I make beats, metal, samples, patches, dnb, original game soundtracks, RVC voice models, and Russian/ English translation covers. Follow for monthly music producer freebies! Рада помочь русскоговорящим. Семплы вложены в ссылках вниз)))
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Magnificent list as usual! And of course, the most useful advice in life is always unsolicited and related to EQ ;)
Just one small correction regarding NGADM schedule, the auditions start on July 1st and end on 21st, 22nd being the start date for the auditions round judging phase :)
Editing RN!
Thank you!
Also holy cow you read fast
@ADR3-N I personally never liked using synth presets. I always start with the "init" setting and sculpt my patches for my needs from scratch. B) That's one of the major advantages of synths over ROMplers. Why not utilize its potential?
I have done both but I'm not actually THAT much of a DIYer in terms of individual patches. I prefer to do my macguyvering in combining patches, finding unusual uses for plugins, and modulating
There are a few synths where I'll fool around though, like the olskool Moog and Impulse or whatever that used to come standard with Mixcraft. Basically something I've had for years and have had time to explore everything
@ADR3-N For me it's reverse. I almost exclusively sculpt the patch from the ground up with a few exceptions. Like, the free DX7 clone Dexed. Not only am I a noob when it comes to FM synthesis but making your own sounds on the Yamaha DX7 was particularly counterintuitive. So instead of wasting my time to get a "ballpark" result, I would simply just use one of the "iconic" presets. ;)
Omg you're not wrong about Dexed. It's just as counter intuitive as SQ8L to me! So right around the time I picked them up, besides Massive I stopped making so many of my own presets and focused more on tweaking them to fit into bigger and bigger combinations.
I do make a lot more of my sounds, like basses for example using meowsynth and insane amounts of distortion, or I may make some new 808s because you can never have too many for inspiration
I prefer sampling WEIRDLY
Great list with lots of very helpful information. I'm excited for part 2!
I really do need another HDD! XD Them resources be amounting fast... and this has gotta be the both most extensive and enlightening segment of these newsletters so far. Great links; great tips; great myth busts and everything. Feels like I got some of my interview pt.1 questions elaborated on even further here re: production...
Looking forward to the pt.2 too, and the next of these!
Valuable stuff.
Czyszy
Thanks for the shoutout. I agree that Vital is a gorgeous synth plugin. I'm still in shock that you get all this incredibly powerful functionality free of charge, without any microtransactions and other malarkey! After moving to Win 10 from Win 7, my ancient pirated version of Serum started behaving very differently. Its ADSR evelope would simply "crackle" with fast attack and release times. So I gave Vital a try... and, well... I'm not going back to Serum! Haha. Well, if you dont' count keeping my Serum waveforms as "using Serum" ;)
ADR3-N
Hey, use what you got! If you have the patience, you can remake almost all your serum presets in vital. There's also some kind of plugin by Micro Music that will generate presets based off of input wavs. I find it pretty interesting to just run random stuff through it rather than try to emulate an actual synth patch. The results are very unpredictable with rough input audio, which I like