KVR Audio

Gone soft · Post by **Gone soft** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 3:47 am

For analyzing frequency content and also the relationship between the frequencies on several channels in your DAW I recommend MMultiAnalyzer from Meldaproduction. It's even 50 % off this week.

I find being able to see how different tracks correlate to each other frequencywise can be highly helpful. You'll easily find tutorials for it on YouTube. You may want to wait and see of others agree or if someone would rather recommend some other plugin for this purpose. I'll leave oscilloscope recommendations to someone else, I generally only use oscilloscopes if a synth has one built in somehow.

Tricky-Loops · Post by **Tricky-Loops** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 3:54 am

Great Analyzers:

Voxengo SPAN (Pro)
Blue Cat Audio FreqAnalyzer
Meldaproduction M(Multi)Analyzer

Nice free oscilloscope:

http://bram.smartelectronix.com/plugins.php?id=4

But don't forget to use your most important plugin: your ears!

bailees7irish · Post by **bailees7irish** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 4:09 am

Wow...

This kid called it. This thread is full of ornery old men who are miserable with their lives... Jeezus, KVR never changes does it?
I'll admit that this Yotta2r didn't make the greatest impression coming in here, but neither did the rest of you. Calling him an idiot? You can tell that he's an idiot after a couple posts? Well if that's the case, then I guess it comes as no surprise that I can tell you're an ignorant asshole after just one.
Seriously people: get laid. Or get better yet: get bent.

V0RT3X · Post by **V0RT3X** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 4:10 am

Practice practice practice.

Make a ton of shit songs.

Share shit songs and get feedback and listen to what some people say. If the people don't give constructive criticism then tell them to get f**ked. *Edit* actually probably not a good idea to make too many enemies in the industry..

Learn techniques from any kind of tutorial you can find and again.. practice..

Mushy Mushy · Post by **Mushy Mushy** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 4:23 am

bailees7irish wrote:Wow...
This kid called it. This thread is full of ornery old men who are miserable with their lives... Jeezus, KVR never changes does it?
I'll admit that this Yotta2r didn't make the greatest impression coming in here, but neither did the rest of you. Calling him an idiot? You can tell that he's an idiot after a couple posts? Well if that's the case, then I guess it comes as no surprise that I can tell you're an ignorant asshole after just one.
Seriously people: get laid. Or get better yet: get bent.

FWIW I did apologise to him and realise I did jump to conclusions early.

I am happy he's on the right path now.

Mivo · Post by **Mivo** » Mon Aug 11, 2014 12:27 pm

Yotta2r wrote:
Sendy wrote: Grab a good suite of signal analyzers: an oscilloscope and a spectrograph.
Do you recommend anything for windows?

Since you're using FL Studio: FLS comes with a spectrograph called Fruity Spectroman. It also has an oscilloscope, which is part of Wave Candy.

May help to use these for now instead of downloading more stuff.

Samplecraze · Post by **Samplecraze** » Wed Aug 20, 2014 9:34 am

One day with a decent engineer and you'll gain so much.

I teach audio production and write books and magazine articles and I can honestly say that the 1-2-1 approach yields enormous results as opposed to some online course.
My last student, who took one class every week for 3 years, is now signed to Steve Mac. My current student is also learning EDM and he already knows more, in the first year, than the entire course he sat at.......It's the same as mastering: if you want to learn then sit with an ME for a day.

Apart from that, learn the fundamental principles in our industry an d practice till you drop.

Touch The Universe · Post by **Touch The Universe** » Wed Aug 20, 2014 9:35 am

Learn piano as kid then learn music theory as teenager, basically have playing melodies hardwired in your brain and hands then get into synthesizers. Well it seems alot of my favorite artist are this way.

SoundDigest · Post by **SoundDigest** » Mon Aug 25, 2014 11:53 pm

Everything will be easier if you learn piano imo.

AstralExistence · Post by **AstralExistence** » Tue Aug 26, 2014 12:44 am

just do it. nike knows best.

christie89 · Post by **christie89** » Fri Aug 29, 2014 2:39 pm

There are so many tutorial now. Some free ones on Youtube mention already are very good. But YouTube can be hit and miss with quality. I recommend them, but also you can find good videos on AskVideo. The new EAR series is very cool. The Miro Pajnic and Deepchild tutorials on producing Electronic music are solid. Both use Ableton.

RunBeerRun · Post by **RunBeerRun** » Fri Aug 29, 2014 3:05 pm

I would only use tutorials for how to play and theory, other stuff is audio taste. Learn to grow ears that hear and eyes that see. Don't do as done before.

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Fri Aug 29, 2014 3:32 pm

RunBeerRun wrote:I would only use tutorials for how to play and theory, other stuff is audio taste. Learn to grow ears that hear and eyes that see. Don't do as done before.

I would do exactly the other way round.
Learn music theory (and synthesis theory) from books made by people who actually know stuff. Watch video tutorials for ready sounds programmed in real time, techniques and inspirations.

Synchanter · Post by **Synchanter** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 10:57 pm

Syntorial and DIVA are an amazing way to start.

DIVA has a built-in oscilloscope to see the waveforms.
Not to mention sounding so beautiful that it is a keeper for long-term.

Syntorial is a very intuitive way to learn subtractive synthesis basics, but won't go beyond that.

neptunes_ruby · Post by **neptunes_ruby** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 10:24 am

I started producing by watching YouTube tutorials, and reading/lurking on forums. Lots of YT channels have organized playlists of videos dedicated to one topic.

Donkey