• Steps:
  • 1)Right click on your sequencer, pattern, track, or mixer channel
    
  • 2) Choose the option "Rename / color..."
    
    
  • 3) You can rename your track
    
  • 4) Click on the small grey box to the right of the text area and choose your color
    

• Steps:
  • 1)Hover your mouse above the top left of your sequencer that displays the "--"
    
  • 2) Drag mouse up or down to select the number of bars you want
    

• Some of the best melodies and tunes are created simple. No need to do everything with a complex signature right from the start. Start basslines with a simple 4 beats, and change it up a bit for fill-ins.
  
• The order that you should build a track depends on what you are familiar with. Generally I find starting with the bassline the easiest, Then the main melody (climax of your track). From there, you can tie everything into that main part to make sure that the main part belongs in your track more than any other part to make sure you get the best "wow" from it. Add in smaller stuff later on like pads, snares, crashes, EQ adjusting, and all that fine tuning. Play around with further automation.
  
• Learn to work with what you have, even the best plugins don't have to be used, plain free default plugins are also great, 3xOSC is one of them. Here's a demo track i'll show you with what you can do with all FREE plugins (see attachement in post)

• If you want to learn how to make music inside of a certain genre, you're going to have to study the music you want to create. Listen to your genre nonstop, and not just your favorite songs in that genre. Get a sense of what others are doing.
• Try things out. Take an idea or sound from a song, or a certain structure from a song, and do something with that idea. See what works for you, learn how you can make it work for you.
  
• Don't be someone you're not, if you try to create music like your favorite DJ, you'll always fail, they have their own style, and the only way you will be able to make music is with your own style. Learn how you use sounds, and how you like to use sounds. Whatever works for you works, then work on the things that you find yourself lacking in, whether it's percussion, basslines, leads, melodies, transitions, mixing, etc... Self reflect and give yourself a rating on the things that you do good, and the things you do bad, then work on what you need to.

(07-28-2011, 06:30 PM)Rofl Loves You Wrote: I will have to check this out when I start using that program.