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Music for Fun

This group is aimed to give members a fun experience while they work with Soundation Studio. For Soundation users wanting help with basic studio functions or if users need advice on how to make a particular track work. This is also a group for anyone that would like to share their music and love of music! No special requirements needed. You're a music lover and that's good enough! Announcements! ICON SUBMISSIONS You are more than welcome to send in group icons for MFF! If you do create a group icon for MFF throw me a PM and I'll give it a look! WE HAVE A DISCORD! It's pretty dead but feel free to chat it up :p be nice

._-| Addict of Soundation |-_.

We are Music addicts We are the Soundation Addicts Follow your dreams and listen to yourself ________________________________________________________________________________ You can upload your tracks on the group and as a community we will do ourbest to give feedback and tips that we've learned. Give some real feedback where you target a problem and give the user a solution.

Music Theory

HERE IS A .SNG FILE WITH A SHORT CHILLOUT IDEA IN IT https://www.mediafire.com/download/dbvjymvbqt3xr7u/Chilled_song_for_you_guys_to_get_ideas_from.sng HERE IS A .SNG FOR A DNB DRUM BEAT https://www.mediafire.com/download/6d61bs9aclzkbn9/DnB_beat.sng It has come to my attention that many people on soundation don't have a basic understanding of music theory and subsequently some of them find it hard to make there own loops, stay in a key and make nice sounding melodies. I intend to change that by helping those people get to grips with the basics, I will also be giving a few tips targeted at those who already have a good understanding and have to help really improve there musical depth, such as some really neat key changes (Key changes are barely used on soundation), chromaticism, blues notes, extended chords, countermelodies and many more, NEW!!!!: KRackEd EkHo had the idea of having a communal account so people can see the ideas of music theory for themselves as well as getting useful ideas. the user name is 'DusksMusicTheoryProgram@gmail.com' and the password is 'duskmusicuk' feel free to add new projects and test your ideas for others to see, I'll be putting a few things up for others to use and get ideas from. the only things you cannot do is delete projects, change the password or do anything on the community with this account, this account is purely for use in the studio. if anyone does otherwise the account will be shut down, so please obey by the rules. The Basics: there are 12 notes on the key board A, A-sharp/B-flat, B, C, C-sharp/D-flat, D, D-sharp/E-flat, E, F, F-sharp/G-flat, G, G-sharp/A-flat, check the link to see how these relate to the piano roll https://www.ehowtoplaypiano.com/piano-lessons/piano-notes-for-songs/ ...but you only use 7 at a time because there are only seven in each key, e.g. C,D,E,F,G,A,B,(C) an octave is C1 to C2 as C2 is the 8th note from C1 (as there are seven in the scale) The gap between to note directly adjacent to each other (e.g. B and C or D and D-sharp) is called a semitone, 2 semitones are called a tone (e.g. the gap between C and D is a tone, check the piano roll or link to see for yourself) Major Keys: the pattern of these tones and semitones for a major scale is T,T,S,T,T,T,S (e.g. C,D,E,F,G,A,B,(C) for C major or F,G,A,B-flat,C,D,E, for F major you simply pick a major key and to work out the scale for that key you use the pattern T,T,S,T,T,T,S to find all the notes. Minor Keys: For a natural minor Key the pattern is T,S,T,T,S,T,T but for a harmonic minor the pattern is T,S,T,T,S,T+S,S (mess around and see which you prefer), so an A (natural) minor scale would be A,B,C,D,E,F,G,(A) an A (harmonic) minor would be A,B,C,D,E,F,G-sharp,(A). check this site for more https://www.loopblog.net/tutorials/music-theory-tutorials/understanding-basic-scales-more-loop-fun/ or https://www.music-tutors-uk.com/Theory/scales.html Basic chords: the most common chord is a triad, it has 3 notes and the have intervals of thirds (in others words they have one note in between them (from the scale of the key), e.g. in C major the notes of the scale are C,D,E,F,G,A,B so a third would be C to E or D to F) in this clip, the chord C major is played first, the first note is C, the next note is E as it is a third away (one note in between), then a G is the next as it is a third away from E this gives you C,E,G and this is how you make triads. check this clip and my comments at the beginning for a proper lesson on chords https://soundation.com/user/duskmusicuk/track/the-basics-of-chords also check these clips for more on scales and chord sequences (more to come) https://soundation.com/user/duskmusicuk/track/simple-chord-sequence-in-c-major-sequence-i-v-vi-iv-1-5-6-4 https://soundation.com/user/duskmusicuk/track/harmonic-minor-scales-a-minor-to-d-minor-pattern-t-s-t-t-t-s-s https://soundation.com/user/duskmusicuk/track/major-scales-c-major-to-f-major-pattern-t-t-s-t-t-t-s

THE RAPTOR PACK

DO YOU WANT BASS? DO YOU WANT ATOMIC DROPS? DO YOU WANT TO BE PART OF A BEAT BLASTING GROUP EXPERIENCE? well then... THE RAPTORS ARE WAITING....!

Bloc Party

Co Admin(s): Twisted Dreamers Lostdutchmen SupraStar leviticus ****IMPORTANT STUFF::**** *I'M BACK PEEPS!!! *AGAIN* *Hey guys i would like to sincerely apologize fo not being on for so long i just had some really important stuff come up but i WILL be back on hopefully posting a track every week if not two* LETS MAKE IT TO 200 MEMBERS! OR TO AT LEAST 150! *I WILL BE ON EVERY DAY SO FEEL FREE TO SEND ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE OR ANY RECOMMENDATIONS YOU MIGHT ALSO HAVE* *JOIN SOME OF MY OTHER GROUPS HERE* https://soundation.com/group/taginthenight https://soundation.com/group/taggest *FEATURED GROUPS TO BE IN* (PUT SOME IN THE COMMENT SECTION BELOW) Join My group on G+: Music Makers https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/110130697102216297392 *THE CHOSEN LIST*: *DJ Skateboarder* *TAGGEST* *Fazer* *Hypa Noize* *KRackEd EkHo* *Zammo* *Gabe Spivey 1* *Tydal Wave* *vinyl syghting* *BackBonez* *Cyclosa* *Xephyr* *Exile* *XM920* *leviticus* *Twisted Dreamers* *J.A.C.O.B* *Adriel Quiles* *Tom Bellinger* *SHURIKEN*

Andreas Tips N' Tricks

Hello everyone. I'm Andreas and I worked as the Production Manager here at Soundation/PowerFX. Part of my work was constantly testing and developing Soundation's features and trying to come up with ideas of how we can do things better. While doing this I sometimes stumble across some really cool ways of creating sounds and I thought I should start to share them with you guys. If you have any tips you would like to share pm me with a short description (what it is, how you would use it and how you create it) and link to an audio example. h3. How To: Create a Powerful Gliding Sub by Tydal Wave 1) Open the mono 2) Change it to Preset 1. 3)Add lowpass filter, keep cutoff under 150hz (around 60 is the best) 4) Try to only use the 3rd and 2nd octaves, those work best for subs. 5) Add an equalizer and have the low side no smaller than 40 and no larger than 75. 6) (Optional) Add reverb and fiddle with it until you find a sound that you like (Brass preset is what works best for me) 7) Have fun! *Check out the audio example: "Powerful Gliding Sub":https://soundation.com/user/Tydal-Wave/track/powerful-gliding-sub-example* h3. How to create a Melodic SuperSaw by Crescendo: 1. Add a SuperSaw channel. 2. Open up Edit Instrument on the SuperSaw Channel 3. Turn decay and sustain to 100% 4. Turn Detune down to 5% and turn down release to 10%. 5. Keep attack down to 0%. FX: 1. Add a Reverb with the Huge Tail preset and turn down the Size by 10% 2. Add a delay with the Oh Yeah preset and turn up the Wet by 5% OPTIONAL: Add a compressor with the Bass Running Hot preset. Recommended to be played in a higher octave. *Check out the audio example: "Melodic Supersaw":https://soundation.com/user/CrescendosProfile/track/melodic-supersaw-example* h3. How To: Create a Heavy Bass by Tydal Wave 1)Open Simple Channel 2)Oscillators-Triangle, Saw, Sine,Triangle 3)Set volume on Oscillators 1 and 2 to 100, and 3 and 4 to 0 4)Set Pitch on Oscillators 1 and 2 to -24,with detune on number 2 at +27 cents 5)In filter envelope, set Decay to 73% 6)In Amp envelope, set Decay and Sustain to 100%. Set Release to 13% 7)On filter, set cuttof to 15% and Resonance to 3% 8)Add a filter. Lowpass, cuttoff around 820Hz, resonance 100% 9)Add a second filter, Highpass, cutoff around 60 Hz, resonance 100% 10)Add Distortion, Foldback type 11)Add reverb, Size 89% Damp 67% Width 100% Wet 9% and Dry 100% 12)Add a second Reverb, do not modify it 13)Add yet another filter, lowpass, cutoff around 14000 HZ, Resonance 15% 14)Add a Fakie, make no modifications 15)Add a compresser Attack 9 % Release 12% Ratio 70% Threshold 70 % and Gain to 58 % 16)Load up an new instrument channel with GM-2, set it to sine wave and copy the notes *Check out the audio example: "Heavy Bass":https://soundation.com/user/TydalWave/track/heavy-bass-example* h3. How To: Create a Dream Synth by KRackEdEkHo 1)Load up the Supersaw Instrument in the blue channel. 2)Add Filter, Reverb with Lush tail preset, Delay, Compressor with Electric Guitar preset, Phaser with Subtle preset and a Limiter to the FX chain. *Check out the audio example: "Dream Synth":https://soundation.com/user/KRackEdEkHo/track/example-dream-synth* h3. How To: Create a Gun Shot by MΛ➩ŁΔCҚY 1)Load up the SPC Instrument in the blue channel. 2)Chose the "electro house" kit. 3)Select the clap and put the pitch all the way to the left-side. (-24) And put the gain up to 100%. 4) Add reverb for nice echo effect. *Check out the audio example: "Gun Shot":https://soundation.com/user/ma-lacky/track/gun-shot-example* h3. How To: Create a talking bass by BackBonez 1) Open WUB machine on distorted throat 2) Make oscillator 1 a square oscillator and put it on -12 and put PAN to center 3) Make oscillator 2 a saw oscillator and put it on +12 4) Make a triangle LFO at 19% speed 5) Go to FX and add a degrader of choice. Preferably wrecked 6) Add a vocals reverb if you want to. *Check out the audio example: "Talking Bass":https://soundation.com/user/BackBonezUK/track/heavy-talking-bass-tutorial* h3. How To: Create a sick wobble by SiKKaH 1. Open the Wub Machine. 2. In the Analog Filter Section, change it to lowpass, and change the cutoff to 20hz. 3. In the LFO Section set the Speed to 21% and the Type of wave to the first one. 4. On OSC1 change the wave type to the first one, pitch to -21 and OSC Shape to 35 5. On OSC2 change pitch to -12, change the type to the third one, 6. Change MSL, Filth, and Unison to fit your liking, and enjoy! *Check out the audio example: "Sick Wobble":https://soundation.com/user/SiKKaH/track/example-sick-wobble* h3. How To: Create a choir-like synth by XJM This is excellent for those looking for a deep, "heavenly" choir like sound. There are two ways to generate this but the easiest way is with the SuperSaw. The two most important parts you need are two filters, one Lowpass with CutOff around 667Hz and Resonance around 60% and one Highpass with Cutoff around 819Hz and Res around 90%. (This is called a bandpass filter) Release should be raised so you get that tail at the end. Raise the attack to wherever feels most comfortable to you so long as it is NOT staccato (short attacks). Tune the SuperSaw up a little bit but keep it detuned. You can add a Reverb to make it sound as if it's being "sung" in a church or cathedral of some kind. Best range for this sound is between C4 and C5 give or take one or two notes. You can also do this with the Simple virtual instrument just set everything to Saw and detune. Same effects and instrument settings. *Check out the audio example: "Synth Choir":https://soundation.com/user/dj-xjm/track/malechoir-ahh-example* h3. How To: Create a huge sub bass Fat sub basses are of course the foundation of any bass driven music style such as Drum n Bass or Dubstep but can be used in virtually any music style for great effect. If your bass sound lack power layer this sound with your original bass and it will sound positively huge! Ok here is how to do it. Load The Wub Machine and select the Clean Sub preset. Now add the Degrader FX to the channel and choose the preset Bad Recording. After Degrader load a Filter and choose Low Pass with a CutOff frequency of 500Hz. *Check out the audio example: "BIG BOOOOOOOOOM!":https://soundation.com/user/andreas/track/big-boom*

Contest Weekly

Hey! New contest! This used to be Contest Weekly Vol. 2, but the first one is no longer! So we are gonna be starting anew!!! In this contest, we will hold a competition every week basing these weeks off of themes. Your goal is to match that theme. Judges will be decided at random each week by yours truly.Cheers and have fun RULEZ: 1.No person can win a contest 3 times in a row. 2.At least try to match the theme 3. You can only post one song for each week, so be careful. 4.There can not be the same prize 2 times in a row. 5.I am not allowed to participate in contests that I have to judge myself.And neither are you! 6. NO VOTING FOR YOUR OWN TRACK!!!!!!!! YOU WILL BE KICKED. Like ferreal guys(im lookin at you Shade77) 7.Be nice and considerate, have fun and enjoy. =============BE SURE TO CHECK OUTS============= BE SURE TO CHECK OUT: THE CONTEST OF THE CENTURY!!! hosted by me, Tydal Wave link: https://soundation.com/group/the-contest-of-the-century BE SURE TO CHECK OUT: all of the soundcloud users, here is a link to a group containing many of us: https://soundation.com/group/soundcloud-users Thank you =================ANNOUNCEMENTS=============== ~WINNER OF WEEK ONE~ Twas KE. Being the dubstep king of soundation(second to me of course ;) he blew me away with this drop. I chose this drop because for the whole while ive never been able to make sounds as awesome as him(second was Xephyr) ~THIS WEEKS JUDGE~ Is KE! ~_THa cONTEST_~ Please show mr EkHo here what you nad do with the mono! So make a song using mostly mono, with the main melodies in the mono channel. TIME FRAME:: February 21st-28th Restrictions:: Use mainly Mono, the time doesn't matter, just be at least over 1 minute. Prize:: You get to choose the contest for next week! ________________________________________________________ *Not every week will the winner be determined by votes, some will be determined by me.

THE CONTEST OF THE CENTURY!!!!

We are back! Yes! Finally the contest is starting again. The guidelines are: 1) NO REMIXES. You must make every single part of the song in soundation. Vocals are allowed but only if you record them your self. No remixes no remakes and if i catch you using a midi file or sng file, you WILL be disqualified immediately. 2) You can post up to 5 songs, and i encourage you to do it! This is going to be a large contest! 3) DO NOT ADVERTISE. No advertising. Do not say you have posted your song or put a link in the comments. If you want to advertise use messaging. 4) NO SONGS YOU HAVE ALREADY MADE. All of the songs you post must have been made after September 30th, 2014. 5) COLLABS ARE PERMITTED. Go ahead. Do it. ________________________________________ Now. To go over time. SEPTEMBER 30th - November 30th ________________________________________ This is how the winner will be chosen. I will browse through each and every song. The ones i like will be given THE NOD. The Nod is just my way of giving kudos. So...... I cant participate....awwwwww.....BECAUSE I AM THE PRIZE! More on that later, after you get The Nod, you are NOT to tell another soul.......except one. And you must tell only one. You are not to tell others who you told about The Nod. Once you have told me who you have told, message me immediately. Then, i will choose 4 out of everyone. The ones with the most Nods and the most times they were told about others Nods. Those four will then go for a week and have all their songs voted on. The on with the most overall votes wins! _________________________________________ PRIZES- 1st- Me. You get to do an epic rap battle of history with me, but the thing is it wont be a rap battle. But a soundation battle. We will collab on the intro, each say our names, then we will duke it out like Epic Rap Battles of History. 2nd- The full sng. that no one else will get for a remix opportunity on a song coming up. 3rd-This prize applies to all finalists. I will teach you how to do a sound that i only know. cool? Cool. Good luck and welcom to...... __________________________________________ THE SECOND SEASON OF THE CONTEST OF THE CENTURY!!!! Cheers!

KAYA

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