What genre is my music and is it any good?

I don't know the proper protocol of what to say when I just joined this forum here so I will just say 'Hi'.

Now here's the thing: ... or actually two things:

Firstly, I have always sucked at musical genres and I'd really like someone more proficient in this respect to categorize the music I am making. So far I keep calling it 'soft electronica'. I'm not sure that's correct, though. But it most certainly is electronic and it most certainly is soft.

Secondly and even more importantly, I seek some honest feedback which I find rather hard to obtain elsewhere. I need _all_ feedbacks I can get, including negative ones, preferably in constructive fashion. Any guidance on how to make my stuff sound better is also very welcome.

The link is here - please check especially the first two tracks in the list, and of course any of the others if you like.

Thanks in advance!

Martin

it sounds like keyboard demo button core mixed with a bit of lolstep

Hi Richard!

I would say electronica is fair. my opinion= good melody and structure but it sounds like preset sounds to me.

I agree with illfly. Sounds nice, but it sounds like presets

  On 1/25/2010 at 9:29 PM, Hautlle said:

I agree with illfly. Sounds nice, but it sounds like presets

Can you guys please explain what do you mean by presets? cheers

  On 1/25/2010 at 11:10 PM, Martin said:

  On 1/25/2010 at 9:29 PM, Hautlle said:

I agree with illfly. Sounds nice, but it sounds like presets

Can you guys please explain what do you mean by presets? cheers

Presets, like you turn on a synth, scroll through the list and pick out the sound you want -- or you start up your DAW and pick out the sound you like from a list in a VST, throw on a reverb and call it a day.

as opposed to designing a sound with a synth or what have you.

  On 1/25/2010 at 11:25 PM, Hautlle said:

  On 1/25/2010 at 11:10 PM, Martin said:

  On 1/25/2010 at 9:29 PM, Hautlle said:

I agree with illfly. Sounds nice, but it sounds like presets

Can you guys please explain what do you mean by presets? cheers

 

Presets, like you turn on a synth, scroll through the list and pick out the sound you want -- or you start up your DAW and pick out the sound you like from a list in a VST, throw on a reverb and call it a day.

Well to a certain extent this is the case - it's made in MU.LAB (software sequencer, web is here). So far, I have been indeed using rather limited range of sounds available there. However, I always tried to modify the stuff (the curve and the parameters which are often quite many) to suit my needs.

Obviously, this is not enough - question is, how to make better sounds? There is some sort of modular sound generation but tbh I don't understand how it works at all nor do I know any source from where i could learn it - the software documentation does not cover that. In fact, I would be most happy with just acquiring a huge databank of sounds because what I want to do is to make them work together, not to make sounds themselves.

Any insights, links to web sources or recommendation? Thanks for responses, it's appreciated.

M.

  On 1/25/2010 at 11:32 PM, LUDD said:

sounds like you turned on your electronic keyboard and pressed the demo button

It's not made using keyboard at all. It's purely 'drawn' by mouse, note by note. But thanks for your input, I guess I could contact keyboard manufacturing companies and offer them a new demo for their merchandise ;).

http://www.freesound.org/ that should be plenty of sounds

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm i found this helpful for synthesis

  On 1/25/2010 at 11:44 PM, illfly mandog said:

http://www.freesound.org/ that should be plenty of sounds

 

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm i found this helpful for synthesis

Thanks for the links!

So I spent some time learning some basics of sound synthesis and then tried to play a little with inner workings of sound generator in mulab. I tweaked several instruments and made a few new ones and finally made a new track out of it. Can you guys please check, if it's any less 'presety'? It's the topmost track on music.glimpse.cz. It's probably far from perfect yet I hope there is at least some improvement...

Porn music

sounds alot better man. keep it up. the more you play with that stuff the easier it gets to do it.

Dude, Time's Up is freaking awesome! I love the pop/rock chord progression it proper put a smile on my face. Great thing to wake up to; well done man.