MirrorVision - Electronic Music Help

Resources

2012-06-18T16:14:00.000-07:00

Decided to make a post dedicated to nothing but music production resources.

If you have any tracks you made and want to share them add a comment or add me on Soundcloud!

A great resource website I just found http://www.looperman.com/

Samples:

1. It contains 50 high-tech basslines, "Reese" sounds, Neurofunk mid basses.
Wav format, 16 bit, 44100 Hz, stereo, 60 MB.

Download

2. 300 high-quality samples, 24 bit, 44.1 kHz, stereo Recorded in the key of c.

Download

3. DIGITAL REDUX FREE BUNDLE is a pack in which we got together all free sample packs from the whole product of our DIGITAL-REDUX producer; with over than 1300 samples and loops, you will be able to get an idea of the 20 packs that you can find on our website. With styles as diverse as electro, house, techno, chill out, Dubstep, hip-hop, dnb, and the likes.

A good way of having a little sample of each one of these incredible packs aimed at professional electronic music producers.

Digital Redux Download

Free VST's

1. TAL-Elek7ro is a virtual analog synth with some special features like oscillator hardsync and frequency modulation. Including improved alias free oscillators, new developed fast envelopes and lfo's with a wide range from 0.1Hz up to 400 Hz. A free routable envelope with attack and decay is available too. This synth is useful for a wide range of sounds from percussion to deep bass sounds.
Some features:

2 oscillators with hardsync, PW and FM (saw, pulse, triangle, sine).
1 sub oscillator (saw, rectangle).
1 noise oscillator.
18dB or 12dB non linear analog modelled low pass resonance filter.
Mono mode, including portamento.
Poly mode, up to 6 voices (not cpu optimized for poly mode).
2 free routable Lfo's (0.1Hz - 400Hz, sine, triangle, saw, rectangle, s&h, noise).
Filter and amplifier ADSR-envelope.
Free routable AD-envelope.
Mod-wheel and Pitch-Wheel support.
Midi Learn for all pots.
Velocity to filter contour intensity.
Panic button.
Tutorial and installation guide.

Tal-Elek7ro Direct Download

2. jsCompShaper - Yet another compressor, but this one has the ability to morph between soft-knee compression and waveshaping as desired. Furthermore, it provides pre-/post-emphasis filtering (similar to a side-chain filter) and a more analog-like attack than jsComp.

jsCompShaper Direct Download

Finally another song I have been working on.

Midi Controllers to speed up the production process

2012-05-29T19:17:00.001-07:00

I have spent countless hours clicking automation clips out and turning knobs to get that perfect sound for my mix. I know it's worth it but I was always looking for a way to speed up that process. I now use a Midi controller. What a midi controller will do is connect to your PC via USB and communicates with the DAW's knobs, volume sliders, so you can control it with knob's, sliders, or buttons on your controller. So now when I am working on a track I have a live instrument and the possibilities are limitless. I can quickly fade an instrument out or effect and bring a new one in to change up my sound, or I can press a button and bring in a new drum pattern. I have saved so much time and work and its fun. I mean who wants to say a mouse is my instrument. This will get you more into the creative process and you will have idea's you never even thought about.

The only Midi controllers I have laid my hands are the Korg nanoKontrol, nanokey, and nanopad. I love it and couldn't imagine making my music without them. I have to say if you are just wanting to try one out you have to get the nanoKontrol, because it's cheap very versatile. It will streamline your thought process and help you try more idea's out faster. I have found in online for $59.99, so if you are wanting to step out of the click, drag, and drop method of production check out the Korg nano series.

Here is a video of it in action so you can see how it will help your production and possibly very soon your live performances.

Hopefully that will help convince you it is well worth the money I mean that just looks fun. Anyways if you are serious about your music and want to get to get better you need to get hands on.

Here is a good place to find the Korg nanoseries

Finally I will leave you with some more links to resources.

Samples and Loops:

http://musicmoz.org/Sound_Files/Samples_and_Loops/

Beginner Guides:

A to Z of Digital Music Making Part 1

A to Z of Digital Music Making Part 2

101 Recording and Mixing Tips

101 Recording and Mixing Tips (Files)

CM guide to Monitors

One of my tracks

Opening and using midi files in FL Studio

2012-05-28T10:05:00.000-07:00

So you have now picked out a DAW (digital audio workstation) hopefully you chose FL Studio because that will be the main DAW I will be covering. If it is not of course you can still use my links to samples, flps, and midi files to help you out in another DAW.

Let's get started. To Import a midi file all you have to do is open FL Studio. Click File>Import>Midi File. Then navigate to your downloads folder or wherever you saved your midi file. It will import into your step sequencer as notes. You can play it as is but I would recommend right clicking the name of the instrument in the sequencer and replacing it with a new sound you created. Here is a link to a video to help you understand what we covered.

Okay so we got how to import midi files down hopefully that will get you headed in the right direction and give you an idea of what a real song will look like within the piano roll.

Here are a few sites with some free midi files.

Midi Resources:
-http://www.nonstop2k.com
-http://www.ifnimidi.com/
Video game Midi Resources:
-http://www.vgmusic.com/

Also here is a link to free samples:
-http://hiphopmakers.com/category/music-resources/free-samples

Here is a link to some free VST's:
http://hiphopmakers.com/category/music-resources/free-vst-music-resources

"Glitch features a pattern-based effects sequencer that takes the incoming audio, breaks it down into user-defined slices, and then applies different effects to each slice. The sounds it generates range from quite subtle to extremely bizarre, depending on how much you tweak the controls. Effects can either be programmed by hand to create specific desired patterns; chosen pseudo-randomly based on each effect’s probability level, with a user-defined seed value that optionally allows the same sequence of “random” effects to be chosen each time; or combined into a mixture of both methods to suite your own tastes."

This is one of my all time favorites use it on many many tracks.

Link to Glitch:
-http://illformed.org/plugins/glitch/

First time producer help

2012-05-27T17:15:00.000-07:00

Just starting an electronic music production help blog. I plan to provide you with resources to start producing music for free. I am going to begin posting great tutorials, free samples, midi files, and flp files to help you become a better artist. If you have any questions I will respond to your questions and do my best to help or point you in the right direction to get help. As a producer I know it is hard to find helpful free resources in such a secretive music world, so I plan to make that first step into music production a little easier with a streamlined blog dedicated to free knowledge into the electronic music scene.

First you need to pick out a DAW (digital audio workstation). I would recommend FL studio. I have produced with FL studio for about 5 years now, and haven't been let down on versatility yet.. After you download your DAW. I would recommend starting to watch video tutorials because navigating around the DAW can be confusing at first sight.

Here is a good start.

If you have any questions about picking out a DAW just post below and hopefully I can help you decide.

If you want to share your music so I can help and give you feedback join SoundCloud.

You can also add me on SoundCloud to send me messages and add me as a friend so I can get updates on your tracks! My SoundCloud