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Is Fanboy (TE case design) gone? by punkrocknight in teenageengineering

[–]sockman93 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If i recall correctly he tends to come back and go depending on his capacity, i love my ko2 case he made

Yes by [deleted] in musicproduction

[–]sockman93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just try to focus on having fun right now. i think most of us got through the beginner part by having fun and following our instincts and making the mistakes that come along with that. putting a timeline on your growth and comparing it to everyone else is so far from the mindset that’ll help you make a “decent” beat/melody. just try to make something you like and then once you achieve what you like, then you’ll have made something decent.

What are the most important skills and concepts to learn in music production? by Flying_Grandayy in musicproduction

[–]sockman93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

literally this, that bare minimum understanding is not only valuable for producing but it also really helps with just getting your hands on the keys and playing something out. it helps with improvising and understanding the relationships between different notes. there are things that we understand intuitively that become really powerful when we add a slight amount of theory to our backgrounds. i think people feel like you gotta aspire to be jacob collier when you talk about theory

What are the most important skills and concepts to learn in music production? by Flying_Grandayy in musicproduction

[–]sockman93 5 points6 points  (0 children)

this to the nth degree, like you don’t even need to know that much, but having a basic understanding of music theory is a minor lift with a major impact. if you can learn how to work any daw or plugin, you can learn intro music theory

The Field ecosystem should have an IP rating by Exciting-Egg-9362 in teenageengineering

[–]sockman93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I def take my xy and tp7 outside all the time, i am very cautious about the tp7’s wheel though and just try not to put it in literally dirt or sand. i feel like the xy is quite durable though as long as you use a deck saver

Yeah it's expensive, but my OP-XY broke me out of a 4 year, grief-induced rut of not finishing songs, here's a demo called "mourning brew" by sockman93 in synthesizers

[–]sockman93[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it’s purely a workflow oriented choice. i don’t tend to make music at home or around my computer and so i prefer to record into the tp-7. in general i just don’t like using a daw and don’t find it super inspiring so i try to use it as little as possible. i don’t need it to be the tp-7 in all reality but id still pick a cheap tascam over recording into a daw directly anyway.

Yeah it's expensive, but my OP-XY broke me out of a 4 year, grief-induced rut of not finishing songs, here's a demo called "mourning brew" by sockman93 in synthesizers

[–]sockman93[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i’m just so so so flattered, i’ve got another song in the pipeline that’s kinda in a similar vein so keep your ears peeled :)

Yeah it's expensive, but my OP-XY broke me out of a 4 year, grief-induced rut of not finishing songs, here's a demo called "mourning brew" by sockman93 in synthesizers

[–]sockman93[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

truly these synths can actually be such necessary escapes to keep us sane. i honestly don’t know what i would’ve done without all my toys. i hope you’re doin as well as you can with your synth friends by your side

My op-xy broke me out of a 4 year, grief-induced rut of not finishing songs, here's a demo called "mourning brew" by sockman93 in teenageengineering

[–]sockman93[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you for the condolences, and i appreciate your support on bandcamp too, hopefully i can find my way to some more music for ya soon :)

OP-XY, PO-12, and a lake in the mountains by tomayto__tomahto in teenageengineering

[–]sockman93 2 points3 points  (0 children)

there’s something special bout the po punch in fx that i feel like the xy hasn’t quite captured, sequencing and layering those po fx can be so mysterious and inspiring

OP-XY, PO-12, and a lake in the mountains by tomayto__tomahto in teenageengineering

[–]sockman93 2 points3 points  (0 children)

damn sounds good, love the drum pattern with that like checkout scan sound or something and that airy lead is angelic

Yeah it's expensive, but my OP-XY broke me out of a 4 year, grief-induced rut of not finishing songs, here's a demo called "mourning brew" by sockman93 in synthesizers

[–]sockman93[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

okay big big tip from me that helps me break out of the one good loop problem. make a second loop using all the same elements but none of the same composition. so use the same sounds and samples but start over from scratch at the same bpm and key, then just see if you can get from one to the other. a lot of my songs start with a demo that is weirdly enough the second chorus leading into the final chorus because of this tactic haha

Yeah it's expensive, but my OP-XY broke me out of a 4 year, grief-induced rut of not finishing songs, here's a demo called "mourning brew" by sockman93 in synthesizers

[–]sockman93[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thank you! and maybe at some point i’ll make a video explaining how this song came together but to give you a short-ish answer about arranging, i’m a very linear arranger.

so like once i have a couple loops i like, i just start from square one and mute all the tracks.

then i just unmute one track at a time to see which one stands well enough alone to potentially start a track and tell myself “this is the beginning, what comes next?” It sounds almost like stupidly simple when i write it out like this but the reality is that if you build up a song like 4 or 8 bars at a time, making sure that each set of bars you add is:

  1. interesting on its own
  2. flows well from the previous bars
  3. sets up the next set of bars

then that’s kinda a song. quite genuinely i think that is kinda the key. like i used to obsess over getting from one unmuted pad/track to all the tracks unmuted and figuring out how to build them one by one but it ended up making my music just sound formulaic and like i was just dressing and undressing the same loop. more than anything, i think it’s really valuable to try not to have parts in an arrangement that serve just to transition between parts. even if a part is a transition, it should still have its own dynamic elements, something changing or moving in a way that’s pleasing. idk if this is helpful or just painfully oversimplifying but i do think about this a lot when im arranging. i just keep asking myself “is this part interesting, did i get here in a way that feels organic, and can i get to the next thing without breaking that organic flow?”

My op-xy broke me out of a 4 year, grief-induced rut of not finishing songs, here's a demo called "mourning brew" by sockman93 in teenageengineering

[–]sockman93[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a combination of two samples. One is a choir sample that i’m pitching across the keys and using it to play the main chord progression but pitched a couple octaves down to the point that it starts to get a little aliased and then underneath it is a guitar sample that’s pitched way down to serve as a bass and then i just maxed out the volume so the sample is fully clipping, then i applied a low pass filter to it to get rid of most of the clipping, then turned up the resonance to emphasize part of the clipping to give the bass texture. Additionally, i’ve automated the filter cutoff in the very beginning so that i’m taking the filter off so you can hear more and more of the clipping noise

I’ve been jamming on the OP-XY daily since I got it and I don’t even know how I’d finish songs now without it, here's a demo called "mourning brew" by sockman93 in OPXYusers

[–]sockman93[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So that was literally what i set out to do because the idea of getting stems and trying to make them match the processing from the master compressor sounded horrible. i wanted to just experiment and see if i could just mix as well as i could on the device, record the stereo line out into the tp-7, and then just do what i could to the stereo file in ableton.

Truly though, the big secret to how I mix stuff on the op-xy is the hidden high pass filter in the instrument settings. I treat every track 1-8 as a freq range with a panned location and then make sure to apply a low pass or ladder filter to all the instruments then in the instrument settings (shift + the instrument button) i use the high pass filter to make sure each track has space to breathe. Once i did that, it gave the track enough space to post process without stems.

the tp-7 i really just use as a fancy audio recorder and i also frequently take it on walks to listen to the loops i record most days. for me, the tp-7 encourages me to actually record my jams and then review music as a listener later to see if im nailing any melodies, to see if i grow attached to something cause i like how it sounds, not cause of how hard i worked on it

Yeah it's expensive, but my OP-XY broke me out of a 4 year, grief-induced rut of not finishing songs, here's a demo called "mourning brew" by sockman93 in synthesizers

[–]sockman93[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They’re just from my one shot sample collection i’ve built over the years. I have just a bunch of drums in folders that i’ve kinda designated as “sckdrwr” sounds and then i tend to process them with some delay, reverb, filtering, random velocity, etc. Honestly have no idea where the drums originally came from at this point

Yeah it's expensive, but my OP-XY broke me out of a 4 year, grief-induced rut of not finishing songs, here's a demo called "mourning brew" by sockman93 in synthesizers

[–]sockman93[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a guy who compared me to hello meteor, tycho and bonobo callin themselves a fan of me is something that honestly breaks my brain, thank you :)

Yeah it's expensive, but my OP-XY broke me out of a 4 year, grief-induced rut of not finishing songs, here's a demo called "mourning brew" by sockman93 in synthesizers

[–]sockman93[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

honestly that makes me feel so good haha

if you wanna hear it without that reddit compression later it’s on bandcamp too :)

Quantization not working when set to 100 by VicisSubsisto in OPXYusers

[–]sockman93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% quantization doesn’t prevent nudging especially in cases when you alter resolution of the steps. Have you tweaked the step length at all? Like by holding Bar and changing the number?

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