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Music Production

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I'd love for others to share theirs!

So in my current era of musicmaking, I am taking my best epic 7 to 13ish minute songs that were each easily 100+ hours to make and many versions to get there, along with a few smaller gems, and adding layers in fl mobile and, later, in fl studio. I like to add about 9 instrument layers in a version in fl mobile, 50ish (but as many as 100 in one totally epic song) in fl studio, and, the new thing i hit on is a great process for getting songs in to Fl mobile. I so far have done up to 14 versions of songs, each a huge amount of layers built on the last. It's always possible to make something cooler.

So our first image is this.
We add a limiter so it doesn't ever distort from combined volume. And we also lower the volume of the Audio Clip layer down from where it starts (the level of Master) so we have room to play with before hitting the limiter.

And then just make a base 'good' instrument and clone it 7 times. Each instrument is a synth or recording (barely in view above), then an equalizer, then a reverb. I found I used these three so much, since they all do crucial things to make sounds sound good, that they might as well all 3 be on every instrument. So make that instrument sound good, clone it 7 times, and there's your high quality starting sound to diversify from while maintaining or raising the quality. thus song.

Hope you enjoy. FL Mobile is cheap and good. It calls to you.

bye :)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Do you have links to some tracks you'd like to share? Always nice to hear what types of sounds a specific workflow makes.

[–] allo 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

just checked and i don't atm. I had cancelled my Distrokid earlier because it had some junk in it and I want to reinvent my Artist and release highest quality planned things. So I have no distributor atm and no songs out xcept one old song up on Amuse since like 2020 which is too outdated to even show. Will share when I do. ty

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

All good, thanks for posting either way!