Hi, since I got FL Studio for my birthday a couple of months ago I have made a couple of songs. But this is my first dnb try-out.
I only have 50 seconds of the song yet. And there is no bass in it because I don't have any good VST's that create a nice bass.
However I spend a couple of days on the break beat in it. And I think that it's ok.
The beat was made by slicing up the "amen break" , then rearranging it and speeding it up to 168 bpm. So it's a completely new break but with samples from the most famous break ever.
The synths are made by Sytrus and the effects are from FL Studio itself.
Is this worth finishing ? And is it any good? I spend a lot of times on the beat in it. What do you think of it ? Does this classify as dnb or only as "break beat" ?
This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by Jason.Smith: 27-08-2010 12:32.
I'm only a newbie here and have yet to master FL Studio which I only bought a week or so ago, so my opinion may not count for much, but I certainly don't think there's anything wrong with the DnB track you uploaded.
I wish I could get my head around the program.
Would you like us to get together virtually with a view to collaborating on one or two tracks, I have ideas, just ain't got a clue how to do it in FL Studio - Yet...
first of all welcome to drumnbass.be,
welcome to the world of producing,
welcome to the internet,
welcome to the world of MP3 and not wav's xD
Please next time, export or encode to MP3;
As for the content of the wav:
I like quite a few things in it, and dislike a few things about it.
What I dislike, is that it doesn't hang together very well, it's like different parts you found placed after one another. That's something pretty much everyone has in the beginning, but try to start from perhaps one pattern, one riff, and build onto that, progress from there rather than looking for new riffs that stand on their own, but not together.
I like what happens at 0:04-0:05, the sound gets kind of sucked into the background, very nice effect. The phasing in the beginning should be tuned down quite a bit, it's too much. The piano at 0:32 is lovely, absolutely!
I don't know if you programmed all the synths yourself, but they sound pretty neat I think.
I think you've managed to put together nice riffs and sounds, perhaps the click in the attack part of the synth at the end should be decreased a little?
Good job, I like your style! As for your question: Yes, what you have is worth continuing work on, definitely. But when your ideas dry up and you are still learning lots of things, it's sometimes better to make many unfinished tunes so you try out lots of new things and get to use everything a bit. If you don't have any musical background, making many different things will train your musical insight nicely too.
After all, when some day you browse through your library of unfinished projects and snippets, you might get immediate inspiration on how to continue the track. For me, that's often how it goes. I have quite some unfinished projects with potential, but potential as in "I have a good riff or two". If you don't know where to go from there, try out some things, if it doesn't work, you can't force it either. One day you'll open it up and the next few bars will flow out naturally.
your first track? wowa impressed for sure, sounds really cool, had loads of potential init.
add a nice heavy sub bass (simple sine wave on lower octaves)
and start eperimenting.
really pay attention to the build up of songs u listen too.
you learn alot by listening closely to the music it self.
