Music Production

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This is Music Production. A place to share anything and everything you want about your music making journey! Learning is the goal, so discussion is encouraged!

RIP Waveform.

Rules are as follows:

  1. Don't share other people's music without commentary, analysis or questions. This is not a music discovery community.
  2. No elitism or bigotry towards other people's music tastes. Be polite in disagreement.

I will update rules as necessary, but I promise we'll stay light on them and only add new ones after discussion!

Here are some useful examples of what a great post would be about:

(in no particular order)

  1. Stuff you made/are making. Get valuable feedback and criticism!
  2. Learning resources - videos, articles, posts on any topic concerning a production process, be it composition, sound design, sampling, mixing, mastering, DAW workflow or any other.
  3. Free plugins, presets and samplepacks. Giveaways and self-made stuff included!
  4. News about production software, releases and personalities.
  5. Questions and general advice about music production.
  6. Essays on your favorite productions. Inspirations and insights!
  7. Your physical analog gear! Let us know how it performs!

Good to know: As a general word of caution, avoid posting complete compositions, mixes and tracks on the internet before backing them up on a remote and reputable server. Even small snippets or watermarked tracks should be posted AFTER backing it up to cloud. Timestamps from cloud services will help you in case of theft. And, as a public resource, lemmy is not a safe place to post your unpublished work, so please make sure your work is protected.

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Making AmbientMusic (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 days ago by rofilm to c/musicproduction
 
 

Dark Ambient, Space Ambient, New Age Ambient, Ambient Techno, Liminal Ambient. 11 comprehensive projects, each step by step explained with 344 graphics and included nearly 2 hours of video, 58 preset and 63 samples. Click here to read more about it: https://www.dev.rofilm-media.net/node/672

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I kinda wish i did the last loop a few more times but you get the idea. also please follow on whatever.

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Like, if you're sad and you listen to sad music, what does mood tend towards as a result of the emotional interplay with the music? Does it alter the expression of the current or previous mood to some end or what exzctly do you think is happening?

Does it actually change the mood or create a sort of emotional chord progression that tends towards resolution or creating a new emotional tonic?

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by can to c/musicproduction
 
 

Only halfway in and it's already very interesting and too much for me to summarize but I do love the idea of subtly releasing music to poison models.

The demonstration at 15:07 is a good preview but the entire video is worthwhile.

Or 22:25 for a more malicious use of this tech.

Edit: fixed timestamped links.

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I want to SEE the music made from thinking rock dreams. Recording is literally turning sound into stone and I wanna see it but I cant and dont know how. I've asked this a couple times but I feel like I was always wanting to see how music is encoded as text/binary whatever and I cant

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Some good news for all, especially Reaper users. Inflator, Phoenix, L2 clones and more in this sweet suite.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/musicproduction
 
 

I love Sia's, to my ear, it almost sounds evocative of that Native American thing where they rapidly oscillate their hand in front of their mouth while vocalilizing, often accelerating. Its intoxicating

Anyone second the Native American doing that hand yodelly sound thing?

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I mean like a giant wine glass that has a circular opening that can be covered by a round and disc shaped portable speaker?

Something something resonance?

What is the effect when you direct sound into closed dead-ends/sealed containers? Especially when sort of elevated and not connected to the ground or other surface...

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/musicproduction
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I found this a cool commentary on whether or not sound design matters in electronic music.

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I'd love to discover a way to record a continuous performance (no cuts/overdubs) that starts without click and then continues to a click in the middle of the piece.

An external metronome could be triggered by foot pedal, for instance. But could it be done all within the DAW? Has someone devised a Reaper script for such a thing?

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Especially for recording vocalists, I've found it much easier to mix dynamic mics. Dynamic mics don't often get the praise they're due.

Condenser mics are more expensive to build, so they are regarded as more expensive-sounding, which hasn't been 1:1 in my experience. I find that a 57 sounds better than most budget condenser mics. I think they're a much better bang for the buck.

What do you think?

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  • (gaussian) blurring = low-pass filter?
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Something something sine waves?

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Edit: Walk Like A Man by Four Seasons thanks and credit to groucho for finding it!

~~Not sure if thats in the chorus or somewhere else in the song, i just sort of vividly recal all the oooos and wooos 😅~~

~~Makes me think of Spandau Ballet and also that quartet group Frank puts together in Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia a bit but I just mean the sound~~

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Tips after musicvideo is made? (self.musicproduction)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by allo to c/musicproduction
 
 

Just made an epic music video for the song I submitted to Routenote a month ago. I have never made a music video for a song and when I search to find advice it's not about what I'm curious about. So here are some questions and I would also love any advice from anyone with experience distributing songs with music videos.

  • As my song is not yet processed, I can still cancel and switch distributor. Are there any Distributors that are extragood with having music videos for songs? Any to avoid? Why?

  • I do not like google and would prefer to not touch youtube. What is the ideal way that does not feed in to google's empire to have the music video available online? Or should I make a youtube account and play their game?

  • other tips?

Thank you.

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The picture shows how it looks like when I´m planning the structure of a new piece of music. This time it´s Ambient Techno. In the book I explain each step, lay out the “whys and hows”, show alternatives and – first of all - “detect” the characteristics of the musical style, which the pieces are going to be examples of. If everything develops according to my plans, I´ll be able to publish this e-book on the 30th April. I´ll keep you informed, here as well as on my website https://dev.rofilm-media.net. Cheers and peace! Rolf

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Is there a way to turn most music into something more "triplety" for example by setting a delay of 0.33 seconds or something like that?

Love me some 6/8 time (or triple time maybe, I like 3 a lot) haha. I suppose I might looking to confirm or adjust my working theory that delay of 0.33 seconds to the point there's kind of a 2x echo after the initial beat would roughly equate to this but its a very rough draft

The only actual recorded example I can think of that illustrates the end result I'm interested and also aware of altho I think its more implied than actually necessarily in the music is Debussy's arrangement of Gymnopedie N. 1 by Erik Satie. I feel like the orchestra is basically generating this effect at least evocatively if not in fact. I

Might not be articulating this fantastically, not sure if I even know what I'm asking for or if it makes any sense 😅 If not, just making conversation i guess

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https://www.dev.rofilm-media.net/node/337 In 12 articles I write about funny, strange or extraordinary experiences on my ways to discovering new “fresh” sounds to sample. Cheers and peace! Rolf #music #musicproduction #sound #sounddesign #musicstudio

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A series of serious thoughts on a popular but rarely though through matter: https://www.dev.rofilm-media.net/node/503 Cheers and peace! Rolf

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A series of serious thoughts on a popular but rarely though through matter: https://www.dev.rofilm-media.net/node/503 Cheers and peace! Rolf

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