How to develop a musical style, the easy way.
This is easily the one thing that’s helped my musical style develop across the years. Along the way I’ve learned how to use these sounds and shape other sounds into what pleases my ear. The bi benefit of not only having a cohesive sound is that you can then hop on any machine, or device, and know ahead of time what you’d like to get from it. It increases the speed at which I make music a ton too. I hope you find this video helpful, thanks again for the support and watching.
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00:00 Can You Hear The Difference?
01:23 Little History Of How I Got Here
01:43 2 Pieces Of Gear That Changed Me.
02:46 Why Recycling Sounds Is So Beneficial
03:42 This Is How I Use This Technique Today.
04:43 Autoload Is Great, But Beware Too.
05:27 THE TLDR
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…… honestly, this video and idea is absolutely mind-blowing to me. Wow. Really appreciate your insight and knowledge, Ricky!
Maaaan, the comparison to bands using the same, or at least a limited selection of, instruments is an exact analogy I've been using.
I got so bogged down feeling like I had to keep getting new drum packs and make new drum racks, specifically. I don't use samples besides drum one shots, but it's always been a significantly time consuming part of the process. I trimmed my keyboard rig down to my Nautilus and Prophet 08. It's all I need right now, honestly.
Thanks ! This is really helpful????
Yes. Been doing this for years. Great vid. I’ve never heard anyone else talk about this. ❤️
Thanks Ricky! ????
Personally, I'm still proud of the advice I gave a friend after she posted the meme of the old-timers at slot machines searching for a snare:
I decided not so long ago to choose my top 3 snares and always use those. Layer them (play with amp shape/volume and timing of each) and pitch, filter, overdrive, soundshape them as necessary for the song. That way I'm never endlessly searching, and can still have distinct snares in my songs, while having "my" sound.
For those of us interested in unfound sounds it’s actually the opposite. We need to save the notation and keep experimenting and searching for better sounds.
No growth!! In my opinion..
i totally disagree
i think a unique workflow is another great way to automatically garner ones own sound.
great advice
thanks man, you are awesome 🙂 . I completely agree too, my only consistent albums are ones that I made the songs all in one ableton file, not the best practice but it worked haha
your advices are always the best ones. Thanks!
This is something I needed to hear man thank you ????
Great video greater photo from 2012. Love to hear more on this topic. Thanks a lot!!
¡Gracias!
thank you! I started resampling my own drums to create my own custom kits, and have some consistency and my own sound in that area. Especially as my productions are very varied (from gritty afrobeat over soulful house to harder hitting house) I need something that connects everything and communicates my own musical identity. Your video kind of summarizes the journey I made.
That 2nd track sounds like a song that was popular here in the netherlands early 90s , cant remember title but this sounds amazing
Killer sentiment. This same philosophy has helped me actually start releasing tracks i'm stoked on! much love homie.
I have appreciated your constant inspiration as I seek zen through midi clocked hardware. Thanks for this valuable insight and tacit validation. Stay rad.
part of me needed to hear that – thx????
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Great video, loved the message. Appreciate you Ricky, all the best for 2024 ????????
What you're getting at is one of my core goals and philosophies for creating electronic music. One of my biggest regrets from my days playing in metal bands, was the best album I released. None of the songs sound like a cohesive album, the genres and styles are too fluid. The individual songs are good I think, but together they don't make any sense. When I started making electronic stuff, I didn't want to replicate that mistake, and new I needed to figure out how to make things cohesive. Getting the Model:Cycles was my "ah hah!" moment. Since then I've stockpiled other Elektron gear, and I have fewer issues with GAS because even though I might like a piece of gear, I can tell from the get go that it just probably won't fit with what I'm trying to accomplish. I try to use the same bass and percussion elements from song to song, and sometimes try to reuse even the focal points, at least in terms of tambre or texture etc. Consistency in "acoustic aesthetic" is crucial to having a defined sound IMO. If that's important to you, these words are gospel.
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bro, kick.mp3 used to carry on a lot of my old music ???? I'd put effects on it and filter and different for the most part, but that one kick definitely was and will be used a lot
Glad to hear someone else speak on this.
I too recently adopted a "these machines are my band" approach. It makes things so much more focused and cuts out all the aimless soundsearching. Corny but… Its like what you were searching for was right infront of you all along ????????. Great content as always mate
One of the best tutorials I’ve seen in over a year – great work
This speaks right to me. And an important point about creativity. Creativity stems from constraints and when you are designing sounds, you're doing it to serve a purpose and to have a function – your own sound.
Brilliant advice Ricky .
All the best for 2024????
On point! I arrived on the same this year. Confirming talk! I used to make from scratch everything because was looking for my sound all those years. Now it’s consistent and more phunn! HNY!
Proudly and deliberately picking the default FL template kick snare and hats while ignoring my 300 GB of high quality drum samples i paid for.
????????. Great message!
Sounds are a huge part of what makes your own style… problem these days is that many people believe that having more gear will make you better, when it actuality restricts time for actually composing…
Excellent advice! Thanks for the insights as always
any tips for a beginner on how/where to find my own sounds? lets say i want to find some nice kicks for boom bap hiphop beats. where would i start? do i just use the first one i like via sampling old records?
I really love those, well, let’s call them production hints or producer hints. Thanks for making those kinds of videos! (I do like the other ones too, but at the moment, this kind of content and information resonates with me in a different, more personal way.) I guess, it can be actually pretty helpful to take the time and listen to one’s favourite artists (probably album by album or EP by EP) and figure out what it is that they were doing that makes some of their work from a certain phase so very much their thing, their style.
At times I think that some people who are developing their style and learning their craft are afraid of using things like templates (in a DAW) or presets (on instruments). Of course, no one likes the idea of listening to a set of tracks with a growing feeling that it’s the same song over and over again. But things don’t necessarily end up being the same just because one starts off by using what helps to get/keep going. More often than not, reinventing the wheel each and every time one sits down to create something can make things more difficult and/or power consuming that they need to be.
Yet, sure, there is nothing wrong with starting from scratch. If it feels like doing so, why going against that flow. Whatever helps creating, learning and having/keeping fun along the way is a good thing, I guess. And it sure is a good thing to keep an open mind … as one might realise what those things are that keep coming back, that make things feel just right and/or are just helpful to do or include.
Thanks so much for this video! Bits like these are just gold!
Bro, awesome video, awesome advice. It’s so easy to get stuck digging through presets, sample packs, the perfect snare etc that actually making music takes a back seat. Find what moves you and just get to making music????
Love you too bud, see you in 2024????????