Noir - Beatport Studio Sessions

Noir invites us into his studio to discuss the production behind his latest track 'Eruption'.

[Yavor_B]

At least he is being honest about using presets, and he tweaks them afterwards. He is not like "I've been modifying this sound for a week on my Jupiter 8". Props for the honesty.

[ivayloivanov]

Since I don't have money for fancy hardware its always inspirational to see guys making great music only with software. These beatport studio sessions are great.

[RockstahRolln]

Talk about Patience. That bassline alone having recorded 5 times and taking the best parts... Thank You for a TERRIFIC video!!

[rekaviles]

So much respect for this guy. Thank you for that breakdown and insight on what it took to make this fantastic track.

[spacezombie]

the things about making them kicks!!! - That opened my eyes, thanks a lot. :)

[laurenttosti]

one of the best tuto i ever seen... THANK YOU and happy new year ;)

[gomesdiogo]

thank you, Noir
thank you, beatport

[kavokei]

The breakdown is epic and the bit from bar 129 is just devastating in its brutality. This track has been an inspiration since I first heard it, I hope you don't mind that I use it as a reference track (more recently I use 'Done' as well).

I have a couple of questions;
1) you mentioned that you had the melody in your head for a while, how do you come up with melodies? Do you just hear them in your head and recreate them when you get to the studio, or sit at a keyboard and noodle? How do you save melody ideas? (hopefully counts as one question)
2) do you always send a track for mastering before you try it out in one of your sets?

Thank you for showing how you put 'Eruption' together - such a fantastic privilege to look behind the curtain and understand the amount of work hours and effort that goes into your music. I often find that people don't understand quite how much time AND skill/knowledge it takes to put together a track that has such an effect on a crowd, vs some other producers who seem to just throw together something that's merely acceptable. I'm aiming for the first, I know I'm not there yet...

However, I must admit, the Black Lab is less black than I was imagining :)

[kubilayvolkankaygisiz]

I was listening Adam Beyer's set for ultra, then I heard this song, I was really impressed, I researched it and I was really surprised that it was your song because you used to make more melodic songs, and I was really happy about the name because my name is Volcano. I am happy to see that you record a video to show how u made this song, thank you so much. My first question; after making this song, are you open to release songs similar to this style from Noir Music ( so should we send? ), second; how do you keep your motivation up, to work on a song for 4-5 months, do you go check it everyday, or do you let it wait for a while? whenever I start a song, I feel like I need to finish ASAP otherwise I can loose my motivation.

[soacker]

Hi noir! Love your label. What do you think about the vibrating subpack on your chair? Is it worth it? Does it have a good resolution for mixing/mastering?

[spacezombie]

I know how these happy accidents feel ... actually 90% of my good sounds are those random accidents xD

[tonymusic]

What do you put in key together ? The kick with the melody ? What other stuff ? Thanks for this vid !

[dangroves]

Great video. How can you layer so many sounds without them clashing in frequency, especially sounds like hi hats?

[mrbass]

when you said you had the 4th kick layered which was a bit for edge... what did you mean by that? and doesn't two subby kicks cancel each other out?

[mrbass]

what do you do when your in a stuck creative loop?

[Thug_Michael]

Ich got first Maschine Studio and than I get push 2 and push 2 I dont like that workflow with push und ableton it taks me to long if I have to pres 1000 Tims than I get the New Maschine again. Best workflow