STOP using SAMPLE Libraries and PRESETS!

The key to make great music is to know your gear and your instruments. Start to create your own sounds and effects!

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00:00 - Start
01:27 - 1. Find your Signature Sound!
04:00 - 2. You will ruin your creativity!
05:40 - 3. Stop Consuming! Make it yourself!
07:27 - Finally

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[nicmcv]

"...unreasonable amount of reverb and delay"

Yes!

[FRIDGEYTHEGOAT]

I love using synths for creating my own random samples then chopping and splicing those for some great interesting sounds.

[tryingtotryistrying]

i used to only make synth patches from scratch- but once i learned now i don't mind using presets. i always take off the effects and then customize further to fit the track, but a good preset just saves me time from the building blocks. still, i get your point.

[fakshen]

There's a time and a place for presets. Yes... make your OWN presets as often as you can. Have four of everything: 4 bass, 4 leads, 4 pads, 4 entire drum kits. Keep expanding those, even if they are just close variation or just different effects.

But if you are hot and heavy in the creative process and you need a new sound for a new part, just go with a preset that sounds close enough. Don't get stuck trying to pick out the perfect sound or build one on the fly. Pick a preset and go. When you're writing, the fewer distractions or detours the better. When you're having trouble coming up with the next part, then you can work on sound design for what you already have.

[REY-KOFF]

I agree with all that has been said. Respect

[FLHofficial]

How I agree with your video! Premade sample libraries and worse "MIDI packs" are the Death of The Art..

[jmk]

I got interested in music producing because I wanted to make it my "own music" from the scratch. At the time when I started 25 years ago PC wasn't capable of that much.. at least normal budget PC like today. I was having problems and homeless for few years so I needed to sell every piece of gear but I invested some into reason and some 3rd party software and now I havent felt like trying to get any gear back as I can do what I like to do with this setup.. physical gear is much more fun to play with though, sometimes working with DAW really feels like work, specially when I know what I want to do and how to do it and still can't just voice-command my daw to make it for me...
Usually I start from preset or sample (in drum sounds, not much else) that is good starting point, then work it up to what I like to hear with modulation, effects and everything. Sometimes if there's something like great set-up for some sound in another track, copy that and take it to new project, , recycle " sounds from project to another. They change unrecognizable anyway during the process.
After all I do this for my own fun, to have something new to listen to when I go to walk.. there's no expectations about what it has to be if it sounds right.

[cnfuzz]

Filtered white noise sweep, the first nono for any track ( except when wanting to sound cheesy)

[fabianwk]

collaging is also considered art, so why are samples bad?

[Mattstar]

i make drums on my drum machine and bass on my norand. i fill in gaps with a lot of the rest. i use splice for atmos and vox chops. sometimes you find something really inspiring. its like the sync button, dont have to use it but its there if you wanna use it. if you know what you want to sound like you are already using the gear with the sounds it has.

[xdc]

I think choosing a preset should be a starting template for sound tweaking, that is if the software or hardware allows it. If it's a fixed preset, adding FX usually helps add another feel to the sound when used in context with other gear. I have yet to adapt to sound design on analog synths and prefer to mangle samples, making them into one cycle waveforms with usual tweaking of parameters like start and end points, maybe getting a granular synth would be great for that approach. Good advice.

[nichttuntun]

It's a matter of what you are sampling and how you work with that material. Bands like Skinny Puppy used samples during the first phase to define their signature sound.

There are samples and samples. And there is processing and processing.

Which creative artist would take some generic and boring samples from a dull techno library and build a complete track with it?

It's getting interesting when you're using recordings from real instruments, field recordings and B-Movies and process them with filters, granular effects, downsampling, bit reduction, distortion and lots of fun stuff more. Than mixing that with your sound-design from synthesizers.

Maybe that's different for the techno scene?

For me, the Sampler is still one of the most creative and interesting instruments ever made, including the Fairlight, to speak of re-synthesis also. Synplant 2 now has a wonderful feature to synthesize samples in a most creative way and most of the time the unfinished versions give the most interesting results.

Samples will always be used, either in a boring or exciting way. It's your choice.

[jennoscura]

If you haven't done so already I would love to a video on studio accessibility tips. You and I aren't the only disabled musicians. So a video on studio design tips for people who have to sit down would be awesome.

[MJanovicable]

Excellent advice for musicians and composers, young and old alike! Wasn't the whole point of electronic music and synthesis for all of us to explore the possibilities of sound? I will always be learning and discovering new sounds. Wonderful video!

[CSGraves]

Back when I had the time to make music, I easily spent as much or more time making my own patches/samples as I did actually making music with them. For me, the end result was crudely made sounds mashed together for crudely made music... but at least it wasn't all presets! 😆

[Elektragen]

using presets or libraries is like a cook giving you a burger from McDonald's ☝️😉😄

[mattsmith]

Good video! I'm just commenting for the algorithm 😊

[raise-project]

Stimme zu! Presets and samples always feel a little "cheaty" or alien in my tracks to me. Both for melodys and sound design its of course harder to make good stuff but its totally worth it in the long run.

[KosmicKitchen]

Great advice; I’ve only recently been exploring samples, after buying an Akai MPC. Browsing through samples does ruin my creative flow.

[jennoscura]

Nothing wrong with synth presets if you use them right. I like to layer sounds. The Yamaha FB-01 has some fantastic bass presets. They sound even better layered with an analog synth bass. Today I have been playing around with a bass sequence with a bass preset on the FB-01 layered with a bass preset from the Roland Alpha Juno 1. Layering sounds is a great way to add character to your music while using synth presets. I also like to layer drum sounds. I sequence my drums on the Arturia KeyStep Pro. So it's easy to send the same drum pattern to multiple drum machines.

I use an analog mixing console. So it's really easy to mix and EQ the layers.

When you are beginner it's fine to use presets as they are. But eventually you want to get more creative and do a bit of sound design. Layer presets, modify presets, EQ presets, run presets through effects pedals. There is so much you can do without making sounds from scratch.