Steven, For years you've spoken positivity and given open minded perspective on how to approach business and art and I Just wanted to say thank you for spreading the knowledge and helping the community around you grow.
Yoo Steven and the Cymatics team, been producing for only a couple of months now and I've never discovered something that I am so passionate about, I wish I would have discovered music production years ago, but better later than never. I love your sample packs, your VSTs, your educational videos, and i just wanted to let you know that I genuinely appreciate you for all that you do for the producer community! You are a Gem!
*Really dope video! I consider myself lucky for finding this while I am starting my journey into learning about making my own sound. Thank you because point number 2 really resonated with me.*
Appreciate the Education lesson teaching and knowledge passing thanks, King. Steven great video keep doing the gifted work and Bigup Respect 2u&Cymatics Grew and Affiliated Bless Bless Bless🤗💯🙌✌💥🤩😇
Great info! Another tip that helped me get nearly 100 placements is learning how to create synth sounds from scratch. It expanded my ability and helped me fight writers block because it’s easier to make the sounds you hear in your head!
Thank you for the Midi Patterns i downloaded. I use it at home. This Midi Files are really good. When i have money i will download more. Greetings from Germany.
Ayyye! Just wanna say that every time I've corresponded in email with Cymatics, they have been so prompt with responses, and so cordial as well. Bought some preset packs for Serum and they were great.
Man, Chuuch. Chase two rabbits catch none. I’ve got all these guitar based song ideas in my head and I’m stuck in this rut thinking that I need to be this proficient guitar player before I can write them.
Diablo is hands down the best plugin for drums that has ever existed. I use it in all my productions. Sometimes it's fun to run basses or even a stab melody with heavy delay or reverb through it. From there you can chain it to duck a delay/reverb. That way, the delay/reverb will only play when the signal is NOT playing. It gives it a very tight sound, and the delay/reverb never washes over the main riff. Thanks for the great video, Steven! - leifo
So glad I stopped letting older producers shame me into learning music theory a few months ago and I use current tools to help me stay in key and I no longer ashamed of using loops
If you take the time to learn music theory, staying in key and knoing what chord progressions sound good together will be instinct. Relying on VSTs to make sure you are in key is not 100% accurate
Really good brother can you Help us out making a vídeo about tune voices with auto tune and making the choirs so ITS sounds great like t pain or whatever? I really like Kevin gates voice style he always make a back vocal with a Voice really low ITS sounds real good
Also, you know the Fantasy Synth pack with the Juno's, Korg, Prophet, Jupiter's etc WOW! . I loved that. Is there an option to buy just the synth 1 shots? I don't really want the loops and all that.,just the synth sounds if that makes sense.
Biggest one i learned that i wish i knew back in my early days: VSTs/DAWs dont make your music sound better. Having all the VSTs isnt a good thing. Bruce Lee once said "i dont fear a fighter who knows 10,000 different kicks... i fear the fighter who has practiced a single kick 10,000 times." Its far better to be very proficient at just one single VST than to be the "jack of all trades" in music making.
Number 4 throw it in the trash!! It sounds good when its only a beat but when you add vocals and go to master a song you can get it waay louder if its not clipped already. So many people are ruining their beats like this
You right but at the same time in most cases when I send stems to the artist that I don’t record..they engineer gain stage the beat and then what happens is they get to asking me why my version hit so hard and that engineer ain’t make it hit that hard even after he has mastered the song…long as you don’t put a limiter on it you can definitely clip it to get that nice distorted sound. It’s not a wrong or right thing about any of this…it’s do you have the ear to make it sound good cause most of these guys that got placements run they sounds thru that soft clipper it’s no rules to this shit if it sound good it sounds good
There’s differences between clipping itself guys, never redline/clip the overall sound, but digital clipping and done per ear won’t kill your mix nor make it impossible to go loud as ish in mastering, if it is, then you mastered/mixed/effected wrong along the way. Matter of fact, take skrillex and bangareng’s loudness and tell me he didn’t controlled clipped once at least 👌
@@AhmadCollins_and I agree, last one is gold,but not for newbies, since every possible wrong beat (or a simple level up on the next beat you do) can sound “good” but good to you, not necessarily “good” audio quality-wise or for other people. Happy musiccin’ y’all ✌️
@@AhmadCollins_ thats another issue because you mixed into the clipper your balances fall apart when you take the clipping off before you mix and you wont have this problem!! Feel free to play with it slightly at the end but mixing into it can cause more headaches than its worth
Take the famous soft clipping, it’s just for CUTTING(more smoothing) the transients/peaks, so no peak is too loud, leaving you with a less “peaky” material but overall even material, meaning it’s almost comparable to comp/limiting, since you say this far, but NO FURTHER. Especially works on EDM and the stems you use there
Disagree with acquiring more samples/plugins. That's the complete opposite I would say. No matter what you're doing in life, having too much of something and constantly chasing new and fresh stuff just makes me unhappy and uncreative. Referring to your 2 rabbit saying.
Facts, I've got a handful of stuff and I don't think I'll be grabbing anything else going forward. I've started making my own presents and unless a really innovative plugin comes out I won't be buying it
the thing about music production is... if you have a good ear, you can come up with something dope by using drum loops, samples and production savviness.... and not even know how to play a single instrument.
That's me. I'm up there with the Jimi Hendrixes and Eddie Van Halens of this world. But hand me the guitar and even Lil Wayne will laugh at my lack of skill. 🤣🤣
You should make a all in one plugin that combines dejavu/ origin and memory. It could have a reverse too, and mid/ side split and l/r split. Would be cool if dejavu got an expansion so u could do grossbeat/ timeshaper fx. And add som extra sauce. Would be a legit dope plugin. I would also love if it would be cpu optimised.
Yes. You can use it as flavor or make your mix super loud. Be careful with it though because it can introduce nasty artefacts or make leveling/balancing hard (because everything is or will be loud if you don't leave headroom). You shouldn't worry about mastering as long as the mix is sounding very good (properly balanced, not harsh, full, clean, etc).
Is there a way to remove the static sound on the cynamtics saturation? Even when the instrument I added it to is not playing it adds static to the whole track
9:48 How though? How do you make that decision about which one is best? This is a huge problem for me. I end up with 6 different basslines and several different melodies. It makes me want to scream because I can't decide which to use. So I either..... Throw it all in and it sounds woeful. Or Think "F**k it. Move on to the next track" But it always happens. I've never completed a track but I've got a dozen or so tracks with decent stuff going on.
Anyone got advice on how to start producing like a course you took or even other RU-vid videos that helped and please don't just say make something I'm not expecting a beat to her amazing but just a finished project.
Best video on RU-vid… Yes looking at only getting placements put you in a cave of confusion. Everyone is chasing the same thing That’s a lot of opportunities If you know what I mean… Become the ingredients provider
sup guys, i want to be a producer,makin some drake/yeat type beats,and i want to make it in a browser, so i find one is Amped Studio,is anyone heard bout this ? if someone can help me with this,apr u
Wabi sabi? I disagree about rabbits. I mean they are fast, but you can get them both if you are faster. If you can't mix, then you have to pay an engineer before anybody is going to be impressed by your beats. If you can mix you will be a better composer because you will understand the interplay of frequencies ranges and what can/cannot support a vocal performance. If you understand music theory some then you will know which parts to take when you sample. If you play drums, you will figure out where the 808's go after you have played w/toms and then your chord placement gets more interesting. Focusing on only one thing works if you are in a band or can afford to pay to produce the rest of the things you know nothing about. But if you are working in a set up that is all you from start to finish on a song, it would behoove you to know something about all aspects of production and as you build in the areas that are not your specialty, you will undoubtedly grow in whatever your strengths were consequently. And when you get better at something outside your wheelhouse it helps you to build the vocabulary you need to get help from people who do have more expertise. Avoid spreading yourself too thin, I would say, but nobody is maligned by saying they are "well-rounded". "Polymath". "Rennaissance Man." All these are terms to positively describe somebody who has taken the time to be good at more than one thing. Think Quincy Jones.
SAMPLES.? If it wasn't for the MUSICIAN THE SINGER, you wouldn't have the sample to sample, eventually all we are gonna get is sampled music from sampled music from sampled music from sampled music.?..
For someone who is supposed to be reputable in the industry its disappointing to see you tell people that just using a soft clipper will fix the issues people will encounter. If your eq isn't good enough and controlled enough , if the balance + gain staging isn't good enough, if compression isnt done right then that just add soft clip on the master trick is almost completely useless. Dont lead people along , if your going to say something atleast be up front and tell people this will only work if everything else is done right.. Otherwise great video
Not true at all. Plus this sounds like any other industry. Big names stay big, if they keep up to date with everything. It's the nature of the business. And what you mentioned about David Guetta and being nice - this is the most important skill, your social skills and your love for ppl. This is what makes the difference. I know many talented artists, but they are not very sociable and complain all the time, and that's why they stay small. This is professionalism. Look at James Hype for instance. This guy would do anything for his fans, always positive, gets the job done despite imperfections and challenges and over all he's a great entertainer. This goes for any industry. People care for your personality more than your skills.
Excuse me, but for the love of God, people please! Giving advice for making a piano chords strummed and not mentioning the rhythmic aspect of it is pure deception. No wonder FL Studio has the reputation it has among other DAWs. More often than not, when you strum a chord it is vital to make the loudest note (the one you want to accent) the one that is on the beat. Meaning if the first chord has 5 notes and the last note is the loudest, the strumming should begin before the actual beat start. And yes, the other way can also be used as a rhythmic effect, but it goes more towards playing rubato, implying the following notes will also be displaced in a similar way.
5:46 bro all u did was put a sample then put drum loop, u call that being producer??? cool then aight, if i make pro album for someone all i have to do is just take free samples and flip them??? Its that easy?? Why do i spend hours of learning sound design if all i can do is take melody sample, drum loop and im ready to sell? XDD
