getting better at electronica!!! check it out :D

[bled12345]

So its been a week since I posted my shitty little techno riff, I'm actually starting to get alot better at fruity loops, I still suck major ass at it.

But yeah! I posted up a new song, I don't really know what to do or where to go from what I have so far lol, and the sound hasn't been mastered yet or really mixed all that thoroughly, but check it out anyways hahahah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzNoHDB3QpQ

[Hasbinbad]

The system is down.

[bled12345]

? lol you mean youtube?

[Hasbinbad]

Dun dun dun dun. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwZwkk7q25I)

[bled12345]

lmao

[DetroitVelvetSmooth]

It needs crashing waves in the background and an unintelligible new agey female vocal track.

[Sorrow*qc]

its not even close to be good

[bled12345]

its not even close to be good


lol ouch! My feelings!! :P

[Loke]

I've been down with electronic music for awhile. I honestly like all kinds of electronic, from the Detriot scene Josh Winks and Richie Hawtins to the innovative Daft Punks and Aphex Twins and the mainstream Paul Van Dyks and Tiestos.. but I have to say, trying to listen to the trance style that was so popular in the early to mid 2000s that you're trying to recreate is difficult for me these days. With all the innovation going on in electronic music, the simplicity of regular old trance just doesn't do it for me. There are so many fusions of sound going on right now in electronic that limiting yourself to the old trance sound seems like a waste. You've got bands like Pretty Lights or Chromeo mixing electronic with a funk or soul type sound. Bands like Cut Copy and Shy Child pumping out great electro-pop. Ratatat and Crystal Castles are really in a league of their own, with the electronic rock/noise thing they're rocking. Compared to these bands that are mixing genres and making new sounds, the Tiestos and Ferry Corstens of electronic music are just putting out really boring stuff.

Basically not a lot of this has to do with your music, just something I've noticed. I think it's awesome that you're playing around with making music - keep at it. I'd definitely suggest drawing influences from outside of trance though.

[Thetruth]

The truth is,

I hate this fuckin music. It deserves to die in a shit filled fire of chtulu shit. I do ,however appreciate you finding a hobby. Though I don't agree with your hobby. Its your hobby. Where is hobby to throw water on this shit filled fire of chtulu shit called electronica. O well , keep up the music. Music is ones reflection of self. In your case its robot sex.

[guineapig]

Listen to old Skinny Puppy from the 80's, Bogdan Raczynski from the 90's and some current Venetian Snares. Sprinkle in The Knife for the sake of pop sensibility.

I feel like the names I mentioned might be great sources of inspiration as to just how far outside the box you can go with electronic music.

I too love the Aphex Twin but there are times when the glitched out drums get a bit tedious... tons of people do it now. You kind of have to listen past it sometimes and just concentrate on the melodies he comes up with.

Keep it up though, don't let criticism stop you from creating!

[bled12345]

haha thanks chicanery and loke, good advice all around


I wouldn't say i'm limiting myself to a specific genre, I've only been at fruity loops for a week and a bit right now, i'm still trying to get my head around the vastness of it all.


and to the truth, I have no idea who the hell you are, I think you're posts are really really starting to become irritating, I have multiple hobbies, none of which consist of spamming p99 forums with "the truth says blah blah"

I've completed royal conservatory of music for piano at the grade 10 level, I never filmed myself on youtube but I can play the first half of this (too lazy to finish learning songs)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi5D6u5RI5c&feature=related

Don't believe me invite me to a vent chat sometime and i'll play live ;) but yeah anyways, piano is awesome, I also play the bass, however as good as I am at both, I know I'll never actually make any money off of it.


Why not get good at making mainstream electronica? :P the overhead is 0$, the trance stuff is easy as shit to wrap my head around as a classical musician, chicks dig it, and lets face it I'm a paramedic, I'll never be rich, might as well try to make cash using my only other talent, music lol


anyways this was quite the rant!!!

/derail off lol

[skorge]

I just listened to your tracks...not bad considering you just started making music. Nowadays you can do complete songs in FL. I personally use other programs, such as Nuendo (to sequence and record/edit vocals).

I make electronic style music too...here's a link to something I did way back in 2004. It's still kinda cool to listen to (kinda Orbital like sounding). I had to take all my new stuff down recently but I will make a post or something here when I do. I actually do vocals on my tracks now.

Here's the link: http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=3188395

[Smyd]

haha thanks chicanery and loke, good advice all around


I wouldn't say i'm limiting myself to a specific genre, I've only been at fruity loops for a week and a bit right now, i'm still trying to get my head around the vastness of it all.


and to the truth, I have no idea who the hell you are, I think you're posts are really really starting to become irritating, I have multiple hobbies, none of which consist of spamming p99 forums with "the truth says blah blah"

I've completed royal conservatory of music for piano at the grade 10 level, I never filmed myself on youtube but I can play the first half of this (too lazy to finish learning songs)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi5D6u5RI5c&feature=related

Don't believe me invite me to a vent chat sometime and i'll play live ;) but yeah anyways, piano is awesome, I also play the bass, however as good as I am at both, I know I'll never actually make any money off of it.


Why not get good at making mainstream electronica? :P the overhead is 0$, the trance stuff is easy as shit to wrap my head around as a classical musician, chicks dig it, and lets face it I'm a paramedic, I'll never be rich, might as well try to make cash using my only other talent, music lol


anyways this was quite the rant!!!

/derail off lol

Grade 10 level? Please elaborate...

Pretty sure there is only up to grade 8, unless you pioneered 9 and 10?

[StinkyGreenBud]

Not a bad start man. If your interested in some plugins for FL then try out some of EastWest plugins. FL is great to start out with. But when you get better try upgrading to more powerful sequencers. Such as Ableton Live 8, Cakewalk Sonar, or Cubase. (Cubase is probably my favorite to work with.)

[skorge]

Not a bad start man. If your interested in some plugins for FL then try out some of EastWest plugins. FL is great to start out with. But when you get better try upgrading to more powerful sequencers. Such as Ableton Live 8, Cakewalk Sonar, or Cubase. (Cubase is probably my favorite to work with.)

I use all hardware synths/sequencers/etc mixed into a hardware mixer which gets put into a PC and then into Nuendo; the mixer is outputted to some Truth studio monitors and my pc has its own great sound system...so it's good to get both set-ups (good to hear back)...lately I have been creating songs where I sing...I will try to get one on here for you to hear soon.