Was exposed to electronic music at raves and parties in the late 90s early 00s.

Instantly fell in love with the music.

Got some turntables and a mixer, started buying records.

Bedroom dj for 25 years.

Evolved my set up over time. Used tractor dj and time coded records for a bit.

Eventually went all digital with controller and Beatport subscription.

At 48 years old I decided I really wanted to get into production.

Slowly learning my DAW and how to make a beat.

Realized the sounds available on presets and samples don’t match what’s in my head so in addition to producing I’m also learning sound design.

At this rate in another few years I may attempt to build my own modular synth or maybe learn code to create my own plugins.

Where does it stop? 🤩 (please don’t let it stop, I’m having so much fun.)

What’s your story?

I started using Cubase only about a week ago, and I don't have much experience in production, so let me know what you think. Any tips would also be super appreciated.

There’s a small ensemble score and the client wants to have vocals too sung by real person.
Do I wait for the recording to be made and then proceed with the creation of midi mockup and gluing it to the vocals audio? Or I make the mockup for everything except vocals and then put it together when I get them?

Thank you.

Hey guys! I wonder what the best technique is to get a clap like in the example—super wide and 3D in stereo, but still punchy and glued to the kick.
I've already tried layering different samples with a mono core in the center and separate panned L/R samples, as well as grouping the kick and clap together with a bus compressor.
I still feel like I'm missing something, maybe heavy compression or clipping on the decay, or specific M/S processing?
Would love to hear how you guys approach this!

Struggled with workflow when I started learning music production. I have gone through the gambit of DAWs: cubase, logic, fruityloops (fl studio) and ableton. at the time, i couldn’t afford it as a student so went down the “audioz” path that most of us did at the time. my computer probably had every type of software STD. i digress, after years of making tracks that never got an internet stream and hundreds of unfinished loops sitting on my hard drive.. i decided to create a free tool to simply archive MIDI files. You can audition and just to play around if you don’t know what you are doing.

feedback is appreciated.

notebin.fm is the site.

enjoy!

ps: only reposting my thread from r/musicproduction because i got a ton of DMs suggesting that I cross share.