Thread 107047704

/g/ Presents: Shiver Me Timbres
Listening party: 1st of November, 21:00 UTC (17:00 EST)
Listening party link: https://dmpproductions.org/party/

>/g/ makes an 18th album
Theme: Outer Space Music
Deadline: Late December

>Song submission rules/guidelines
Upload the file somewhere, preferably in a lossless format, and post the link here. If you want to update your track, make a new post.
Include the song title in the post, and make it clear that your song is a submission for the album.
Optionally you may include cover art for your track, but please confirm that the image in your post is the cover art or it won't be included.
You may not use your real artist name.
Songs that contain anything against YouTube's policies won't be uploaded on YT, but will still be added to the album.
By default, tracks will be normalised to -14 LUFS (integrated loudness) in the release. You may specify a lower loudness for your track.
Use of AI is banned. This includes AI generated stems, samples, and effects. "AI" includes all neural network-based models and not hard-coded automation/procedural generation.

>Where can I hear the previous albums?
https://dmpproductions.org/albums/
https://www.youtube.com/@MusicOf4chan

>Wikis
https://dmpdoc.neocities.org/
https://mu-sic-production.fandom.com/wiki//mu/sic_Production_Wiki

Previous: >>107025513

がんばって, /dmp/

whats space music

>>107049507
the tagline submitted with that theme was - 'music inspired by the vastness, beauty, and strangeness of space'


>the strangeness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYHjjGThjsE

>the vastness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-f8pEX1Q1M

>the beauty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuSsvM8B4Jc

And any kind of otherworldly ambient/drone stuff works too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_3LZI3lklU

>>107049507
idm

>4 song album
schizo won

>>107049507
open an astrophysics textbook and look at the index/glossary until you see something cool or something that bothers you then make a song about that

How do I write my own lo-fi beat shit so that I can pump it up on youtube.

>>107054667
Maximus LoFi Preset

how do i go from 0 to making music i can enjoy
do i have to read the 1000 pages website about music theory

>>107056215
you can find the tutorial mentioned in this video online for free if you look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_003IUkZ4F4

if you want to make some songs you enjoy this will get you going. it is appropriate for someone asking your question.

>>107049576
cheers will get started on it now :)

is having monitor speakers a waste for most home producers? most ppl would need way more treatment than they usually have in order to get the sound they think they need...better to just use headphones that emulate different environments and then test in car

>>107054667
does that shit still get views? i feel like i saw those over a decade ago at this point

>>107056754
I would say so, as long as you have a few different references to play your stuff on, it's one of the last things you need

I want to make synthwave/trance just with code,. without a DAW. What technology should I use? Csound? Faust? Supercollider?

>>107057968
>just with code
Define what you mean
Do you want to generate the sound from scratch with code? Then you'll want some kind of audio library to let you build arrays of audio samples and send them to the OS to play. Then you can synthesize the samples via code, sequence them, mix them, and play them. I've used NAudio for C# and it was fine. I also used the XAudio2 library which is part of DirectX, and it's a bit more powerful but probably harder to use (I used an old deprecated C# wrapper for it).
If you don't want to synthesize the sounds yourself, you have some options: you can load audio files from a hard drive and play those, which will be similar to above you'd just have to read the data. If you want to outsource your audio generation to something else, like a VST plugin, then set aside like a year minimum if you want to do it yourself, though you can also maybe use something like JUCE.

>>107057968
current thing is strudel

https://github.com/jthorborg/signalizer/releases

https://www.jthorborg.com/index.html?ipage=signalizer

WIP
Title: Spacewalk
https://voca.ro/1dm3ntmVbp5X

I hate mixing bros...

Also I don't understand the submission process. So I hope this counts as interaction with the thread at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-Gi3I-_dUA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up3t2IuaJKA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jtVoTwTWxc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mGFz93HsPo

>>107060592
A submission just has to loosely fit the theme
Post it here and make it clear it's a submission and give its title

Uploading in a lossless format just means providing a link to your submission where your original render (like a .wav file) can be downloaded in its full quality.
If uploaded to something like the popular Vocaroo site for listening, that site reprocesses your upload to a lower quality and shouldn't be used for submissions

>>107049507
Here's some Lustmord inspiration

https://youtu.be/t6zhuFAoC6Y?si=RbaORWhQxwGLrq03

>>107049507

Usually synths that are almost ambient.

Vangelis is that.

https://youtu.be/860F8Gu8vl8?si=QVb_nTeymE8glfsu&t=81

-

https://youtu.be/kgWtZKOersI?si=-BkGByUhoCWdRYfm

https://youtu.be/3rgc09ygmrM?si=_QloQR7beMUd4_Oo

https://youtu.be/kME398Rj-P4?si=sHcoWSAOXaLhQZKO

>>107056760
It's not about views, it's about sending a message or something

>>107056215
I may have something for you, it's on the other computer though, so ill post it later.

You need to work on the core elements of the genre and properly tune in to why people listen to this stuff. There's no /HqXZARxwd hooks, the mix is bad and worst of all its completely forgettable. You needs to try harder and put the work in because this isn't good.

>>107056215
>>107063159
Here:
https://tidalcycles.org/

>>107057968
Sounds like this is for you:
https://tidalcycles.org/

>>107060592
>Also I don't understand the submission process.
what part is hard to understand just upload a lossless copy then post a link to that and the track title

Listening party is in 22 hours and 45 minutes

>>107064139
>HqXZARxwd
video no longer available, how old is the llm that wrote your post

I have nothing to do this weekend at all. Maybe I will install a DAW finally and actually try to make some music

>>107068276
It's about damn time

>>107068954
Or I can keep working on coding my own DAW without having any first hand knowledge of how music is actually created?

>>107069366
How would you know what to make or improve without having extensively used a DAW?

Yes, you can really just let the arpeggiators do all the work for you!

And it's free to do!

>>107069366
>>107070090
The music software industry in a nutshell

>>107070090
>>107070621
I watched a few videos and then just kinda winged it

>>107072169
If you don't have expectations of people using it, then go for it.
It'll probably be fun/rewarding, and maybe you'll have some crazy unique ideas, in a sort of outsider artist deal.

>>107072257
I did start on one when I was unemployed last year. I posted some screenshots and webms here. It was the touch screen MIDI sequencer for live production thing. I started working on adding VST support and made some progress, but then I got a regular job again and haven't worked on it in a while.

>>107067983
its a .gg/ link retard

4 hours order your pizza soon

Are we doing idea submissions for the next album yet?

>>107073397
theme is space, for the one after you can say your idea whenever

>>107073431
Right, I meant the one after space. I have a theme idea. Maybe I'll let it percolate in in my head a bit longer, perhaps I can think of an adjective or adverb to put in front of it, so it becomes a real winner

How do you backup your stuff?
You do back it up, right?
I keep a couple local backups and also an automatic online online.
In case a nuke or an asteroid hits, otherwise my place is pretty safe, regarding fire, floods, that kind of stuff.

>>107072346
>haven't worked on it in a while
I'd expect a hard time getting back into it.

>>107074074
I slapped everything into OneDrive for the time being.

>>107074116
Eh, maybe. It was complicated as hell, but if I remember correctly it was pretty well engineered under-the-hood, which is probably why development went so slow. I use the same programming language in my day job, so that would make it easier. The VST stuff was just hard as hell though...

Listening party and album release is in 40 minutes!
https://dmpproductions.org/party/

>what VSTs were used for this?
https://www.spitfireaudio.com/collections/bbc-symphony-orchestra
https://www.soundsonline.com/vocals/hollywood-choirs

>>107075173
Guess I missed it

>>107076117
yea you did
FLAC download link:
https://dmpproductions.org/files/Album%2017_Shiver%20Me%20Timbres/17_Shiver_Me_Timbres_flac.tar

>>107049507
the shit they play at planetariums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZxrMwtBZaY

>>107076173
Forgot YouTube link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWlzTeoAEzU

VSTs used to have soul....
heat vents, wood finishing, metal screws...... now it's all so flat and souless.....

Fixed my rending problem in FL

no matter what settings I tweaked some 3rd party plugins would render all fucked up via the standard 'export as' rendering

but on the master channel you can just go to File -> disk recording -> and render the selected track the same way as it plays back in the DAW

>>107079227
have you tried this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_QE1Ci_7TY

>>107079333
Yeah the FL Studio settings have changed quite a bit in the 15 years since that video was made lol
fixed sized buffers were already disabled in the wrapper's troubleshooting settings where that option seems to be now.
Maybe I'll try experimenting with turning them on?
Everywhere says not to/you really shouldn't be needing it but I'll try it

I tried tons of stuff, googling, AI, none of it helped. Happy with the mixer rendering as I was recording into Edison beforehand, much slower....

modular synthesis

>>107078151
this but unironically

>>107080031
>>107078151

All I had to do was send a photo of my Arturia controller to Ableton and they gave me a free Lite license

>>107081700
Im still on 10, so I may beg them to get the current version for cheap. I'm poor after all.

>>107082386
Well the long story for me is I wanted to activate the "Lite" license that came with my MiniLab Mk II, but it wasn't showing up on my Arturia account. Idk if it was time limited after I registered or something and I lost it, but it just wasn't there. (I did buy and register it last year). Then I found a form on the Ableton site to get a replacement license. All I had to do was submit a photo of my receipt or photo of my device... and I got it a couple hours later, on a Saturday even. I included the serial number in my photo, but idk if that was necessary.

>>107078151
What's even weirder is how the flat synths look like they eat more CPU than the skeuomorphic ones to me.

>>107082500
>and I got it a couple hours later, on a Saturday even.
Nice.
Is lite what you are looking for? To try out if you like the DAW?
Having a quick look at it, the major limitation seems to be only having 8 audio and MIDI tracks?

>>107083120
Yeah, I just wanted to try Ableton, and since it supposedly came with my controller, why not

>>107083679
Cool, have fun!
I started with fruityloops in like '99, cubase from around '03 to '10, since then Ableton. Fits my work flow and requirements best.

>>107050167
>It's chizos fault that people are bad at music

nah if anything shitposting keeps this thing alive it's just lately garbage practices like shills and low quality slop is criticized harshly and retards that come here in hopes to get easy you's are discouraged from posting. I for once am ok with this gatekeeping arrangement. Also last theme was bad pick for everyone.

Is there a way in Kontakt 6 to check which libraries a track is trying to load?
I had some SDD trouble with my VST storage and had to move some files, and when I'm looking through old Reaper project files it's kind of a pain to trial and error check exactly which VST I was using for a track sometimes.

>>107084435
>which VST
which Kontakt library

>>107083918
take /prod/ as an example what /dmp/ shouldn't be but always has more posters because

>is posted on actual music board
>50% of posters are shills
>another 30% are very very bad slop posters just fishing for you's
>10% actually OK people
>10% mass repliers also fishing for you's after posting generic feedbacks

>>107083918
>shitposting keeps this thing alive
Which wouldn't be necessary if extreme shitposting didn't drive everyone away in the first place.

>it's just lately garbage practices like shills and low quality slop is criticized harshly and retards that come here in hopes to get easy you's are discouraged from posting.
This has never been a significant problem.

i don't even care, keep shitting this place or whatever. you know how to bait retards into vicious loops. would never work on me tho.

>>107084781
you're replying to 1176 fyi

>>107084818
My bad, won't happen again

>>107084781
>Which wouldn't be necessary if extreme shitposting didn't drive everyone away in the first place.

It don't drive anyone away desu people left because of no more easy you's

>>107084831
he's a snake, i know because i can be a snake too

>>107084856
every time someone posts anything they make here people usually ignore it and only reply if it's actually good, just check the archive and you will see this trend recent year or so, on /prod/ you are more likely to get a reply. People have become social media whores not musicians

/g/ makes an 18th album
Theme: 'music inspired by the vastness, beauty, and strangeness of space'
Deadline: Late December
>Song submissions
None yet

>Next album theme suggestions
[Suggested during listening party] movie score

>Title suggestions
None yet

>Cover art submissions
None yet

>>107084953
I already have some kinda space themed songs. But it's probably better for me to make a new one just for this.
Reason: i need to get back into making music, neglected it for years because of reasons. The thing that is nagging me much is knowing that I'm quite decent at it... and rather enjoy it too.
Well, such is life, better get working.

now that the dust has settled, is it worth it?

>>107085999
i don't think ill ever get the chance to try it

>>107087680
eyes in your patches
batten down the hatches

>>107047704 (OP)
Is this AI thread?

>>107088986
no this is patrick

Anons.. I had a lot to say and ask anons about their tunes but the thread is gone..
I will link them here.
>>128216283
>>128325046
>>128319975
>>128325103

I probably need to link everything, the vocaroos and my notes/questions..
>>107090309

Nevermind, I sperged.. this was on /mu/. Not even on /g/.
>>107090309
>>107090316

don't die plox

Still mad they REMOVED the light skin from Massive X
It was already there, why remove customization?
Stupid faggots

>>107093268
gen alpha never uses light mode so neother can anyone else

>>107090309
Lul

>>107092133
you cnat tell me what tod o

>>107047704 (OP)

https://voca.ro/1MrzYpJNKvcS

What is the effect called in the melody that sounds like it's repeating itself?

(Starts 3m31s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1UuzBZ7QAM&t=210s

>pic unrel

>>107096505
similar to an arpegiator but not?

>>107096505
just sounds like a short delay with zero feedback

or a trance gate

why make your own arp sequences when you can just go down a scale, one note per bar at a time, that feed into random presets you picked and placed in your arp sequence.....

https://vocaroo.com/1kmbJkkkS4v8

>>107097910
she arp on my sequence till i

>>107047704 (OP)
Album theme idea: Hardstyle Lumberjack

>>107099427
Or Lumberjack Hardstyle, which ever makes more sense grammatically, idk

dont die plox

>>107099427
>>107099438
+hardjack lumberstyle

or just hard lumber

>>107101087
getting harder boss

is earth space

>>107105705
The theme is outer space, so that excludes Earth

Writing lyrics for my space song. Most likely not going to produce it, but at least you'll be on my mind and that's what matters.

>>107107364
post them anyway, miku can help

>>107107413
Nah, I'd rather sing it and vocode it.

Album theme submission, single-word genre with no meaningless meme words attached: Hardstyle

digital warmth

>>107105773
but like dude earth is a planet

theme suggestion: gabber

>>107109876
The theme is not planets......

>>107109876
there are workarounds

cover submission, track coming shortly

>>107109879
Theme suggestion:
Gabb(ie Cart)er?

CuBASED 15 just dropped

>>107110148
here is the track submission

Title: Light-year Transmission
https://vocaroo.com/1jT9QHAHMgbx
https://files.catbox.moe/ogsdwd.flac

>>107111628
let's go boys

>/prod/ is dead
The pendulum is swinging back bros, 2026 year of the /dmp/ confirmed

Using legit software is so much more of a hassle than the alternative, isn't it?

>>107115218
Generally speaking yes, but it depends on the crack. Some are still as much, if not more of a pain.

>>107115347
Yeah, have to set up another computer with all the stuff I need.
Time I probably could spend better doing other things.
But it has a touchscreen!