Questions tagged [electronic-music]
For questions relating to the class of electronically-synthesized music genres. Specific genres should be tagged where appropriate.
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Do electronic instruments need to be EQ'd?
Producers use EQ to shape sound generally, but I know a particularly useful feature of EQ is the ability to cut frequencies that are unwanted. For sounds that are created/designed digitally, though, ...
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Is it okay to play something off the key in a track? [duplicate]
I recently saw the guitar tabs of a For a better day by Avicii and found out that C# chord is played in the interlude though it is not a part of the F Maj key(The key of the song). I am very new to ...
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Key changing of sample
I have a vocal that is in Eb minor, I wanted to pitch it to F major. Can anybody help me on how to do it? I have Little Alterboy but it does not help me much. I tried changing the cents from the pitch ...
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Electronic music and layering of rhythms
A very common (indeed ubiquitous) technique in electronic music involves the layering of loops of different lengths on top of each other.
Consider the following DnB track:
https://www.beatport.com/...
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How do you process instrument samples to make convincing sustain phase loops for sample-based synthesis?
I'm interested in coding up something like a crude sampler (instrument). From what I've read, you can put samples of real audio into a sampler and pitch-shift them for different notes.
I want samples ...
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What is the best iOS Mobile Studio for my situation? [closed]
I am setting up a very small (mobile) studio so I can make music on my iPad. I am reading a lot about interfaces and other equipment but would like to keep it as simple as possible. So my question is, ...
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How to get this sound?
In this song, the guitar has very little transience especially on that first high note, almost like it's singing. How would you do this? I tried messing around with a compressor, but I can't seem to ...
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How to select and organize samples of electronic drum sounds?
I'm familiar with programming realistically sounding drums. Many programs include sampled real drum instruments organized in kits, such that the included drum samples sound good together. All that's ...
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Play piece using a custom waveform?
As part of a music festival, I have been asked to convert one of my piano compositions, titled "Fractal", into an electronic piece by playing around with timbres using MIDI data. Though I ...
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Music construction kit from some great mind
Quite some years ago in school, a teacher told us about a music construction kit.
The kit is a set of cards.
If you put some cards together, something musically / esthetically sound is the result.
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How can I make my vocals stand out without ducking the instrumental in my EDM drop?
I'm pretty excited about my new EDM track, but first I better figure out how to make the vocal chops in my drop stop making the instrumental sounds duck (especially the melody synth). You can really ...
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What is 22 equal temperament? [closed]
I gave this song a listen here.
This artist used 22 tone micro tonal in the time signature of 5/4.
Here are some questions that came into my mind:
How did this artist use 22 tone in his song?
What ...
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For electronic music production, are there any differences between using small synths vs big synths?
This is a newbie question by someone who is just learning to play piano.
On YouTube there are some talented musicians that play and remake famous electronic music riffs and tunes.
One group uses very ...
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Is there a format similar to MIDI that allows for hundreds of channels/instruments?
I have a soundtrack and each song has 16 channels/instruments. Nearly every song uses different instruments. For a project I'm working on, I need to have channels for every instrument used in the ...
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How can I mix vocals well, with only a single line of recording?
Basically, whenever I produce a song, I tend to record two simultaneous lines of vocals, with some distortion added. This sounds pretty good, but I really don't know how to make a single line of ...
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When To Register With Peforming Rights Organization, such as PRS or BMI?
I am a newbie freelance musician. I make music of various genres but my main work will be in ambient type music I will be uploading on my own Youtube page and Spotify.
I will also be making a range of ...
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Flattening pedal information in Midi
I've got a midi file that was recorded on a Yamaha keyboard, and I'm trying to import it into LMMS. However, as far as I can tell, LMMS ignores pedal information when importing MIDI and it sounds ...
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What exactly counts as writing for "electronics"?
What does "writing for electronics" mean? For example, when a call for scores is asking for a piece for electronics, or for another instrument and electronics, what exactly is it asking for? ...
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How can I take an mp3 recording of live musicians with a varied BPM and make it consistent throughout the song?
I want to create a mix between 2 songs but one of them is recorded with live musicians and the other is electronic music. Naturally the electronic music has a fixed BPM that doesn't change throughout ...
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How to practice unstable "wonky" beats on guitar without drums
Lately I've been getting into "wonky" music,
a subgenre of electronic music known primarily for its off-kilter or “unstable” beats, as well as its eclectic blend of genres including hip hop, ...
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Is an LFO applied to pitch the same as a modulator from an FM synth with a low frequency?
I am new to sound synthesis and the programming language (FUZE4 on the Nintendo Switch) I am using has only a frequency modulator function. The modulator as I understand in general FM synth ...
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How to create music files using Nokia ringtone notation or similar notation? [closed]
Back to 2000's old-model Nokia phones had a feature called "composer" that could create a file format called .NRT (Nokia ring tone) that played an 1-note-a-time melody.
Using simple text notation, I ...
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I have the following chord progression. But not scale exists. Is this okay?
I have the following progression (using F-minor scale): Cmajor > D# Sus2 > A# sus2 > F sus2 > D# Sus2.
Initially, the Cmajor was a Cmin...but I didn't like how it sounded or transitioned. So I ...
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Why do MIDI note off messages have velocities?
I understand why note on messages have velocities, but surely note off messages just turn them off - why do they also have a velocity?
Equally, I checked if these velocities match up to the ...
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How do you implement control change messages using the mido library?
I am trying to write a major scale using the mido python library and then apply various control changes to it so I can see what difference it makes to the sound (for example the pedal).
This is my ...
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Flume - "Helix" Drop Polyrhythmic or Not
I keep reading online that the drop to Flume’s song "Helix" is polyrhythmic; however, I am unable to hear it. Is there polyrhythm, and if so, what is the pattern?
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How to create the "wubs" in dubstep?
One of the signature sounds of dubstep is the "wub-wub-wub" sound.
How do I create this sound? I'm using Reaper as my DAW but if there's a way to create the sound with subtractive synthesis on a 3 ...
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I find it hard to understand compression
Unlike other effects, compression seems to be the hardest for me to recognize as there's no much of notable change when it's applied, so how do you determine if your drums need to be compressed or not?...
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aux line in as midi controller
I'm trying to use my keyboard as a midi controller without a midi wire. I am currently using an aux cable as my connector which only allows me to live record the instrument without being able to ...
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primary sound driver and asio4all sounds different in DAW
While ASIO4ALL significantly reduces latency and improves sound quality, many people have complained that it sounds different from their primary sound driver across several DAW's:
https://...
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What do you call it when volume is decreased at bass beats?
I've noticed that it seems popular in some electronic music genres to quickly lower the volume of the music (except the bass) right around each bass beat.
Not sure why you'd wanna do this, perhaps ...
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Making a nursery rhyme song for kids [closed]
Not sure if this is the right stack site to ask this. I have a channel for kids in a non English country. We want to make a song ourselves for a video and we need an instrumental to sing the song with....
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Given that tempo and note_on/off messages exist, what is the point of the key_signature and time_signature midi meta messages?
I am writing a midi generator using python and the mido library. I am just struggling to understand the point of the key_signature and time_signature meta messages. I have kept these in my data but if ...
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How does delta time work for different tracks within a midi file?
I am currently writing a midi generator using preexisting midi files. I'm getting confused as each midi file I download seems to be saved in a slightly different format. I particularly getting ...
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What is the 0x4b midi message?
This comes up as an undefined meta message when using the mido library.
I have got varying results from google search including a copyright message, and also one stating its a 'unknown on/off off = 0 ...
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How do I study the personal styles of other musicians? How do I tell the difference between genre and style when doing so?
I want to start a music hobby. I've dabbled in viola and piano lessons growing up, but I want to get into making music using electronic methods.
As a digital artist, I'm kind of approaching some ...
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Just bought HD650's with Scarlet 2i2 solo and it sounds too QUIET
just bought a pair of real 650's with a scarlet 2i2 solo and it sounds pretty low. I read on the internet that I'd need to amp it. But my question is, I bought an audio interface because with Daws ...
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Is there a method for studying music theory through chiptune?
is there a music course or preferably a book to learn the fundamentals of music but through chiptune and electronic music? something that makes you study, exercise and experiment through these "...
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Cubase doesn't export stereo [closed]
In my arrangement, I set panner left/right for different instrument channels. It sounds good but when I export the file, the final export wav file doesn't reflect the left/right features, it sounds ...
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How do professional electronic musicians/sound engineers combat listening fatigue?
As an amateur bedroom composer working in a DAW on my song, I might have a general idea of how something ought to sound, but through endless 'random walking through knob space' - i.e. tweaking ...
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How to self-teach synthesizing sounds by ear
I'm looking at synths these days. A subtractive-synthesis guitar pedal with the ability to create new waveforms from scratch with a couple of oscillators may be in my future, something like a BOSS SY-...
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How to check the quality of an audio sample?
I'm new to the music scenario and EDM production. With so many options of FREE samples out there, I'm wondering how to best check the quality of a sample? Bit? Khz? Wav? Are there any software that I ...
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How to sample live and loop with live musicians without a laptop?
I'm a musician in a live band that plays folkadelic music. Folkadelic music is played by bands like Kila or Shooglenifty. Instrument mix is acoustic guitar, electric guitar, fiddle, bass, drum kit ...
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Why do EDM musicians often create an intro that is 15/30/45/60/120 seconds long?
Not all tracks have intros, and usually those are extended mixes that have them (sometimes can be original mixes and remixes). However, I notice that often their intros are 15/30/45/60/120 seconds ...
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Can I produce music with code and without instruments?
I'm so curious about music, and I also tried to learn to play some instruments, but due to some personal reasons I can't continue with it. Now I'm a software developer, which is my passion, but my ...
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How to get good legato from a choir sample library?
Recently, I have bought a choir sample library from a major manufacturer. The samples themselves are top-notch, the dynamic crossfading excellent. However, I'm a bit disappointed by the quality of the ...
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Music "Theory" of Electronic Music
Technology has recently made it possible to create very unconventional sounds, which has led electronic music to go down very distinct sub-genres that have very distinct noises. As some examples, ...
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How would you make this soft strings sound using another synthesizer?
I would like to recreate this sound:
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It is a string sound from the Dave Smith OB6 (which I do not have).
Can anyone tell me which oscillators are used, and how to ...
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Getting back to music. How to play live?
I have quite some problem. I played music for many years. I played guitar, bass, keyboards and even some other uncommon instruments such as Galician bagpipe, tambura, kultrum, industrial percussion (...
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"Break" vs "Breakdown" meaning (EDM)
when referring to electronic dance music structure, is there any difference between the terms "break" and "breakdown"?
A breakdown for sure is that section where kick/main bass are muted and the song ...
