How ulillillia processes his music (part 1 of 4)

Ever wonder what I do behind the scenes when I process my music for my MP3 player? When you think of processing music, you probably think of just converting between formats and in part, that is the case, but to me, there's a lot more to it than meets the eye. This series of 4 segments gives an introduction to my very unusual music-related habits, then explains the entire process step by step. The video spans over a half hour and it is split by the "part". The entire process is narrated in real time.

The first part covers the introduction and introduces you to my strange music-listening habits along with a start at processing the song. The song used is a custom-made remix, but only fragments of it are played rather than the whole thing along with a few degradations.

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• music
• processing
• demonstration
• how
• processed
• narrated
• Audacity
• Winamp

[HerbertTheHamster]

He's listened to final fantasy world 1 for 54 days of his life

wow

[ulillillia]

If you're after total plays, there's one song with an estimated 1 to 1.3 million total plays. I call it Out Where the Lake Is. This totals nearly a whole year's worth of listening to it.

[HeltOkejFilmer]

I love the fact that you have the cosmos ending theme there. Are you a fan of the show?

[ulillillia]

I watched it a while back when they released the remakes, but I've since otherwise haven't seen it again afterwards - it otherwise disappeared like the Looney Tunes have.

[ManfredMitchum]

just ignore him, Uli. he's makin' adult jokes lol. and as for you, MartinStarFlash, Ulillillia doesn't know these kind of jokes. he just isn't that kind of person.

[Kingzogre]

When I think music, I think ulillillia

[HeltOkejFilmer]

That's okay, genres only matters if you choose to abide by them. In video games most of the music has a theme, like sadness or nostalgia or fighting spirit, and that is really all you need to make a good song. Just find something you want to convey and then find an interesting way to convey it.

I am also purchasing your book as a christmas gift for my friend, is there any way to get a signed copy?

[ulillillia]

My 2 primary weaknesses with music is instrument identification and genre identification, the latter is especially bad.

[HeltOkejFilmer]

@ulillillia FL studios is a decent program, but it's a bit simple. You can do amazing things with it, but if you want to dig deeper into creating music you should check out Reason.

Always a fan!

[ulillillia]

I've got FL Studio, though it's primarily intended for making the music with Platform Masters.

[HeltOkejFilmer]

Also, you should start creatinging music of your own. I prefer using Ableton, but if you can find Reason then you should definitely get it, or at least get a trial version and try it out.

[ulillillia]

There really isn't anything... except the occasional song from the 1950's or 1960's and a few children's songs.