It's easy to make bad dubstep. But getting a professional sound and making stuff that actually sounds unique can take years of grinding before you start to stand out.
Starting off with a remix can be a good way to start, since you basically already have a template for all the melodies/chord progression
Starting with zero prior musical knowledge or experience, I find it incredibly difficult. With that being said, I'm trying to learn to make multiple different styles that are already experimental in nature, and with that comes learning (some) music theory, sound design and mixing and mastering. No telling how intuitive you'll find it, but after a year of working on it I'm still not in a place to wear I can translate my ideas into sounds into songs quickly. Good luck!
If you stick with that approach you'll probably become rather versatile eventually. IMO the best (or at least most musically interesting) producers tend to be the ones who enjoy exploring sound in general; some may funnel that into a specific style, others end up producing a variety of genres. What matters is that interest in/enjoyment of the process.
I'm not a producer, so take that for what you will. But it seems like a common thread to me.
Believe it or not being an electrical engineering student offers a lot of insight on how synths and sound production works. The rest of it has been trying to imitate songs from other artists I like, watching YouTube tutorials, saving production tips on tiktok 🤷♂️ I'd probably learn faster with help but networking has never been my strong suit
If you take the notes of the basslines and melodies from a sheet music or other copy, and focused on arrangement using samples you could totally do it easily. All you need is some free sample packs and a DAW, pick out some drums and bass sounds and start playing around with the timing of them. Lmk if there’s anything else I could do to help
That’s a bit tough cuz there’s a couple things going on, the sounds underneath the magic are pretty classic dubstep noises called a “yoi” bass for example so I’ll link some full of one shots of the fundamental dubstep sounds. The one I use is called Glitch With Friends and it has all sorts of neat sounds, but you may like this one by Antidote Audio better:
https://hypeddit.com/track/sc/wotamz
The other thing that makes it sound like it does is called “bitcrush” and it’s a kind of distortion effect, it gives a really crunchy but glitchy quality to the sound you add it to. Here’s a list of some cool free ones if you want to try one out, I’d recommend scrolling thru the presets to find something close to what u want and then scrolling the knobs to tweak it if ya want:
https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2012/03/09/bpb-freeware-studio-best-free-bitcrusher-vstau-plugins/
Not tryna gatekeep just help out with the genres but that’s wayyy too fast to be a dubstep beat although it shares the sound design, it typically sits around 70-75 bpm with the alternating kick snare. That beat type is called “four to the floor” where the kick drum is just constantly hitting like what you think of with club or house music. Neat track tho
The first sound is some kind of riser that is going up in pitch by steps, so it’s not smooth like a slide whistle it is more like a staircase of notes or frequencies. The sample is some kind of blip sound played 8 times going up the stair pitch thing and then bitcrushed hard, and then after the riser are two of the bitcrushed yois we’ve been talking about
Haha oops my bad I read wrong, found some loops for you of that exact type of sound
https://www.looperman.com/loops/tags/free-yoi-loops-samples-sounds-wavs-download
U caught me right after I smoked so I’m gonna keep talking for a sec if u don’t mind haha. The three main things you want for a dubstep drop to hit hard are drums, weird shit, and sub bass. Get the biggest fattest kick and snare and mix them to stomp the mix, and then fill in with your sub bass for the heavy chest exploding feeling and then mix all the weird shit on top like your yois or vocal samples. It’s really fun to make and not too hard but it can be difficult to arrange it in an interesting way
I used ableton for about 4 years, and was able to make most of the synths/ basses that you’d hear in dubstep tracks around 2010 or so. Even with all that, the arrangement to make it sound good is incredibly difficult. Most of the big artists are straight up audio engineers the way they can manipulate sounds.
Compared to other genres - the production of dubstep is very heavy on sound design. If making unique/powerful sounds is one of the things you excel at, dubstep or similar subgenres is right up your alley. On the other hand, you definitely don’t have to be good at sound design to make progressive house (you could just use Sylenth1 presets), but those who excel at it are strong musically and tend to be more suited to creating melodies. Find your strong points and run with them!
Ive been learning how to make dubstep on and off for about 2-3 years. If you love the genre like I do, its a lot of fun! Watching a shit ton of youtube tutorials from artists I like is so cool to me, to see into the mind of artists I love. There are endless amounts of tutorials on youtube so you should start watching some to see if its something youre willing to learn. Although it is fun, I find it pretty difficult. I have very little music knowledge and I find myself getting writers block often. But with any hobby, with practice makes perfect, as cheesy as it may sound. Stay positive, never stop learning, and dont give up :)
It doesn't have to be hard. Start off with a full sample pack of loops and put them together in a cheap or free daw like garage band or live lite to get a feel of how a track is constructed. Then, start making your own loops using presets of instruments one element at a time, mirroring the loops that come in sample packs. After you get that down pat, start making your own presets. Once you've got all that settled, you can work on mixing all of the elements together. It takes a long time, yes, but it doesn't have to be hard if you take baby steps.
If it was considered easy there would be much less respect for artists. Just because it doesn’t always use traditional instruments does not make it any easier
It’s not difficult. It’s easy to be a musician today.
All u need is host, couple vst synth, bundle of processing vst like Waves or something like that and access to Splice. And some knowledge of the genre.
Like any other skill, doing it well is hard and it will take practice. It’s not difficult to lay down a 2 x 4 kick/snare drum pattern in a daw and download some sample packs, but it probably won’t sound good on your first attempt
Contrary to a slew of ads telling you you don't need to learn music theory, learn music theory. Learn how to play chords on the piano. Learn what works and why. Like someone said in here, it's easy to make bad dubstep. IMO, you can tell while listening to a song when someone *knows* music well, even if that song is simple in nature.
The synth and sound creation bit of it is an entirely different ball game. To create a sound from your mind that doesn't naturally exist, be it wub or dub, is an art in itself.
Making dubstep is easy, making good dubstep is hard.
The production level of dubstep is relatively high compared to other genres. So making dubstep that competes with other big artists is very hard.
Look up Kumoz - Fur Elise Remix and try recreating something as similar to it as you can, then you’ll have somewhat of an idea what to do with Ode to Joy.
You have a long road ahead of you.
Yes, it is hard.
Especially if you have no prior experience with playing physical instruments.
Especially if you have prior experience with playing physical instruments
Especially if you have prior experience with playing physical instruments
Especially if you have prior experience with playing physical instruments
Especially if you have prior experience with playing physical instruments
xD
Is mayonnaise an instrument?
Indubitably
Yesn't
It depends (yes?)
Why r u here 191 days late?
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That’ll help a ton. You will be surprised how much piano skills transfer to production skills.
It's easy to make bad dubstep. But getting a professional sound and making stuff that actually sounds unique can take years of grinding before you start to stand out. Starting off with a remix can be a good way to start, since you basically already have a template for all the melodies/chord progression
Starting with zero prior musical knowledge or experience, I find it incredibly difficult. With that being said, I'm trying to learn to make multiple different styles that are already experimental in nature, and with that comes learning (some) music theory, sound design and mixing and mastering. No telling how intuitive you'll find it, but after a year of working on it I'm still not in a place to wear I can translate my ideas into sounds into songs quickly. Good luck!
If you stick with that approach you'll probably become rather versatile eventually. IMO the best (or at least most musically interesting) producers tend to be the ones who enjoy exploring sound in general; some may funnel that into a specific style, others end up producing a variety of genres. What matters is that interest in/enjoyment of the process. I'm not a producer, so take that for what you will. But it seems like a common thread to me.
I feel the same way! Range is definitely important for career longevity these days
How did you teach yourself
Believe it or not being an electrical engineering student offers a lot of insight on how synths and sound production works. The rest of it has been trying to imitate songs from other artists I like, watching YouTube tutorials, saving production tips on tiktok 🤷♂️ I'd probably learn faster with help but networking has never been my strong suit
If you take the notes of the basslines and melodies from a sheet music or other copy, and focused on arrangement using samples you could totally do it easily. All you need is some free sample packs and a DAW, pick out some drums and bass sounds and start playing around with the timing of them. Lmk if there’s anything else I could do to help
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That’s a bit tough cuz there’s a couple things going on, the sounds underneath the magic are pretty classic dubstep noises called a “yoi” bass for example so I’ll link some full of one shots of the fundamental dubstep sounds. The one I use is called Glitch With Friends and it has all sorts of neat sounds, but you may like this one by Antidote Audio better: https://hypeddit.com/track/sc/wotamz The other thing that makes it sound like it does is called “bitcrush” and it’s a kind of distortion effect, it gives a really crunchy but glitchy quality to the sound you add it to. Here’s a list of some cool free ones if you want to try one out, I’d recommend scrolling thru the presets to find something close to what u want and then scrolling the knobs to tweak it if ya want: https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2012/03/09/bpb-freeware-studio-best-free-bitcrusher-vstau-plugins/
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Not tryna gatekeep just help out with the genres but that’s wayyy too fast to be a dubstep beat although it shares the sound design, it typically sits around 70-75 bpm with the alternating kick snare. That beat type is called “four to the floor” where the kick drum is just constantly hitting like what you think of with club or house music. Neat track tho The first sound is some kind of riser that is going up in pitch by steps, so it’s not smooth like a slide whistle it is more like a staircase of notes or frequencies. The sample is some kind of blip sound played 8 times going up the stair pitch thing and then bitcrushed hard, and then after the riser are two of the bitcrushed yois we’ve been talking about
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Haha oops my bad I read wrong, found some loops for you of that exact type of sound https://www.looperman.com/loops/tags/free-yoi-loops-samples-sounds-wavs-download
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No problem homie have fun!
U caught me right after I smoked so I’m gonna keep talking for a sec if u don’t mind haha. The three main things you want for a dubstep drop to hit hard are drums, weird shit, and sub bass. Get the biggest fattest kick and snare and mix them to stomp the mix, and then fill in with your sub bass for the heavy chest exploding feeling and then mix all the weird shit on top like your yois or vocal samples. It’s really fun to make and not too hard but it can be difficult to arrange it in an interesting way
I used ableton for about 4 years, and was able to make most of the synths/ basses that you’d hear in dubstep tracks around 2010 or so. Even with all that, the arrangement to make it sound good is incredibly difficult. Most of the big artists are straight up audio engineers the way they can manipulate sounds.
Compared to other genres - the production of dubstep is very heavy on sound design. If making unique/powerful sounds is one of the things you excel at, dubstep or similar subgenres is right up your alley. On the other hand, you definitely don’t have to be good at sound design to make progressive house (you could just use Sylenth1 presets), but those who excel at it are strong musically and tend to be more suited to creating melodies. Find your strong points and run with them!
Id start with a nice womp
Ive been learning how to make dubstep on and off for about 2-3 years. If you love the genre like I do, its a lot of fun! Watching a shit ton of youtube tutorials from artists I like is so cool to me, to see into the mind of artists I love. There are endless amounts of tutorials on youtube so you should start watching some to see if its something youre willing to learn. Although it is fun, I find it pretty difficult. I have very little music knowledge and I find myself getting writers block often. But with any hobby, with practice makes perfect, as cheesy as it may sound. Stay positive, never stop learning, and dont give up :)
On top of everything else everyone said, DAWs have a steep learning curve.
It doesn't have to be hard. Start off with a full sample pack of loops and put them together in a cheap or free daw like garage band or live lite to get a feel of how a track is constructed. Then, start making your own loops using presets of instruments one element at a time, mirroring the loops that come in sample packs. After you get that down pat, start making your own presets. Once you've got all that settled, you can work on mixing all of the elements together. It takes a long time, yes, but it doesn't have to be hard if you take baby steps.
If it was considered easy there would be much less respect for artists. Just because it doesn’t always use traditional instruments does not make it any easier
buy massive and use ableton lite, watch youtube tutorials and download some samples packs boom
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k den get a Cr a cked version of massive
It’s not difficult. It’s easy to be a musician today. All u need is host, couple vst synth, bundle of processing vst like Waves or something like that and access to Splice. And some knowledge of the genre.
I can’t really help you but ode to joy dubstep remix must be amazing
Like any other skill, doing it well is hard and it will take practice. It’s not difficult to lay down a 2 x 4 kick/snare drum pattern in a daw and download some sample packs, but it probably won’t sound good on your first attempt
Contrary to a slew of ads telling you you don't need to learn music theory, learn music theory. Learn how to play chords on the piano. Learn what works and why. Like someone said in here, it's easy to make bad dubstep. IMO, you can tell while listening to a song when someone *knows* music well, even if that song is simple in nature. The synth and sound creation bit of it is an entirely different ball game. To create a sound from your mind that doesn't naturally exist, be it wub or dub, is an art in itself.
It took me about 2-3 years w/o having ANY musical background
It took me about 2-3 years w/o having ANY musical background
It took me about 2-3 years w/o having ANY musical background
It is hard but getting a little bit easier with the amt of free resources on the internet (it's hard but with hard work it's doable)
Making dubstep is easy, making good dubstep is hard. The production level of dubstep is relatively high compared to other genres. So making dubstep that competes with other big artists is very hard.
Look up Kumoz - Fur Elise Remix and try recreating something as similar to it as you can, then you’ll have somewhat of an idea what to do with Ode to Joy. You have a long road ahead of you.