Post A Picture Of How You Arrange Your Songs

[Acsii]

Is it fine if we put the picture in a spoiler tag like what I've been doing in other threads?

[Stars In Autumn]

Is it fine if we put the picture in a spoiler tag like what I've been doing in other threads?

Yeah, it's fine.

[CitricAcid]

I almost forgot about this thread! Here's Battle for Cloudsdale with all the folders closed so that everything fits in the window.

(Click for full size)



It seemed good to also include the piece itself.

https://soundcloud.com/citricacidmusic/battle-for-cloudsdale

[3ternal]

Hooray for really minimal breakcore

Spoiler le picture:

Here's the track, by the way (don't ask, I was bored):
https://soundcloud.com/3ternal_core/annoying-ringtone-party

[Spikey Wikey]

This is the Brave Little Toaster trap remix sketch I threw on my Soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/spikey-wikey/b-movie-show-trapped-like-rats

I don't know how to spoiler images so yeh:

[Mesogears]

@ Spikey Wikey:
Dude, I love that movie and I never see any remixes of it. I'll be looking out for the finished version.
(That was a bit off-topic, I know, but I just had to comment.)

[Injustrial]

Spoiler Picture:

Everything's shrunk to fit the whole thing in on one screen.

[Ocular]

Working on my remix for Emforay's Dolphin remix contest. This isn't done yet but it's getting there.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

I might upload pic or 2 later now that I'm using Ableton.

[Ocular]

Here's the project again but fully expanded this time with more tracks

[simonli2575]

Here's the project again but fully expanded this time with more tracks

Spoiler Huge image:

Why are your tracks so complex, and mine so simple ;_;

[Injustrial]

Here's the project again but fully expanded this time with more tracks

Spoiler Huge image:

Why are your tracks so complex, and mine so simple ;_;

I would ask the same thing. Dat automation...

[Twy]

Neat thread. It's really interesting to get a glimpse at others' work flow.

Spoiler Picture:

[Acsii]

Neat thread. It's really interesting to get a glimpse at others' work flow.

Spoiler Picture:

neat UI theme there. And damn that's a lot of tracks and stuff

[Facade]

random question this is how i do now

Spoiler g:

how do i into all those complex looking things every time i try its just random bull shit that makes things sound like shit :|

[Twy]

neat UI theme there. And damn that's a lot of tracks and stuff

Heh, I'm a big fan of themes that are much darker and easier on the eyes, myself. Definitely an area where I feel pretty jealous of a program like FL Studio!

random question this is how i do now

Spoiler g:

how do i into all those complex looking things every time i try its just random bull shit that makes things sound like shit :|

It's just something that comes with time, in my experience. Eventually you start to layer sounds on top of each other and use more tracks for less noticeable atmospheric things, add more subtle percussion elements and whatnot. It all adds up. Not to mention a lot of it will depend on what genre you're making or what your workflow is.

But really, the number of tracks you've got going on isn't a big deal, and it isn't necessarily an indicator of how good or even complex a song is. Like, someone such as myself could be awful at sound design and end up having to load a bunch of different tracks and vsts and layer them all together to get the right sound, and look like their track is super complicated because of it. Then over on the other hand, someone else could actually be competent and manage to make a really rich and nice sound in 1 vst, and it looks a lot more simple at a glance, right?

So, I wouldn't worry about it.

[azerty]

Spoiler pro photoshop skills:

Nothing really out of the ordinary from me. I usually have very few tracks because I tend to consolidate all my samples into just a few tracks, and I also often use the same synth sound but turn various filters on and off to produce drastically different sounds from the same track.

[Acsii]

Spoiler pro photoshop skills:

Nothing really out of the ordinary from me. I usually have very few tracks because I tend to consolidate all my samples into just a few tracks, and I also often use the same synth sound but turn various filters on and off to produce drastically different sounds from the same track.

at first I was like "what photoshop?" then I saw it... come on you can do better than that

[HMage]

I don't know how to glue them together into one long image so here's four images in a row.

Clickable:

[Acsii]

I have two for you. One of a song in Logic and the other from Ableton

Spoiler logic:

Spoiler ableton:

[Facade]

I have two for you. One of a song in Logic and the other from Ableton

Spoiler logic:

Spoiler ableton:

what is up with all those pink dots ._.?

[Berri]

I have two for you. One of a song in Logic and the other from Ableton

Spoiler logic:

Spoiler ableton:

what is up with all those pink dots ._.?

basically its a fuck load of automation.

[Alycs]

I have two for you. One of a song in Logic and the other from Ableton

Spoiler logic:

Spoiler ableton:

what is up with all those pink dots ._.?

basically its a fuck load of automation.

I think whats going on there is it says its a pedal, so Abby was probably playing something and using a foot pedal for a controller, and Logic was adding a new automation point for EVERY different level of "on-ness" for it, leading to the pink explosion seen there...

Anyway, here is a project file of one of the songs I'm working on; this one is pretty average for the amount of stuff going on.

Spoiler project:

There's also a TON of automation a little lower that I cut out

[CitricAcid]

All this talk of automation makes me wish I had found a way to show mine in my screenshot.

[Acsii]

what is up with all those pink dots ._.?

basically its a fuck load of automation.

I think whats going on there is it says its a pedal, so Abby was probably playing something and using a foot pedal for a controller, and Logic was adding a new automation point for EVERY different level of "on-ness" for it, leading to the pink explosion seen there...

Anyway, here is a project file of one of the songs I'm working on; this one is pretty average for the amount of stuff going on.

Spoiler project:

There's also a TON of automation a little lower that I cut out

Indeed it is a pedal, a wah to be exact controlled by an expression pedal with midi