I'm finally going to try referencing/remaking a track. I like Odesza a lot and one of my favorite songs by them is My Friends Never Die. I can't get it to perfectly line up with metronome in ableton. I set the BPM to 170 and made sure the track starts at 0 sec. it's also not warped. I'm thinking that it's because there's some bird chirping nature sounds in the middle that could be throwing it off?

I like science fiction and have been looking into scifi inspired electronic music but I have not found any great music of this kind.

I know there are various genres like industrial techno and techstep that are scifi inspired but I don't find that they have a true scifi sound. There is also things like futurepop but I find the sound a bit dated.

You can find a lot of songs with some scifi inspired name and some robot voices but I am looking for something that really sounds like the future.

Any tips?

Is there a YouTube tutorial?

Random song as example: https://youtu.be/Ir_Bd5Z4aeo?si=EesftpzocR_tmPpC

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Hello everyone, I would like to know the name of this synthesizer element to research how to create it or learn from you

I noticed that this sound is quite present in deep house/melodic tracks

It is the bass synth note that accompanies the harmony in the following tracks:

DROP 0:54 0:56 0:57 0:58

Spada – I Don’t Think I Can Stay

Mackie punches well above its weight especially at the price it retails for. Times are tough now and imagine getting one or the pair - Brand New never left the box , for well under that retail.

POuNce while u can 🦘

a M a Z o N BEIER designs 🔊

I tried to recreate a very infamously hard to create Skrillex wob. I failed. Mainly the issue being that in the OG version you cannot easily denote a saw or square or any type of wave, yet in mine its very obvious what the source sound is. How might Skrillex have done this?

Sound: two.flac

First half is recreation, second half is OG, target

The distortion and vocal shifting, I use Logic Pro x and am hoping to get a similar sound.

Hi Does anybody use Neutron for mixing electronic music?

I tried the assistant and it was pretty underwhelming, considering that Ozone assistant is quite helpful sometimes. Neutron's kit is cool, but imo the assistant not much, at least not for electronic music.

Curious to hear other opinions.

Can someone recommend a drumpad (for use with sticks) that has at least 5 inputs, is sub-$200, and outputs midi (with accurate and preferably adjustable velocity data).

I’ve found a couple online that fit my needs, however they all have monsterous internal feature-sets with audio ins and outs and therefore are v expensive. Also open to used if people think that’s the way to go…

Hey everyone, I'm very new to music production. I have been producing or I guess have been learning to produce for about 5/6 months. The learning curve has been challenging and rewarding. I've bought a few courses to get the fundamentals down and watched a lot of YouTube videos so far. I've learned so much already in such a short time frame, and obviously have so much more to learn. But I've gotten to this roadblock, now that I can put together a rough arrangement and mix, I have no idea what I want to make. The problem is that I have so many influences across so many different genres, it's really starting to piss me off lol. I listen to anything minimal like pawsa, stussy, east end dubs, to deep house like anotr and rufus, to tech house like fisher, summit, lake, etc. to even heavier bass styles like sub focus, subtronics etc. fuck it sometimes I even get down to martin garrix and illenium mainstage stuff. The fact of the matter is I fucking love it all. There's always a time and mood when some are favored more over the other, but I love it all. To circle back, has anyone with this similar stance on liking all kinds of music gone through this "wtf do I want to produce phase", and how did you get over it? I know some people take influences from a couple of similar genres to make a new sound/genre, but obviously, that won't work here haha. Any suggestions help! Would love to hear some stories of when and how you got into producing your specific genre... Stay cool.

I am working on a song that uses the same chord progression and melody as a chart topping song from about 20 years ago.

At first it was to be a remix, but now I am thinking I want to make it into an original (yes I know it doesn't sound original with using an established melody).

How can I get around this? My thoughts are maybe sample the original artists vocals at points in the song, while getting another rapper/ vocalist to do most of the song, but different lyrics. I've seen a lot of artists do this as a sort of homage, but what are the legalities around this?

Would I have to list this on streaming platforms as a cover? Can I still call it by its original name and pass it off as some modern remake?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

PS. yes I could change the melody but I am really happy about how this has turned out and want to see what I can do with what I have. Cheers

So is it something you do regularly on your mixes? Either for the lows or anything? What kind of considerations you have? Some people say you mess up with the phase so I stopped doing it for a while, but I'm coming back to consider it

Do you (or have you) shared your music with coworkers? Why or why not? Did it change anything about your relationship with them?

https://diearkitekt.bandcamp.com/track/mirkhel-ft-lena-platonos

I've tried with chorus + some parallel detune, but I'm missing something.

Bonus question : what are your favorite "unnatural" voice effects for EDM?

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Lots of options available ie one drive/drop box etc but not sure the best method to go. My buddy and I use both mac and windows and produce on Ableton. We can’t get together too often bc work so just wondering anyone has experience with the same dilemma and what you use? Probably won’t use much storage so ideally something free or really cheap would be best.

If I remove my some of my old-wack songs from Spotify and other platforms, will my next releases be penalised by the algorithm? And if i re upload a re-mixed and mastered version of the song with the same ISRC, is it gonna keep the same streams?

Last thing: does anybody know if there is a way to replace a track on all platforms through SC 4 Artists instead of deleting them?

there's lot's of edm genre, I can classify some genre( trance, progressive house) but not much. is there any way to classify easily?

Hi everybody! so I am an ex-jazz/rock/metal musician (guitarist) who is getting into EDM production (and hopefully djing in the future), interested in genres like DnB, jungle, IDM, breakcore, techno (industrial/hard/acid), and ambient (and dubstep when I was a kid haha). I am interested in learning as much as I can about production and maybe launching my first EP between this year and the next one ideally. Additionally, I've been attending some raves in my city, to learn more about the culture behind all of this.

However, I'm currently in college studying programming and it also takes a considerable amount of time outside of lectures; that's why I need to be intelligent with my time. So…

Which do you consider is the most effective way to learn production, and one that will be efficient enough to help me create tracks while learning, too?

Currently, I learned about Ableton, synthesis, arrangement, and EQ, and that's basically it (and things I know because of playing/creating music in other genres [e.g. music theory])

thx!!

(edit: It isn't like I do not have time at all [like just 1hr per day or sth lol that would be sad], but neither all the time in the world since I started uni. So I'd say I have at least 2-3 hours during weekdays and +5 hours on weekends. I want it to use it well)

I was recently watching a Noetika tutorial video and he was using a Jade Ableton rack to process his drum bus, seems like it was one from here https://www.swarmaudio.net/effect-racks/p/total-bundle . Jade is one of my favorite artists so I'm thinking about snagging the rack pack, just wanted to double check here that they're worth.

Thanks!

Hey my name is Conor! I’m a traditional & digital artist from Brooklyn and I make psychedelic and modernist animations and motion designs for fun and sometimes when I’m lucky for work.

Anyway I have tons of free 4k HD MP4 video files that match with different BPMs and I give them away for free to anyone who wants them for any reason. You can use them however you want (tho I’d love to hear about it if you do or see what you’re doing with them!)

No strings attached. It makes me happy to see them used and also it’s a good way to make connections with producers or DJs who might want custom work done for their songs or shows.

If you want a sneak peek of my work check out my

EDIT*** CANT POST MY SOCIALS ON HERE SO I REMOVED IT. But take a wild guess.***

there’s a buncha stuff on there!

Please bump this so other might see it, it’s a dream of mine to see my work on a giant screen at a rager.

Thanks so much!

Ok so I’ve actually started to grasp the concept of a mix down and am using certain effects well to keep my master channel below 0db. Right now it’s sitting at -4/-3db and the loudness is comparable to reference tracks. Should I try raise the loudness more until it peaks right under 0db on the master?

I am blown away with how crisp and specific the drums and the sound pallete is in general with all his stuff.

But with this song as an example, is the sound he achieves a matter of sound selection, mixing, effects? I’m sure it’s a combo but I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.

https://open.spotify.com/track/0aEwYyCvLEMNWmc7u0vqHp?si=pWWTH6UfRt-w12AHLCYNwg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4rGdiQW6mqpCwKYD885Dmk

I’m adding in an 8 bar ride hat and I want the effect at the end to like fade out but sound like it’s detuning? (Not sure if that’s the correct word)

Joe red - retrospective @ 1:50-2:10 in the song it happens. The way it breaks down is clean and I’m not really sure which effect does that. I tried pitching it down with automation but it doesn’t sound as smooth.

for us non fl/mac users, not having vocodex is a huge loss. most of the heavy sound design tutorials out there using fl use vocodex(seamless im looking at you). they always involve using the male/female knob. i've tried mvocoder and ableton's vocoder but I can't seem to replicate the sound, especially the disperser-esque sound that is often heard with vocodex. let me know if you guys have found any viable alternatives

For example the use if AI generated art from Vecteezy, Adobe stock, Freepik? They seem to have lots of free license material and many look real good and at times don't even require any attribution at all.

I would learn to create my own cover art, but I don't want to learn a whole new craft at the moment as I don't wanna distract myself from the music production creative process, and I don't really have major following nor making any money from music so not sure if it is worth paying someone to create cover art for me.

Is it worth using those? Looks like most of them are free for commercial use.

A lot of my old House tracks' drums are very weak and I wanna make them better. Been thinking of using subtle saturation and it's good, but not good enough. What do you guys normally do?

EDIT: THANK YOU FOR ALL THE ADVICE!!!

The sound comes in at :36. It sounds like a chopped vocal that is being gated every like 16th note or so.

If you don’t have Spotify and are just listening to the preview it starts right at the jump and continues for about 10 seconds.

Thanks!

https://spotify.link/smMfarPjEJb

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