Clifford Anderson
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Clifford Anderson
ParticipantHowdy, Maestro, welcome!
ParticipantMy pleasure!
If you happen to play Funk, Swing or Glitch Hop, then I have started a blog where I share my cratedigging results. http://funkagendablog.wordpress.com/
ParticipantWelcome, stephz!
ParticipantOK, didn’t know they were offering freebies like that, theoretically cool, but if it’s not working for you, then it’s not having the intended effect of encouraging you to upgrade your service with them.
ParticipantWhile the admins DO visit the forums, you would be far better served by using the “Contact Us” link at the top of the page – this will get a MUCH faster response. The forum is primarily staffed by volunteers, like Chuck and Terry, and people who are just other users (like you and I).
ParticipantWhat free service? They only offer previews for free, you have to pay for the full track, even in 192kbit.
ParticipantThe trick to finding music on Soundcloud is that it takes a while… you build up the folks you follow, then you spend an hour or so each day slogging through your stream for the new stuff that’s worth listening to (speaking of which, just about time for me to do my daily slog). The reason it takes a while is that you won’t know who to follow at first, but when someone else reposts a great track, add the original author to the folks you’re following as well.
At least, that’s how I do it, and about 95% of the tracks I play are freebies from SC.
ParticipantIt is kind of interesting in some of them where you get crossover… I most definitely fit into the “Ghetto Funk” category, but that means I also get to play any other Funk I like, Disco, Blues, Glitch Hop, Neuro and various flavors of Swing – including Electro Swing, which is a house beat as opposed to the breakbeat that epitomizes most of the rest of the styles in the genre.
I’m sure each sub-culture has crossovers like this, but as you say, it’s the members of that group that really have a handle on what that means and how it feels.
ParticipantHoi, Pye, welcome!
ParticipantHowdy, Vapor, welcome!
ParticipantThis disagrees with every interaction I’ve had with them, but if your masters keep vanishing after you’ve paid for them, then don’t let them off the hook. You need to warn them that if they don’t correct your issue that you’re going to reverse the credit card charge, and then do it if they don’t. If they’re failing to deliver, then do something about it.
ParticipantIf you go to a show labelled “EDM,” then it tends to mean a very specific thing. The words may belie the true meaning, but the audience will typically be expecting something much more specific than “anything that’s electronic and dance.”
You advertise an EDM show and play trance and your audience isn’t going to be very pleased, no matter how much you want the meaning of the abbreviation to allow you to play anything electronic you want.
ParticipantYou can certainly make music without needing more VSTs, but you will probably want at least a few.
Sylenth is certainly a popular standard (if getting a bit long in the tooth). The VSTs you want will depend very much on what kinds of sounds you want.
One of the more powerful that you can get right now is “Serum,” which makes some seriously crunchy sounds, but is a bit complicated (but totally worth learning).
Another of the popular standards that is starting to age a little bit (but still has a lot of usefulness left in it) is Massive from Native Instruments.
You probably wouldn’t want/need both Serum and Massive… I would take Serum over Massive at this point, you can make some CRAZY good sounds with it if you spend the time to poke and prod at it long enough.
ParticipantI started with the Instinct myself, and when I upgraded, I went straight for a controller that’s going to last me (I got a Reloop Terminal Mix 8, but your workflow may want something different, so don’t take it as a pitch). I gotta agree with Chuck, while the MTP is a nice controller, it is still on the beginner end. If you are still a beginner, honestly, I’d say just stick with the Instinct, and if you’re not, then you’re going to be upgrading again too soon.
ParticipantThey don’t actually e-mail you the track, just a link to download it on their server when its done processing. I don’t use LANDR for my final mastering of my tracks, but I do use it while I’m producing so I can test how my new tracks sound in a mix without having to do a mixdown and mastering, and I have not had anything at all like the problems you describe.
If you check your account there, all of your mastered tracks will be listed in your profile so you can download and redownload them all you want, so even if the e-mail got eaten, you should still find your mastered tracks there. You might also check your spam folder for the e-mails.
However, I think expecting them to be familiar with “MusicMaker” is not really fair of you. It’s not exactly professional software, and you can’t expect them to be familiar with every bit of hobbyist software out there.
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