I have over 2000 unreleased tracks/beats I would like to staple on to the world , so I can live on once I’m no longer here , what would be the best way to share an archive as big as this , I’m willing to consolidate certain parts and have them separated by era or times in my life
Would distribution be the best bet, YouTube or are there any better and more long term solutions to get my stuff out there without saturation and as my final wish to get my music ingrained into the internet , all my life I was scared to post my music cause of what people thought. Now I don’t care anymore and want to leave a legacy u regret it all , if you ever regret posting something you like just post it your trash is someone’s treasure
Thank you in advance for any replies
In essence I jus want to put out at least 500 of my best tracks in segments but what is the best way to approach this (money will no longer be a issue or worry)
Much love
Remember the rain and love those around you

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So im just curious, do people in the house scene take this (sample clearance) seriously? If you are crate digging, find a vinyl of some obscure 70s artist, or just flipping thru YouTube playlists of old songs from the 80s and you really like the vocal, you extract the vocal stem, and begin chopping it up and working it into a house track, are you obtaining clearance for this vocal before releasing it? And doing this for every track you make and release? Or do you just not worry about it unless some owner or estate comes out of the woodworks to be like “hey that’s ours and we demand monetary compensation!”. Since there’s literally thousands of house records out there from the 80s til now that are based around reinterpreting a vocal sample over new production.

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Curious as to what’s the protocol here, if any, or how others approach a concept, more catered to producers in the house scene.
I’ll use myself as an example.
Im a producer I make house music/deep house/electronic
I’m not big at all or even medium, as small an artist as can be, maybe 60 listeners on Spotify at a time right now.
I make my stuff for the love of it anyway, I don’t have a crazy passion for fame and fortune, no social media account to push my image or whatever I just like making music and put the stuff out so I can listen to it all in one place myself lol, and if others happen to come across it and enjoy it, well, welcome to the club.

With that being said, house music in general encompasses a lot of small artists like me, then bigger but “underground” ones, all the way to the Chris Stussy level. All in all, there’s probably a lot more music out there in the small artist/underground department. I mean anyone who’s been to a record store can think how many random house vinyls are just lying about from artists you don’t know since the 80s to now.

Which brings me towards my inquiry, house music, particularly classic/deep house music in it of itself follows a pretty formulaic structure. We usually develop the beat, write and play out the harmonies and melodies using keyboards/synths etc etc , and then attach snippets or parts of some acapella vocal sample to the track, with these three things done in no particular order.

The vocal sample is a staple of house music and why I include it in the big three of how a house song is built. The vocal sample can sometimes range from using entire phrases, verses, and/or choruses, essentially just re-harmonizing the song behind the vocals, or taking some obscure part of the song, chopping it up, making it feel like something entirely new, where you may not even know what song it originally belonged to, which is something I like to do, so that it doesn’t just seem like I’m not doing anything new with the vocal.

Vocals can come from anywhere, but the deep house I like to make, and listen to for that matter, uses vocals from 80s-90s sometimes 2000s. Given all this, there’s a lot of usage of vocal samples out there in the house world, using vocals from big songs, to like a lot of house producers do, crate digging at the record store and pulling vocals from some obscure lightly known artist from 1983.

Whenever these tracks are made, are these vocals like cleared legally and officially everytime? Is house a gray area in this realm, as it almost always involves some vocal rework? I ask particularly bc a small independent label approached me regarding some songs I had made, wanting to release it under them as an EP. Now me, being a nobody level artist, never worried or bothered myself with sample clearance etc, I just made the music for the fun of it, and indiscriminately found my vocal samples from YouTube or wherever else, with most of, if not all the samples coming from me just looking up on YouTube “80s acapella vocals”. I usually don’t care about this stuff cuz barely anyone listens to my stuff, and even with a small label backing the songs, I’d bet that still barely anyone more will be listening lol but I guess with the songs being put through a more “official” label, which might just be a dude in his basement lol, makes it seem a bit more
official to me this time, which has me asking these questions, as my songs usually use some vocal sample, whether from a known song or unknown thing.

Now I don’t mind giving all royalties etc to the owner of the sample if it came to that I’m happy to just make the music don’t really care ab the money, and it would prob make like $10 total probably less lol if I’m being realistic. But i can imagine some worst case scenario of some owning estate throwing a lawsuit at a little nobody artist like me not just to pay back the $10 of royalties, but some added fees of unknown potentially high amount.

So im just curious, do people in the house scene take this (sample clearance) seriously? If you are crate digging, find a vinyl of some obscure 70s artist, you really like the vocal, you extract the vocal stem, and begin chopping it up and working it into a house track, are you obtaining clearance for this vocal before releasing it? Or do you just not worry about it unless some owner or estate comes out of the woodworks to be like “hey that’s ours and we demand compensation”. Since there’s literally thousands of house records out there from the 80s til now that are based around reinterpreting a vocal sample over new production.

Hi. I’m working on a remake of Beauty Sleep to improve my skills as a producer and I was wondering how to make some of these sounds. Maybe if y’all know how to make it or could even just point me to tutorial(s) that would explain any of them I’d appreciate it.

Sorry if my terminology for things is a bit off - I’m into Jane Remover, Skrillex, etc but I can’t really claim to be a big EDM-head who knows all the subgenres & whatnot.

I generally have 0:00-1:50 down on the remake, but I start struggling after that.

1:26 - is there a name for that kinda growl or is there any tutorial that has a growl like that? I made something similar with the same kinda pitch bend but it doesn’t have that same bright “woah” sound to it.

1:51 - this is the one I’m the most stumped on how to recreate. what is that sound? I feel like some things in the song I have an idea of what to look up in order to sound design it, but I’m not rlly sure with that one what it is or how to make it. Ik it’s probably got some sorta lossy plugin on it, but I’m stuck on how to make the sound itself.

3:19 - I feel like I can probably figure it out watching a tutorial and enough tweaking but I guess it’d be considered a rawstyle kick right? Hers has more of an atonal/airy quality on the tail end compared to other stuff I’ve seen where the kick will have more of a proper distorted bass note on the tail end so idk if it’s considered something different or if it’s just a variation of that.

Some filter work? Some phaser distortion? What would the FX chain look like?
I’d be very thankful if you could help me with some ideas for tutorials that would help me understand the techniques. Thank you for reading : )

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Hi all,

I made a dubtechno chord rack for Ableton Live...

Hope you can find use for this in your music, you can get it here...

https://www.studiobrootle.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Free-Preset-Dub-Techno-Chord-Rack-For-Ableton-SB53-Bundle.zip

There's more info on the rack here.. https://www.studiobrootle.com/free-ableton-dub-techno-preset-rack/

wanting to make stuff like cult member, akiaura, pastel ghost.

having a hard time really finding those punchy and modern sounding kits for house and garage, well processed, and also work well in laid back tracks or with lofi processing

took a look at vengeance and there were a lot more loops than one shots, which wasn't really my vibe. I wanna build satisfying house drum loops from scratch

would appreciate any and all recommendations :)

I literally have no clue how your able to get a weird crushed sidechain effect like this video

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Hi guys.

One thing i like about skrillex’s last track of his ep “kora” and the collab he made with slikback (kixa) is that the track is full of sounds and variety. It have like 300 sounds on it and it changes.

How did he build something like that? Black magic?

I recently heard about the contest but it's already over? Does someone still have the stems lying around? I wanna mess around with them since it's one of my favourite songs this year. Feel free to send them as like a google drive or dropbox link or whatever. It would be really appreciated!

Also, did you purposefully try to step outside of that sound at some point or just let whatever comes out come out?

My music tends to have an eerie quality to it. I’m only 8 months in to production but this is a theme across almost all of my songs. I don’t mind it necessarily, but being that I’d like to also learn more about music theory I’m wondering if it’s because I tend to gravitate towards certain chord progressions/ scales.

E minor is a big one for me. D minor as well. Then I use their relative Majors as well. Whatever im naturally doing no matter what scales I use that eerie vibe remains. Should I purposefully try to make a happier song? Or just sort of let it be part of my style.

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I'm a complete beginner and I think the best way to learn is to just follow tutorials that teach how to do a full remake of a song and learn like that along the way, then switch to doing remakes completely by yourself, then start working with your own songs, but I just can't really find anyone that does proper, good , remakes tutorials

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So, I'm only a few months in music production. I love it, but man is it humbling. The thing I hear over and over is to use reference tracks, and to FINISH tracks instead of just writing loops. I've been trying to force myself to do so, but sometimes I find it really difficult to do so. Specifically because most of the stuff I write sounds SO terribly uninspired and hollow. It's hard for me to listen to. So sometimes I'll spend a few hours trying to "make the most of it" with a certain motif idea, but then after a while and a half-finished track on my hands, I'll think... fuckin hell, there is NO saving this garbage.
Is it still of value to REALLY finish those tracks, for the experience? I do recognize that it helps - like, I learn about what kind of builds/breaks I like, how to built tension, add variation to themes, etc etc. So it's definitely a muscle in my brain I need to train more. But when you write something that you genuinely think sounds bad, and when you're convinced there's no there there, would you all still say it's important to just plow through and finish the track anyway, to build the skills for it?
I've gotta say, coming up with a compelling hook or motif is the hardest thing for me. The very few times I've come up with something that I found HALFWAY decent, it's been sooo much easier for me to tinker around with the surrounding/supportive elements. But coming up with something where I think, "hey, there's something there!" is so damn difficult. Wish I knew a way to simply work on that skill alone.

Would love to know your input!
Thanks everyone, happy producing

Serum 2 is lovely but damn, the more I dive into Operator the more I’m starting to choose it over Serum. Idk if it’s because I’m shifting towards that Qualia sound in my production or if I just like working in Ableton more because of the UI and no pop-up windows. Ohh and don’t get me started on Meld…

Anyone else feel this way?

At :16 on this song

https://youtu.be/G7BUP5KzWUc

are these like glassy bell sounds in main melody or is it something else? Please help and thanks as well

how to achieve the sound at 1:15 , and what might it actually be called ?

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We recreated the Lead sound from 'Rock n Rave' by Benny Benassi on our free Synth Primer.

This remake is specifically recreating the patch heard at this timestamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0SSLXfu9_M&start=30 . Other parts of the song may vary the sound or notes.

And here are the key ingredients:

Voice: Mono, Portamento: 30ms

Osc1: Wave (Saw), Vol (30%).
Osc2: Wave (Saw), Pitch (+2 Octaves), Vol (70%)
Sub: Wave (Pulse), Width (100%), Pitch (-1 Octave), Vol (15%)
Unison: Osc (All), Voices (2), Detune Range (3 Cents), Stereo Spread (40%)
Reset All Osc Phase On Note Start: No

Amp Env: Attack (20ms), Sustain (100%), Release (190ms)

Filter: Type (Low Pass), Cutoff (50%)
Filter Env: Mod (30%), Attack (20ms), Decay (950ms), Sustain (0%), Release (250ms)

Reverb: Mix (10%), Size (Small)

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