Hi, I'm Thales Matos, a music producer and songwriter obsessed with Pop music. Based in Florida - originally from Brazil - I love making music and talking about it.
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Awesome vid. How do you go about learning sound design ? I would like to learn how to recreate songs like this but not very experienced in sound design
Hi what are some common articulations needed for strings in pop? Should I look at runs articulation and some others? Also, any recommendations on string libraries well suited for pop and R&b?
Wow. Nice vídeo. One question you say you have a second kick sidechained to the 808 for add thump. In the arrangement window it shows that the first kick isn’t playing there, right ? So you have basically kick part. Then secondary kick and 808 part? And besides if it a bass bus ?
Very interesting my friend! Do you know of any alternative for those who don't use Ableton? I didn't find any VST similar to Ableton's Echo to copy parameters. thanks for the info!
Was looking for a simple vid to explain these effects to someone looking for 'filtered vocals' that were mostly telephone/radio effect, i reckon you nailed it.
Well, it aims to take the function of tom, but the spund is not even close. The frequency modulation and high-end noise level is to high and disturbing, while the timbre of the body is muffled, it definitely needs wavefolder, overdrive or something else to produce more harmonics. Instead of synthesizing the main frequency I rather would use resonating filter directly on a transient, and then enriched it with additive synthesis tools.
very good and thank you; I would like to know how I can assign melodic notes to a tom sample so I can create a melodic groove. example: "waiting man" song by king crimson. Do you think the tom is edited by combining a tom sample sound with assigned midi against a synth or can you do it on a drum module or drum DAW?
hey man. thanks for the video. this really openened new possibilities for me. sadly in my span the group selection that is showing at the bottom of your plugin is not showing for me and i cannot see my reference track in span. i redownloaded the vst2 and sidechained. i realized that in the routing options my input routings are also named differently: After L and R there is C, Lfe, Ls, Rs, IN7, IN8. Do you have any suggestions?
great vid! I just found out these existed the other day and I want one sooo bad now but I did just get an Ableton Push 3 Standalone and it kind of fits my needs a little better because of the standalone aspect.
It would be better if we could see the final version of the lyrics when we turn on the subtitles in the video transcript played with the music. Because you can guess that you also have followers whose native language is not English. However, it is not a problem since the degree of harmony between the lyrics and the music can be understood while listening.Despite everything, great video, thank you for your effort.💯👌
Generally speaking most Valhalla vsts can be somewhat replicated with Ableton plugins, they won't have some of the very specific quirks that makes their plugins unique of course, but you can get away with stock delay and make it sound good still
Great Video! Very helpful! could you do a video aboput reggae basics in producing a song? I like how you explained the one drop concept! Mahalo and Aloha!
I would argue with your statement that guitars notes layout is better than on piano. Just by looking at the keyboard you know where semitones, or tones are. With guitar you need to know what tuning is used and then apply all those fretboard hacks to know where are corresponding notes are (3rd, 4th, etc.). In other words it's a amatter of our brain. What's easier for them, or more intuitive.
Yes I agree and I am not sue what he means about the guitar being linear and the piano is not. The piano is entirely linear. He seems to be putting emphasis on whether they are black keys or white keys but that has nothing ti do iwth the chromaticism of a piano.
