The productions thread - Part III!

[JoeTheStoner]

 

[Rahcookiemonster]

Cool man. I don't like the background synth that plays at 1:00, there is one note that sounds a little bit dissonant with the rest of the music! The rest of works well. You definitely have a formula for banging together tracks! Can you work me thru it a bit? I like how easy you can work with vocals. Where do you get all these acapellas from? Can you send me some?
Make a tune without one and I'll make one with!


I started this yesterday. Pree happy with it so far, but have to fix up a few small things in that trigger at the wrong time. Super fun though!

SquareTooth - -

https://clyp.it/gn5o2eak

P.S. I love Ableton! Its so colourful.

Also! Wheres all our other producing friends at?

 

[JoeTheStoner]

https://www.reddit.com/r/IsolatedVocals/ i vocals from there

this specific track above started with sounds from "ayo technology" 50cent/timbaland added different melodies /chords in c sharp, but the bassline is exactly the same. you may be right about one note sounding off. i always bring up the scale/chords @ probably misread if it sound off...

https://www.basicmusictheory.com/c-sharp-major-scale / https://www.basicmusictheory.com/c-sharp-major-triad-chords

formula wise, for vocals... i got the lorde acapella pack from the link above, find the key/bpm @ http://www.spotontrack.com/playlists

from there sometimes i'll try and fit the acapella to a beat(some tracks i have like 30-40 versions of ) i already made or from scratch just get a chord progression going.

i also like reading stuff on wiki like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_It_to_Me_(Timbaland_song)#Composition

"Give It to Me" is an electro and hip hop song with club music sensibilities.[8] It features a space-age sound that it built up of skeletal synths, percussion bass, low range horns, breathless drums, digitized keyboards.[5][9] Andy Kellman of Allmusic describes it as a "A leisurely club track full of swagger".[10] David Hyland of WESH Orlando noted the song as "a mellow, slinky club jam that meshes odd, polyrhythmic drumming, a "Twilight Zone" countermelody and digitized keyboard belches with vocals supplied by Furtado and Timberlake."[11] It begins with a heavy tribal beat and accompanying synths."

sometimes they have more info on like bpm/scale/chords/etc . so i'll just really try and take those elements/influences/ideas n' just "jam" around twiddle knobs till something "clicks" and ... or cry LOL ;p

and obviously there is so many youtube tutorials, for inspiration.

 

[JoeTheStoner]

I started this yesterday. Pree happy with it so far, but have to fix up a few small things in that trigger at the wrong time. Super fun though!

SquareTooth - -

https://clyp.it/gn5o2eak



P.S. I love Ableton! Its so colourful.

Also! Wheres all our other producing friends at?

i'm super inspired by this. the tribal percussion is cool, and that squelchy synth, i wanna say reminds me of a 303 a bit. great energy behind it. i struggle with that, especially in more dance floor oriented tracks...

do tell me some about your inspirations, creative process... if you don't mind, especially with the quality of tunes, be interested to hear...

 

[JoeTheStoner]

okay, more formula stuff. this all flows from the lorde track above

 

[JoeTheStoner]

okay, last one , for the weekend. i do think this is the beset "version" with the syrup acapella.

 

[Tranced]

Cool man. I don't like the background synth that plays at 1:00, there is one note that sounds a little bit dissonant with the rest of the music! The rest of works well. You definitely have a formula for banging together tracks! Can you work me thru it a bit? I like how easy you can work with vocals. Where do you get all these acapellas from? Can you send me some?
Make a tune without one and I'll make one with!


I started this yesterday. Pree happy with it so far, but have to fix up a few small things in that trigger at the wrong time. Super fun though!

SquareTooth - -

https://clyp.it/gn5o2eak

P.S. I love Ableton! Its so colourful.

Also! Wheres all our other producing friends at?

Yes, ableton really is beautiful. I'm all about the aesthetics, and I really fucking love live running the skin I have. It actually looks like it might be the same skin as yours except you've got the hue turned up or something? Mine:


Skin link here.


Working on some nice prog at the moment (who'd have thought it? ). Proper oldschool vibe; tribal, deep and trancey. Apart from my psy-trance track I've currently got on hold (as I need more experience to finish it), this is the best track I've done to date, and probably going to be the first one I manage to properly finish. Production standard sounds up with all the old prog to my ears, although I might change my mind in about a week and suddenly hate it. Going to do a more modern, refined version once this is done.

 

[rickifransisco]

Hey, would love some feedback on this progressive synth wave kinda track

[video=youtube_share;RPMsN6nB6NM]http://youtu.be/RPMsN6nB6NM[/video]

 

[JoeTheStoner]

Hey, would love some feedback on this progressive synth wave kinda track

the groove you got going @ 7:00 is what really grabs me most. the composition is dope... don't get me wrong, i'd just make that lil bit it's own track. production wise, clean af. nice on bruhv

 

[JoeTheStoner]

 

[Tranced]

^Very nice, professional sounds coming through my monitors there Joe. If I heard that on the radio/an album/whatever, I certainly wouldn't be picking holes thinking it sounded amateur. Good work.

 

[JK25]

his is a thread where producers and other creators can get feedback and be critiqued on the tracks they create.

Please post your electronic works of art in this thread!

Feel free to post here and get opinions/critiques of your work. We really encourage you to actually review other peoples work- such gestures are returned.

You can find the archived Part II version of the thread here.

Last Post:

I've got a few recordings of really weird sounding farts I made, where can I submit them for pier review?

 

[JoeTheStoner]

^Very nice, professional sounds coming through my monitors there Joe. If I heard that on the radio/an album/whatever, I certainly wouldn't be picking holes thinking it sounded amateur. Good work.

thanks for taking the time to listen/comment, Tranced. your comment really brightens my day!

 

[thujone]

that's you Joe? that sounds awesome!

 

[JoeTheStoner]

^ i hope to become an en expert knob twiddler one day. practice only way to get there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_Knob_Twiddlers

 

[rickifransisco]

Thanks Joe. I realize it takes some pretty different turns. I may try and expand that section as it's own tune. Thanks for the feedback.

 

[rickifransisco]

Hey Joe,
Help me understand what you're doing with your tracks. Are you using existing vocal tracks and building your own piece around them?

 

[JoeTheStoner]

anytime. hope to hear more from ya.

 

[rickifransisco]

Here's another one of mine:

https://soundcloud.com/envelope-3/ideas-2016

 

[JoeTheStoner]

Hey Joe,
Help me understand what you're doing with your tracks. Are you using existing vocal tracks and building your own piece around them?

exactly. example

Three 6 Mafia - feat. UGK - Sippin On Some Syrup (Clean) - Acapella @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZhaN2R4HJ4

so i ripped that acapella, put the mp3 into fruity loops and sync up beat/tempo and then get to work on creating a beat around the vocals like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKuYCuUbpmE

what my unorganized fl studio looks like (notice acapella included) https://68.media.tumblr.com/f8fd65ffb2aab5d87bc07e90f4bf1d0e/tumblr_otkm4fjYNx1t6n6hzo1_1280.png

Here's another one of mine:

https://soundcloud.com/envelope-3/ideas-2016

will check after dinner.