“When it comes to sketching out melodies, do you have a general criteria for avoiding over-complicating melodies? Is simpler melody almost always better with progressive tunes?”
Honestly… I don’t really think about it all that much. More of an intuition thing really. I usually just play stuff by ear and thats about as complicated as the process gets for me.
“As for sample diving, especially for things like transition FX or drum loops, what makes one sample really better than another?”
Nothing really… again just taste and intuition. Something I try not to over analyze.
“With enough time and processing, can’t you get just about any drum sample to sound decent in a mix?”
Sure… to a point, but you’d be wasting your time when you could just find the right sample to begin with.
Great tune and tutorial. Thanks so much. I’m learning the Trance genre and this is excellent to get me oriented. I’m using Ableton but able to make the conversion with no problems. Can you point me to where you got the Sylenth patch “Flower Power?” Thanks again!
this stuff is gold im a fan of nates alias protoculture these videos have really been very informative so just wanted to say thank you to all involved in the production of the courses.
in mixdown part 1 (20:54) you are changing setting on mixer delay are you only delaying the signal in the left speaker and not the right is this so all your sounds dont hit at the same time and prevent frequency clashing
Micro delays on a single channel like that are called a ‘Haas’ effect. It’s a psycho acoustic effect… the delay is small enough to not hear it actually delay, but since the right signal techincally hits your ears slightly earlier, it gives you the perception of something being much wider than it is. Anytime the left and right channel in a stereo set up have different signals, you’ll get a strereo widening effect.
Dear Protoculture, thank you for this another great video! I have a question regarding the sample you used from the Radioactive Soundtrack, or a more general question about that: I am always unsure about using samples which are owned by other third partys. Can you give me some tipps on this to get not into law issues?
Thank you very much!
Best, Christian
Hi, i have another question regarding the sound FX from “VPS Avenger”, the patch named “AR Toxic”. in the Tutorial 08 - Transition FX Part 1 at 12:46 time. Can you tell me which Xpansion pack of Avenger this is from? Or maybe can you tell me how to make such a sound (not the arpeggio but the riser). This is a typically common sound used in trance and i just can’t figure out how to get it.
Any help is appreciated!
Thank you so much !
I have learned a lot from your videos.
