That has been used on so many of my songs that it's a little bit ridiculous! The FL Studio EQ is everywhere and Maximus is one of the easiest mastering tools you'll ever use. "The ones that really matter to me are the Oxford Dynamics Compressor, which I've used forever, and Guitar Rig. If the most important part of the piano tune is on the off-beat, that's all people need to hear." There's no way to make space for everything, so I sidechain certain instruments - using automation, not compressors - to get them out of the way when they don't need to be there. "There are moments in Finale when there's pad, string, sub bass, distorted bass, guitars, choir and piano all playing at the same time. If you've got strings and pads playing the same chords, you don't really need a whole different space for each sound. "But, at the same time, it's important to look at the overall mix and try to understand which sounds might work together. If you have a complicated song, you have to look for increasingly tiny, intricate spaces in-between the other sounds and make use of them. "Yeah, there's a lot going on in that track and one of the most important lessons I learned over the last couple of years is that you've only got a limited amount of space for each sound. You described the production on Finale as 'The Madeon Wall Of Sound'. I might do five different versions of a track and pick every one of those apart two weeks later." A kick drum might get split into three separate tracks, with each one processed individually. These are notes sent to effects but you don't actually hear the real note. A lot of tracks are made up of ghost notes. "Are you kidding? Some are 150 hours, Some are 200 hours - a long, long time! I use a lot of automation. Presumably that level of complexity means tunes can take a while to complete? "I used to struggle with mastering and mixing, but one day it suddenly clicked: it's not about skill or having millions of plugins, it's about hearing what's wrong with a track." One of the songs I've been working on needed 150 tracks of music, so I rang FL up and said, 'Guys, I need more tracks, please.'"
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"The FL synths - things like Harmless and Harmor - are as good as anything else in the marketplace. He locked himself away in Belgium and coded most of the FL graphics and plugins. Do you know the guy who developed it? Gol is like this evil genius in a good, weird and creative way.
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I try to make everyone buy FL Studio, even people who don't make music! I think it's the most fantastic piece of software in the world. These days, you're something of an FL Studio evangelist. "After that, I threw myself into music and I tried all the different DAWs I could get hold of: Cubase, Reason, FL Studio… I stayed with FL Studio because it had great demos." The recordings are truly awful, but I like them because they represent my first expressions in the world of electronic music. I had no idea about drum machines or synthesisers, so I made recordings of me hitting my mother's dining table and turned them into drum loops. "The first step was getting some basic audio editing software. I wanted to know how people made these crazy sounds. I could look at a guitar and drum kit and say, 'OK, that's how you make a song.' But when I heard the vocoders and space noises on Daft Punk, I became curious. With normal rock and pop music, I could understand how it was made. I wrote a few games, did some programming, but when I first heard Daft Punk something strange happened. How come you weren't vegging out and playing Halo like most kids your age? Martin Solveig ft.You've been messing around with DAWs and plugins since you were 11. Gwen Stefani – What You Waitin For (Jacques Lu Cont Mix) See the video and the list of all the songs he used after the jump.ĭeadmau5 – Raise Your Weapon (Madeon Remix) Watch him mashup 39 catchy tracks including Daft Punk, Katy Perry and Michael Jackson into one even catchier track. Madeon is only 17 years old, but he has skills far beyond his years.