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Free NI Massive Course Drawing to Celebrate 10,000 Viewers!!

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Hey guys!

I looked at the people counter and realized that over 10,000 people have viewed this page! To celebrate this “monumental” event, I am working with ADSRsounds.com to give away a free course!

In order to enter this drawing, go ahead and like the How to Produce Electronic Music’s Facebook page! Then, post a comment stating how you got into music production! It’s really easy, and you could win a free NI Massive Masterclass Course!

Also, for extra “karma” in this drawing, post your soundcloud link too! You could get some of your songs on the How to Produce Electronic Music Soundcloud Page!

The contest ends on March 31st, so make sure to like our page and get a free NI Massive course, courtesy of ADSRsounds!

We also have a Twitter!

Here’s the rest of the social media we are on:

Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, YouTube, and StumbleUpon!

Orjan Nilsen at Cielo

Orjan Nilsen at Cielo in NYC. He is an awesome, down to earth guy. Awesome show at a great (although small) venue.

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 ProducingElectronicMusic.com is an affiliate of ADSRsounds.com. By purchasing soundpacks/tutorials through this website, producingelectronicmusic.com gets 20% of the sale! Thank you for your contribution!

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Always Save Your Music! Learn From My Mistake!

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Hey guys!

Wanted to post a very personal and very heartbreaking warning here, especially for new producers:

ALWAYS save your music in a minimum of three different places. Use external hard drives, USB sticks, another computer; basically anything that can save files from your computer. I recently had to update my computer from Windows 7 to Windows 8 (long story short, I couldn’t get internet and my computer was VERY slow) and didn’t save my files to an external hard drive. Even though it said it would save my personal files, it did NOT save my most personal files: my FL Studio projects.

Within a few minutes of downloading Windows 8, YEARS of my personal time spent making music vanished into thin air. I had recently created a song that my friend sang on and was extremely excited to show to you guys, my followers, how I created the synths and riffs I used in the song. Unfortunately, this is as finished as the song will ever be.

Here is the song in its entirety. I was originally going to remix the song and mix the vocals in, but unfortunately the file is lost and will be redone from scratch.

Here is another recent project I was working on. It was going to be a really dark psytrance track, and I was going to show you guys how to make that too, but that file is also gone as well.

I will be rebuilding my computer and music from the bottom up, which is kind of refreshing, in a weird way. I haven’t lost the skill set I need to make music, and very soon I will have the necessary tools to redo these tracks.

But, once again, I stress:

SAVE YOUR MUSIC!

Cheers!

New Sound Packs for EDM on Sale

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Today, I’d like to tell you guys about some great sound packs that are on sale at ADSRsounds.com. Tunecraft has put 6 of their packs for Massive on sale with 30% off. Tunecraft Sounds is a sound design company, supplying a wide range of 100% royalty free LEGAL downloads for Producers, Musicians, and Recording Studios.

Here are all six of the soundpacks you can download from ADSRsounds.com:

Tunecraft Psy Trance Toolkit Demo       Tunecraft Glitch Funk Toolkits

EDM Signature Series       Tunecraft Electro Dubstation For NI Massive

TuneCraft Growl Arsenal       Tunecraft Techno Essentials Vol 1 - Techno/Progressive/Trance/Minimal/House Presets For Massive

Now go out there and make some awesome music!

Cheers!

*Disclosure*

 ProducingElectronicMusic.com is an affiliate of ADSRsounds.com. By purchasing this/these soundpacks/tutorials through this website, producingelectronicmusic.com gets 20% of the sale! Thank you for your contribution!

P.S. If you have any questions at all about affiliate links, what they are, or how they are used by ProducingElectronicMusic.com, leave a comment below, or email me at: [email protected]

How To Create Growls With Sytrus in FL Studio

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Today I teach you guys how to create growls with Sytrus, a subtractive synthesizer that comes standard with FL Studio. Many producers tend to overlook the power that this synthesizer has because: 1. They think it is inferior to more popular synths like Massive, or 2. They don’t understand how it works.

I bring you through the steps to understand how Sytrus works and how to create growls comparable to Massive and other synthesizers. While the audio isn’t the best, it still covers all the basics and will create a great sound even though my audio isn’t great.

The link to the YouTube video has been posted below. Hope you learn a lot from it!

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Massive Tutorials

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Today, I would like to talk about one of my favorite synthesizers that I use when creating a project in FL Studio: Massive.

http://www.aphotoofhongkongaday.com/massive_synth/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Tut3.2.pngMassive is a wavetable synthesizer that has the ability to create huge growls and wobbles that we hear very often in dubstep and drum ‘n bass. While it is also capable of creating plucks and beautiful strings, it is the most well-known and used synth by professional producers.

I am very familiar with Massive and how the wavetable synth works, but some of you are unfamiliar with it. ADSR sounds has about 150 tutorials for Massive, and a huge collection of Massive presets. They also have a newsletter that they send out every week and have tutorials for various synths on YouTube.

Another useful tutorial I have found is on Udemy with the course “Massive Tutorial: Master NI’s ‘Massive’ in One Week.” The course is taught by Dylan Bowes, who is a great teacher and producer of EDM and is currently writing and producing pop songs for Young and Vicious Management. He takes you through all the different aspects and parts of the synth that most beginners have a hard time figuring out. Whether you’re a beginner or a professional, this tutorial is very helpful for all EDM producers.

I hope this will help you out in your musical endeavors. Now go out there and start making some awesome sounds!

Cheers!

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*Disclosure*

 ProducingElectronicMusic.com is an affiliate of ADSRsounds.com. By purchasing this/these soundpacks/tutorials through this website, producingelectronicmusic.com gets 20% of the sale! Thank you for your contribution!

P.S. If you have any questions at all about affiliate links, what they are, or how they are used by ProducingElectronicMusic.com, leave a comment below, or email me at: [email protected]

How to Mix and Master Electronic Music From Home!

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In my everlasting search for the next big breakthrough in teaching electronic music tips and tricks, I have found it.

An EDM artist by the name of Kid Zero has made a tutorial on how to mix and master your own electronic music straight from home. I have watched many tutorials, (in case you couldn’t tell), and this one is the best by far in teaching you how to mix and master songs.

While it does cost money, the mere $37 to download it is worth the money. This is nothing compared to the amount of money you might waste on new, useless plugins that won’t improve your sound, never mind the amount of time you might waste finding out everything you will learn in these few hours.

Kid Zero manages to take apart all the steps you need to do in order to create mixes that will sound good on any speaker system and the mastering tips to make your song sound club-ready.

Now before you get ahead of yourself, I do have to say that while this tutorial has many great tips and tricks for improving your sound, it is also all video with minimal text. If you are a visual learner, this video will be great for you. If you are much better at reading than learning through video, this may not be right for you. He also lays out many great concepts and shows you step by step how to create better mixes and masters. Unfortunately, this takes a lot of time (just the percussion section is over an hour long!) and he doesn’t go into much detail about how the plugins work. You must be willing to invest several hours into this tutorial in order to get the full experience (I recommend taking breaks in between each section.) The plugins, except for the CamelCrusher Distortion Plugin (which is FREE!), all cost over $100, which, in my opinion, is quite expensive for a beginning/intermediate producer. My recommendation would be to get the CamelCrusher plugin and see how well you can mix with that one recommended plugin.

This tutorial is also a little tough to pick up on if you aren’t familiar with compression and eq’ing, which is a significant part of mixing and mastering tracks.

While he does his tutorial on Ableton, you are able to use the techniques he uses on any DAW of your choosing, including my favorite, FL Studio. If people are having trouble switching between the two programs, I may make a tutorial myself of the same techniques on FL Studio.

Here is the download for the mixing and mastering tutorial!

Cheers!

*Disclosure*

 ProducingElectronicMusic.com is an affiliate of ADSRsounds.com. By purchasing this/these soundpacks/tutorials through this website, producingelectronicmusic.com gets 20% of the sale! Thank you for your contribution!

P.S. If you have any questions at all about affiliate links, what they are, or how they are used by ProducingElectronicMusic.com, leave a comment below, or email me at: [email protected]

I have been a little negligent to this blog…

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Hey guys,

I realized today that I haven’t posted on this blog in MONTHS. If you have been following me and hoping to learn more about how to produce electronic music, I am extremely sorry. I have been working on new music and learning new tips and tricks to create better mixes and even try to achieve mastering quality. Unfortunately, in this process, I neglected this blog.

So, to make it up to you, I will be creating a new post relatively soon, (possibly today!), to help you guys with starting off your songs and creating better mixes. I will try and show how to properly eq a track and how to leave enough head room for proper mixing.

Thank you for your patience, and once again, I am sorry for the delay.

Cheers,

Brad

My Progress in EDM: Then and Now

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In case you didn’t know, today is the last day of the semester. Technically, I don’t have to continue this blog, but I’ve enjoyed making this blog so much that I am continuing with my blog. I have learned a lot of information including sidechain compression, compression, mixing, and even how to make different genres of music.

Since I have been learning so much over these past few months, I decided to remix and edit a song I had made in March-April of 2012. I worked on it for the past week and am very proud to say that I have completed it. Here is the original track “Tundra” from April.

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Here is the new edited version of the same song, “Tundra,” which has been mixed down much better for a cleaner sound, sidechained to create that “bounce” feel, and newer, more professional sounds were added to give it a slightly different feel from the first track.

Now, as you may have guessed, this track wasn’t the first I ever created. In fact, I started producing “music” (or whatever it was that I made back then) over two years ago. I’m posting this first song I created on FL Studio because I know how hard it is to start out in EDM production. I can guarantee every great EDM producer started out by making music like this.

So, without further ado, I present my first song I ever created on FL studio, “Madman’s Dance.”

Enjoy!

Useful Tutorials and Tips on Creating Dubstep, Drumstep, and DnB

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In my last post, I admitted that while I listen to plenty of dubstep, drumstep, and dnb, I am not very skilled in making these types of EDM. In order to keep up and allow you to start creating your own dubstep, drumstep, and dnb, I will post links to various websites that will explain and guide you through these processes much more effectively than I could.

While it was hard trying to find videos best suited for you, I chose the best videos that I deemed fit to help teach these style in FL Studio.

Dubstep is created using wobbles and syncopated beats. An effective video to watch on dubstep production is made by howtomakeelectronicmusic.com. It shows the basics on how to create a dubstep beat that hopefully you can elaborate on.

The drumstep tutorial was especially hard to find because it is a generally new genre of EDM. One of the only good videos I could find just demonstrates how to create a drumstep beat. Hopefully later on I can find a better tutorial about this type of EDM.

DnB turned up more favorable results, with a great tutorial and tips and tricks for drum and bass. Another great tutorial on drum and bass is how to create a great piano riff to get ready for a drop in the track. The rest of KevWillow7‘s tutorials are also very helpful in getting started with production and learning tips and tricks in FL Studio.

Once I have gathered more knowledge and the skill set necessary to create my own tutorials, I will post them here. Until then, enjoy these helpful tutorials.

Cheers!

Dubstep, Drumstep, and DnB

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Dubstep

A few years ago, if you asked people about dubstep or DnB, most people would give you a raised eyebrow and think you were making up words. Now, you can hear it being referred to whenever someone makes a half-time beat.

Many people still don’t realize the difference between dubstep and “bro-step.” This small confusion causes much controversy within the EDM community and leads to all-out YouTube wars through the comments sections.

Dubstep is a type of garage music that originated in Southern London, England, during the late 1990′s. Dubstep, or 2-step garage, comprises of a drum kick on beats one and three instead of the typical four-on-the-floor beat of electronic music. It also included triplets and syncopated beats that created a different feel from the house and techno being produced in those days. Keyboards, synthesizers, guitars, and female vocals are among some of the instruments used by dubstep artists, including Distance.

Drum and bass (also known as D&B, D+B, or most commonly DnB) incorporates fast breakbeats with deep and heavy bass and sub-bass lines. Emerging from the dance clubs in the early 1990′s, this type of music is very fast, usually 160-180 bpm, and is generally harder than most other types of techno from the 1990s.

The deep and powerful basslines of this genre shake any dancefloor that you are on (if you have speakers that are capable of doing that). A very popular DnB artist, or in this case, group, is Pendulum. Some of their more recent songs have more drumstep influence than their older songs.

Drumstep is the hybrid of these two genres, incorporating the half-time dubstep kicks with the intense bass and breakbeat rythms of DnB. This subgenre of EDM is fairly new, but becoming extremely popular in clubs and dancefloors across the world.

An exceptional song of choice for drumstep is More Blast by Daenine. At the beginning of the song, you can hear the half-time beat typically used in dubstep. But, at about 3:16, the insane rhythm of breakbeat is used to build up intensity even more than the first drop.

Many people confuse drumstep with dubstep because they mistake the half-time kick as purely dubstep instead of a hybrid between dubstep and DnB. While most people don’t care about the difference, some hardcore fans will point out the differences in style, production technique, and BPM in the song.

Also, since I am not as educated in these subgenres as I am in trance, I am leaving the editing of this post up to you, the reader. If I have left out any information or put up wrong/controversial information, let me know in the comments. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Cheers!