http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=6779496&q=hi

This is one of my more "catchy" songs, and also one of the most complex. There's about 40 individual patterns in the whole song, my average is about 25.

This is also a contest entry of mine at FFR, for a summer-inspired song.

what the hell do you make these songs with? i know fruity loops for the drumming, but i really want to know please. and the song was very very good IMO :)

He makes it all with fruityloops.

I love you.

And your music.

wait wtf. i downloaded fruity loops and it only has drumming. Meh. I'll read some tutorials.

Right click the samples in the step sequencer and go to "Piano roll", that's how you make music.

Thanks guys.

i liked the second part, but i just didn't feel the beginning. For one, i'm kind of biased against songs in the minor chord, but the thing that really didn't agree with me, even in the second part, was the samples you used. Those are samples you will see in 4/5ths of all other electronic music, to such a point that you could easily transition to another song and people wouldn't notice. samples are just as important as the music, as they make songs stand out in a lineup, so if you want your songs to be more noticeable among the thousands of other electronic songs, the answer is the sampling.

If people are going to "notice" my music more only if I use more avant-garde percussion samples in a trance track, I'd rather they don't notice. I drive my music melodically, not through the various hi-hat and cymbal synths I use. I never really draw much attention to the percussion, but if I do, I generally don't use samples like those.

i didn't just mean percussion.

Percussion is the only thing I use samples for, except for the whale-sounding noise during the breakdown.

maybe i phrased it wrong. The instruments seemed cliche, as in the synths and stuff

amazing .

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maybe i phrased it wrong. The instruments seemed cliche, as in the synths and stuff

They sound more generic than they are, if that makes sense at all. I used a flute-based synth for the breakdown's chord progressions rather than a string/saw synth which most people use, and used both an avant-garde flute and high harp synth for the introduction to the melody. The analog synths for the A and D sections, though, they're nothing new, but at least they sound good.

I don't mean to argue, but as a musician I don't much like it when people call anything about my music generic. It seems close-minded, since I get plenty of remarks against my music purely for the fact that I make music under this genre.

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They sound more generic than they are, if that makes sense at all. I used a flute-based synth for the breakdown's chord progressions rather than a string/saw synth which most people use, and used both an avant-garde flute and high harp synth for the introduction to the melody. The analog synths for the A and D sections, though, they're nothing new, but at least they sound good.

I don't mean to argue, but as a musician I don't much like it when people call anything about my music generic. It seems close-minded, since I get plenty of remarks against my music purely for the fact that I make music under this genre.

maybe thats it. i don't really have a feel for the trance genre, i'm more used to more organic sounding music. Anyways, the melody was great, and it all blended nicely nonetheless.