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[ChromaticChaosPony]

Lol. Who uses VSTs and doesn't make dubstep with them? <--not serious
I make all my shiz in Reason. Dat software's great. May switch over to ableton because of small advantages (mainly the spectrum analyzer, esp combined with the EQ), but I'm very happy with Reason's sequencer, you don't have to make a whole new pattern for every edit (unless I'm stupid and have been using FL wrong).

But back on the subject of house:
I've got my intro chords done, now need to work on the chorus chords. Also, my solution to kicks is to sample. I sampled my first from Bratkilla's 'A Message To The Governments' (I think you would like his music Chromatic). For my chorus I'm using a heavily edited Vengeance Essential Clubsounds 4 kick. First clap is from Vengeance Clubsounds 3, and my snare is sampled from a Downlink song (IDK which one, Colortwelve did the sampling of this one). I also have a hat from VEC4, another from a Prime Loops pack, and another from Subshot's dubstep pack. I'm not using a crash but my reverse crash is from VEC3. I'm also thinking of using a modified 808 snare for a kind of bridge.

So yeah, that's my beat.

I never sample from other songs. I perfer to use a dry sample and process it myself. I don't have a problem with people sampling from other songs, but I hate the resulting quality. I noticed that on half of C12's samples from other songs, there was still background noise from the original songs in them. Especially the Downlink kick. I love it to death, but no amount of EQing or phase cancellation can remove the noise completely. I didn't even notice it until I used my mixing headphones. When I noticed it, I was embarrassed at myself for using it in my all my songs up until that point. So I can't bring myself to sample stuff from other musicians anymore.

Not to mention, processing dry samples is fun. It makes me feel better about my sound design.

[Gray Ham]

20th of December. That's probably more than enough time. Hooyay!

[Nine Volt]

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[Freewave]

likely won't work for a square cover but i still like it, lol..

Any idea of an event name yet?

[ChromaticChaosPony]

likely won't work for a square cover but i still like it, lol..

Any idea of an event name yet?

That looks really good. Problem is that it isn't large enough or in a high enough resolution for album quality artwork. The best you could do is ask the original artist for a much larger copy of it, or find someone who can revector it (sadly I'm not that good at it). Copying all of the gradients in the original to look exactly like the original picture would require someone with at least a year of experience. So just try to contact the original artist.

[ChromaticChaosPony]

You should all definitely look into using a saturator on kick drums. It might not work for all styles, but it adds a lot of punchiness and depth to the kick drum, and gives it that professional touch (depending on the genre). It's definitely worth a try.

[colortwelve]

I never sample from other songs. I prefer to use a dry sample and process it myself. I don't have a problem with people sampling from other songs, but I hate the resulting quality. I noticed that on half of C12's samples from other songs, there was still background noise from the original songs in them. Especially the Downlink kick. I love it to death, but no amount of EQing or phase cancellation can remove the noise completely.

That's why I'm glad that FL has a fader for sample channels. That and a little reverb, and you're good to go!

But I do use a dry kick now. I mostly use the samples I've gathered for the snares, and even then, only a few of them

[Acrylia]

definitely doing this!

[Sonarch]

Still deciding, but I may have a melody figured out now. Yay progress!

[Freewave]

likely won't work for a square cover but i still like it, lol..

Any idea of an event name yet?

That looks really good. Problem is that it isn't large enough or in a high enough resolution for album quality artwork. The best you could do is ask the original artist for a much larger copy of it, or find someone who can revector it (sadly I'm not that good at it). Copying all of the gradients in the original to look exactly like the original picture would require someone with at least a year of experience. So just try to contact the original artist.

Well it was very shrunk in that embed and yes we can contact the original artist to see if they have the original project file to adjust. moving pon-3 to the right wouldnt take a load off the dropping. I'd rather the original artist be able to perform that and it would look flawless but it wouldn't be impossible for us to fix (clone tool). We could even have a large title above or below tacked on to square the overall cover image.

[Captain Ironhelm]

http://soundcloud.com/captain-ironehelm/retrohouse

have some house. bpm is 130.
Because I have no time atm.

[Matthew N.]

http://soundcloud.com/captain-ironehelm/retrohouse

have some house. bpm is 130.
Because I have no time atm.

Good excuse, sir. That always works no matter what.

[Nine Volt]

http://soundcloud.com/captain-ironehelm/retrohouse

have some house. bpm is 130.
Because I have no time atm.

Not sure if serious

[Captain Ironhelm]

apologies, was just messing around because I miss producing.

Ignore me, and back to the topic!

[Nine Volt]

It's all good bruh. No need to apologize.

So yeah, house music.

[Matthew N.]

apologies, was just messing around because I miss producing.

Ignore me, and back to the topic!

Hmm, my smileys were/are missing from the post. Uhhh, what the hay?

[Nine Volt]

http://soundcloud.com/nine-volt/wip-lavender-town-nine-volt

Unfinished house remix. Whatchoo guys think?

[DXsmiley]

*snip*

Unfinished house remix. Whatchoo guys think?

It's an improvement on the original, but I dislike the tune. There's not much you can do about that though.

[Nine Volt]

Fair enough, not everyone's gonna like the same stuff.

[Sonarch]

I really like it! It's still got the unsettling qualities that make the Lavender Town theme what it is, and at the same time it works really nicely as a house track.

[Nine Volt]

Thanks!
But anyway, have any of you guys started your tracks?

[DXsmiley]

I've attempted to.

Here's what I've got so far:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45467416/hydrogen.mp3
It's completely unmastered and not very house-like. I don't think I'll continue with this Idea (unless you guys really want me to).

And this is some un-released music that I composed a while ago that I'll submit if I get really desperate:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45467416/pulse.mp3

[Nikki-Layne]

Thanks!
But anyway, have any of you guys started your tracks?

I've strarted mine! French House FTW!

[Matthew N.]

http://soundcloud.com/nine-volt/wip-lavender-town-nine-volt

Unfinished house remix. Whatchoo guys think?

Very minimalistic. Basically the same thing over the entire period of time with no drum/sound variety. Needs a ton of work.

But anyway, have any of you guys started your tracks?

No. Got 2 much more important projects at the moment.

[ChromaticChaosPony]

I made some house plucks and chords. Just thought that my electro house could use a little prog house elements.