my freshly shaven nutsack has more hair than your head

i've spent an accumulative, estimated 24 hours playing with various drum machines and hardware synths in the last year. and probably no more than the same again in the last 10 years with a DAW.

JDXI was the first time playing a keyboard. i don't take it seriously... i do it for fun (don't know about you)

the real sad thing is if you are taking this seriously, thinking there is some sort of future in this beyond having fun. there isn't... where has the last decade of toying with DAWs and VSTs gotten you? exactly.

where are my critiques anyhow?

JDXI is a great little groovebox/synth keyboard.

Last edited by rubez on Apr-14-2016 at 21:56

Sounds like 1993.

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery Sounds like 1993.

perfect

pretty much the downfall of the entire trance genre is down to advances in technology - the insatiable need to use it, and for the others to conform. everything needs to sound "tight" and "clean". it sucks the soul right out of the music.

it's like a women who over-preens herself. just stop already. you looked good, now you look like a circus freak.

of course, my tracks sound like this on purpose

Okay then.

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I will do 1 hours Melbourne shuffle dance practice this year and then post a video of my efforts for feedback..., such a huge sacrifice on my part has to be worthy of peoples attention

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cit. "Back then people danced to a dj set. Nowdays they are recording it with their smart phones."

why wouldn't it be?

to say something sounds like 2016 trance is the absolute worst possible thing you could say about a track.

it has never sounded shitter than it does right now - and that trend seems to be going in only one way. it isn't even the music per se, it's the so called production values.

i'd like to hear some modern trance unmolested, before it was sent through all these compression and mastering techniques. even the simple process of changing out the kick - a two second job - to something more natural could improve some tracks no end.

i believe modern trance tracks would actually sound a lot better 'unfinished'. producers today need to take a step backwards and realise why their music sounds so crap... why there has been NO classics in the past ten years - and why the ten years prior were jam packed with them. even melody master ferry corsten has failed to produce anything that inspires. his last track of worth was pulse - festival, whenever that was!

All I see is a bunch of loops and no tracks. You want us to critique your loops? One of them sounds OK, but I don't see the purpose of creating a thread dedicated to loops. That's what the WIP thread is for.

I also create music "just for fun," but I don't post every loop and pattern I'd just created. It seems like you're just seeking attention at this point, rather than honest feedback.

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Originally posted by rubez to say something sounds like 2016 trance is the absolute worst possible thing you could say about a track. it has never sounded shitter than it does right now - and that trend seems to be going in only one way. it isn't even the music per se, it's the so called production values. i'd like to hear some modern trance unmolested, before it was sent through all these compression and mastering techniques. even the simple process of changing out the kick - a two second job - to something more natural could improve some tracks no end. i believe modern trance tracks would actually sound a lot better 'unfinished'. producers today need to take a step backwards and realise why their music sounds so crap... why there has been NO classics in the past ten years - and why the ten years prior were jam packed with them. even melody master ferry corsten has failed to produce anything that inspires. his last track of worth was pulse - festival, whenever that was!

Except what you're doing sounds more like techno, and there's plenty of good techno being put out nowadays.

It's not "attention". It's the overexcitement of a virgin girl who got its first dick. "yeaaaah, look, i produced something".

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cit. "Back then people danced to a dj set. Nowdays they are recording it with their smart phones."

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Originally posted by rubez when i get to the stage of releasing, every track going out will be perfect

Crica 2007

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Originally posted by rubez i am looking for more experienced producers to critique this - on what is there, what is not, and where to go next.

Where to go next? Finish a damned track. It's not hard. As soon as I bought some hardware, I wouldn't stop working on a loop/pattern(s) until I finished a track with it. It's simple. But you have to put in the time and effort.

Note: no track will ever be perfect. There's no such thing. If it's perfect, it'll probably sound bland and tasteless. Is art perfect? If so, it is only because of its imperfections. So just try the best you can, and if you are somewhat satisfied with it, finish it. Then move on to the next one. The more you do this, the easier it'll become. Less thinking, more doing.

Many producers can finish tracks within a couple of hours or less (it's usually a "live" one-shot, as they call it). Many classics were produced like this. When you have some programmed patterns, try mixing them around, with various synth patterns, and see if anything sticks. It often will.

What is there: some basic loops, maybe a motif or two at best.

What is not there: a concrete musical idea, a vision, anything musically interesting.

Where to go next: the drawing board.

As just about everybody else here has already mentioned, there's nothing here to critique. It's the equivalent of asking people to critique your painting of a landscape immediately after you painted your first brush stroke.

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