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Hello guys,

Anyone here who can share with me Westend vocal Ableton rack ?

Thank you :)

I wanted to look for the vts or instruments plugins that were used in the tf2 soundtrack for fl studio, because of the fanmade songs they made, I searched and searched and nothing, only plugins for tf2, and nothing else, if anyone knows where they are, or where look it up, I would appreciate it :D

So I created synth presets on the standalone version of Vital. I am trying to access these presets on the DAW version of vital through Bitwig, but they are not appearing in my presets folder in the file browser. I made sure Vital is tacked in the Plug-in page under settings.

Is there anything else that needs to be done to make sure I can access my presets through Bitwig?

I know that this doesn’t exist for some reason. I’ve tried XO, Atlas, and Sononym on my laptop. Splice is obviously great too (although no drag and drop on iOS), but it seems like the only iOS option for even browsing is Sample Crate, let alone organization/tagging/similarity search.

It’s super tedious to build drum kits and browse for samples on my phone or iPad. This problem would be solved for me if I could just drag and drop from splice to logic or wherever in iOS, but alas you cannot.

I have a pretty solid background in ML and engineering, so I don’t think it would be that hard to fine tune the latest SOTA on samples and their metadata, or to even just embed the spectrogram and do a similarity search.

I have zero experience developing for iOS though, is it just that the compute for something like XO/Atlas is too intensive? Or more that it’s just annoying and hard to code that and nobody has yet?

I feel like if this option was available on the App Store I’d gladly shell out $25.

Am I missing something here or should I just make this.

I've heard it on a few tracks and cant find it anywhere. is this on splice or any other website?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nIWd-7BQ0o&ab_channel=MacStef-Topic

Edit: Specifically talking about the vocal

Looking for some general direction on how to design this sound that a lot of artists in the sable valley realm are using a lot currently, I don't 100% know whether to call it a lead or more of a riser but I'll link a few examples of songs that use it. I'm referring to the high pitched, sustained almost whistle-y sounding synths that are a tad bit more in the background of some of these songs but still carry a ton of the energy. Thanks in advance for any help/advice/tutorials etc on this!

https://soundcloud.com/controlfreakus/eyesonme (2:27)

https://soundcloud.com/joytimecollective/crazy-in-the-club?in=viperactive/sets/crazy-in-the-club-w-dimepiece (0:41)

https://soundcloud.com/marshmellomusic/in-the-cut?in=viperactive/sets/in-the-cut-w-marshmello (the main lead at 2:02)

I'm sick of Splice's scummy business tactics, and I think there needs to be a class action lawsuit against them.

The fact that unsubscribing from their platform deletes all the credits you already paid for is utterly fucked. And the longer you stay, the deeper you're in the hole with credits you don't want to lose. They're literally holding you hostage.

There has to be something illegal about this.

I saw a tutorial the other day that included some slick sound design features of Bitwig when making a sound that I use in my productions (melodic techno / progressive house) and it got me thinking about Bitwig as an alternative to Ableton. I'm currently on Live 11 and really struggle with its instability and cpu drain. I'm running a fast pc (13th gen i9) with 64gb of ram and a gaming gpu, and I honestly can't get through about 20 tracks before I run out of cpu headroom and have to start freezing tracks (which somehow actually makes them sound different than the unfrozen version). I get crashes at least once / session. It drives me crazy.

So I've spent some time reading opinions and experience with both Live 12 and Bitwig 5, and understand some of the key differences. I don't have a Push, and I don't use M4L, so neither of those are drawbacks of Bitwig. I occasionally use the slice to midi feature, and sometimes use the audio warp if I'm making a remix. I plan to add a keyboard / midi controller / hard synth at some point when I can outfit my home studio with the proper gear. With that said, I'm specifically interested in hearing

1. whether Live 12 is stable and less CPU-intensive than 11.

2. how the mixdown / master process is in Bitwig (bonus points if you can compare it to the mixdown / master process in Live). I don't find the mixdown / master process in Live to be all that efficient, in large part because of the instability and cpu drain, I have to export everything into multitrack audio files, import them into a brand new project, and start over from scratch when it comes to volume automation, sidechain compression, etc. I do those things during the composition / production phases so that I can get a sense of what the final product will sound like, but back them out when I render the multitracks so I can start with un-altered audio when doing the mixdown and master. It's incredibly tedious.

3. Whether the oft-cited drawbacks to Bitwig, like navigation (no mouse scroll zooming or horizontal scrolling), the crappy piano roll, and the lack of time markers in the audio files are actually as bad in Bitwig as people make them out to be. I use the mouse wheel scrolling constantly, so losing that would be really tough.

Thanks for your input. I plan to demo both Live 12 and Bitwig 5, but just wanted to hear others' opinions on these specific aspects of my decision.

Hey guys. Lately I'm finding a need for a second monitor. The ones I find say they don't work the best with macs, only windows. I'm looking for suggestions on what some of you guys are using. I don't have a home setup so it has to fit in a backpack. Thanks!

Hey there!

Hoping to get some tips and guidance as a beginner with no background or knowledge on music production or theory. Been interested in producing my own beats/music but have no clue where to start, especially as someone who has a budget.

Looking for some suggestions if I should pursue the school route, online classes, or if I can learn from YouTube and other social media platforms.

What are some budget friendly equipment I could get into as far as the laptop, dj controller, if I need some head seats or a mic, the programs I would need to download, etc.

Ideally I would like to know how much I would need to invest in something like this so I have a visual goal of how much I would need to save.

I appreciate any feedback and tips in advance!

Long story short I was in a car accident last week Tuesday. My hand broke and me and the girlfriend had some decent bruising from the seat belts and impact. I’ve been in a funk the past three day and haven’t produced much of anything. I even tried Downtempo, making some melodies earlier this morning. I can’t literally focus much on anything. I tried Happy Hardcore this morning and I could not finish a melody. Any tips or help on this?

Please post any and all [Feedback] or [Listen] type threads in this thread until the next one is created. Any threads made that should be a comment here will be removed.

Rules:

1. Make an effort to comment on other people's tracks. By doing so, you will find that others will be more likely to help you with your tracks.

2. Be specific when asking for help. Examples of specific questions: "What do you think about this kick sample?" "How's this mix?" "I need some help on this melody, the last measure comes off a little cheesy, any ideas?" etc.

3. Be descriptive when giving feedback. Use timecodes to highlight certain parts.

4. Please link to the feedback comments you've left in your top-level comment. This will show others the feedback you've left, and you're more likely to get feedback yourself! Also, please notice those who are leaving a lot of feedback and give them some, too. This is a cooperative effort! Update: Any comments that do not follow this format will be automatically removed.

For example:

feedback for Esther: "link to feedback"

feedback for Fay: "link to feedback"

feedback for Minerva: "link to feedback"

Here's my track. I'm looking for ___

Any tips on how to properly mix a saw bass? Whenever I use one, it kinda overpowers the whole track. Thanks in advance.

I was listening to a track specifically Chainsmokers & Zerb “addicted”, and noticed the bass on the drop sounds stereo instead of mono. I’m trying to make music in this type of genre and was wondering if I should start creating my top bass layers with stereo while keeping the subby bottom layer in mono or make both stereo like how it sounds in the track. Anyone have any experience with this?

https://on.soundcloud.com/4aw1HRjwq4JcNABH6

At minute 3.25 there’s small synth/pluck that plays for a few notes in the background. I’ve heard it in a few different tracks. Wondering if it’s a specific sample or how I can recreate it. Thanks!

like title says. Sounds similar to folamour and others

My mix sounds great on my headphones but after I export and listen on anything else the mix is drowning in bass. Why am I not hearing this in my headphones?

Hi guys, I've been trying to train my ear to recreate sounds from ear and i'm having a bit of trouble with this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1dnK0HHBUk

So far all I got is a Saw wave, flange filter, and hard curve saturation

thank you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYMPF52YfeA

2:25

Thanks!

Recently had a track approved for release but wanted to change the audio, i must have missclicked when requesting a takedown so it was denied due to metadata changed not needing a takedown, it is scheduled to release tomorrow and it is just sitting there with takedown rejected, Is it going to release? also i submitted a ticket about a week ago which is yet to get a response. I created another release for the same song to release a week later which i did about 2-3 weeks ago and i still haven't received any information about my artist accounts, (this is my first Spotify release), is this a common experience, im thinking of swapping to distrokid but i got charged yearly about a month ago so swapping now feels wrong. Would love some help or to know if this is a common occurence.

Do you guys think that an aspiring artist should stay clear from posting political content on Instagram? Asking for myself because im tempted to share my opinion but also don’t want anyone to become uninterested in my content or unfollow me. I see a lot of female artists posting their political opinions and it somewhat rubs me the wrong way but mostly because I don’t agree with them. Thoughts on the subject?

Hey everyone! How does one go about uploading a mix to Apple Music? It doesn’t seem like this is something that can be done by DistroKid. I have all the tracks split and labeled but can’t seem to find a service to self-distribute from and there are no articles out there that really explain how.

I have been trying to replicate dubstep from the london scene, from artists such as Burial, Skream and Mala, but i didn´t find any tutorials for that online. It says dubstep is simply ´´a 140 bpm half time beat with sub basses´´, but that´s what makes real dubstep? How can i make it?

Please post any and all [Feedback] or [Listen] type threads in this thread until the next one is created. Any threads made that should be a comment here will be removed.

Rules:

1. Make an effort to comment on other people's tracks. By doing so, you will find that others will be more likely to help you with your tracks.

2. Be specific when asking for help. Examples of specific questions: "What do you think about this kick sample?" "How's this mix?" "I need some help on this melody, the last measure comes off a little cheesy, any ideas?" etc.

3. Be descriptive when giving feedback. Use timecodes to highlight certain parts.

4. Please link to the feedback comments you've left in your top-level comment. This will show others the feedback you've left, and you're more likely to get feedback yourself! Also, please notice those who are leaving a lot of feedback and give them some, too. This is a cooperative effort! Update: Any comments that do not follow this format will be automatically removed.

For example:

feedback for Esther: "link to feedback"

feedback for Fay: "link to feedback"

feedback for Minerva: "link to feedback"

Here's my track. I'm looking for ___

Hey there boys! I'm looking to buy good mid level studio headphones!! I've searched on reddit for previous topics but couldn't find much on closed ear studio headphones unfortunately.

I'm hoping I can find something that will translate accurately with my monitors. I'm currently using the ath-m50x and I find it's more catered to djing and listening for me! I would prefer something one with good low end/bass if that exists out there. Hoping to hear some cool input from you guys! Thanks

As the subject says I'm trying to get my pianos like the ones in house music - a good examle is Light by Kisch.

I have tried the M1, various piano VSTs and others and while I can get the sound of the notes right I can't get that weighty feeling that makes them stand out even with a bass note an octave lower. If I can get the bass via EQ I lose the sharpness and clarity even when I have nothing else playing.

What's the secret? All the google advice is the same and in my experience doesn't work so I'm fairly certain it's more me not connecting the dots than it being that difficult.

Apologies if i used the wrong wording (i have no idea what the right wording for this is lol) but this is an issue i've been facing for a really long time.

Everytime I sit down to make music, I end up recreating melodies from an already existing track. Just a few days ago I was messing with progressive house when I made a melody I thought was a banger but it turned out to be a Matisse and Sadko track.

I picked up my guitar and started strumming and somehow managed to strum the intro to thousand miles by The Kid Laroi.

I've tried a lot of things, like exapnding the genres i listen to from just EDM to over 30 genres (I like those though) but this never works for me. I end up recreating even those tracks lmao.

Any advice?

I never use it, but just wondering if anyone here does and how much do you use it?

I'm trying to recreate this bass sound from Stone Cold. - The Caracal Project that starts 5 seconds in.

It seems like it should be easy given how simple the sound is, but I just can't seem to get it right. Looking at the waveforms for the right and left channel they appear to be subtly different, which makes sense as that's probably how it's achieving such a clean/wide sound. Both channels look like they start as a squared-out sine wave (probably just a touch of soft clip waveshaping?) and then the two diverge and introduce some additional harmonic content, but each is totally different.

I'm thinking this is just two hard-panned oscillators, each with a bit of FM and some waveshaping.

When I try that I seem to be landing with either too many harmonics, or not enough. Also not sure what synth allows for two totally independent oscillators that can be hard-panned, where both could be treated with FM independently.

So like... is this two separate hard-panned synths?

Just feels like I'm massively overcomplicating things.

Help?