Good tutorials for beginner producer

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Does anyone know of any good tutorials or YouTube channels for people just beginning producing?
Nobody in my town or any of my friends do so I'm basically screwing around with massive and ableton trying to figure things out myself but obviously this is hard
And most YouTube tutorials I've found are useless, I mean yea sweet show me how to make to make a great bass synth but they don't tell you why the knobs they turned are changing the sound.
I've heard good things about ill.gates ill.methadology workshop
 
I think everything is available online. Break it down into sections:

1. drum sequencing - how drums work, notation, why knowing what a 16th note is important
2. synths - ADSR, how a wave sound, like a sine wave can make sounds + musical knowledge, keys, chords, arpeggios, etc. Treble and Bass
3. effects

4. general audio production - panning, layering sounds, mastering, recording

i. vocal production - its pretty much an art unto itself

ii. DJing and how DJing influences electronic music production. Answering the big question of: What makes people dance.

Listen to tracks you like, really listen.

Producing is really being a jack of all trades sort of person. It really is being decent at a sampler, while nerding out on synths, while understanding the properties of tape delay, to which mic is good for what vocal range, to being a musician yourself, to being a gear slut and finding a used TB-303 for $300 bucks. Its a lot of different hats.
 
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if you want to create your own synthesizer patches (even with VSTi / virtual synths), I'd recommend to get a book about how analog synthesizers work and what each module of it does (eg. VCO, VCF, VCA, Envelope Generators, LFO,...). This helped me a lot with understanding how I can create a certain sound.
 
I don't think hardware synths are necessary and you can make plenty of decent music on fruity loops. It's a DAW just like Ableton, Reason, Cubase, etc. Tutorials aren't a bad thing when learning how different effects, instruments, and the gizmos and gadgets of a certain DAW or something work. Also, understanding a workflow is essential since you don't want to spend too much time on the songwriting process or you may lose the original idea you had in the first place. Strictly work on composition and arrangement when you have an idea and worry about everything else afterwards. That way, you can express the creative idea in your mind without the influence of the analytical "I am wrong" approach getting in the way and destroying what once was a very magical idea. Analyze after the songwriting process. Also, less is often more when making music. If you think that getting a thousand plugins, a bunch of different daws, and a whole bunch of different synths and stuff is going to help you get better, you are straight wrong. Learn how to use a select few programs completely so you can finish songs quickly and effectively. Having a thousand different pieces of software will leave you with way too much to learn and will completely fuck up your work flow. Finally, just spend time playing around with the effects and instruments on your chosen DAW, and mess with all the tools it has to offer. I find that sometimes the best way to learn is by actually doing.
 
if you are serious it might be worth paying to go into a studio for a day to make a track for yourself. everything is hands on. i mean if you didnt really give a shit you could just let the engineer do all the work, pay the money and leave with a tune, but anyway as it is it wont come quickly. go to kvr vst fo your synths. synth1, novation v station are good starting points.

imo youtube tutorials are horrible to watch, i mean you can get stuff explained but its just hard to take in in that way
 
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