I am a 15-year-old high school student who has a passion for mixing and producing dubstep/techno/electronic music. I am always open for advice and ways to make my work better. Let me know what you want to hear and I will try and make that come to life
Oh dude, just to clarify - you don't need a microkorg or a physical synthesizer to make synth music. Most everyone nowadays uses softsynths, or software synthesizers - like the Pulverizateur in Audiotool. You can play the Pulverizateur by dragging it into the project area and creating a note track by double clicking on the timeline.
Even if you do everything I said, getting noticed is still tough the way the current system is set up. A lot of the veteran audiotoolers will go around giving encouragement and favorites to new tracks that show merit/effort, but whether they can find you is kind of hit and miss. If you make a track I think is worth it, I'll do what I can to draw attention to you - but I'm pretty new myself, I don't carry an awful lot of weight around here.
I see from your description that you intended to operate like a DJ, splicing samples up. There isn't anything wrong with that in itself - the problem is the community. There are hundreds of accounts just like yours, which splice together unaltered samples just like you do. You won't be noticed in the sea of inexperienced audiotoolers exactly like yourself unless you do better than they do - which means, unfortunately, you'd have to do more than DJ.
4. Follow more people, especially talented audiotoolers (more talented than myself) Listen to their tracks - better yet, open their tracks and see how they make music. You'll learn more quickly that way.
3. Make your own beats. Yes, there are a thousand drum loops on file in the sample database, but looping the same pattern over and over again is boring. You can use the Beatboxes or, my personal favorite, the Machiniste (which you drag and drop samples of individual drum hits into) to create your own patterns, with variation and everything.
-2. Learn to use the Pulv (Unless you already do). Synths like the Pulverizateur are really difficult to get the hang of, but the Pulv is essential to making music of your own on Audiotool. Experiment with it - there are presets you can select from the arrow menu when you click on the Pulv. Try to figure out how they work. If you want an in-depth tutorial, give me a shout.
Here's my advice: you're never, ever going to get noticed here if you just pluck a handful of samples from the sidebar and string them together without modifying them at all. What you need to do is
-1. Use samples sparingly. Always try to use them to make your own music, not simply repeat the music already made.
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Oh dude, just to clarify - you don't need a microkorg or a physical synthesizer to make synth music. Most everyone nowadays uses softsynths, or software synthesizers - like the Pulverizateur in Audiotool. You can play the Pulverizateur by dragging it into the project area and creating a note track by double clicking on the timeline.
Sorry for wall of text. You should start reading at the bottom.
Even if you do everything I said, getting noticed is still tough the way the current system is set up. A lot of the veteran audiotoolers will go around giving encouragement and favorites to new tracks that show merit/effort, but whether they can find you is kind of hit and miss. If you make a track I think is worth it, I'll do what I can to draw attention to you - but I'm pretty new myself, I don't carry an awful lot of weight around here.
I see from your description that you intended to operate like a DJ, splicing samples up. There isn't anything wrong with that in itself - the problem is the community. There are hundreds of accounts just like yours, which splice together unaltered samples just like you do. You won't be noticed in the sea of inexperienced audiotoolers exactly like yourself unless you do better than they do - which means, unfortunately, you'd have to do more than DJ.
4. Follow more people, especially talented audiotoolers (more talented than myself) Listen to their tracks - better yet, open their tracks and see how they make music. You'll learn more quickly that way.
3. Make your own beats. Yes, there are a thousand drum loops on file in the sample database, but looping the same pattern over and over again is boring. You can use the Beatboxes or, my personal favorite, the Machiniste (which you drag and drop samples of individual drum hits into) to create your own patterns, with variation and everything.
-2. Learn to use the Pulv (Unless you already do). Synths like the Pulverizateur are really difficult to get the hang of, but the Pulv is essential to making music of your own on Audiotool. Experiment with it - there are presets you can select from the arrow menu when you click on the Pulv. Try to figure out how they work. If you want an in-depth tutorial, give me a shout.
Here's my advice: you're never, ever going to get noticed here if you just pluck a handful of samples from the sidebar and string them together without modifying them at all. What you need to do is
-1. Use samples sparingly. Always try to use them to make your own music, not simply repeat the music already made.