What exactly is it that makes 'hard' music sound 'hard'? Chords? Bass? Melodies?

I have yet to nail it down but I presume it's a mixture of low bass, noisy hats and snares, a simple and repetitive melody under a minor key, and lots of effects.

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https://soundcloud.com/skyeye-mccix/lightning This was my first attempt trying to come up with a 'hard' melody; any feedback? I've only been LMMSing for about 8 months now, so I haven't much experience. Some questions I'd like to ask: What would you rate the track out of 10? Do you find it repetitiv...
https://drive.google.com/open?id=117QQCm3b_XR78OYdguJ6xubTJp67VowH Here's the link to a .wav of the track. So far, it's just a beginning, a drop, and it all leads to a breakdown where the next melody would start, but there is nothing beyond that point. My plan is to give whomever it is who wants to ...
https://soundcloud.com/skyeye-mccix/cyka-blyat https://youtu.be/ciwcP_yVQyY And for those of you who don't know, Hardbass is a Russian meme genre that centres around Russian slang and pipe sounds, although ironically enough doesn't quite have a hard bassline. Perhaps the most infamous hardbass compo...
Any help? I'm looking for a basic wavetable synth for LMMS for my first VST, something like Serum, with multiple customizable waveforms and the ability to smoothly automate a change in waveform when pressing a note. I just wanna see if wavetable synthing is for me. Secondly, any tips for the noob VS...
brandystarbrite wrote:
Thu Feb 15, 2018 12:54 am
PS: A saxophone soundfont?
I have been looking for a good, saxophone soundfont for a while now. :)
We got it from the Arachno SoundFont pack, it's called the 'Alto Sax'.

Link:
http://www.arachnosoft.com/main/downloa ... soundfonts
https://soundcloud.com/skyeye-mccix/gemini This track took me two weeks to complete. I had help from KnightShade, he supplied me the sax sample, as well as arranging some of the percussion in the track. Overall, I feel it's a neat track, as the sax and the trumpet make it sound a bit jazzy at first,...
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1BkLd7F6KS8yGTdGApOuNgq2GfTKTn-h5 (Note, this track is about 15% done, I literally just hit export mid-way because of this topic) Anyways, here's the deal. I wake up, 2:30 in the morning, with this neat melody in my head (about 25 seconds into that .wav above), which...
https://soundcloud.com/skyeye-mccix/underscore In the past few months, quite a lot has happened, and I've been learning more and more about chords, basslines, and harmony. I met Brian 'lil burn', an upstarting trap musician, and we had a looong discussion about basslines and drums (collab possible)....
Before: https://soundcloud.com/skyeye-mccix/flash-20 After: https://soundcloud.com/skyeye-mccix/flashpoint-new-mix There it is, most notably I reduced the bass, softened the drums, added a phaser (which I have literally never used before) to most of the main synths, and to me it sounds a whole lot b...