Your new music thread **formerly 'Music Production Thread'

[charlie chong]

probably 30 plus new beats this last month and a half.. all the sniper ones from 5+
https://soundcloud.com/vapor-teh-appari ... beat-mixes

been using one of these


only an intel atom but runs modplug and soundforge well enough for my purpose.. good for making beats/emulation on commute

[jonny5]

Oh sheeeeit, digging this Charlie!

Glad to see you're still at it

[charlie chong]

Oh sheeeeit, digging this Charlie!

Glad to see you're still at it

ta man.. broke my ribs twice last year and my foot this year so have been laid up quite a bit so been making beats in sporadic bursts. if you like em there's a a lot of stuff to go through

[emphatic]

My submission to the Ferry Corsten remix contest on SKIO Music: https://skiomusic.com/dj_emphatic/ferry ... nder-remix

The original version is 110 bpm, mine is 138. I changed the tempo of the vocal track to 69 bpm, and then double the tempo around it. I really worked my ass off on this.

[nasty_wolverine]

My submission to the Ferry Corsten remix contest on SKIO Music: https://skiomusic.com/dj_emphatic/ferry ... nder-remix

The original version is 110 bpm, mine is 138. I changed the tempo of the vocal track to 69 bpm, and then double the tempo around it. I really worked my ass off on this.

another banger!!!!!

[emphatic]

Thanks!

[djsheep]

Rocked 256 gaming tracks in 46 minutes live on 2 turntables here, lots of shmup related stuff! Enjoy: http://soundcloud.com/djsheep/videogame1

[FinalBaton]

Here's a teaser of the upcoming EP of my black metal band BEHOLDER (bm with sludge and trash mixed in).
No vocals yet but everything else is there in the mix(aside from upcoming very small tweaks to the mix), this is a full song, should give a pretty good idea of what we dish out :

https://soundcloud.com/user-545995157/track-7-wip

(Man, there are so many variable with "live" instruments and amps/pedal knobs positions and mics setups, it's insane. an extremely complex recording process... As an example : the sound of the snare changed pretty drastically from the morning to late afternoon, because of the humidity in the air.
Another thing is : scheduling time where all bandmates can get together and jam(same with studio time with our engineer buddy). You guys have it easy with your solo projects and VSTs and the such. lol. I'm actually kinda jealous of the quickness at which electronic music can be produced. At least up to the post prod stage. Then there can be a good amount of time, for some, spent polishing tunes. I do realise this

[Heavy Viper]

I've been doing some VGM arrangements while getting to grips with my main DAW. Here are the results so far!

https://soundcloud.com/heavyviper/ranphar-1-vprarrng

https://soundcloud.com/heavyviper/d_058-viper-arrange

[EmperorIng]

Man, those are so good. What DAW are you using: Reaper? FL Studio? 7+ years in, I still don't know all the ins and outs of FL studio... it's kinda embarrassing. But hey, this is a hobby, not a job!

I have been uploading some 1bit chiptune stuff lately, but I managed to do my first "cover" (as opposed to straight up remix) of the Twin Peaks main theme using FM instruments:

https://soundcloud.com/ec2151/twin-peak ... sis-ym2612

Pretty proud of how this one turned out, and so quickly. I admit I was using the sheet-music of the soundtrack to help save me from figuring out what each note was. Though I still had to do so, because the sheet music didn't cover every note. It's got me wondering if I should do Laura's Theme, or Windswept, next.

[Heavy Viper]

Man, those are so good. What DAW are you using: Reaper? FL Studio? 7+ years in, I still don't know all the ins and outs of FL studio... it's kinda embarrassing. But hey, this is a hobby, not a job!

Thanks man! Both of those were produced in Propellerhead Reason 9, albeit with a few extra sample packs/instruments alongside. I do all the composition work in Reason, then put the finishing touches on in Reaper (mastering, top 'n' tail etc.).

FLStudio looks like it is leagues beyond what it was back when I tried it -- back when it was just called Fruity Loops! Stick with it, because what you're putting out these days is super slick. ;3

[EmperorIng]

Ha, those were the days... My first tinkerings with a crack copy of Fruity Loops before finally mustering up the money and gumption to go "legit" and make the big-boy purchase of a DAW... It's already been ten years since I first started making music on the computer (though I can remember as early as 5-years-old writing music for the piano ). Thanks... I'm afraid to try out new programs at this point (dabbled in Reaper briefly... 7 years ago). Though I think one day it will behoove me to learn something like Ableton or a built-in keyboard/DAW setup, if I ever want to ensconce myself in the biz.

EntropoRhythm

Slight touch-up/remaster of a track I made several years back - back when I really had no idea what I was doing! It was harder than I thought to muddle through my mess of a setup/template and I more or less gave up trying to separate all the cross-wired mixer/effects channels. Live and learn; it sounds much better now.

[qmish]

do u rike chicken dance? i do
https://soundcloud.com/infernalgrape/formerly-deney

[lilmanjs]

After over 3 years, the Nevermore project finally got to see the light of day. The host of the internet radio program At Water's Edge made a call for tracks to be made based around some field recordings she took while on vacation. The release is actually free, so go for it, or spend some money for some cool ambient. https://soundcloud.com/deepwarmth/james ... ert-living

[EmperorIng]

I wrote music for a short film ages ago (I starred and directed too, lol). The tracks were done on the quick, so rough. However, over the last few days while agonizing over how to work on the difficult task of an orchestral track, what started as listening to some old unfinished WIPs for fun turned into a full-fledged "remaster" of the movie's soundtrack, plus music that never made the final cut. Thus my masterpiece TOTAL NINJA CARNAGE has a remastered soundtrack for consumption!

https://soundcloud.com/ec2151/sets/tota ... rks-sample
-sample-

https://ec2151.bandcamp.com/album/total ... ound-works
-full album; free-

If you listen, the whole set of tracks is only 10-minutes long, but there are some good'uns there! I recommend:
Trouble Reunion - if only because I use the same lead as Rainbow Islands, ha
To the Death - the best of the original compositions
Return of Gordon - my snazzy house/club(?) remix of the above track, and what spurred the whole project

I think right now I am most proud of the dumb Engrish titles I gave all the tracks.

After over 3 years, the Nevermore project finally got to see the light of day. The host of the internet radio program At Water's Edge made a call for tracks to be made based around some field recordings she took while on vacation. The release is actually free, so go for it, or spend some money for some cool ambient. https://soundcloud.com/deepwarmth/james ... ert-living

interesting way to organize an album! Your sound seems to have some persistent cawing? baying? in it. Glad to see your collab project finally release.

do u rike chicken dance? i do
https://soundcloud.com/infernalgrape/formerly-deney

Pretty creepy! Was this sampled from some Eastern European children's cartoon?

[qmish]

Pretty creepy! Was this sampled from some Eastern European children's cartoon?

Ha-ha, thanks! Though when i performed it for my friends at new year's eve home party, they started dancing to it. If you're interesting for a little bit of more, i have sort of "ep" in this style. Listen to or download here: https://infernalgrape.bandcamp.com/albu ... d-escalier Though i must add, it's not as immersive as during live perfomance of it (i played this set two times, firstly at "proper" fest with random people, and 2nd time at home party for friends where that "chicken" track debuted), and because i basically use modular synth-based software, i can do it slightly different each time (now i dream i'll have hardware modular one day lol).

As for samples which i manipulated, "chickens" (i mean, it's chickens for real) were taken from some cartoon-themed sample library, yeah.

[charlie chong]

https://soundcloud.com/vapor-teh-appari ... al-beats-1
https://soundcloud.com/vapor-teh-appari ... al-beats-2
https://soundcloud.com/vapor-teh-appari ... al-beats-3

some new beats..done my bloody back in again innit

[EmperorIng]

A new Toaplan-inspired Sega-Genesis/Mega-Drive tune. This one had been a sketch/WIP for years before I finally unlocked its secrets last night

Ultimate Tiger Shark ~ One More Flight

The first 20ish seconds (all that there was) was originally played at a fast rock tempo. This made things sound like junk. When I messed around and slowed down the track, the nugget of goodness that had been hiding finally came out. I am pleased with the results, even if I diverge from pure-Toaplanism towards the end of the song.

https://soundcloud.com/vapor-teh-appari ... al-beats-1
https://soundcloud.com/vapor-teh-appari ... al-beats-2
https://soundcloud.com/vapor-teh-appari ... al-beats-3

some new beats..done my bloody back in again innit

Man, so many of these... I've only listened to two, but they are awesome! They were pretty smooth and chill, and I am kinda partial to old docu samples in urban music. I'll have to spend time to give them a good listen later.

[Heavy Viper]

Super tight beats from charlie, and A-grade Toa love from Ing. Good things happening in this thread!

As for me, I contributed a track to the latest OCReMix compilation album - three discs of Secret of Mana arrangements!

https://soundcloud.com/ocremix/sets/sec ... -pure-land

I come in right at the end of disc 3. ;>

[EmperorIng]

Ah, I'm jealous. It's been one of my dreams to make it on to an OCR album or site since all the way back in 1999 or so - before I was even a teenager!

My interests get too scattered (I have unfinished mixes for Penetration from RayForce, Searching for Friends from FF6, and a few Zelda tunes) - or truthfully I'm just too lazy. I saw the post for the new album earlier today and got excited. I got double the reason to listen to it now.

I think most of my free time SHOULD be trying to plow ahead on my concept album, and more importantly do sound work for the shmup in my sig. Maybe OCR in 2018...

[charlie chong]

thanks been doing a few each day even tho i'm back at work again.been doing so much i don't get much chance to keep up with other music.still sometimes its best to pull back from outside influences except the samples you are using.never sampled much non fusiony jazz before but the openeness of the sounds are really slotting into my workflow at the moment

[dunpeal2064]

I've been wanting to get into music production for a while now, so a couple days ago I just picked a random site and made a song.

https://chirb.it/83ImOD (Fair warning, its not good. Just posting for posterity, and because I know the early stuff will be average at best)

Ended up using Loop Labs, which was okay for what it is, but not exactly what I was looking for. I'd rather get in more at the ground level, rather than use loops, even if LLS lets you change and distort enough to sound unique. I'd also love to have some physical input (I think thats what MIDI is?), since I've only ever played instruments, and am very new to digital stuff. I have a keyboard that is MIDI-compatible, but thats about as far as I am.

Any pointers or direction would be amazing. Doesn't have to be anything in-depth, just a place to start. I know I've had good times with the KORG DS games that let you physically manipulate sounds and such.

[qmish]

What do you mean? There is software by Korg for DS and 3DS which is pretty much enough to make the whole song in it.

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/M ... u3ZrRCXNEm

http://www.korg.com/us/products/synthes ... org_dsn12/

http://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/korg_m01d/

[charlie chong]

try some free tracker programs such as modplug tracker and renoise..they can be as complicated or as simple to use as you could want.then just use a wave editor such as sound forge or audacity to edit/add effects to your samples.

got the dreaded manflu over xmas so been quarantined away making beats
done a whole load of new stuff so all new material on the soundcloud

https://soundcloud.com/vapor-teh-apparition

[EmperorIng]

I recently passed 200 followers on soundcloud... It only took me 7 years!

To mark the occasion I finally finished up a big piece I had been working on, a driving orchestral piece for my concept album Enigma of the Shark:

Enigma of the Shark ~ Yoshihara Fishing Fleet
(other tracks are in the link)

I'd love some feedback since this is the first serious orchestral piece I have written in years - the last being back when I knew next to nothing about arrangement and was using free soundfonts found on the internet. Here I tried to be more familiar and commanding with articulation, although the default orchestral instruments in Kontakt don't allow for a wide range.

I finally have 5 tracks done out of potentially 10 on this album. It's scary that I started it in late 2016... I had expected to be done with all 10 by last summer, but life and writer's block (on this track in particular!) found a way. At least this one is over, barring any tune-ups!

[Stevens]

Rocked 256 gaming tracks in 46 minutes live on 2 turntables here, lots of shmup related stuff! Enjoy: http://soundcloud.com/djsheep/videogame1

Just found this. You're a gentleman and a scholar.

[lilmanjs]

First thing I've made in quite a while. Computer died and now I'm back on a pretty slow computer, but it won't stop me. Some minimal drone ambient. https://soundcloud.com/james-shain-2/ja ... -the-night

[FinalBaton]

Is someone on here well-versed in Megadrive music making programs?

From what I gather, the fun with MD music is to shape your own tones from scratch, instead of choosing in a bank of pre-existing tones (or at least : start with a pre-existing one and re-shaping it). Is there one program that has an easy to use (and understand) interface for the tone- modulating aspect of MD sound?

I know Deflemask is a popular tracker for VGM, but I have no idea if it's tone-shaping tool is intuitive or not...

Also, I'm not too sure what operators are and stuff... so if anyone knows of a concise litterature on FM synth(and especially on the tricks that can be pulled off with the Megadrive's setup of the YM2612 FM and Z80 PSG), that's be great.

[Heavy Viper]

Is someone on here well-versed in Megadrive music making programs?

Yo. ( '-')/

Deflemask is probably your best bet for a fast and free way into FM sound design. I got into it a few years back, and to date I've composed three game soundtracks with it.

FM is a complex form of synthesis, but the FM instrument editor in Defle is quite manageable if you take the time to understand all the functions. It's like programming any other kind of synth. If you've never used a music tracker interface before then that aspect may be a bit daunting as well, but it's fairly easy to get noise out of it at the start.

As for a concise literature on FM synthesis...eeeeehhhhhh. As I said, it's complex, and articles and tutorials alike have a tendency to dive straight into the math and wax lyrical about SIDEBANDS and OVERTONES and RATIOS and whatnot. There is this document on SMS Power which is transcribed from Sega's own documentation, and while it does get technical it also gives a good basic overview of what's going on inside the YM2612.

If you have any trouble, I lurk a lot in the shmups discord, so feel free to hit me up. :>

(I should probably think about writing an concise FM guide myself, thinking about it now...)

[FinalBaton]

Thanks a ton Heavey Viper! That's exactly the kind of response I was hoping to get. This is invaluable info