u/twinfantasymtf

Hello! Sorry, this is my second post in a row but I'm looking for a community or a group of people who also make underground beats for sharing and feedback. Hiphop and EDM spaces aren't really helping me with improvement because I usually get very basic "fix the mixing" or "the drums aren't hitting" advice and I want to speak to some more like-minded people. If anyone knows how to do this then please let me know.

Sorry if this is the wrong place but I'm trying to make experimental cloud rap/digicore (fork found in kitchen i guess) inspired by vaporwave but every time I move from the sound design/ drums phase onto actually penning my melodies, it's always the most hickory dickory dock thing ever, they're barely catchy and either make no sense or are cohesive to a fault where it feels like there's no natural breathing room.

Do you guys who make music have any tips on how to make something more immediately ear-catching in the melody? I've tried mixing up timings and adding short accidental notes to accent my stuff but it's still not really hitting. All my best melodies seem to just be drones or gross-beat chopped autotuned crooning from myself with heavy unison (imogen heap kind of process but modernized)

I'm playing with vital, and I'm trying my best to make every synth in my music an original one. The issue is, whenever I'm looking at tutorials for subgenres I'm interested in or artists whose style I want to recreate, I'm mostly looking for how to actually SOUND like them. The issue is, almost every tutorial I can find is just "Alright so what you're gonna want to do is get a futuristic sound on serum and then make a melody by ear".

Gee, thanks. That's really gonna help me with my whitearmor inspired sound design.

I already know how to do the basic "super saw/ pad/ bass" stuff that almost every vital tutorial starts and stops at. And every other vital tutorial is basically "Here's what every button does" without actually telling me how to properly use them to create the sort of stuff I want to. Anyone know how they got better at creating synthesisers? And don't just say "try to recreate songs you like" because I DON'T KNOW HOW. I've tried.

I'm playing with vital, and I'm trying my best to make every synth in my music an original one. The issue is, whenever I'm looking at tutorials for subgenres I'm interested in or artists whose style I want to recreate, I'm mostly looking for how to actually SOUND like them. The issue is, almost every tutorial I can find is just "Alright so what you're gonna want to do is get a futuristic sound on serum and then make a melody by ear".

Gee, thanks.

I already know how to do the basic "super saw/ pad/ bass" stuff that almost every vital tutorial starts and stops at. And every other vital tutorial is basically "Here's what every button does" without actually telling me how to properly use them to create the sort of stuff I want to. Anyone know how they got better at creating synthesisers? And don't just say "try to recreate songs you like" because I DON'T KNOW HOW. I've tried.

I've been listening to bull of heaven for quite a while - 029 is one of the most powerful ambient releases I've heard yet. I do have quite a large problem with the duo and their ability to resonate with me.

This music - as hinted at by the name of the band - is for big strong virtuous men who like to fuck other people's partners. I, however, am a sinful cuckold, and as such I can't relate or connect to Bull of Heaven.