Music creation, music engineering....?

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Posted by twilightki on Jul-08-2009 04:04:

Music creation, music engineering....?

What's it called when you're using something like FL Studio, and you use VST or something and instead of presets you make your own sounds. Is there a certain name for this? I have a lot of trouble with it and wanted to google some answers for tips....but I don't know what its called.

If anyone could tell me it'd be a great help cause I hate using presets, I feel like I'm cheating.

Posted by atxbigballer1 on Jul-08-2009 04:22:

I guess its called Synthesis Sound Design !

Posted by coroknight on Jul-08-2009 04:31:

The force is strong with this one

Posted by coroknight on Jul-08-2009 04:34:

Also, wrong forum.

Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on Jul-08-2009 19:46:

Synth programming or sound design.

Posted by Nemesis44 on Jul-10-2009 11:52:

Re: Music creation, music engineering....?

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Originally posted by twilightki
What's it called when you're using something like FL Studio, and you use VST or something and instead of presets you make your own sounds. Is there a certain name for this? I have a lot of trouble with it and wanted to google some answers for tips....but I don't know what its called.

If anyone could tell me it'd be a great help cause I hate using presets, I feel like I'm cheating.

Dude, nothing wrong in using presets, it's what you do with them that counts.
A good producer can take really mundane sounds and turn them into gold.

You have lots of different ways of doing this though.

The thing you are talking about is Synth programming or Sound design. But a lot has to be said for taking sounds and layering them, as layering it a powerful tool to look into.

Before you get into full on sound design, learn to look through your sound banks and start to try and modify presets to what you are looking for. Tweak Res, Filters and play with envelopes.

Learn your effects, a well applied delay can make a standard bassline kick off and really start to roll. Learn to use reverb to add sound scapes.
You can find that simple things like this can take away the preset qualities of a patch and can really bring a track to life.

A thing that a log of people do when they first start out is go for the more dramatic sounding patches that don't always work well in tracks and are so obvious to that synth that it reeks of preset. Go for some of the less obvious sounds and tweak the hell out of them. Much more fun.
All this will in turn lead naturally onto sound design and will give you a solid production skill base to stand on before taking on sound design.

Cheers
Nem