r/trapproduction

As the title says (or asks rather).

Let's see where we can all help one another out.

I was listening to control by puresnow produced by varg and I was wondering. Currently I’ve been using waveshaper on fl, but it doesn’t get the distortion quite how I want it.

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Yeah i was communicating with kb @ samples.kb6 asking him how to donate so i could get access to the hidden drum kits. well, he stopped responding after I donate and I never got access to what I paid for. Don't be me.

check out his last couple of ig reel posts. him riffing the keys is insane ngl, his sounds are timeless af and have a nice vibe to it. I think he’s playing the organ mostly im still newer and can’t really tell

how do you guys feel about his stuff?

I’m studying 808s even after learning more they still feel like one of the hardest parts of production to comprehensively understand. Maybe it’s because 808s don’t feel like normal instruments to me. They feel half musical and technical. I can make them work, but they still feel weird every time I try to really understand them.

What song has one of your faveorite 808s, and why does it work so well?

It could be the tone, slide, distortion, rhythm, mix, or how it sits with the kick.

If you have any videos, synth tips, or methods for making 808s in Serum, Vital, Sytrus, flex, 3xosc, or another synth, drop them too.

I love ULTRA VIOLET - Thouxanbanfauni, produced by Black Mayo.

Kinda feels sub heavy, has a softer attack, holds long enough to fill, and is saturated without sounding destroyed. It also sounds well on every system I've played it on, especially cheap speakers. It's kind of cheating because the beat is already one of my favorites without the 808.

For Vital to sound similar to that song specifically, I would start with a sine wave or triangle wave, pitch it to the sub range, add short pitch envelope for the knock, keep the attack slightly soft, use longer sustain/release, then add light saturation or distortion after the oscillation. Personally I like the triangle waves more, yet I believe that is a sine wave used in the song.

I dream of ai program that picks out 808s for my beats

I know how they mix they're beats and all of that but theres a certain distortion that i cant make on my fl. I use fl 11 with circular panning law off, mids and highs boosted on the master and using asio4all which are the same exact ""settings"" they use because i've seen they're fl studio projects and when they show they're screens in ig live for hours (they dont use a soft clipper either a limiter, the clipping is already into asio4all). You can really hear this distortion, normally on the hihat rolls, on "P***y Talk" by City Girls intro, "Yes Indeed" by Drake and Lil Baby, "That Boy" by G herbo (sometimes in the rim and snare during certain parts of the song), "Power Puff" by Southside & "Charge Dem Ho** A Fee" at 1:03 - 1:05, and specially on the hihats in "Road Rage" by Young Thug. I know it isn't any external plugin, so if you know what im talking about just let me know how to make that ""distortion""

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As the title says, what songs do you play to test monitors, specifically to test low-end? I just bought a pair of open-back headphones for studio use and I'm trying to familiarize myself with the sound profile. Personally I like to play a lot of Travis Scott because his music is very sonically dense and some of the 808s he uses are pitched really low. My favorite examples are: "5% Tint", "Beep Beep", "Florida Flow", and "FEIN".

Imma start doing concerts and i need some advice, Gow can i automate the key of my autotune in FL Studio from a song to another song? so i dont have to change it every time another song plays

if you have experience playing live with autotune please dm Me so i can ask you questions haha, im Not Experienced on Live events im a studio one so ill appreciate that

I’ve been producing for some while and I’ve come across the problem some times.

My sample library is all over the place different drives, random pack folders, Splice downloads dumped everywhere. Mid-session when I need a specific type of sound I end up either spending 20 minutes digging or just giving up and using something familiar.

Curious how other producers actually handle this

I started 2-3 weeks ago for fun and made an IG page for it and just posting my stuff shamelessly and getting a lot of reach...just not the good kind lmfao.

It's funny though cus im sure in a year from now ill look back and think "why did I think these were good" I'm gonna continue posting them tho

If you guys had to assume, what's the most common mistakes newbies make that causes the biggest downgrade in their sounds they should address first? not gonna post my stuff here but if anyones interested I can send it

lately ive been fighting the urge to delete every beat on my hard drive and start over. I realized on a lot of my beats, i didnt do anything but lay drums over a splice loop and that makes me feel like shit. like a fake artist.

although i played drums growing, i dont know much music theory at all so i feel like ive been melodically challenged for the last decade surviving on sampling. and not even creative sampling ever since splice came out. im a drag and dropper. i have a good ear for finding good loops and pitching them up or down and maybe time stretching a little bit, but outside of that, I didnt do much. i feel like the music is not really MINE and its no surpise all of my beats sound different and cant really be branded together. the few beats where i did actually make a chord progression and/or simple melody are actually some of the best sounding ones. or my favorite at least.

going forward, its going to be high priority to take piano lesson. but in the meantime, i hate most of what ive made, despite it sounding pretty decent. im somehow better than a lot of producers but also way worse than a bunch of producers.

i feel like im shit at making beats. i can make fire drums though. maybe i should stop trying to make beats and just sell drum sample one shot kits.

there is no point to this post, just venting.

I've been trying to learn how to sample songs I like on FL Studio, but it's been impossible to find any good information on how to.

Every time I pick out a nice track and find some loops, I always have the same problem, no matter what I do, I can never get the cut to hit on the bar. I've tried stretching, moving the start and end times, and using FL Studio's automatic tempo fit. But it never works and just sounds bad.

I've tried looking for tutorials and videos, but every example conveniently shows a track with a bpm they already know, which is also already in a perfect 4-bar loop. No one explains how they get it to align perfectly.

Maybe my chops are just really bad, or my song selection.