Anyone who can help me out on producing EDM?

Darkest Side said:
I need to know how to make all these cool synths and synergy between sounds, how to decide which sample I should use, what settings should I normally set on it, things like that. I use FL Studio and I'm making stuff only by ear and musical taste. I need to know how the pros make their productions, you know, how to render it in such quality and etc.

Proper Bass use together with synths to make the whole track a trip, things like that.
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i'm going to be frank - if your approach to dedicating yourself to this is to post on a message board asking everybody else to do your leg work for you, i'm not very optimistic about your chances of success... :\

i did a google search for "learning to produce electronic music" and got over 3 million results - not a single one of those is relevant to you?

alasdair
 
^don't be so much a downer man, music is tough to learn and get into. OP was just reaching out for some advice from those in the know. With enough drive and passion, you can make it.

@monkeydna i'm gonna check those out thanks for bringing that up, sounds awesome

and yes mix and master your shit properly, learn how to eq, who cares if club music is overly distorted, you want your shit as perfect as possible.
 
RobotRipping said:
^don't be so much a downer man, music is tough to learn and get into. OP was just reaching out for some advice from those in the know. With enough drive and passion, you can make it.
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one man's unhelpful downer is another's helpful pragmatist...

"with enough drive..." is my point exactly. he asked for opinions online and i gave him one.

alasdair
 
I need to know how the pros make their productions, you know, how to render it in such quality and etc.
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Spend a fuck ton of money on making a studio?

Spend 2 years in an audio engineering course?

I'll give you a tip. The pros pay others pros to make their music for them.
 
Darkest Side said:
I mainly want to produce Progressive House, Techno, Minimal Techno
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You don't always end up producing what you want to make. That's usually not how it works. I wanted to make Hardstyle, but I ended up having a knack for Trance. In my current state I make Trance, and Hardtrance.

FL studios? :p

Ableton or Cubase are the better ones, that or Logic if you're a mac user.

Some of the better VST(i)s are;
-Synapse Dune
-Refx Vanguard
-Refx Nexus2
-Sylenth1
-NI Massive
-Rob Papen Predator
-Zebra/2
-Drumazon
Just to name a few.
 
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i use fl studio all the time, mostly as a vst host though and it's great for lots of little things if you know the ins and outs of it. I can do practically anything with it but it's set up for a certain style of composition.

seriously get the arturia synths they are amazing.

i have the above ones too and they aren't as good. Isotope is also great for mastering. I used to have this plug in that could EQ and effects for everything, very popular and top of the line but can't remember what it's called? can anyone help me out here? it had shit loads of presets.
 
Rendering music quality.

Well you have mixing and mastering.

Mixing is done to put all the little pieces of music together to satisfy your song.
Mastering is perfecting the dynamics, volume and ultimately shining the music to the best that it can be.

For the most part it seems to be common practice to pay a seasoned professional to master it in a studio. It is an art that takes a special ear, education and expensive tools. Mastering can make or break the song.

Darkest Side said:
I need to know how to make all these cool synths and synergy between sounds, how to decide which sample I should use, what settings should I normally set on it, things like that. I use FL Studio and I'm making stuff only by ear and musical taste. I need to know how the pros make their productions, you know, how to render it in such quality and etc.

Proper Bass use together with synths to make the whole track a trip, things like that.
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You need to step back and do some reading. Your own style will develop as you spend hour after hour with the DAW open. You can make amazing soft synth with FL sytrus alone.

RobotRipping said:
my advice is to steal ur samples and synths, Arturia makes the best synths,
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It's impossible to say what synth is the best. I like Massive, FM8, sytrus and RFnexus

Dysphoric said:
You don't always end up producing what you want to make. That's usually not how it works. I wanted to make Hardstyle, but I ended up having a knack for Trance. In my current state I make Trance, and Hardtrance.

FL studios? :p

Ableton or Cubase are the better ones, that or Logic if you're a mac user.

Some of the better VST(i)s are;
-Synapse Dune
-Refx Vanguard
-Refx Nexus2
-Sylenth1
-NI Massive
-Rob Papen Predator
-Zebra/2
-Drumazon
Just to name a few.
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I agree with your taste in VSTs, but FL' 10 can be just as good or better than ableton/cubase (For electronic music) if you're more comfortable with it. IMO it's all about workflow.
 
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Question. I was planning on releasing some of my tunes on Youtube at some point in time, but I'm a little concerned about something like copyright issues, like someone stealing my idea or posting it as theirs. Is this a legitimate concern, especially as an amateur artist? If so, how can I prevent said issues?
 
Dysphoric said:
Question. I was planning on releasing some of my tunes on Youtube at some point in time, but I'm a little concerned about something like copyright issues, like someone stealing my idea or posting it as theirs. Is this a legitimate concern, especially as an amateur artist? If so, how can I prevent said issues?
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Well first of all copyright your shit. Second of all since they are promo videos on youtube i'd imagine, add watermarks and make sure the youtube version isn't the album released version.
 
More vst n vstis
Rob papen blue
Rob papen sub boom bass
Albino
Massive
Sonalksis eq bundle
Waves diamond bundle
Novation
Tbl bassline
Moog,zeta virus emulators, korg, many many emulators.
Umm theres a really good 303 vst

Mainly once u can get shit going you need to learn the ins and outs of all the effects,
Ableton lives effects right out of the box are without paralell.
Great compression, gates, filters, delays, reverb, distortion, chorus, flangers, phasers, so many more and so easy to use
 
ah yes the waves bundle that is what i was looking for thx sinewavesoldier

i played a real roland jupiter today at the music store, holy shit it is amazing, the soft synths have NOTHING on these things. Too bad it was over 3g
 
RobotRipping said:
ah yes the waves bundle that is what i was looking for thx sinewavesoldier

i played a real roland jupiter today at the music store, holy shit it is amazing, the soft synths have NOTHING on these things. Too bad it was over 3g
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Just wait until you experience some real analog gear. Or a Moog Voyager.
 
i would cream my panties if i could play some old analog synths; i spent 2 hours at the music store playing moogs, korg, rolands and others and wow technology has progressed. Still want that old analog sound though, but sooo much money.
 
alasdairm said:
what do you mean by that, exactly? copyright is automatic.

alasdair
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Yeah ur right. And he was talking about copyright issues as far as samples go. Unless you're releasing on well known labels anyways i don't think copyright issues are really a big deal.
 
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SineWaveSoldier said:
And he was talking about copyright issues as far as samples go.
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no he wasn't: "like someone stealing my idea or posting it as theirs. Is this a legitimate concern, especially as an amateur artist? If so, how can I prevent said issues?"

op, my comments may sound harsh but they're intended constructively and are offered in the spirit of teaching you to fish rather than giving you a fish. i believe that helping you help yourself is more valuable than spoon-feeding and hand-holding you. you are, of course, quite free to disagree...

alasdair
 
alasdairm said:
no he wasn't: "like someone stealing my idea or posting it as theirs. Is this a legitimate concern, especially as an amateur artist? If so, how can I prevent said issues?"

op, my comments may sound harsh but they're intended constructively and are offered in the spirit of teaching you to fish rather than giving you a fish. i believe that helping you help yourself is more valuable than spoon-feeding and hand-holding you. you are, of course, quite free to disagree...

alasdair
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Aah. Well I guess all you can do is be vigilant. I see peoples tracks get ripped off quite a bit. It happens. There's not really much you can do other than expose them and bitch about them ripping you off in the beginning.
Once you're releasing tunes I guess you have some reason to pursue them legally. Until then you aren't making money off it so its a little pointless to spend money pursuing someone passing ur tunes of as their own.
Like I said I see it happen, and all I see the artists doing is exposing the frauds and basically demanding they take the tunes off of whatever site they are on. If the shit gets pressed to vinyl or sold you can inform the distributor or website that its plagiarized material I would imagine.

You have legal grounds to protect your work obviously. This business and the internet make it a common occurance. It happens with people making mash ups or sampling whole tunes and changing them very little.

All this should really be far from your mind though.

Write,write,write, learn, study, read, listen... thats whats important.
 
Going back to the original topic, which is music producing, perhaps I can offer a little help. I'm a beginner myself, I only very recently (two weeks ago) bought myself an Akai MPK Mini for $70, an excellent portable midi controller. On top of this, I downloaded a copy of Ableton Live 8 and have been messing around in beat making with various plug-ins and such.

From what I've seen, I'd highly recommend Ableton Live 8. It is a popular DAW, plenty of online tutorials, user friendly (I taught myself the layout and how to manage projects within a week) and not to mention I've been told by a lot of people it's a very good DAW to use for live performances, which is what I'm hoping to one day get in to.

Before I purchased my Midi Controller, I'd tried copies of Fruity Loops but was unsatisfied. I enjoyed the layout, but it just didn't do it for me. Recently I saw my friend working in Ableton, so I knew I had to get it cause of how smooth and fluent it looked and felt when I messed around in it.

As for plug-ins, I can't really recommend much, I've only been messing around in Ableton for 2 weeks now, but right off the bat you should get "ReFX Nexus 2.2" and "NI Massive". They have 2.3 for Nexus, but I hear it's unstable at the moment so I just stick to 2.2. You can find a ton and ton of sound packs and torrents for both plug-ins on popular torrent sites. Look for torrents by Team Air, highly rated and very good quality torrents.
 
How important do you guys think having a variety of vst's is? Once, I had every single free 'top' vst and I would just mindlessly go through all the presets. It wasn't until I started messing around with operator alone that I began to understand how to actually create new sounds in a directed manner. Then I discovered Zebra2 O.o. Damn, I wish I had all this stuff in high school.
 
MonKeYDNA said:
How important do you guys think having a variety of vst's is? Once, I had every single free 'top' vst and I would just mindlessly go through all the presets. It wasn't until I started messing around with operator alone that I began to understand how to actually create new sounds in a directed manner. Then I discovered Zebra2 O.o. Damn, I wish I had all this stuff in high school.
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^ This is pretty much what I do. I'm just now beginning to put more constructed beats together. Before I'd just sit and have fun pressing the keys on my midi controller, listening to the various sounds and effects I could add, basically taking in the whole "I can make my own beats now!".

=D

Seriously, check out the Akai MPK Mini, it's a sexy little thing.

- http://www.amazon.com/Akai-Pro-MPK-mini/dp/B00466HM28
 
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