I am really enjoying your school’s deconstruction videos. It is helping not only understand how the Ableton Live and Logic Pro X software works, but training my ears to get familiar with the different instrument/percussion options. What I cannot figure out is, how is the acapella obtained and isolated to be added later, since you’re choosing and recording the other instrument lines?
I don't really understand what he's doing WHILE THE SONG IS IN PLAYBACK MODE. Isn't it already "done"? Why all the tweaking of the things while it's playing back?
@@Aadiboyrocks Don't get me wrong, the video is pretty good itself and it's great that people are teaching young producers how to make tracks. Just that's not the right process in making a track. It requires dozens of hours of work to make a good track, it's not just about you pressing some buttons on your launchpad :)
I don’t think that is the purpose of the video. It’s a song deconstruction video; how to analyze the tracks components, take it apart and put it back together again to help you better understand the elements. Creating an original song/track is a completely different ball of wax. This reminds me of taking a transistor radio (😆 anyone remember those?), learning what each part is and trying to put it back together again so it works (and Dad can once again listen to the ballgame at the beach 🏖). You’ll know a lot more at the end of that process about it than before you started. Same here. So when you DO go to make a song track, you’re that much more educated as to your options, etc. That’s my take anyway.
Respectfully I disagree. He's not making a track he's deconstructing a track for the purposes of education. These ski deconstructions were kind of as a result of point blank's EMC (Electronic Music Composition) course. From that point of view they are perfect, covering not just arrangement but music theory, drum programming and a small degree of sound design. Their purpose is not to show how a particular sound was made or how to mix, compress or eq or any of the other stuff which takes an age to finesse but ultimately is just practice and technique. I would say they are exactly the kind of thing a young producer should be watching as they also tend to cover a range of genres. And they show that ski knows how to rock a cool shirt.
@Paul Caruso Avicii's melodies in particular contains several parts of high-speed notes during short periods of time. When you try to replicate what was, in the original version, digitally created on a piano roll by playing it back by hand on a midi keyboard, a lot of the high-speed notes falls a couple of milliseconds off to the right or left from where they are intended. In my ears it sounds like the lead melody is played on-top of the track and is not actually a part of it. Don't get me wrong - I'm not in favor of quantizing everything. All tracks doesn't have to be 100% accurate and especially not in some genres, but when you're trying to replicate a lead melody that is already played off-beat, the replicated melody can sound off-off-beat. I can't really explain it better than that.
@Paul Caruso ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6jit18JpiXc.html It was quantized. Check 6:13 and tell me again that that melody is not quantized.
