Jona Menasso

Emma Partnow, post: 2502 wrote: A Very Warm Welcome to you Jona 🙂

Thank you Emma

PS Love your feedbacks and replys (seriously)! 😉

Phil Morse, post: 1914 wrote: I think you need mentors, but the beauty of online communities is that you can do that easily – give it time. Remember there are private conversations available to use and we all have profile pages with status updates on here to take stuff away from the main forums if you want to chat in depth.

But also, creativity is difficult, it is lonely, and nobody is ever going to tell you you’re now officially a “producer” or a “DJ” – nobody will pat you on the back and say it’s all alright! It takes braveness to create stuff out of nothing. I actually wrote an article about it for New York’s Dubspot School recently – 5 Tips for Getting Things Done and Self Motivation for Artists, Producers & DJ’s

thank you Phil…

and i know its mainly a lonely thing… but i just want feedback… not people telling me im a “dj” or “producer”…

Thank you again Phil.

Paul, post: 1835 wrote: I’m currently at work and our firewall blocks streaming media so I’ll listen to it when I get home. Is FL studio free? Or if not, is there a sample demo pack. I’ve heard of some like garageband for the mac, Acid Pro where they have pre installed beats then what you ought to do is mix them by layers, am I correct?

i dont know any of the program you mentioned… but on FL Studio it work by patterns and by a thing called song were you put the patterns so you make the song… in the pattern you just put sounds and synthsizers to make sounds… like kicks snares and hats… that is pretty much the basics for me…:(

FL STUDIO isn’t free… but you can get a cracked copy… like those that TEAM AiR do… but if you tend to get serious and if you like it (i must say this) you should buy it… its important to support people that work on those kind of programs…

the sounds for those kind of programs (musical production) work on basicly three or 4 ways…
Sample Packs – one shots (which you can download free)
Sample Packs – loops (i dont like these ones especially the beat loops)
VST and all kinds of plugins and virtual sinthesizers – (you can get them legally free too)
Old Fashione and complicated analogue sinthesizers a intruments recordings ( i dont know much about these ones as obviously i dont use these technique yet and never tried)

That is pretty much all for me…

PS: SetMix already posted on the forum… 😉

@Paul

yes i will do it once again, as ive done it with my original track… sorry for saying “about mixsets… im uploading one of mine’s tonight on soundcloud… hoping to get some feedback then…”… cross treads… tricky thing

by the way… what does ayt mean? (cant figure that one out myself :oops:)

Paul, post: 1822 wrote: Ah well for me, I was in a band as a rhythm guitar and lead vocals sometime back. Of course, when you’re in a band you don’t feel alone as you have bandmates to chat with and to share your craft, your passion, your art. But in DJing, I figure that this is more like a solo act.

I have just been introduced to EDM like what, two years ago? I am not sure when but it kind of kicked off when I attended a big dance party with trance producer Ronski speed as a DJ. I got inspired, then I found myself looking for DJ gear and ways how to learn this craft. I was just toying around with my then cracked version of VDJ(5.0 I think) years ago. And since I knew how VDJ kind of works, I actually started getting serious about this just this May after I got my first real controller, a Numark Mixtrack Pro which I am lovin’, and a VDJ Pro Full 7.0 which is officially purchased.

But wow, we are in the same situation. It’d be great if we could have a mentor or someone, a person that we can speak with, who knows about DJing, give us some feedbacks on how we can improve, teach us some techniques. But we don’t have mentors, so we would just rely on ourselves, youtube, research, and people on these kinds of forums to help us. They may not be our mentors directly, but at least they could give us inspiration and maybe even some tips and tricks to improve on our mixes. Here at the forums, some people do actually share their DJ mixsets and ask for feedback from other members.

The difference is that people, meaning the general crowd does appreciate if we could beatmatch properly, but may not be too critical. Whereas in this community, will give you constructive criticism because we as DJs and aspiring DJs, share the same passion.

EXACTLY!!!

And in a general way, i am i think of most djs very supportive and i think we all feel the same…. we’re kind of a familly…

about mixsets… im uploading one of mine’s tonight on soundcloud… hoping to get some feedback then…

thank for sharing your oppinion and for everything