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Some dubstephile who tries his hand at making his own. I also help out reporting stolen stuff to the Audio Portal Cleanup thread. Hablo español. Pero, no soy perfecto.

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AzeXiR 2016-12-18 06:17:19

I know that feeling.

BlueAlpha14 2016-12-18 06:17:19

Eh, I don't really have that feeling now. A lot was going on last night, part of why I need to stay off the internet when I'm stressed.

ADR3-N 2016-12-23 02:10:38

Hey, don't be so hard on yourself. I hear Nexus presets on the radio and have used the same ones in my music. It's all what you do with the tools and knowledge you have -- your creativity within the limitations of your DAW and your VSTs. I mean, look at what the Beatles did with the technology of their time. We're simply doing the same, although many people don't think about it that way. Most people use loops and sample their drops in dubstep lately. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but technology is making it so that virtually anyone can be good if they study a certain formula. You'll get there.

Personally, I think my own stuff is all shit though, so I know the feel.

BlueAlpha14 2016-12-23 02:10:38

I meant to delete this a while ago. I can rant quite a lot, usually something I avoid :/

I never plan on using Nexus. For one it's too expensive, and if it's that recognizable I'd be better off sticking to the stuff I have.

I have never utilized a dubstep loop sample, though I have some drum loops. I do have many samples for such music, but I prefer to stick to presets or I'll actually wow myself and use something I made.

I think the pessimism is a curse on a lot of artists.

ADR3-N 2016-12-23 02:32:26

Ranting isn't a bad thing. It validates the thoughts that bother you at that particular moment and lets them out. You never know who might agree with you and who might not but hey, haha.

Nexus isn't that bad. I was lucky enough to get it free. It's useful if you have a weaker PC and need those certain sounds. Just certain presets are more common than others, and whoever these mainstream producers are seem to think they can get away with going cheap and not editing them. It's a lot easier to use than massive, and most of my sounds are Nexus, but I make sure to spend a lot of time tweaking them to my liking.

Massive is great, but it's massively disorganized. I use it a lot less than other VSTs.

I use a lot of samples, generally, but I program my stuff, in general, unless there's a simple perc loop that just sounds really good. Other loops, I may chop them up, sample them, as long as the end result is something that sounds authentic, you know?

BlueAlpha14 2016-12-23 02:32:26

True.

Well, not many have Nexus so I'm sure it's easy for mainstream artists to just pick a sound and stick it in a track. It's probably even less noticeable if they purchased one of their extensions.

I only bought Massive because it was half off and I needed something better to make sounds with. Massive is great for bass instruments, like growls. But it's not so much for leads. This is part of why I wanted Serum instead. Serum is a lot better imo, but it's also more expensive. I've thought about trading Massive for Serum, but it's more trouble than it's worth. I have to obtain the rights, hand over the rights, and I'm pretty sure I'll have to "balance the deal" somehow. That and there's the potentiality of a scammer who could give you a fake version of Serum. I'd rather try and work with Massive.

I use a lot of drum samples. The stock samples FL Studio gives you just has sucky quality. Most of the drums I use are from this Virtual Riot sample pack someone gave to me. I do have some bass-heavy kicks and trap drums, but they're not for the kind of music I make. Speaking of which, do you have any snare roll samples? I want to use one in this VIP I'm making. Google is only giving me links to buy samples.

Of course. It should always sound authentic.

ADR3-N 2016-12-23 03:09:26

The only roll samples I have are from Mixcraft, and they suck, sadly. Although I have sampled off of some solo instrument YT videos. I'm not sure that's the type of snare you're looking for.

Kicks and Trap drums, you say? :o

BlueAlpha14 2016-12-23 03:09:26

Ah, so I'm not the only one who samples from Youtube videos. If there's a video of pure samples I just download it, convert it to mp3, and splice it up in Edison. If they're all mashed together in a demo song, I'm not the expert that can extract noises.

I got the kicks from Black Octopus Sounds. It's the Monster Kicks Vol 1 pack which you can download for free if you get an account. I also got some Glitch Hop samples there, which are mostly drums but still good.

The trap drum samples are the TriSamples Trapstep sample pack. I'm sure JK-FlipFlop has told you about them before, or maybe you've come across them since you are a trap producer.

ADR3-N 2016-12-23 04:40:30

Yeah, I can't extract them from demos either. I don't know anyone who can really. On something like a SNES game I think you can record sounds and cut off different channels to get solo instruments.

I'll check that out. Thank you!

Re: Trapstep, you know, actually, I'm not even sure which one of us discovered that first. @JK-FlipFlop and I have been friends long enough that I can't remember!

ADR3-N 2016-12-23 07:45:44

@JK-FlipFlop I actually got curious about Nexus when I read that Soulja Boy used it exclusively in FL Studio, and saw that it had a pretty intuitive design and that I liked the sounds -- just personal preference. It's flexible, but not a big dubstep synth. More like trap, dance, techno, etc. I have been able to squeeze some good 8 and 16 bit sounding stuff out of it, so it's definitely all bad. My thought before getting Nexus was, if a kid who knew next to nothing about music or theory could go viral with that VST, it must be pretty intuitively designed. What could I do with it?

I'll check out those other synths. They sound interesting.

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