Hi!
First I want to appreciate all of you guys who have attended my question spots for sharing your lovely views. I really appreciate your generosity.

I always have problem in sound selection. For example I have seen some videos on YouTube about making tracks or beats in some genres that the instructor play around with specific type of sounds. For example for making traps he always uses 808.

Does any of you have any knowledge how do that? I mean which sound sets for which genres? I know there is not any distinctive rule in making music but for attracting labels or doing commercially it's a need.

Sound selection is more important than plugin selection. Most artists have their own unique sounds. They are known with them. No listener cares about plugins.

Thanks so much! I really need your help.

 

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I think that for each genre you should build a certain standard drum rack and then you have to choose what kind of style you want to approach in that genre.
For example: Trap like Troyboi needs a lot of plucks to pitch instead of Yellow Claw who use straight plucks with big reverbs or beatmakers who usually have brass and strings in their productions.
While listening to Dubstep, you can see artists like Seven Lions with big supersaws or Joe Ford with complex reese basses, Getter with machine guns and Zomboy with growls and lazers.
There's no rule. I'd suggest to stick to a style you like, watching tutorials to learn the basics and then put your own twist during the sound design process. It will be natural, I experimented with some things starting from tutorials on youtube and then tried to change maybe the filter, the inserts or the final effects, wavetables too and now I'm certainly not a pro but i have some things to keep in mind if I want to produce things that I feel mine.
(sorry for the bad english if there are some errors)

 

Life is going to be too complicated these days. I some times feel that I am getting lost in selections. With every tutorial a new way is opening. I didn't take serious much the sound selection before and was trying to use synthetic ones for raising my sound designing techniques and I wasted a lot of time there working with presets and mimicing acoustic sounds with synthesizers but I really do not want to do that anymore. I think now that a successful producer is someone who knows the sounds general characteristics and use them in his or her productions. Today there is not much time to do every thing from scratch. I know some producers that waste a lot of time producing presets instead of using the ones created before by others in production process and instead of amazing people with music the final results in any of their tracks are the same even in years because of sticking to their own artificially created sounds.

There are some trap holes in music production created by plugin developers that we should not fall in them. Mine was one of them.

 

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