I’ve been making tons of stuff lately on my D-50, but I don’t want to spam and make a new topic for every song, so I’ll post them to this topic instead. Again, I’m not too sure how posting on here fully works yet or the “Rules” I guess on how much you can post or where to post certain things at, so if anyone has tips for me that’d help a bunch! Anyways, here’s the first 3 “songs” I made with the D-50 a couple of days ago. Not sure if unlisted YouTube videos will work but I’ll give it a shot!
Hello! My brother gave me his Roland D-50 a few days ago and I’ve been making music on it ever since! I mostly have just synth stuff without drums, but I wanted to make vaporwave and lofi stuff as well, so I tried some Lo-Fi out and came up with this! Let me know if it sounds good! Everything other than the drums were made with the D-50.
I love the D-50.
I only have the plugin but it just always sits in a mix perfectly
I’ve always been bad with making melodies and finding good sounds using vsts, but when I got the D-50, everything flowed together so well, putting chords down and listening to random patches until one makes me go “THIS one sounds perfect over the chords” and so on until I have like 6 melodies lol.
Yeah it sound good, good choice of synth voice, they fit perfectly in the overall mix.
Thank you so much! It means alot to get feedback!
Really nice! Good production, too (to my amateur ears).
What you said re: trying to hear what melody works over what chords. How’s your music theory? That can help there. Definitely not a prerequisite - plenty of great msuic is made by people with zero training in music theory or harmony - but it can definitely help you understand why certain notes and others don’t.
With this piece, even though the underlying chords and the melody are slightly at odds with one another harmonically, I feel it works nonetheless (just about). They’re not worlds apart harmonically and the smudged, hazy timbres you’ve used do a good job of de-emphasising the harmony aspect (this is a feature of electronic music much less available to, say, classical music, where timbres are much more pointed and accute.)
Anyway, just my thoughts - good job!
nice job it sends Blade Runner soundtrack vibes
Thank you for the feedback! I honestly don’t know any thing about music theory really outside of a few things i learned when playing guitar, so i know a few scales and basically if you play the white keys only it’ll sound okay lol
Fair enough - in that case, bravo that you’ve obviously got an ear for it. In case it helps, I wrote a music theory/harmony primer for my partner who wanted to start learning this stuff. No worries if you want to steer clear of the theory and just jam, though, I offer it just in case.
Thank you! Ill probably check it out. Ive always wanted to learn the more technical side but found it hard to learn. Now that im an adult and not 15 i can probably do it lol