Thank you so much for watching! I hope you enjoyed the video :D I would really appreciate if you gave the full song a listen! distrokid.com/hyperfollow/johnserra/took-a-piece-of-me
@@Foxell356 Thank you so much bro! Sadly not as of right now but I am hoping to release it soon as well, i'm like 85% happy with it but there's something about it that just isn't sitting right with me haha
I also have a cool tricks to make ambient pads. - Throw any samples like "any" samples in the timeline. Acapellas work mostly great. - Stretch it extremely long. 4x would be safe. Or don't stretch it to make it short or your sample's already too long. It might have stretch artifacts but deal with it later. - In the mixer cut the low end cause you need that space for the bass (You might use copyrighted song that has drums in your sample. But please avoid using copyrighted material). - Put valhalla shimmer with 100% mix. - Preferably add soundgoodizer or turn up the volume. Done. Additional tips if you use vocal samples. - Render it after you've done the step above. - Put it back in timeline. - You can choose slicex like what he did in his video, or - Hold left alt and short press the right click on your rendered sample. - This way you can find precise part you want to chop. - You can chop it manually or record your alt + right click chop to edison. - Yes it is more tedious than using slicex but more fun to do.
Additional tips for preset junkies if you have a lot of short pluck preset across any synthesizer. - Load every short pluck preset of any synthesizer in your channel rack. - Remove the reverb in your preset or cut the low ends if there's any. - Write a short C note in a piano roll for 1 synth in 1 pattern. - So you have 1 note in 1 synthesizer in 1 pattern for every preset. - Make sure they were all tuned to C since most preset are out of tune. - Throw those patterns in timeline. - Put them off grid, duplicate 1 or 2 random notes in timeline, any length you like, make it as chaos as possible. - Render that all and put the rendered back into fruity granulizer, loop enabled. - Play any chords but every notes are delayed (more like strumming?) You get the idea. - in the mixer channel, put crystalizer vst and play with splice, delay, and mix knob or any knob in there. I prefer the reverse mode on. - Add any reverbs as you like. - Use previous tips above or just play around and develop as you like from here. Edit: Just ask anything if you have anything to ask. Oh yeah, I called this Chaos Granulized Pad.
Bro first of all THANK YOU for being so detailed with both these methods I really want to give these a shot now! I've tried similar-ish things in the past with the shimmer method and got some really cool stuff out of it, but I really think that Chaos granulized pad idea sounds SUPER interesting man. I always say sometimes more tedious techniques lead to way more fun and unique results too! Thanks again for being so thorough with explaining both of these creative techniques!
This guy is casually dropping gems. Nice techniques ! I have one for you, try working your reverb in "parallèle" (Like having a channel 100 wet one 100 % dry) ---> Then on the reverb channel only 1 add distortion, pitch shifting, frequency shifting, phaser or any hard modulation you want 2 then add a spectral scaler like Chroma or Pitchmap to get back to the tonality. 3cut lows of the reverb , maybe remove some frequencies with Eq around 160 hz, 350 hz.. It can easily mud your sound so be careful Its a really fun way to add a strange but beautiful layer to any sound. (4) You can also resample just the reverb and repeat the process for multiple octaves then layer all of them with original sound ! Thanks for the video too, this channel is really relaxing, chill and I can feel the good vibes
@@Add1sondeSaulenet Man thank you guys both so much I really hope more people keep chiming in with their own cool techniques! I'm super excited to gives yours a shot later tonight this sounds like it could lead to some really great and unique layering! Thank you so much for your kind words as well man I really appreciate it! :D
i found a nice way to make pads quickly - by making an arp in any key(could be randomly sequenced) - rendering in place and dragging it into edison - (i often duplicate the audio 2 more times in edison) and then add the blur option on 100 mix - and then replacing the original/dragging it to the playlist as new and i also layer pads with LP supersaw chords mostly in the mid range to give the track more body cos i like my main odd to be clean/twinkly so they are mostly present in the high end region then for drums i mostly only set up sidechain compression/volume automation for kick ducking and a layer of group processing(transient shaping etc) there’s also consolidating a snare from another break and doing some processing on that to make it the main snare while the amen break loop could be used more of a tops loops
All really great tips bro i’m happy to see people sharing their own favorite methods to this style! Honestly that blur method in edison you mentioned is almost like a cheat code for making INSANELY ambient pads and is something I love experimenting around with!
Awesome video - high production quality, short but not too short to be useful, with an entertaining voiceover and tips I will definitely integrate into my workflow! Thank you so much, I have subscribed and will be watching your other content. Shoutout the YT algorithm 😎
i gotta say i've been enjoying your content for a while now. this video made me consider copping your sample pack and i was shook. i mean 5 dollars only? i just had to get it. i will enjoy it later today and let you know :) i really appreciate your effort with the readme file btw. keep up the good work man im rooting for it
Thank you guys both so much! I apologize for not going more in depth into how I made it in the video bro, I do have a couple other videos on this channel going over how I write my chord progressions which covers basically what I did for this sample but when it comes to layering the pads here I literally just threw them together without any real thought behind it. This was my second attempt at writing something in this style but on my first attempt I put way more time and energy into writing the sample for the song and it just ended up coming out super mid when I was chopping it, so I think I just got frustrated with this one and wanted to get the sample done as quickly as possible so I copied and pasted my chord progression onto a bunch of pad layers without even really thinking about it LMFAOOO, BUT I do think that goes to show that if you have a cool chord progression you can also get something similar to this super easily!
awesome video i have a problem that i can't find solution to (im a beginner). my music sounds ok on my headphones on pc (clean,crips etc), but on earbuds on phone it sounds l quieter, less highs and mids, like its to steps behind (idk how to explain it) i tried to increase highs and volume, i tried the stereo shaper and bunch of other stuff, but it still sounds the same. also its not hardware issue thanks for the video ❤❤
Thank you so much bro! My advice would be to probably save some money and invest in a good pair of studio monitors (I personally use the yamaha hs8s but there are a ton of good options out there), the issue it seems like you’re having is your songs aren’t translating properly across different listening environments and thats probably due to you mixing your songs on headphones that don’t have the flattest response (if your headphones are super bright or if they have a big lowend boost you’ll be mixing around that which can leave your song sounding thin or dull because your headphones are essentially “coloring” your decisions if that makes sense) I do know studio monitors are not cheap though so my other suggestion would be to focus more on learning about songwriting instead of mixing (until you get your hands on some studio monitors) because in my opinion mixing can take a pretty long time to really get good at and it might do more harm than good learning about it under the circumstances you’re in, BUT learning how to write really good songs is a skill that you can get started on at any time, is also super rewarding, and will be very valuable when you do decide to dive deeper in to mixing! I hope this helps!
@@SleepyVibesOnly_ thx for response, i have the dt 770 pro x, my old headphones broke and i bought them for the "future", I thought its not hardware thing because I've seen people do it on cheap wired headphones and the music sounded alright, guess they have developed an ear for it. thanks again ❤
@ejvis that’s exactly it bro, for the most part when you first start out your ears aren’t really “trained” to distinguish different frequencies, it’s almost like learning a new language kind of, but it will come naturally with time and experience bro so as long as you keep doing it you will absolutely see improvement over time! :-)
If you have all your layers in one pattern block all you have to do is right click the pattern block on the top of FL Studio, then you should see an option called “quick render as audio clip” if you click that it will print it all down to audio bro!
Thank you so much bro I really appreciate it! I’ll be honest that is probably my fault with the way I explained it 😭 it does take some experimenting around with but it luckily doesn’t take too long if you want to give it a shot!
Do you think this would fit under breakcore though bro? I have a hard time differentiating between breakcore and DnB since I see so much discourse online about what actually falls under breakcore, I think the song I made wouldn’t fit so much under breakcore just because of how “tame” the drum chops are but I don’t know much about the genre personally so I would love to hear your opinion on it!
@@SleepyVibesOnly_ i feel like its about just how emphasized the amen and think breaks are in the song. Liquid dnb, and ambient jungle will have more drum loops that are programmed from one shots, with some very subtle sampling. Breakcore is really loud in your face amen or think break chop, ALWAYS. And any other drums layered under it are just to help it punch in the mix. Both breakcore, and liquid dnb/atmospheric dnb/ambient jungle have alot of similar focus on the ethereal dreamy, or even sometime jazzy soundscapes, so they are very similar. Breakcore and Jungle are both just sub genres of drum and bass. Drum and Bass is an umbrella term like rock. Within it there is Jungle, Jump up, Neurofunk, Liquid, Rollers, and Breakcore.
@scaletail1999 that’s actually a very interesting way of looking at it bro I never thought of it like that! Now that you mention the emphasis on the amen break it does seem to be the main differentiating factor between breakcore and other dnb sub genres like liquid where you’ll of course hear the classic DnB rhythm but like you said it’s all programmed using modern drum samples, the amen break isn’t really used through out the entirety of the song like in breakcore, thank you for teaching me more about that :-)
