Production Confessions Confidential

[Geey]

What the fuck is an envelope

[Electric_Head]

This is a good explanation of an envelope.

Envelopes are the key to the articulation of your sound. Without them your patch will immediately start off at full blast, and stay there, and then disappear all of a sudden when you let go of the key. Envelopes, although difficult to understand at first allow you to change that, so you can create expressive and dynamic sounds with your synthesizer.

The standard envelope is in 4 main stages, described below:

Attack – the sound rising up to its maximum level. If it’s set to nothing, the sound plays at full blast straight away, whereas if you set it quite high then the sound gradually fades (good for string sounds).
Decay – this is how long the sound stays at the level the attack brings it up to. If it’s set as high as it will go, it will stay at the maximum level forever (rendering the sustain stage useless).
Sustain – this is the level that the sound stays at after the decay stage has passed. Some synthesizers also have a dedicated ‘sustain time’ setting, which decays the sustain stage after an adjustable amount of time too.
Release – a bit like reverb at the end of your sound – it is how long the sustain level takes to die down to silence. Set the release to nothing and you won’t get that effect – it will be instant.

[swerver]

I smoke far too much cheese, go off on a tangent and never finish anything.

[billybuxton]

Iv spent the last 2 years making Massive patches and playing with vengeance samples

Iv finally seen the light and i don't use either anymore

[chekov]

i don't use massive

don't even know how to import vsts into ableton lol

[bkwsk]

I still don't have a proper and fixed workflow when creating, I just let myself go and sometimes lose complete days of work because of doing things in the wrong order.

[5415]

All my non-free production software is pirated, which I'm not too proud of,

i don't use massive

but mainly because of the bug james blake talks about in this thread.

Also, I'm rubbish at mastering and mixing down tunes.

[Aufnahmewindwuschel]

i have no fucking clue why i produce in a genre i never really listened to

[lloydy]

Fuck eqing,its for pussy's(or the fact i have never really been able to do it proper)

[skimpi]

After being abandoned by my parents, I ended up killing my father and having sex with my mother.

Howd you do that if they abandond you m8?

[rockonin]

After the mixdown i T-Bag by computer for extra saturation

[bkwsk]

i have no fucking clue why i produce in a genre i never really listened to

so much this

[alphacat]

Been recording/producing in some form for like 20 years now and only really figured out bussing about 3 years ago.

[kreutzbube]

i spend hours tweaking a sound just to decide that it's shit and dump it.

when i get to a loop that is really cool, i get very euphoric about making the tune. during the next three days, when i tweak and hear it over and over again i get increasingly sick of it until i hate it and think its a piece of shit.

[Aufnahmewindwuschel]

i spend hours tweaking a sound just to decide that it's shit and dump it.

when i get to a loop that is really cool, i get very euphoric about making the tune. during the next three days, when i tweak and hear it over and over again i get increasingly sick of it until i hate it and think its a piece of shit.

never give up sth you hate in the moment

[cryptical]

i dont give a shit about mixing or masterin L[]L

[blinx]

sometimes i tune my saws instead of detuning my saws.....

[Lucifa]

i spend more time basking in the sound of previously made synths then i do actually making music

[Lucifa]

that post doesnt sound grammatically correct but i cant work out why

[bibbyj]

Despite having a huge record collection, I've never attempted to do any sampling, as I don't understand how to go about it