#my drill?

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misty basin
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The biggest thing that sticks out to me is the bass melody. It sounds off key and thus doesn't work with the other melodic elements

rigid sigil
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yeah im not really good at the 808's

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off key? could you elaborate

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like the piano is like c major or what and the 808's are not thats what u mean yeah?

misty basin
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First off, did you tune your 808's?

rigid sigil
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ammm

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listen im sorry i dont really know what that means

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i hate making 808s

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i try

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but it aint good

misty basin
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Can you send the 808 you are using in the song?

rigid sigil
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i use the one from flex

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i dont know how they work

misty basin
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Ok so it should be tuned then

rigid sigil
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i once tried downloading one and using it but when i didint play it at c it sounded teally awful

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so from that point on i only use flex

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(mainly cuz idk any other 808 vsts)

misty basin
rigid sigil
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im not that good at fl studio so for now i stick with the basics

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Im ashamed to admit that i only today learned how to use the mixer channels

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but hey another step forward

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does it sound mixed well?

misty basin
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The mixing is actually pretty good!

rigid sigil
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Thank you thank you

misty basin
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The bass just doesn't work melody wise or mixing wise.

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The key of the song seems to be Bb

rigid sigil
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ahh ill try to improve it tommorow its late for me now. Do you know how can i improve it?

rigid sigil
misty basin
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I used my ears and FL keys for reference

rigid sigil
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damn

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you have a nice ear

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that soudned weird but

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you get what i mean

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i couldnt tell that no way

misty basin
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Bb minor actually

misty basin
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So have you made the 808 melody in C major?

rigid sigil
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yeah basically

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the notes are

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c; b; d; c; b; a;c; d. and a bunch of slide notes but the slide notes are a pain in the ass to get right

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but yeah basically the c scale

misty basin
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The first bass note seems to be G?

rigid sigil
misty basin
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What preset did you use in flex?

rigid sigil
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ohhh waittt

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i pitched it down -500 cents

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yeah

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you were right

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808 BOOSTED

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thats the one i used

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the pitching down changes the note yeah?

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idk what pitching down does theoretically i know that it makes things sound better when used

misty basin
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Yes it does. If you pitched it down 500cents (which is 5 semitones) your bass is not in C after that, it's in G as I said

rigid sigil
misty basin
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Because G is a different note than C

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Different notes are basically just different pitches

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If you adjust a pitch of a note that was originally C, it's not going to be C anymore

rigid sigil
misty basin
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Ohh it isn't

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It's the same thing

rigid sigil
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Ill come back tomorrow in like 12 hours and tey to fix the 808's thank you

rigid sigil
misty basin
misty basin
# rigid sigil Doesnt sound like it

There could be multiple things that causes it not to not work that way. But factually in music theory C transposed down 5 semitones will be G

rigid sigil
mental elm
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add some jersey beat on it and you gonna get me havin an ear orgasam

rigid sigil
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jersey beat?

rigid sigil
mental elm
rigid sigil
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thank you ig? i dont understand what youre trying to say

misty basin
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It's definitely better but there are still notes in the 808 melody that are off key

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Check that the notes are in Bb minor scale

rigid sigil
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i just put em in b

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basic

misty basin
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The other elements are in minor

rigid sigil
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so one below?

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a sharp or is it

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idk

misty basin
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It's these notes:

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A# is the same pitch as Bb

rigid sigil
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yeah thank youuu

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can you give feedback on this beat also?

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i was really proud of this one when i made it

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its not finished but

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i mean i wont add anything its just missing the arrangment

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wait no i found it with arrangment

misty basin
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It has the same problem, the 808's are off key

rigid sigil
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whats the key in this one?

rigid sigil
rigid sigil
misty basin
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In your beat it's D#m but it's like 40 semitones flat

rigid sigil
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ok? thanks i will try

misty basin
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What did you do to the bass?

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Transpose the 808 so that the first note is D#

rigid sigil
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changed the notes to be in the D# scale

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ok now

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i dont understand how you can get the note let alone of the 808's

misty basin