https://soundcloud.com/augustsk/smoke-weed-every-day-160723/s-hwdqk

Hurray, I managed to find some time today for obod. This is weird - wanted to make typical prog house synth for some chords, but I just had to fm 2nd osc from 1st, resulting in nasty sounding synth. Some tweaks here and there and result is in the track. This sound defo goes in my preset collection for better use sometime (whole todays obod is just me messing with this synth).

This one-beat-one-day thing is starting to pay off. Just too bad I still haven't got enough time to do a proper track. Hopefully next week :)

Time spent: 1hr 21min (proof)

edit: @0:05 (and again @0:20) - yeap, that's my voice

https://soundcloud.com/user-844239626/obod-11-melodic-trance

I've been a classical musician for so long and after discovering EDM, my brain keeps trying to throw classical melodies into the mixes. So I'm trying to get as much of it out of my system as possible!

https://soundcloud.com/user-608714113/screwoff34

I'll try. Wanted to use something with a different meter. Really didn't get what I wanted, but this is a challenge so here it is.

I've really only finished like 10 projects lifetime with any DAw so here goes..

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I've been busy lately but i took some time last night to fiddle around in my DAW. Threw this together after listening to some bsd.u music on youtube and got really inspired. The sound you're hearing is a reversed and overly compressed chopped up piano sample. I don't even remember where i got the vocals but it's a really pitched down sample of someone saying "here comes the sun", there's also a pitched down snippet of a desiigner - panda acapella (the sound that pans left and right before the crash). Screenshot

https://soundcloud.com/user-844239626/obod-10-yeah-ho

This is a bit shorter than I would have liked, but unfortunately real life is getting in the way of music (again!) and I didn't have nearly as much time today as the previous few OBODs (7-8 hours each).

Anyway this is a beat I've had in mind for a while. I'd want to really spend some time working on the development and the melody, but for now, moving on to the next OBOD! :)

https://soundcloud.com/augustsk/futureshit-160719/s-FfwUt

This is my first one-beat-one-day. My usuall drill - an idea, that probably won't ever be finished. Done in FL Studio, all the basslines are from Serum (premade presets, bit tweaked for my liking), first "melody" is from premade loop (some future house loop pack), saw-y sidechained chords starting @0:45 are just plain saw shape in Serum with heavy unison going on and some other little tweaks /w sinewave.

Total time spent 1hr 18min (proof)

https://youtu.be/u3Gqj1MURco

Deadmau5 and Steve Duda (Serum) talking production

What are some daily challenge ideas you'd like to work on? Here are some ideas we have so far (this is an ongoing list and will be maintained)

1... Copy X producer (which producers to copy or mimic style of):

Current list: Madeon, Skrillex, DJ Snake

2... EDM Subgenres:

Current list: Trap, Dubstep, Trance, Future Bass, Tropical House, Ambient, Hardstyle

3... Set X limitation to your production:

Current list: 1 synth only, samples only, record own vocals, no presets allowed, native plugins only

4... Remix this famous/non famous track:

Current list: Pokemon theme song

5... Mood/feeling/groove mixes:

Current list: Workout/get pumped, break stuff (FML), sexytimes, tripping/psychedelic, inspirational

https://soundcloud.com/dj_xzkx/improvised-trance-alzheimers/s-Lo1DT Since i don't have a microphone, and idk how to record stuff on my phone, i took a random video from my youtube feed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWcdBOYy_bU) and made some interesting stuff with it. I cut it into 8 bar long parts and layered them all together, then distorted it and filtered it and voilá! white noise riser and downlifter. Screenshots (i know it's yesterday's date, but i started it at 11:00 pm and went to sleep soon afterwards). I had a lot of fun doing this!

Yes, I know, you once had dreams of being a worldclass singer, but reality set in and you settled on the less glamorous life of becoming a music producer.

For today's challenge you have to record your own vocals (can be either singing or rapping). You are free to use another song's melody and lyrics, or you can write your own.

http://soundcloud.com/user-844239626/obod-5-big-room-ninja

I tried again to make trance and somehow ended up with big room and naruto (You'll understand if you listen)

Synths used: Spire x9, KSHMR Samples vol 2, ableton native

Welp, i tried. https://soundcloud.com/user-844239626/obod-4-believing-in-love-obod

I got a little teary-eyed while making this because in the middle I used a chord progression that I was in love with as a teen (the ever-omnipresent i-VI-III-VII, which I rarely use anymore)

Listening to those chords in that distorted guitar-preset (courtesy of Spire) drew me back to the olden days... of feeling like anything was possible, not knowing the future, being scared and hopeful.

Then I somehow ended up putting in Avicii's "Waiting For Love"

Things learned:

• Grouping tracks helps immeasurably and has many benefits including more uniform sidechain compression

• Learned how to make a trance beat, courtesy of this site: http://edmprod.com/drums-guide/

• Ending snare roll to finish off a song (I think they do this at festivals)

• Compression on sub-bass helps make the lower frequencies more uniform (since some frequencies are stronger than others)

Plugins/Samples used: Spire/FM8/KSHMR vol 2

Things to think about for next time:

• Try to add in some vocals (female) for trance

• Need to listen to more trance, since I don't really get it

is this sub gonna be active again?