How to make songs? I do it very different. Sometimes i got a nice phrase with bass, drums, melody. Then i try to make a refrain with different melody instrument. Then the song: Intro-Phrase-Bridge-Refrain-Phrase(mod)-Bridge-Refrain-Refrain(mod)-End. Often i am inspired by new instruments. I also think the call & answer is very helpful. E.g. the holarious "theeth" has got a call & answer bass i really like. Call & answer can be done also done with drums, arp, ... Or i climax to something: Introduce more&more instruments/pattern/open filter... . My keyboard has the same latency problem. Drives me crazy. Very difficult to develop a melody without.
Cool track! This has got the "something". Mystic beat. Can directly go into the underground clubs. How to get on to make it 7 minutes without getting boring? Dont know. I got the same problems. Add a little melody. I already could think of something... Or climax with reverse something, short break and then pitch up the whole song. Cheap trick but it always works XD
@Jonjon eheh thanks bro...im not sick of your usual stuff ..i love it..but im sure u can make good tracks in every genre...i will wait for your next works... my keyboard is not good for audiotool too much latency...im not able to resolve this problem..:(
If this is You experimenting then carry on mate, it's great! With regards to laying down a track I usually begin with the beat and get that packed out then work either the main sample round it then the bassline or more often than not drums then bass.. aha dnb! On my non audiotool tracks I am now attempting to create some scores and soundtracks with my midi-keyboard because I'm sick of my usual stuff. Nice mate! ;)
@Sandburgen eheh thanks bro... i would like to make techno songs always..but sometimes have to change...anyway if u know the label Nachstrom Schallplatten ?? that's the genre i play :)
@Cripta: oh, i thought you were talking about the 3 tracks you have released in the last 24 hours,cuz they're pretty good quality if ya ask me! (some confusion here?:)
interesting! thanks for the insight guys! with me, i generally hear a large part of the song/music but then get so frustrated because i can't find the right sounds quick enough or at all, then i forget what it was i heard, so then it becomes a brick by brick retrieval / evolveing kind of thing, which i'm never really happy with! @Farcio, i mean 3 'quality' tracks in 3 hours is absolutely unreal to me,this is impossible for me at the moment! Hopefully i'll keep improveing though;) n1!
It always depends on what it is that I'm trying to produce. At the moment, I'm trying to create slower french-house tracks so I'm finding samples and trying to lay them down in the most interesting way possible then building a track around that. For dub-step tracks though, I would create the beat and the bassline first as they are always the most important part. This track has a real nice atmosphere to it btw.
ok thanks.. my method is most simile at kepz... but The first parts I put down are always the middle part too...often i try to design all instrument sounds that i want to use in the track...and after i write the music... PS i made 3 tracks in 3 hours...just 3 stupid thing :)
add a pulv. try to come up with a melody, and experiment with sounds effects etc. Then add a basic drum pattern, then bass and then maybe some more synths and melodies. and then when i got something that sounds ok. i try to set it all out properly.
I've wondered the same thing. I typically start with my bass synth first (from my basic template). Sometimes I work on a progression of some kind and just see if everything else can fall into place. The first parts I put down are almost always the middle. When I'm really ambitious, I'll fight through writers block to come up with variations of the theme. The last part is moving all the blocks into an arrangement, which is why I use very blocked timeline style a lot.
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DB
i wish it was longer
Cripta
thanks for suggestion..and yeah maybe one day i will finish this :)
Hardock
You should finish this song. If not now, then later!
Hardock
How to make songs? I do it very different. Sometimes i got a nice phrase with bass, drums, melody. Then i try to make a refrain with different melody instrument. Then the song: Intro-Phrase-Bridge-Refrain-Phrase(mod)-Bridge-Refrain-Refrain(mod)-End. Often i am inspired by new instruments. I also think the call & answer is very helpful. E.g. the holarious "theeth" has got a call & answer bass i really like. Call & answer can be done also done with drums, arp, ... Or i climax to something: Introduce more&more instruments/pattern/open filter... . My keyboard has the same latency problem. Drives me crazy. Very difficult to develop a melody without.
Hardock
Cool track! This has got the "something". Mystic beat. Can directly go into the underground clubs. How to get on to make it 7 minutes without getting boring? Dont know. I got the same problems. Add a little melody. I already could think of something... Or climax with reverse something, short break and then pitch up the whole song. Cheap trick but it always works XD
Cripta
nothing special..just bass & beat...lost inspiration
El Criptografo
es realmente bueno
Cripta
@Jonjon eheh thanks bro...im not sick of your usual stuff ..i love it..but im sure u can make good tracks in every genre...i will wait for your next works...
my keyboard is not good for audiotool too much latency...im not able to resolve this problem..:(
Jonjon
If this is You experimenting then carry on mate, it's great! With regards to laying down a track I usually begin with the beat and get that packed out then work either the main sample round it then the bassline or more often than not drums then bass.. aha dnb! On my non audiotool tracks I am now attempting to create some scores and soundtracks with my midi-keyboard because I'm sick of my usual stuff. Nice mate! ;)
Cripta
@Sandburgen eheh thanks bro... i would like to make techno songs always..but sometimes have to change...anyway if u know the label Nachstrom Schallplatten ?? that's the genre i play :)
kollektiv rasselbock
i like
Sandburgen
you're tracks after the charly remix fit extremely good. Are you collecting for a set? ;)
this one's my favorite of the new farcio ara
yafee?
...(friend)!!! tut, tut, damn i always do it, (mother tongue as well), i b4 e, except after c, should of payed more attention at school!! ;)
yafee?
thanks my freind!...i will keep tryin to get better! ;)
Cripta
ahah but u are improving so much...every track u made a step forward...i really like your charly remix :)
yafee?
i am a vegetable! ;)
yafee?
LOL! anywayz 3 not very good drafts in 3 hours is still beyond me at the moment! lol! ;)
yafee?
@Cripta: oh, i thought you were talking about the 3 tracks you have released in the last 24 hours,cuz they're pretty good quality if ya ask me! (some confusion here?:)
Cripta
but i was sorry to delete them :)
Cripta
@yafee those are not quality tracks...those are drafts started and no finished cause i was bored :)
Cripta
yes its true...for some genre...its better to create bass & beat first..
thanks for suggestion friends
yafee?
interesting! thanks for the insight guys! with me, i generally hear a large part of the song/music but then get so frustrated because i can't find the right sounds quick enough or at all, then i forget what it was i heard, so then it becomes a brick by brick retrieval / evolveing kind of thing, which i'm never really happy with! @Farcio, i mean 3 'quality' tracks in 3 hours is absolutely unreal to me,this is impossible for me at the moment! Hopefully i'll keep improveing though;) n1!
Tyburn
It always depends on what it is that I'm trying to produce. At the moment, I'm trying to create slower french-house tracks so I'm finding samples and trying to lay them down in the most interesting way possible then building a track around that. For dub-step tracks though, I would create the beat and the bassline first as they are always the most important part. This track has a real nice atmosphere to it btw.
Cripta
ok thanks.. my method is most simile at kepz... but The first parts I put down are always the middle part too...often i try to design all instrument sounds that i want to use in the track...and after i write the music...
PS i made 3 tracks in 3 hours...just 3 stupid thing :)
Kepz
add a pulv. try to come up with a melody, and experiment with sounds effects etc. Then add a basic drum pattern, then bass and then maybe some more synths and melodies. and then when i got something that sounds ok. i try to set it all out properly.
Really like this btw! Finish it!!!
arche3.0
I've wondered the same thing. I typically start with my bass synth first (from my basic template). Sometimes I work on a progression of some kind and just see if everything else can fall into place. The first parts I put down are almost always the middle. When I'm really ambitious, I'll fight through writers block to come up with variations of the theme. The last part is moving all the blocks into an arrangement, which is why I use very blocked timeline style a lot.
Cripta
always been curious how people make a track...
step by step..or before drum and bass...or what...
write here :)