"Haha. ”

Thundercloud smiled and shook his head, put those unrealistic thoughts behind him, sat down in his old place, opened his notebook and began another day of hard fighting.

In the past few days, Lei Yun has mastered the basic operation of FL fruit software through tutorials and exploration, and has also tried to piece together several small projects with different styles through the existing audio track fragments of the software.

But gradually, he was a little dissatisfied with just trying to scrape together the existing materials, but wanted to start trying to create his own independent works.

With the development of today's technology, one person and one computer are enough to complete the entire process from creation and arrangement to mixing and mastering.

With enough patience and talent, a person can independently create their own music works and release them through the Internet, and provide everyone with the opportunity to listen to and download them.

This is perhaps one of the charms of electronic music.

No matter where you come from, no matter how high or low, as long as you have an idea and act boldly, then...

Anything is possible!

Today, Thundercloud is ready to start making his own music, he opens the tutorial and starts to learn how to make a complete electronic music from scratch.

"What instrument to choose first? ”

Thundercloud followed the steps in the video, first creating a new track, and then a library of assets appeared, including bass, drum kits, synths, guitars, and other software instruments.

Because of the experimental nature, Lei Yun didn't think much about it, and casually chose an instrument of a classic electric piano, and then a track of a classic electric piano appeared on the screen.

"Open the Piano Roll window and make a MIDI clip. ”

Looking at the tutorial in the video, Lei Yun only felt that the amount of information in this sentence was a little too much.

What is a Piano Roll Window?

What is a MIDI clip again?

"O... I see. ”

Due to the huge amount of information, Thundercloud, as a beginner, did not rush to toddle, but patiently continued to watch the tutorial first.

It was only at this glance that he understood how to make music through software on the computer.

After determining the software instrument of the track, of course, you can also play it directly with the real instrument.

After determining the instrument you need, open the piano roll, and a window will appear on the software, and a column of black and white piano keys will appear on the left, white and black are long, black and short, consistent with the real piano key placement.

It says C1, C2, C3 and other numbers that thunderclouds can't read, but the tutorial gives the answer in time, because it's C major, so these numbers are displayed.

Of course, Lei Yun's first reaction subconsciously was.

What the hell is this C major?

How does it sound like there's still an inexplicable sense of Mozart's familiarity??

The tutorial in the video doesn't give Lei Yun much time to complain, only to see him click on the pointer tool and replace the mouse pointer with a pencil pointer.

Then I clicked on the blank space, and a small note symbol suddenly appeared on the screen, and a piano sound sounded in an instant.

Immediately after that, I saw that the pencil pointer in the tutorial continued to click, and every click would appear a small note, accompanied by a corresponding piano tone, but in more than ten seconds, more than a dozen notes had already been clicked.

Then I pressed the play button, and suddenly I saw a pointer with a band of light that ran through the entire frequency spectrum, like the hands of a gramophone crossing a vinyl record, playing all the notes where it passed.

"Wow. ”

A pleasant melody came from the earphones, and Thundercloud couldn't help but let out a 'wow', and it was hard to hide the surprise on his face.

He was still wondering what he was doing with this random order like a child playing, but he didn't expect these small notes to combine to form a beautiful melody.

"So we get a four-bar MIDI clip. ”

As the tutorial progressed, Lei Yun slowly learned more about some basic knowledge.

It turns out that I used to piece together a lot of audio track clips that come with software, in fact, the professional term should be called MIDI clips.

The so-called MIDI is a music standard format widely used in the arranging world, which uses the digital control signal of the notes to record music, transmits instructions such as notes and control parameters to the MIDI device, and then plays the complete song.

It can be simply understood as a musical score that a computer can understand.

The essence of making music through computer software is the arrangement of digital notes, and the combination of notes to form a melody to form a complete voice, each part is obtained in this way, including drum beats, bass or background sounds, special effects sounds, and so on.

Then these parts are reasonably combined to form a complete piece.

Therefore, if you want to make electronic music, the first step is to construct the melody in your head through the notes one by one.

"Generally speaking, to create an electronic piece of music, you first have to decide on the style of the piece. ”

This tutorial opened the door to Thundercloud and made him realize that there are so many doorways in electronic music.

In the past, Thundercloud simply liked to listen to electronic music, and sometimes he had some vague ideas about different styles of electronic music.

I know that this should not be the same style of electronic music, but I have never studied it deeply, and there is a lack of information, news, etc. for electronic music in China.

But it was only then that Thundercloud knew very clearly that there were many clear styles of electronic music, and each style had its own characteristics and names.

There are many styles of electronic music, such as Techno, Trance, House, Dubstep, UK Garage, etc., and each genre contains many sub-genres.

For example, house music, which has just become popular in recent years, Thundercloud's favorite Opus, composed by MagicM, belongs to Progressive house.

The electronic music La Zumbera, which was renamed "Social Shake" by unscrupulous DJs in China, belongs to Melbourne Bounce in the House genre.

A variety of electronic music genres, each with its own distinctive characteristics, make Thundercloud feel like he has entered a new world.

He always thought that electronic music was just a move and a beating, a psychedelic sound that could be mixed in a nightclub and bar, or a niche music that could only survive underground forever and not be on the stage.

But as he learned more and more about electronic music, he felt more and more that he was just a frog at the bottom of a well.

Electronic music is not only about moving times, but also about good electronic music, which often has the power to move people's hearts!

Pure music without lyrics makes it easier for the listener to integrate their own emotions into it, to follow the ups and downs of the melody and keep fluctuating, just like their own background music.

For example, the electronic music of Opus inspired Thundercloud to embark on the extremely difficult and whimsical path of self-taught arrangement.

Lei Yun also hopes that he can make this kind of music that can move people's hearts.

"Then myself. . . What kind of electronic music should be produced?"

Looking out the window, the thundercloud couldn't help but fall into deep thought.