Hi all, I've been learning for about 2 years or so now and still trying to get a good grasp on things like sound design and such while expanding my knowledge and understanding. I know Mr. Bill has been recommended for his tutorials and was wondering a thing or two.

1) I see his tutorial playlist with random stuff, is that what people sort of suggest? and

2) he has his "hardcore producers" something or other on his site, is that worth the $20 monthly sub for the tutorials there? Is that what people are actually recommending when they say to check out Mr. Bill?

I'm just trying to get my foundation solid before broadening my horizons and continuing my learning as I strive to improve my skills. I've been lost on using reference tracks and recently have been practicing sound design via just tooling around in Serum 2 while putting songs together. Is that the best way to learn sound design? Is there something I'm missing? I've gotten 2 courses from EDMTips (Ableton and then Music Theory) just to help myself because I struggle with the free form YT on some things and figured the basics are important enough/worth investing in to a degree.

Just trying to see what else is out there because I have a few songs I've been working on for a few months that I want to release but don't think they are 100% ready because of mixing/mastering and songs by bigger/well known artists feel more fleshed out (obviously).

Hopefully its clear in the photo. I have shaperbox on my bass group with an input from my kick midi. But then shaperbox keeps telling me its not detecting any midi?

Nothing I do works

I've had my eye on both of these plugins for a while but I'm not sure which one to get first.

Looking to upgrade my studio monitors, Iv mainly been debating between the Amphion one15’s and the Focal Alpha Evo 50’s also been told Dynaudios are really good.

At the moment my studio is my bedroom which the sound in there isn’t untreated. but mainly looking for monitors that have a good low/low mid range mainly because I make bass music a lot of the elements in the tunes centre around a lot of that stuff. I have a pair of very good headphones (Neumann ndh 30’s) that I mainly use for my mixdowns so mainly just looking to get a pair of monitors for the creation process of my tunes.

If anyone has any good recommendations that would be amazing! Cheers

I’ve been working on an original track for literally years and just found a piece of a 2000s era hip hop track that will fit perfectly. All I want to use is a palm-muted electric guitar in the background. If I use Ableton’s stem separation to isolate it will I need to get the sample cleared by the label?

Hi everyone, I'm using Logic Pro and I'm looking for some help to remix this amazing song by Rosalia from her new album Lux. I want to turn it into a sort of... "deep house" (quotes 'cause it's not really deep house) remix. So, very much a 4 on the floor type beat with a constant tempo. the problem is that it seems this specific song has a variable BPM, and I've tried a couple things such as using smart tempo, then apply region tempo to project tempo, then flex in polyphonic (auto), then grab the tempo points and turn them all to "replace by average" and that hasn't worked.

I've also tried stem splitting the song first, then trying to do the same while focusing on the voice, and nothing. the problem with this song is that it lacks transients except for the second chorus, but that chorus is at like... I believe at a variable but almost constant 122 BPM while the verses are at I believe, an almost constant 120 BPM.

It's my first time working with a variable BPM song so I'm really lost and idk what to do to make it sort of become somewhat constant. I also tried using just flex and manually adjusting the vocal stem to fit the bpm I want it to, but I run into 2 problems. 1, I worry that once I hit the choruses, it'll be all messed up because the chorus is at a different bpm than the verses, and 2, I think I would need to manually adjust the other stems that make up the song, and I'm not sure how to make sure that all adjustments done on the vocals can match up on the adjustments on the other stems/instruments, other than checking by ear. I also don't know if there's an easier way to go about this, like maybe do the flex adjustments first on the full song before stem splitting, or if there's like a hidden sort of tool or something that could make it so that the flex adjustments I do on the stem vocals can carry over to the other stems in real time.

but in the end, I don't even know if doing these flex adjustments like this would be a good idea to begin with. so I'm really lost, and I would greatly greatly appreciate some help on this issue because none of the tutorials I've seen tackle this very specific issue of like "what do I do if the audio track has a variable BMP and almost no transients to keep a sort of rhythm".

Please please please help me out here, someone. I will be SO thankful, you've got no idea!

the drop that comes in @ 1:21 has this crazy synth or bass or guitar or something thats happening and idk what it is but i need it this song is so nasty

any help would be appreciated !

I’ve been building up my plugin library over the years and wondering if I have too many at this point and if I should cut down to a more minimal setup? Is 91 more than usual?