In this clip we are creating a Garage – House song from scratch using Logic Pro X and some plugins. We will mainly use Sylenth 1 and WAVES audio processors along with Logic’s own plugins and effect. I am explaining my views on how music should be composed and produced.
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hey what’s up guys meet us here for
winning best musics calm today I’m gonna
again do a track from scratch I got
logic open their setup the BPM to 119
BPM which is gonna be a bit slower maybe
deep housey who knows I am much more to
deep prog so maybe some arpeggiator and
there are some stuff like that I really
don’t know because I just I just want to
improvise I just want to do music and
share it with guys and I also want to
talk about the mentality that is
important when you create music you know
to approach the music creation in a
certain way which I think is very
important this is I think a very big
mistake that most people do they go in
the studio and they think I’m gonna make
that sound and I mean really if unless
you’re extremely experienced you know I
consider myself a fairly experienced
producer and yes I can make a certain
sound but this is not the point why
would you go in the studio to want to
create a certain thing I can tell you if
you go into super professional they
don’t have they might have an idea in
mind and stuff but it will develop you
know you cannot say I’m gonna make a
track like hard well this is a very very
big mistake you know you should go in
the studio and bring your heart and put
put your your ideas and improvise and
jam you know this is the way most of the
best music is done by people just being
creative and just pushing the envelope
and you know not letting themselves
block by their own boundaries which is
simply you know I want to sound like
this oh oh this sound like this we
should do this because it’s cool this is
just absolutely wrong maybe you think
I’m wrong great then do whatever you
like I’m just saying that from from my
point of view as an artist that is been
going on for almost 20 years now
releases a lot of music my best track so
far are just been that been jamming you
know this is what I think is the coolest
thing to do when you go in studio so I
also want to say I’m sorry maybe there’s
gonna be some stuff in the background
because the windows open because it’s
actually hot it’s summertime it’s July
31st and it’s time to make a try
so let’s get into it so my basic setup
is very simple
I put ultrabeat and usually I don’t use
plugins but lately I use quite a bit of
wave so I’m going to stick some ways
plug it in there to make a more
professional big song to start with and
yeah I 119 BPM I don’t use MIDI I’m
gonna play the keys on the keyboard here
and here’s what I got so far
that’s cool this is gonna be a banger
man I’m telling you definitely like some
some super super Beatport top chart
there okay so basically it’s a kick it’s
a hundred then 19 BPM I’m gonna name it
oh no I don’t name it name any kick and
it’s routed to a sub channel here my
departure point for most track if you’re
looking for some some knowledge is kick
in – 8 – -10 DB you know maybe to leave
yourself a bit of room always put slower
leave yourself in the mix to be able to
put in some elements because if you just
have the kick maxed out I’m gonna put
everything maxed out everything will
pile up and it’s gonna be like a pile of
garbage so maybe you want to think about
that I have a few chunk of MIDI here
which are the standard pads and stuff so
I’m gonna save a little bit of time by
going into that
I’m gonna check Wow a hat here no
coconut okay oh I like that this is nice
okay so I’m gonna tribute it to group
tree here and group tree here I’m gonna
create a track so it’s very important
what I am doing is every channel gonna
have its own routing so I can obviously
mix and compress every channel one by
one so this is not the Hat that was
looking for oh wait this is because it’s
not on the right hat Channel
hey guys why not okay
so I don’t know how long is gonna be
this video so hang on guys it might be
good might not be good might be is gonna
be an awesome track maybe not you never
know so to me that’s very deep how see
I’m not too sure I like this little
stereo eating that they put into and to
Daddy kid there an ultra beat but I’ll
keep it
okay so now I’ve kick and hot that’s
good I would probably put a snare in
there let’s go in here
listener I start clapping all just a
snare put it into group forward here go
into the channel here create the track
here I believe this is this in there I
don’t know if it’s at the right it’s at
the hard snare I’m not too sure I love
this hard snorting yeah I won’t put your
name me up maybe a double snare here mmm
that’s white when I want do it before
here not quite what I want either put it
here
as I go along I’m gonna premix it of
course I’m gonna get myself a bit of
juice here okay this is good
I think I’m keep on going a little bit
maybe with a with a closed hats here
continue the same pattern here I can
name those a little bit later okay I
guess this is not on the channel okay I
guess the open nut is linked into the
this hat there so I cannot have them
both of them in the same like I said
it’s all about improvisation – I like
that I’m gonna like it a whole lot more
with the delay on it so this – way to
put effects on two tracks if you guys
don’t know you can either put it here in
and directly into the channel or you can
put it as a send for this this case I
think I will create the sound effects so
I’m gonna create a sound I’m gonna go
bus here I’m gonna take the bus one and
I’m gonna put that delay on it so simple
delay no I think I’m gonna go waves
today so waves I would say to to to to
to some some
our delay which is very cool because
it’s got like it like a kind of a gritty
tone to it it’s there’s a lot of these
are
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channel RDS sir I want at all
sorry guys with a long lengthy lengthy
part maybe I can crack a joke or
something
haha no I love a joke right now why
aren’t those grouped into thing man this
is this is this is bad
I just want to delay age delay this what
I was looking for so I guess I can age
delay here oh yeah
series got the basic just want to
pretend wet it’s nice to see spring you
drums let’s see basic stereo I’m gonna
have I’m gonna name my channels open
hats okay they’re gonna know that go
this is Marco so where the beat
definitely have a beat here simple but
it’s a beat so I’m gonna take one of
those I think Congo here mm-hmm
this one I like here don’t got three
the six here three trucks bring some
median here from I don’t know where oh
this is that deep house thing that I
wanted at first so I think I will just
happen to okay I like that even even as
a layer underneath the actual snare I
was enough beat snare wow this is
amazing see this is one of those things
that happen when when you just make
music like that so I’m gonna take the
snare I’m gonna duplicate it this is
replicated here drop this median there
I’m gonna make my little drum sequence
little conga sequence by hand okay
that’s pretty cool let’s see what we can
do
recording some you know just do simple
like that do this I just want to have
the meaty down take it go into the media
right here control a cue to quantize I
like it I don’t like this one here the
volume is too high
I do like this a lot better so I’m just
gonna make a simple nothing too fancy I
think just to establish the base of the
track you know so this is three so if
you look at the mixer down here oh sorry
guys look at the mixer down here we have
our drums clean kick is the banana bread
- 10 get some snare two different snares
that’s so what’s happening is the snare
there are a different time and there are
different velocities to D complement
each other descent how are you that and
then you can do control is select your
name region by track so you have a good
idea if you get in the grid somewhere
you know you know what you’re gonna work
on that is cool I think we should put a
synth in there what am I gonna use
because yeah like I said today I’m using
anything anything goes so I think to do
do do no tracks after all paid all paid
all paid stuff don’t you worry of course
and no I really paid for most of my
stuff reading I’m gonna use silent
because I like silent the most for
everything for basis for I would have to
find that bank that got some who deep
out some cases because silent is first
really trancey I don’t know if I have
this Bank in there
let’s look at more trance have plenty on
the side I should have maybe downloaded
them team lien our house kids house kit
vandalism blah blah blah blah blah
we’re just on set have to be honest most
of those are not that interesting for
what we’re gonna do now music sound Bank
heart chord chord chord chord
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let’s go fry Georgian tree which I
remember actually bought on Beatport a
long time ago oh that’s a nice bass it’s
a bit loud let’s be honest it is electro
but it could also be garage I think
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let’s just play with it a little
okay it’s kind of fun I like the sound
you know like maybe to do more more
engineering in the the track instead of
composition you know I’m not such a
great composer already not at all to be
honest with you guys so maybe I’m more
of a sound designer which like to mold
sound to impress and to to to make the
craft attract with the sounds not
literally with composition so and
there’s a bunch of plugins anyway that I
can use like captain plugins to make
track which I will probably use a bit
later on on on this on this video so
yeah it’s a bit vulgar yeah this is nice
I’m gonna put on some sidechain there
now I’m using waves again because I like
waves they’re shit this is insane I’m
gonna get an F bi a 2500 I’m gonna have
to do a little bit of a trick I’m like
shitty with the new thing I can oh no I
can’t
yeah so I have to route my kik channel
to a bus and use this bus to sidechains
so if you’re looking for technical stuff
so because because my kick is actually
in MIDI it’s not in audio and audio I
could have sidechain it put the input
directly in there or maybe some people
use some plug-in like yeah
whatever that I will remember because
all use so I’m gonna take this kick here
I’m gonna create a sand I’m gonna send
it to bust n leave myself some buses to
do other things a bit later on in the
mix and I’m actually sending to busting
at zero DB to get the fold the fold last
year and this bus actually is not going
anywhere but then I can pick up this
busting here to have the kick sidechain
to that here we go super fast attack
super fast release for me maybe bit
slower release yeah I like this
compressor oh it’s actually compressing
inside chaining but it doesn’t really
affect the sound so much it’s there
I like this this is this is nice
I’m gonna use that I’m gonna send it to
my delay bus here well I think about it
sweet let’s put on some more stuff in
there not that we’re getting started I
mean if you skip this video and you’re
waiting to get some action I think this
election I’m gonna sip of coffee oh yeah
bueno so two keys nothing extraordinary
blah blah like I said I am NOT a
composer I’m a much better sound
designer I’m a much better engineer too
so I’m gonna take this these two key
that I’ve done here I’m gonna bring them
up a little bit into this girl oh that’s
fat too
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okay I do that I’m gonna stick myself an
arpeggiator here or no I should is a
good arpeggiator in silent which I think
it’s better or so and then I’m gonna go
for some sounds let’s listen I know it
some time you take a lot of time to get
to some sounds I got some plucks here
pluck let’s block
I know something that’s gonna work with
that for a little bit too high then I’m
gonna put it to the same
yeah yeah yeah Nicole ooh I was looking
for but again you know making music is
about that you have to experiment you
have to play I don’t dislike that
definitely gonna need much more work but
because the basis is nice it’s chunky
but it doesn’t really drive the track
forward you know so browse a little bit
I’m gonna what I like to do when I do
this I copy then a bit and then if I
want to go back because it does nothing
sounding better I go back hey like that
guys I don’t know about you but
maybe with distort here
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I do like it a lot but then I don’t like
that the the top gritty the chunk at the
top is this bit too so we’ll cut it I
know what am i doing
this is garage I could definitely see
another oh I think I saved the track
that’s good idea guys so save as I’m
gonna call that create a new folder here
I’m gonna call that I get a new garage
you know it’s not a bit garage ok I
think it will end up being I like this
type of music I’m a Gorgon city you know
I like disciples you know like people
that from England that make like a
grittier kind of messy on purpose deep
house and house music so this is a new
garage to put my new car there you go
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I’m clipping here a little bit something
odd happened that that happened to me
before – when I had some new MIDI
channels somehow somehow ultra beat
changes the order of my things there’s a
bug big bug in Logic Pro other ok
because this this I definitely send it
to and they all back to sub 1 now you
guys remember right I send this to
different buses because I’m doing my
mixing now it’s all gone
fucking shit oh sorry family friendly
okay so snare was group 3
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open hat here it was three oh it is
there
so then snare was four sorry for this
guys I definitely didn’t expect it
expected that this is weird I think it’s
when I created a bus or something but I
experienced this bug before I think it
is in ultra beat so I’m getting a new
input Wow okay now that sound like it
should sound
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so I think I will bring my friend in
there um my friend my friend my friend
your create a new track because I don’t
want to mess those ones we’re gonna copy
the meaty down here and then I’m gonna
bring a media effects mixed in key
captain the deep for the base captain
melody captain play I use a few of these
so I’m gonna check out captain melody
oh there’s available later up didn’t
chords you know knows I play the step ah
I guess I have to start with captain car
oh do you knit captain chords sure I
want this oh okay
can I drop my meat in there no I can’t
okay so we’ll forget about that guys
because well I very like this plug-in
it’s it’s a bit of a different way to
work and I’m gonna get gonna get messy
so I’m gonna go on and play some musical
typing this cool bass
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whoa this is this is
this funny it’s Jam a little bit guys
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not there over
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I think first you have to look for a
sound that kind of work into the track
and then you have to create a melody I
think other people making it the other
way around
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personally I like to find a sound at
work that that could really work I’m
gonna make it
about big and white wide in a couple of
minutes so I wanted to be off I don’t
want it to be within the B’s like not
that maybe but
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that was looking for Oh get it
eventually
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now I’m not too sure about this one but
I’m gonna keep going doesn’t matter
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Coffee all right I think this is
interesting I mean not not the best
start of a track ever with excitement
but I think we’re exploring you know
which i think is very cool so we’re
gonna keep on going I’m take that I’m
gonna make it into a longer little parts
here so I can start building up some
more instruments and beat some
transitions so we’re doing 32 bars here
so if you ever watched some of my others
video which you definitely should you’re
gonna see that I have one that is out to
finish every song you made that’s quite
popular and basically what I do is I
create this first 32 bars and then I’m
trying to work out add some elements do
something to have like a full track of
course it’s gonna be just probably the
main verse of the track that is there
but this is what I’m doing now now I
have 32 bars of this this electro
Igarashi kind of thing and then I want
to build I want okay this is cool
I think it needs some kind of a spooky
pad in there or something this is what
is something something creepy you know
something that’s bit out of the ordinary
and for that I will resort to alchemy
because alchemy is as logic own scent
and it’s really easy to browse and then
if I do pad and then I’m gonna do our
Jesus and I’m gonna do clean distorted
brighten organic smooth glitchy coochie
could be blue detuned Oh bitchin could
be good to go we’re gonna go here it’s
not quite what I’m looking for yet but
it’s easy to browser so I like
personally I like to play the music in
the background and then play on top to
see if I have something that could work
with the music okay
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this is a little bit too happy I would
say something creepy I know maybe that
in the glitchy section not quite glitchy
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it’s getting there
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I think we got something here
not sure if you guys liked it or not but
with with Jesus with this scent we my
brain is with this scent we have
different combination that we can really
you know we have a basic sound that we
can immediately edit and have different
much much different texture so
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okay I think this one is good
oh sorry guys sure I guess I’ll press
the wrong key here
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so we have a start of a track it’s a bit
noisy it’s a bit strange but I think
it’s pretty cool I don’t know how long
I’ve been recording but I will keep on
going I’ll just need some coffee yeah
bueno so now that we have that
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looked about this good key change just a
nice nice fat bass with good distortion
this one well I like it but it’s is
definitely in the strange room you know
this is not such a grandmas type of
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what can I add to this to make it into a
song let’s say I mean for a beat for 5
a.m. in the dark nightclub in the middle
of South America might work I mean music
is very subjective you know it’s not
like I will like it somebody would like
it it’s it’s it’s really a matter of
circumstances you know there’s music for
every circumstances you know if you go
to some installation some shows and
stuff you the music doesn’t make any
freaking sense but in that circumstance
pretty good you know it does it does
work you know but dance music again is
so subjective it really depends on who’s
playing it who’s the DJ who’s got the
balls to play it which was back in my
days you know some people they just
decided to to push the boundaries and
you know there did every every time I go
see a show I know that the DJ will push
the boundaries because his music was on
vinyl it was very specific to DJ’s and
then it was so new and everything was to
be discovered now it’s a bit harder when
the music is everywhere and everybody’s
already heard most of the tracks and
it’s like people want to hear a track
like I think I think electric musics
about discovery and well we lost that
this is why I have that principle of
start making a track and have fun like
this one just start making a track fun
if it changed and I scrapped it good
whatever but this one worth it but did
this this this this this upset Lisa
after a couple minutes of listening to
it I’m not so keen on it so it can go
filter those keys well I like I think
that this is this is the sense the mix
is definitely not extraordinary yet I’m
gonna start mixing a little bit so you
know if I would be working on a track I
would be doing that I’m gonna put a 2500
on the kick
much less treshold remove this photo
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definitely have a little bit too much
compression here I like it compress from
the start okay so what I like better
without without this part but we’re
gonna put in there too to make it like a
song you know I think some more
percussions would be cool
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that’s not expected
- this piano core is integrated in in
this just a little addition to the
percussions here to create more rhythm I
personally like really full percussions
with a lot of intricacy let’s be honest
most of the guys like Pryda and/or Preda
whatever you want to call it and David
Guetta and all the big names I mean I’m
sorry guys but you really should put a
bit more effort into the percussions you
know because it’s its sound
it sound really like amateurs a little
bit more here and also you know it’s not
because you achieved commercial success
because you’re lucky and you have
friends that you actually are good
producers you know that’s tougher I’m
Allison eating here one two one two one
two oh this one is off
definitely else well you guys are lucky
because I just decided that this track
will be up for free on our blog so do
you still watching huh great guys
fucking-a but yeah if you watch that
only because you’ve seen that it’s gonna
be for free great then download it man
so I think this is worth it i mean i
used silent i use some ways but it’s
free so i mean you shouldn’t really
worry so you go on to our site we make
dance music calm and you can download
this little beat with that chunky
electro kind of thingy
and that’s gonna be all for me because
yeah I think I think this is what I have
to put into this track today so I’m not
gonna push myself to try to do more I’m
gonna get back I’m still working on our
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