So, Tropers can do music too, right?

(just reposting because it got lost in the shuffle on the last page)

Just started a collab project with a Danish friend who makes music too. For now there are not many tracks on the soundcloud page but it's gonna flesh out a bit later : http://soundcloud.com/indite

Expect weird house-ish dub/techno/dubstep stuff.

I would put something here, but I don't know how to link a video so that it can be watched on the forums. Can anyone help, please?

edited 18th Apr '12 3:43:40 PM by PhysicalStamina

If it's on You Tube, you can embed it. You use the double brackets like you do for almost every other kind of link here, and then inside you put this:

youtube:videoID

To get the video ID you go to the video you want to embed and find it in the URL. You Tube's URLs keep getting more complicated, but the video ID is always the ten- to twelve-character string that follows the "v=" part of the address.

Okay, I'll give it a shot.

EDIT: Finally got it. Awesome. Thanks.

edited 18th Apr '12 5:25:50 PM by PhysicalStamina

Without the v=

I used to be called Dipsett...

This is a different Dipset.

No shit.

Hai guys. Another one.

And I just figured out that I don't know how to do transitions properly... Oh well.

Well, I can play cello. I am not good enough to post here, though.

edited 21st Apr '12 12:02:17 AM by dRoy

Hey, most of us aren't that good either, but that's not stopping us. Hit us with your best shot!

Something else I did.

I have a question about Ableton. Every time I try to use Impulse it tries to record when I'm working, how do I get this to stop? It's really really distracting.

edited 22nd Apr '12 3:34:37 PM by Phyi

See the "vertical" editor (not the one you put your patterns in order, the one where you have your clips lined up) ? At the bottom of each track there's a rectangular button with a circle in it, which is red when it's held down. It enables midi recording. Just click on it so it is grey on the impulse track.

If that doesn't work, send a screenshot on here I'll try to figure it out...

I made some Hell Is That Noise, guys. Interesting tidbit, believe it or not, before I warped it into unrecognizability, it originally sounded like this.

edited 23rd Apr '12 4:21:30 PM by MikeK

Y'all ready for some HOT ACOUSTIC JAMS about DEAD POLITICIANS FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY?!??

Well, what the hey, been forever since I visited the forum.

This is the main nickname under which I recorded my stuff alone: http://www.last.fm/music/PartySan/+albums These are demos for a band I'm trying to get more people to join: http://www.last.fm/music/Oceans+of+Stars/+albums

And... that's about it.

Just posted a new dub-ish track on soundcloud : http://soundcloud.com/axs/blind-guidance

Here's a cover I threw out there just for fun. Anyone else here know Worm Quartet?

This one's called What Your Parents Think All Your Music Sounds Like. NSFW.

(Advice: Watch in 720p for good sound quality, and keep annotations on in case you can't figure the lyrics out.)

edited 30th Apr '12 12:56:31 PM by JakesBrain

Another little tidbit.

I like it, it's funny XD It seems like the vocals for the chorus and background singing seem a tad distorted, though. (I say only for the chorus since the vocals for the verses seem to have been intentionally distorted, but the others seem to have been through holding the microphone too close or increasing the gain on them too much or something.)

I can definitely dig this. Remind me to get in touch with you if I ever make a movie about a vaguely cyberpunk dystopia with heavily Orwellian undertones.

Here's a somewhat Britpop-inspired song that I've had the idea for (and by idea I mean melody and lyrics, the former of which I'm surprised I still mostly remembered) for over two weeks now and just got recorded this past weekend. I recorded with my electric guitar for the first time in a month (although the last time before that was back in August O_o). I like how it turned out, though I was upset that I left my usual microphone back in my dorm and was forced to use a mic from Rock Band (which records things at a horribly low volume) in order to record. As you might or might not be aware, I usually use my mic that came with my copy of Hey You Pikachu.

TOO LONG DIDN'T READ: HERE'S A LITTLE SONG I WROTE, I HOPE YOU SING IT NOTE FOR NOTE

edited 30th Apr '12 1:20:01 PM by 0dd1

Dat bass.

Here's a French House track I did some time ago.

The excess distortion in the verses is deliberate, but the minor distortion on all the other voices was thrown in to make them sound less tinny (they were way worse before) and get more control over the echo; I don't have anything resembling a vocal booth, so I got under two layers of blankets with my laptop to record the lines. I think some of the distortion you're hearing there came from my attempts to raise and lower the pitch of some of the screams so that they didn't all sound identical.

edited 1st May '12 2:59:08 AM by JakesBrain

What I've found the trick is for recording vocals is that you need a mic that records at a moderate volume, a quiet room, and to keep the mic a moderate distance away from your mouth (at least half a foot, though you'll need to stay further away the louder you sing). Covering the mic with things will only make the vocals sound tinny or mumbled (depending on how it's covered...and if that's the effect you want, that's cool too).

Also, I've found that a good way to level the volume of a certain track in a mix is to make everything else lower rather than making it louder. There's less of a chance of distortion there.

What'd you think of my song?

edited 1st May '12 12:06:20 PM by 0dd1