That's gonna be tomorrow's project. I need to go the bed soon, I pick up my boys and spend time with them before work on Sundays, thanks for the encouragement, I know it took a while to get my OWN music up and running but I'm finally getting there. I also made friends with an old school jungle producer from the UK named Bizzy B and he's been helping figure this shit out.
Alright, I think we are getting somewhere, I think I'm figuring this shit out, this is the beginning of a track, where should I go with this? Should I melt your face off because I got the tools to do it!
This was made buy some kid in the southern USA with a Commodore Amiga A1200, the OctaMED pro tracker and then recorded to a cassette tape two months ago. Enjoy! Tag anyone else that you'd think would dig this. AndyAmenz OctaMED Tape 20212022 720p.mp4
I keep it offline 99% of time for this reason. It's nice and quaint offline, but the hard drive trashing gets annoying. This drive is a loud one too. I'm backing up all my data in case its going out but so far its fine just noisy. Being a DnB artist I don't know why that bothers my tbh...
Oh I didnt pay money. My DJ friend is letting me use his account, I need to learn this software if I want to play live because alot of DJs use it and I might be jumping on their equipment. Still Id rather use Mixxx, its soo much better imo. They just like Serato because it can access the ((( cloud ))).
*warning, no music yet, lots of shop talk and techinical stuff
1) So yeah, all these years I've had a murky idea about how EDM production happens but I realize after learning about it all for the past month, that I could have been doing this all along, I should have started sooner.
2) There is an insane amount of free and or cheap tools out there to make this music. Right out the gate I recommend Jeskola Buzz (Windows only, use the 2022 community edition its more modernized) and or Renoise for DAWs. Jeskola Buzz is a very powerful audio engine that will basically load whatever VST2/VST3 plugin you throw at it, even ancient 32 bit ones. Renoise is $75 and is an extremely powerful and capable audio system that has Mac and Linux binaries. I'm using the Windows version the UI and sound are simple magic. One thing I love about Renoise is that the DAW is basically one giant sampler, and I love samplers.
3) I am using my Linux computer in the workflow, I use the hydrogen drum machine to compose drum loops, and the early access Linux build of Vital to create presets and research sounds by importing Serum wavetables. Vital is a wavetable synthesizer created by Matt Tytell and it's the closest thing you can get to Serum without shelling out the $180. It can create all the modern sounds we hear in our favorite EDM tracks, but vital is generally used for more grimey rave sounds, like Dubstep, Psytrance and Drum and Bass. Other good synths in my workflow are Helm, SurgeXT, Odin2 (I fucking love that thing), all open source and just as good as expensive paid plugins.
I am loving my Arturia Minilabs MK2 midi controller and I picked up a DAC and some really HQ headphones on Amazon by OneOdio, seriously a $45 pair of OneOdio phones sound just as good if not better that the classic metal Sony DJ headphones (remember those? I had a pair when I was a kid, they were $120 back in 2003.
Will post music soon, sorry no mixes, all my energy has been directed toward this. Stay tuned, big tings coming!!
Hell yeah, I'd be down, here's my first demo, it's ass but it has potential. Please listen to it with real headphones not tinny fucking smartphone speakers. crunch.wav
DnB is a very experimental sonic space, they are so many directions, your drums can take precedence, or your basslines or leads. The whole point is swinging fast breaks over warm swelling, or sharp abrupt basslines and creative samples or vocals.
I do want to venture into classic dubstep, that is an itch to scratch.