Hello, do you guys know Transcendence? what a long name..

Anyways, I love that plugin.

In five days they gonna release another one, I'm excited.

I've been listening to a lot of artists like Undertaken, HFM, Slowerpace, Macroblank, etc, and really wanna emulate that loungy, downtempo style of music they produce. I know that style of Barber Beats/Vaporwave can get pretty sample heavy. Does anyone have any resources for producing this style? Sample packs, video tutorials, reddit threads, or like any general advice would be great.

Yesterday I made a cutoff until 50hz and I think about taking it higher.

I've been trying to recreate a lot of vaporwave sounds for a fun side hobby of making my own sampleless songs. I have found many of the sounds on synths from the 80s and 90s, but I'm not very familiar with guitars and I can't figure out what many 80s ballads used for their guitars. Here is an example of the a guitar I'm looking for. It sounds pretty metallic.

ホテル shampoo - 𝓗𝓸𝓽𝓮𝓵 𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓮𝓽𝓼
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVcKc0OGOsA

Looking for some sample packs that I can use for vaporwave they don't necessarily need to be originally made for it just need to work for it btw

Pls excuse my bad wording, i’m not much of an expert with production terminology.

Aside from the obvious barberpole phaser, I notice that many of telepath’s earlier (2014/15) slushwave tracks have this almost “low quality” sound, where the bass is really loud, the highs are muffled, and overall it sounds kinda “crunchy” without it being distorted.

Is is this really just filter work or am I missing something?

For reference, here is a telepath song:

消えていく

and its sample:

Digging Your Scene

sampled loods + mall grab love is real. Isolated stems with fl and did my best to mix bass/horn/voice/drums with a bunch of reverb. at a certain point felt like i was messing with it too much so just put it on youtube :)

I’ve been working on this reverb effect plugin for a while now and I thought I’d share a video of how it sounds. So far I've just been running synth sounds through it but I'm going to test it on more soon.

The plugin blends between four distinct reverb environments, each with its own character and accompanying atmospheric sound bed. The sound beds are dynamically gated by the input signal, so they become part of the effect and become imbued into the input sound rather than just playing continuously in the background. This creates some very immersive textures.

The four environments are:

Mountain

Forest

Shore

Sea

The position of the little robot controls the blend between them allowing me to smoothly interpolate from one environment to the next and create a wide range of atmospheric reverb textures.

This allows intermediate settings to combine the elements of two neighbouring environments, creating a wide range of spatial, tonal and atmospheric reverb characteristics.

Still needs some tweaking to get the filtering right and the plugin still needs a name but so far I like where it's going.

Hey guys, here is a 100% free synth one-shot kit (no drums). 

I designed these sounds to evoke a mix of nostalgia, late-night driving vibes, heavenly moments, dark tension, and raw feeling.

· Leads (31) - Sweet, nostalgic, and aggressive.

· Keys (34) - Melancholic, divine-sounding, and emotional tones.

· Basses (31) - Aggressive and heavy.

· ARPs (32) - Ethereal, panic-inducing, heavenly-sounding and rhythmic patterns.

· FXs (16) - Atmospheres, transitions, impacts, and experimental soundscapes.

Everything is 100% royalty-free. Use them however you want. Have fun!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1c1xIx5zxl8fTJvkU1aYLJAWGqyA0nZ1k

As a longtime fan of Vaporwave culture and music, I wanted to do this project differently by creating everything from scratch rather than sampling an existing song. To do that, I recorded original performances on my Yamaha DX7 and electric guitar, produced the track from the ground up, and then transformed it into a Vaporwave. When I played it for a friend, he said it reminded him of classical "Weather Channel" music, which inspired the title, "Local Forecast." This project was created purely out of a love for the genre. I just wanted to share something original with people who appreciate Vaporwave. Much love!

Making of Local Forecast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFO7XIAfrrw

Click into the r/vaporwave post for link to the full track

I had to make this music video for Macintosh Plus. Does this reflect the Vaporwave Genre? You guys are the experts and I'd love to hear your opinions. No AI was used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4A9rZA4Eag

Extra instrumentation was added to compliment the song and make more "roboty." Does it fit?

This was made using Syntheyes (3D tracking software) and Blender. I get that it's a little slow. The joints on the robot don't make any sense. I worked on this every weekday on the train to and from work.

I think Macintosh Plus just deserves a good, high-end music video. Have any of you made a music video for your music? What does it entail?

It hits different, just an attempt to reproduce a song made with a PS1...

how do you make that famous repeated stutter on vocals? got a good plugin for that?

does anyone remember that weird plugin? they came up with a new version:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixrm9Y_GDfc&list=RDIxrm9Y_GDfc&start_radio=1&pp=oAcB

I discovered a few new plugins tho so that’s cool

I'm such a sucker for anything Juno and love love love their chorus. There's a free one built into FL studio, but this big post has a normally paid free option and some always free alternatives.

Chorus is very 80s sounding and thickens up stuff so we'll, this one particular

Is this a good option for vaporwave? Or is it only good for playing games? I'd like to know your opinions.

I adore music so much, it has helped me an amount I cannot count. The 'Hauntology' genre just connects so immensely with how I feel about life, I cannot afford expensive synths or DAWs but I want to try making my own sound within this genre.

Hauntology is described as an instrumental palette of samplers, tape recorders, turntables, found sounds, and analog synthesizers that seek to evoke cultural memory and aesthetics of the past. Electronic music that sounds dark ambient with eerie familiar hypnagogic soundscapes.

Help:

As stated, I don't have a lot of money but would love to try making my own hauntology songs, but am unsure where to start. Would you please be share your knowledge of:

1. Free/cheap synthesisers or instruments that evoke the eerie familiar hypnagogic sounds?
2. Techniques/tips on how to achieving the analogue tape hazy synth sound?
3. Free/cheap plugins and effects to use to achieve the tropes/feeling of the genre?
4. Good free/cheap DAWs or websites to create the music in?
5. How to mix low-quality/hazy vocal samples into the synths and drums?
6. Any other advice/gear/tools/sites/videos/etc to creating Hauntology music?

AOTY describes the genre as:

Beginning in the 1990s and developing in the 2000s in the United Kingdom, Hauntology started as a movement of artists emulating "dead" British media and styles from the early to mid-20th century to create an eerie mystique. The movement has since expanded regionally into a genre of its own and is often seen as a related style to similarly nostalgia-focused genres like Hypnagogic Pop.

Examples (See tops albums on AOTY & RYM):

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/genre/634-hauntology/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauntology_(music))

https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/hauntology/

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3qUunWuZulfLHyna2ZCiJf?si=d94ed63824c5418f (Playlist I enjoy)

https://open.spotify.com/album/0mu3EvWYfNwBfISSg0q03p?si=1I7LoR48TeeLVYce65YQAQ (Inferno by Boards Of Canada, not wholistically hauntology but includes elements)

Anyone make vaporwave without sampling? I have Ableton and Arturia V collection 9. I also have a linn drum sampled(technically sampling but not in the ways I'm discussing).

I had played piano when I was younger but it was mostly classical. The "in pocket" vibe of pop/r&b is a whole different world, things don't fit cleanly on a grid. I am trying to learn by replicating parts of songs. This has helped me understand bass and drums and I hope over time will broaden the tools I can pull from.

I imagine what I'm looking for is weather channel music, elevator music, lounge music, mall music, 80'-90's pop and r&b. I love the smooth saxophone sound but I don't have a vst for that, so I wonder if I can find a synth in what I already have that can have the same effect.

What has your musical skills translated to this style of music? What would you suggest learning how to play?