Yeah,i know that it looks like i am posting here and starting topics as "hottest user" which might look like a typical "forum attention whore" but it is rather caused by a fact that it is a first time when i found such professional forum with great advices.

I think it was already somewhere here mentioned,asked,but is there any hope for us to read a soft synth synth programming tutorial?

I know it would have to cover huge area and take a lot of time to create,but it would be great.

About waveforms ,creating juicy synth sounds,bass sounds etc. Would be great.

I learned on my own quite much ,but all i do is i do it with my "nose".Learned on trial and error.But it would be great to know more,to be able to create exactly the sound that i have in mind etc .I think a lot of users have this issue

I'm trying to decide which direction to go with the background of the new site. I'm split as I see advantages in both black and white backgrounds (with reversed text of course).

White backgrounds with black text are generally known as the most readable. But there is also the case that with bright moniters all the light from the white background can be fatiguing.

I like the look of black backgrounds with lighter text but the contrast of these isn't always as good.

Since I plan on having a lot more material to read on the site getting this comfortable is a priority. If you have a preference and want to put your two cents (or pence) in let me know. At the moment I'm leaning towards the white background though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy60LWvDF...annel_page


found it today when i was watching usage of their transient,which i wanted to apply maybe.

I noticed oxford stuff is popular here,so this vid might fits here.

And i love those vids from Ian Carey,he really talks a lot and explains .Worth to watch



As you noticed there are mods vids with him using oxford

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyKPfN90A...re=channel

Ok i guess i raise one of those tough discussions,but...

As maybe some of You already noticed,i used to praise Reaper.

It is great,cheap DAW with possibilities not worse then those most expensive DAW have,created by a computer software genius (i think creator of winamp,some p2p software etc if i remember well).Everything seems to be perfect in it.

But after a long time with Repaer,I installed once again SONAR 6.

I imported same loops and..damn they sounded diffrent in sonar then they sound in reaper.Without using any effects .Just raw import to both DAW's.

And i must say Sonar seemed to sound better,warmer,more pro,sound was clearer.



And i heard plenty of diffrent oppinions,that DAWs just "do the math",they cant change how your loops and vst sounds,but i am not deaf .It definitelly sounds diffrent.

What are your experiences guys ?
I think i also noticed in past diffrence when tried ableton demo,and compared to cubase,but cant remember my exact thoughts .

Let me know what you guys think of this, will be more coming soon:

<a href="http://www.medwaystudios.com/Ableton-8-Tutorials/Ableton-Live-8-Warping-Tutorial.html">Ableton Live 8 Warping Tutorial</a>

this is a short doc on the departing train melodies used in tokyo. its crazy the vivid memories and nostalgia these sounds trigger from my trip there last year.

regardless of whether you've been or not, this is a really interesting piece and worth the listen. its only a few minutes.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...Id=1435627

Hi guys. What are your recommendations with softsynths?

Which one is for You essential /you love to work with ?

Personally i found synth1 as an amazing synth,and it is completely free with loads of superb presets to download .
Second one is Massive by NI by its enormous flexibility in modifying sound and creating new presets.


or maybe there are any new synths that you recommend to check demos ? I might be not up to date too much with them

Hi guys.

I would like to start discussion about yours way to produce,compose a track.Ad this point i want to focus only on arrangement,composing.

I guess most of us uses just VST instruments and cant afford analog external instruments etc.

Now,as we know if you run in your DAW few VST instruments,delay effects,reverb it can totally exhaus the possibilities of your CPU and at certain part of song you probably often met problems "damn how can i carry on ,i made this buildup and cpu barely breaths"


How do you deal with it? I certainly few times had such problem (i work on quite crappy PC ,but actually i kept it on purpose ,it forced me to learn a lot)

Now i decided to start new project and "glue" tre track with made by me few bars loops.For example in few minutes i wil lsit down with Massive by Native instruments and compose a melody riff. Same with bassline etc.

And i will be importing them to a project ,arrange it all and then again i will switch from my project to a VST and compose another part ,export as wav,and then import to project.



What are your ways?

Actually it seems to be soooooo easy,but i never done it And i noticed that everytime i was watching tutorial vid by pros,like stonebridge etc they had in their DAW imported WAV files,not running any of those cpu consuming VST instruments.All software that was "on" in final projects were only sidechain compressors,compressors,delays ,reverbs etc,but all melody in final project was based on WAV files arranged into a final mix.

I think it is called "bouncing " the track? Am i right? It seems to be only reasonable way to compose more complicated and full of effects track.

Or maybe you have a machine like i think ian carey described on his board,24 GHZ total etc

http://www.producerpack.com/products/PPAPRFREEV2.zip


If you're on their mailing list then you've probably already got this. If not, then have a look. Approx. 84mb

(I'm assuming it's ok to disseminate this link. There's nothing in the original email saying you couldn't)

I came across this interesting article a week ago....

http://www.eqmag.com/article/positively-bt/jul-05/11520


Towards the end of the article, BT gives away one of his 'biggest tricks'. Says he shelves everything below 120 hz except the kick and bassline; essentially, allowing those two to come through clearly, without the mud.

In theory this sounds good, but I've read some comments saying that doing something like this will "suck the life out of some instruments".

Anyone do anything similar to this? What's your take?