getting better at electronica!!! check it out :D - Page 2

guineapig · #11 02-15-2011, 08:48 AM

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 · #12 02-15-2011, 07:16 PM

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=xi5D6...eature=related

Don't believe me invite me to a vent chat sometime and i'll play live [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] 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 · #13 03-03-2011, 11:51 PM

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 · #14 03-04-2011, 06:04 AM

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Originally Posted by bled12345 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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=xi5D6...eature=related

Don't believe me invite me to a vent chat sometime and i'll play live [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] 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 · #15 03-04-2011, 06:34 AM

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 · #16 03-04-2011, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by StinkyGreenBud [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.