Friday was one of the worst days of school I've had in a while. It took me literally all night to get over it. I was actually going to write about it but I never want to seem like one of those "you have to hear my story and feel sorry for me :(". So, instead, I decided to make my news post about something else.

So, yesterday after having a really bad day I actually opened up Massive and tried to make some sounds. I feel like I've used bass presets enough to know how they commonly work. First oscillator usually is the impact of the sound. Most dubstep basses use A.I wavetables at -24.00 pitch or Chrome wavetables. Double Notch and Bandreject are usually the filters with the Double Notch being the first filter. Basically, I've been doing my studying. I actually made about 4 growls. All of them are super modulated, and you have to automate the macros to get a "growl" sound from it. But I feel like I'm only happy with my 3rd attempt. I'm hoping in the near future to use this sound out, because it may not be spectacular or "Skrill-like" but it's original and that's what matters. People have countless times told me I lack sound design (one of like the 3 reasons I was unscouted was because of my lack in sound design). It's not that I don't WANT to make my own sounds. It's just that it's HARD to.

Now, I have used my own sounds before. My WIP of "Lunar Energy" had a bass that I made (you know, I should really go back and work on that track), Nightlights had two sounds I made. Circus had a sound I made. A couple abandoned tracks had some sounds that I made. Poltergeist had 2 sounds I made. I'm not incapable of making my own sounds, but yes I don't excercise them enough. I lack quite a few skills in my music. Mixing, melodies, drop arrangement, and sound design. I would rather focus on the more core elements like drop arrangement and melodies than sound design. But alas, I am in the process of making my own stuff. Maybe I'll experiment today with sound design instead of trying to make a track that might be later shot down. This might give me a chance to work on drop arrangement as well.

And I also have a side project I'm doing. I need to check in with a certain user and see if I'm still on board.

~Alpha