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Sunk - I got a theme for you though, and this is in relation to that sound design pipeline thread that you started.

That song that you turned in a few weeks ago, that jazz song... take that song, render out the busses with final processing, like the drum buss, guitar buss, bass buss, whatever, and then make a beat with those pieces. That is one of my sound design techniques. Build a an entire song, mix it, master it, render it down to audio, then build a song out of the pieces.

You build two songs. The first is kind of like an ordinary regular song with somewhat regular instruments, that goes through dynamics reduction and eq compromises, saturation, the full mastering thing, and then gets reinvigorated through being chopped and reworked. You can look at it like resampleing, or remixing, I look at it like hiphop. It is a hip hop process.

@Bud: yeah i said 7 minutes as an arbitrary number, just meant that you should deffo make it longer

BudSpencertron wrote: @defaultuzr
theres a idm song which the bassline reminds me of a basically plenty so yeah i love it haha i am not sure about some fx sounds maybe lowpass some or filter them abit?
melody is ace ♥ bit like isan even yeah i think this bass reminds me of isans basses you know cathart stuff like this has a strong idm feel to me personally could work in a film
bit of international pony haha just things going through my head but yeah reminds me of old good music times so just check those fxs but ♥

thanks for the feedback mayne, what do you mean by fx though? do you mean the rolling cymbals sound (around 1:31 for example), or the repetitive bleepy sound (the one solo'ed around 1:05) or possibly something else?

also, i have a confession to make, it's not the first time you mention "isan" in the thread, had no idea this was the name of an electronic music act, up until now i somehow thought it was the word "n a z i" gone thru the word filter, wondering if by izan techno you just meant german techno

haha, me too, sorta. I knew it wasn't that, but it was an amusing parallel path of thought.

Yeah that resampling concept is cool, I've considered doing that before. I kind of already do that internally in a project but I haven't tried it with a completely finished set of stems. Then again, that track isn't really finished either so I still wouldn't be doing that

I found an Ableton Push emulator script for my launchpad. Might get busy on that. Take a few bars of audio, slice to midi, and then trigger from the launchpad. Non-linear editing for the win.

dfaultuzr wrote: also, i have a confession to make, it's not the first time you mention "isan" in the thread, had no idea this was the name of an electronic music act, up until now i somehow thought it was the word "n a z i" gone thru the word filter, wondering if by izan techno you just meant german techno

hah :3 nono just isan haha
i try to check your tune again later but i think its one of the two fx mentioned above

ok its the one right at the drop 0.56 not feeling it totally maybe an octave lower or sth

this does not deserve a thread, and since we don't really have a "random production questions" thread in the production section, i thought i'd ask you guys cause i trust your opinions.

i've got a bunch of large wavs i wanna convert to 320s. I don't really want to download a converter for a few reasons. one, my laptop is pushing 3-4 years old & im slowly but surely getting low on space, so if i can get the job done without downloading an application, i'd rather do it that way. also, i think this way might be more convenient --> http://audio.online-convert.com/convert-to-mp3

My only question is this - do you think this will actually yield real/good quality 320s? Like, is there any reason to believe that the resultant file will 'appear' to be a 320, but will not have the actual quality of a 320? Is there anything obvious that I might be missing?

Don't you have a DAW?

Ableton on mac only exports as wav or aiff.

I know, I'm just giving it to you. That a daw can't render mp3's in this day and age.

I'd recommend Switch, is a pretty dope converter, and free, alas, you're on mac, and your own.


This really is a production question, just ask this in production. There is like one new thread a week up there. Used to be easily 10 a day.

I know prod sucks these days but I feel like it's such a dumb question cause no one else has this problem.

As I said a website would be much easier and preferred compared to downloading yet another application for me. I have way too many apps, i like to keep things minimal.

Yeah, but you need to be able to make mp3's dude. Seems like a pretty vital need, vital enough to warrant a freeware dl.

Just search production, I've seen this question come up before. If you can't dig it up, just freaking make the thread. You'll get love.

I know of multiple applications that can convert wavs to mp3s. That's not the hard part. I would prefer to use a website such as http://audio.online-convert.com/convert-to-mp3. I'm jw for the tech heads if this is a decent way to do it that will yield a true 320. Because we all know if uploaded a shitty 128 kbps and said convert to 320z!!!!, that the resultant file would say "320 kbps" but common sense tells us it's obviously not a 320.

so my question is - is this a viable way to convert wavs to 320s?

Who knows dude? I still don't know what you're up to... you want to upload heavy wavs to download mp3's of unknown quality, but don't want to dl a 5mb application... I don't know dude, Maybe a TUNA!er can help you, or ask production. Shit, ask the website? Does the website get a license to use and copy the mp3. I'd bet 99/100 they do.

@dubunked, why not use audacity ?

the one right at the drop 0.56 not feeling it totally maybe an octave lower or sth

if we're talking about the same thing, i actually did put it an octave higher because the sample source was too recognizable

if you're on mac you must surely have itunes?

yeah audacity easiest and savest for me

haha i dunno if we talk about the same one lol but yeah maybe than play around with a filter or sth ?! i dunno its just a minor little sound

I do not have audacity and as I said I have too many applications as it is right now, I'd prefer not to download more unless I really have to.

johney wrote:if you're on mac you must surely have itunes?

Yep I've got itunes. The only way that I'm aware of for converting wavs to mp3 320s through itunes is to burn them to a CD and then re-import them into itunes with the import settings being 320 kbps mp3.

Do you know another way? Cause that way is too wasteful of CDs imo. Plus some of my wavs might not even fit on a CD.

dubunked wrote:I do not have audacity and as I said I have too many applications as it is right now, I'd prefer not to download more unless I really have to.

johney wrote:if you're on mac you must surely have itunes?

Yep I've got itunes. The only way that I'm aware of for converting wavs to mp3 320s through itunes is to burn them to a CD and then re-import them into itunes with the import settings being 320 kbps mp3.

Do you know another way? Cause that way is too wasteful of CDs imo. Plus some of my wavs might not even fit on a CD.

Itunes>Preferences>Generel>ImportSettings>set to mp3 encoder then when you see ur wav traks on itunes right click n it should say converto to mp3