Theory, Production, and Sound design are all interconnected. Improving in one will improve the other and improving things off of each other is a really fast way to grow. When I started making choices in service of my music and not my ego as an artist real music started coming out of me.

My music is not mind-blowing. There are people that have been doing this for longer that I can't even hold a candle to...yet. I believe that I just happened to get lucky as a student and stumbled upon the right teachers and made solid decisions to teach myself. I know the path is a difficult one but that I have the right mindset and love for this artform where I can always find the fun in it. I see a lot of producers on here that shit on their own music. And I love self-deprecating humor but there are people that legit hate their own music. This is a unique expression of you. It is you. Love that shit and improve upon it.

Thats it. I've said my piece.