Blogging Fusion Blog Directory is a premiere blog directory on the internet. There are (2,318 blogs) submitted and we are growing very rapidly. We help bloggers get more exposure. Whether you're looking to promote your own blog to increase revenue, backlinks, readership or improve your search engine visibility, this blog directory is for you. Submit your blog today and increase your traffic & exposure. Blogging Fusion Blog Directory is search engine friendly and updated often.
Blog Description: This blog is for musicians who like to share their works and thoughts with everyone else. Whether you are a Producer ,a DJ or you just play an instrument , let us see what you've got !
Blog Tags: techno - trance - fruity loops - house - dance - guitar - drums - bass
No blog reviews yet! Be the first to write a review. Click the Review Blog icon above.
Add the Review Me Button to your Blog!
<a href="http://www.bloggingfusion.com/review-blog-1767.html"><img src="http://www.bloggingfusion.com/images/linkware/review-me-at-blogging-fusion.png" alt="Review Zal Music at Blogging Fusion Blog Directory" style="border:0px;" /></a>
hey ,this one is an orchestral music piece composed by me using fruity loops studio 7 this type of music is like battle music or historic , something like that vst I used for orchestral instruments is EWQLSO I really worked hard with this piece
Hey ! This is a progressive trance track made by me using fruity loops studio 7 Well , vst used in this track is : Nexus I think nexus is the most external vst that I use in FL studio it's quite neat , and it has many other good expansions I really hope you like it if you have any questions concerning the track or production pls leave a comment
Well, this one is a vocal trance song I made on fruity loops studio 7 the vocal singing is by "kate lesing" she's got 2 CD's of her singing with no music that you can get so I wrote the music in fl studio 7 and mixed it with the acappella .. The vst I used here is Nexus I hope you like this one and if you have any questions about it pls tell me in a comment
This tutorial is about how to make the fruity loops "vocoder effect" for vocals the vocoder is a tool which turns the normal "voice sound" into a "robotic sound"
so in this tutorial we are gonna turn THIS into THIS
ok then , let's start...
first you are gonna need a vocal sample to insert in fruity loops studio record your voice and save it as .wave or just use a sample you have
and to insert the sample , just drag and drop the wave file you have into the fruity loops playlist
and you will see it like that
now you will also need a vst sound to insert into a channel choose any sound you like from 3X OSC (I just prefer it cuz it's simple but you can choose what you want)
after you do this you need to assign the 2 channels (vocal & vst) into 2 different mixer tracks and to do this , left click the channel (which is the vocal or vst) and choose the settings ,this will bring you that window
now you assigned the vocal sample to track (2) in mixer do the same things with the vst channel but instead assign it to track (3)
now after you've done that let's bring the mixer window and see how it looks like
now insert the vocoder in mixer track (4)
now after we added the vocoder in mixer track (4) we gotta "route tracks (2) and (3) to track (4)" and this means we make the vocal and vst channels play through the vocoder track so that the input is (vst + vocal) and the output is (vocoder)
to start routing track (2) select track (2) in mixer then right-click track (4) "the vocoder track" and choose "route to this track only"
look at this
I'm gonna explain what we've done
okay ,after adding our vocals and vst we set the panning of vocals to the left and panning of vst to the right that's because the vocoder is designed to automatically recognize the left channel as vocal channel called (modulator) and the right channel as vst channel called (carrier)
and by doing that we make sure that our channels are set correctly then we routed the vocal and vst channels to the vocoder channel just to make the sound come out of the vocoder so that the vocoder can process it
see this
okay , when you do all that and press play we won't hear anything :D that's because the vocals can't play with no carrier (vst) so we have to write notes for the vst channel and what this does is :
vst channel tells the vocals to sing notes you specify !! that means if you have a normal voice speaking, you can make it SING ! just write any notes you want in the piano roll of vst and play .....
those are the notes I wrote for my vst
that's how the project looks
just the pattern of vst notes and the vocal sample ! I uploaded the project for you to DOWNLOAD HERE
still I want to say something that the robotic sound depends on the vst you use for example , if you used a pad to be your carrier, the voice will sound warm but if you use a distorted sound, the voice will sound distorted too ok LISTEN TO THIS and compare it to the robot sound we started with in this sample I used "another" vst than the one you listened to at the beginning of tutorial
ok this is the end of tutorial I hope it was helpful pls support , and if you want to ask about anything leave a comment with your question, I would be happy to answer it !
This is a trance production tutorial I made actually it's somekinda for beginners who want to start making trance well I'm going to speak about the construction of trance music cuz you know, every instrument can be used in many ways in Music, so piano in waltz is different from trance piano so you need to know how to use your vst's in every genre you intend to make..
to start,trance is produced in a tempo between 130 - 160 and a 4/4 beat now I'd like to think of trance as 5 sections which are:-
1- Drums 2- Bass 3- Melody 4- FX and special sounds 5- Build-up & filling
---------------------------
1- Drums
the most simple drum elements are (kick - snare & claps - closed hats - open hats) i'm not gonna talk too much about making the drums here is an image for a drum pattern in fl studio
you don't really need to stick to this pattern cuz you have to add your touches too ! sometimes I alternate between 2 patterns of kicks like this
you can give your drums a nice sound by messing with the hihats for example; fill all the steps of the closed hats but make sure to adjust the velocity of the hat notes to sound a little humanized here is how it looks
adjust the levels in the way you want but make sure to give the down beat the highest level you can do this manually or choose between some presets in fl and to get preset levels you will find "humanizing presets" on the left ,choose between many styles there ..
well , you can add some other drum kits like cowbells , percs and so on just mess with the these kits and you will get something cool !
I will explain how to use the drums in the "Build-up" section ---------------------------
2- Bass
bass is a very effective sound in trance if you are gonna continue your music with only drums and melodies etc... it will never sound clubby or powerful ..
ok in trance music the bass is somekinda different it's a little uniform and continuous the bass line is written in such a "rolling" way let me show you
now that's called a rolling bass line and the bass notes "do not" meet the kick notes, they are shifted an 8th note to the right
when you write the bass line "it has" to be in the scale or chord progression of the melody (I will get to that in the melodies section)
for example if your melody plays like this (A -> C -> E -> C -> A) the bass line should be playing something like that (A - A - A - A - C - etc.) so you don't put a note like (B) cuz it will be out of tune and sound so wrong !!
of course some variations will be good here you can find an example of bass variations in my track "Everlasting"
---------------------------
3- Melody
I don't think that there is a "formula" for melody so that you can apply it but there are some rules I like to follow when writing the melody
a- choose your scale b- make a chord progression c- start writing
a- scales okay ,if you don't know what scales are, here is a short explaination think of scales as the letters that make your alphabet if you have the english letters you can write english but you can't write russian the same, if you have certain 8 notes you can write sad music and if you have other 8 notes you can write happy music
the main scales are "Minor & Major" scales
Major ==> gives you "happy" feeling" Minor ==> give you "sad" feeling
here is a picture to understand the difference between the 2 scales
okay , this picture shows C-major and C-minor scale and it's named after the first note you start with (which is a "C" here) this note is called the "root"
you will notice that the minor & major are different in only (3 notes) the (3rd - 6th -7th)
so if you want to make a minor scale out of a major just lower those 3 notes (a half step down) and you will get a sad feeling ( see the picture ) :D
I think that trance melodies are often written in Minor scales
b- chord progression
it's a sequence of some chords that repeat themselves during the entire song try to have not less than 16 bars of repeating chords so that your song doesn't sound boring, see this
here I used C-minor scale in my chord progression i wrote 3 notes for every chord you can write more , as you like
but try to do some variations with it like introducing the chord before it begins by adding a note at the end of each chord see this
notice the red notes I added...
well, you can use the chord progression in an Arpeggiate sound, you can use it in a synth string or a pad , whatever you like.. I used here a pad to sound dreamy a little
the chord progression is part of what is called "the harmony"
c- writing the melody
you gotta be creative in this part :D but make sure to follow the chord progression you made cuz this makes it easy for you to write the melody and what i mean by following the chord progression is that you don't write notes that do not belong to the chord
for example the first chord is (C - D# - G) you shouldn't write a melody that all it's notes are (B - D - G#) cuz this makes your melody out of tune of course you can add some notes like (D-F-G#) but make it quick so that the listener doesn't catch it saying "I AM A WRONG NOTE!" and that's what i discussed in the "BASS section"
in your melodies you can use pluck sounds , arp, piano, etc... here i used a pluck
also we can add later very simple notes of melody but make sure to start playing it after a while so you don't burn all the melodies you have !
I made something like this
and the bass that i think would fit here would be like
I think this is just basic info for writing melodies and you need to be creative ! ---------------------------
4- FX and special sounds
FX and special effects are the sounds that make your track exciting and they are used to introduce some sounds and do the breaks & drops there are many forms of FX like
"sweeps - FX kicks - reverse crash - Crowd sounds"
if you listen to my track see me now you will find some nice sweeps and fx kicks i used in the build-up of the song
I also like to use kicks like that, i don't know what it's called but let's say rolling kicks
just put the notes this way and adjust the velocity level to be ascending in such a way
you may also want to use reverse crashes just add a crash cymbal in a channel left click it and check the "reverse" box
see this
---------------------------
5- Build-up & filling
you can get this section by just listening to many tracks and study how trance is building up
sometimes I start with drums and bass or with FX like in my track "Trance Light" sometimes I start with melody
but if you start with any of that just don't put everything you have start with something simple then build up for example when I start with drums and bass i only put (kick + Bass) then with some sweeps and reverse crash I bring the snare into action then the cymbals and so on
make sure that when you build up you don't repeat your track more than 16 bars without variation introduce your new sounds after 2 - 4 or 8 bars and not 3 - 5 - 7 bars this will not sound good for every instrument
ok , I used all of what I wrote above in the tutorial and made this
let's take a listen to the final project CLICK HERE
well , I hope that this tutorial was helpful enough and I really appreciate it if you could post your comments and thoughts
I would also be happy to answer your questions so feel free to ask !
Blog Directory ID: 1767
Blog URL: http://zalmusic.blogspot.com/
Google Pagerank: 2
Blog Description: This blog is for musicians who like to share their works and thoughts with everyone else. Whether you are a Producer ,a DJ or you just play an instrument , let us see what you've got !
Blog Tags: techno - trance - fruity loops - house - dance - guitar - drums - bass
Blog Category: Music Blogs
Blog Owner: Zalabany
Blog Added: February 28, 2008 07:47:24 AM
Audience Rating: General Audience
Blog Platform Not Selected
Blog Country: 
Egypt
My Yahoo! 
Report Blog Listing - 
Refer Blog Listing - 
Print Listing
Total Visits: 20
Blog Rating: 0.00
Rate Blog: 
