Re-creating samples: Nu:Tone In The Studio With Future Music

[@joshuasarn007]

this guy is unbelievable , so comfortable in his work compared to other vids ive seen here ! makes it look so easy , respect

[@Tekmatic]

the others just say, "i used a 909 kick here". "and i put it through a distortion, to make it stand out in the mix". "yeah, it's really something beautiful with the distortion. nobody else does it". still, i want to see someone take us through a song creation, from a default project. fortunately, many other channels have since filled the gap where Future Music and Computer music fell short.

[@d0g3n]

This guy knows his stuff! I really enjoyed this!

[@GrouEEf]

this is actually one of the best videos i´ve ever seen regarding production processes. it shows how and where to find inspiration without using samples straightup. greatly appreciated. i don´t like nu:tones stuff as much, kinda too discoish for my taste but he´s a great musician.

[@MsRobstar]

I love songs that are put together well with samples. I think we would be in a lot better musical place if we producers used this style of sample re-creation. We would gain a lot more musicality, skill and respect for the great players, producers, writers, and engineers that came before us. We would also have a greater platform for the direction of our musical future, I love this video! It Just gave me a ton of inspiration!

[@AvithOrtega]

I think the same, but the samples used in every production should be in the credits of the production, at least as a way of saying "thank you", or "without his art this work couldn't be possible".

[@EqDior]

Great tutorial! This is what you call digging deep into the sample and understanding its music and the way the instruments were played in order to create something of your own from the inspiration of the sample! Dont have to worry about copyright issues now!!!

[@javiertrevino5535]

this is perfect. It's actually very helpful. I have 3 tracks where I used samples that are short but they are from huge songs and this is helping me realize I want to recreate them instead of using the original audio... thank you !

[@KidOreos]

This is an art form.

[@TheNikolaki8]

See Daft Punk's Discovery

[@sebastienrose5928]

He's really good.

[@Digiphex]

This is the best one of the "In the Studio" because he is actually doing something cool live recreating something, though it does descend into the ordinariness of the rest of the series when he drags us mundanely through his mix.

[@teet3293]

Okay I'm just about half way and I've learned sooo much. And this is despite not being able to see what he is doing properly! Love love love! Big Ups!

[@jgk381]

That scarbee bass didn't sound very realistic when playing it solo, but once played back in the mix I really couldn't tell that it wasn't real. Pretty nice plugin

[@DjangoFlaherty]

That's still part of recreating a sample. Besides, he wrote a new riff after each one, which is more than you could say for thousands of people using samples. Hats off to Nu:Tone!

[@yokohama_al]

I'm an Ableton user but this was incredible to watch. Brilliant.

[@limitlessmusicuk1844]

Fucking legend!

[@roderickmack5922]

One of the most interesting of the In The Studio series.

[@iPatchSynths]

There should be tanning booths in studios

[@DjangoFlaherty]

Inspiring stuff - thanks a lot! Refreshing whenever they feature something other than Logic! I had a year's subscription at one point, and I swear, no more than about three producers featured in that whole year were using something else! And that was long before I could afford a Mac - it was quite discouraging!

[@Tekmatic]

LOL a DAW is a DAW.

[@Salammaleicu]

this guy really knows what's up

[@Patrxck87]

These are two different skills I think. Technical ability is something, creativity as whole is another which you can apply to either samples or by starting from scratch with you instruments. Moreover, recreating the samples allow you not be limitated by it, you can pretty much do whatever you want with it. In other words you "unlock" it. In the ends what matters is the final product isn't it?

[@emyouth1]

In many ways he's right, The first thing you'll judge from a DAW is, is it appealling to look at? Is everything mapped out nicely and organised. I can't work with too much clutter, personally. Before you even start experimenting with the sounds you can make within in a DAW I'd be looking at these things also.

[@jordanlyons8276]

Your a musical genius.

[@therealdizzyd]

This is awesome! The sample is a Brothers Johnson sample I am pretty sure

[@OfficialSiriusmusic]

Going to great lengths of work for a sample. I understand this process and the reason why producers use samples but i found that using samples wasn't what i was going for. I wanted to be able to create musical pieces like the ones i wanted to sample. This guy obviously has the know how for making a complete track just by observing his ability to transcribe the sample itself. But i get it ..i get why using samples or interpolating them just to have that sampled sound on a track is desirable..something about the stutter effect and glitch sound the sample adds to your track has (at least for me ) a very nostalgic feeling.

[@AlexStavi]

indeed more coffeeeee! its great to learn "boring" stuff

[@henryFly]

I'm pretty amazed

[@TheOfficialGnasher]

I wonder if Dan has perfect pitch or something like it. He didn't have to fish around on the keyboard at all to play the riffs from the samples...

[@lyndamelnicove8896]

Fabulous!

[@skrbx]

wow! he's using the mouse with his left hand :D nice video FutureMusic, nice!

[@HarrySteed]

The best of "The Studio series"

[@FlauntDaGift]

Official! Great Work!

[@berringervids]

Hey FMM! You could add a description, and what was used in the video! The FX and the vsti's (with the kontakt-packs) would be a nice addition! :)

[@Ikas031]

Some of us might think the same about pro tools. Cubase is awesome.

[@Lumo95]

I can see what you mean by that but thats more how it is set it out and how it's functionality works I just meant if you really pick a DAW because the channel bar is particularly pretty then you aren't picking it for the right reasons. But in terms of it being organised and mapped out well yeah I totally agree, but Cubase is set out fine in my opnion.

[@hankybostik7634]

Top man

[@lolzlarkin3059]

I definitely saw a glimpse of reason at the start

[@sali_salvator]

incredible!

[@TonyGeestudio]

in the hip hop world we chop up samples seeing most of the famous producers can't play a lick of keys.that's why we use a MPC or Maschine..to chop up the music .it's a art ....also it's in the music world it's ok to use up to 4 bars...also if the sample is 10 years old ..its ok.

[@nsjx]

Phew,...need...to...make...coffee... and then try to chomp through this again. This is an excellent lesson in how tedious and monotonous parts of the production process can be. Real life stuff here. Back after a coffee ;)

[@KiNGxKG]

This video is a really nice change. In the Studio has been getting a bit repetitive. Great Video!

[@forrestcitygroove]

nice video this is what i like to do with samples thanks for posting

[@ericweissinger111]

Enjoyed this video.

[@sunslaveDx]

nu:tone is the bob Dillon of music

[@philjames4125]

DuhMeterBeats Surely Bob Dylan is the Bob Dylan of music:)

[@sunslaveDx]

i meant ross -.- lol bob ross

[@natus49]

We only make happy little accidents

[@nsjx]

Too right. I'm a real freak for manuals and guides as well as vids like this. I also like the boring bits...that's when stuff gets done for real. I read and analyze every book and tool...sometimes too much time with the details and too little with the overall production..grmff >.

[@Darksagan]

Pretty badass upload FM thanks.

[@MichaelSearyMusic]

Ownglow - Gold

[@gts1067]

i think "ugly" not only refers to how things look visually but how they are laid out. Less is more, for example i think ableton is the best looking and best laid out DAW on the market.

[@DjangoFlaherty]

Do you mean going between Cubase and Reason? I think he's uses Spaces (Mac window configuration feature). He probably has each window in a different Space so he can switch through them using custom shortcuts. I've never used it on two screens before. Sorry if someone already answered - KZbin's comments are glitching out for me, with huge blank spaces where comments should be - haha.

[@MikeDeanOfficials]

Really good tutorial, thanks.

[@Selous_Scout]

i use cubase and think it looks ok better than the new logic just nice to see a tutorial not in logic or live

[@mdee2581]

interesting stuff here..i learned quite a few things. thx dudes

[@AyminnrDj]

Now this is what i subscribed for!

[@Patrxck87]

We are now all patiently wainting for "Dolgoon in the studio with future music"...

[@br79]

only thing about this video I would change is I wish they cut to some shots of his hands on the keyboard when he was playing the new melody.

[@oopalonga]

plus, say you know people have a particular affinity for something, like annie's "it's a hard knock life, for us," song, and then you get all jay-z on it and make a dope song from it that people can relate to because they are already faimilar with the hook or, um, something like that my friend : )

[@MoxixDubstep]

except he changed it. drawing inspiration from other artwork is normal, a lot of producers would not have bothered remaking it with new sounds/notes. Nu:tone is a don producer, its nice to see how he gets creative

[@benlundquist]

Multi touch gesture ( I think 3 finger swipe ) on his magic mouse is triggering switching spaces.

[@razdx94]

Reminds me of Daft Punk - Voyager

[@EmmitWilson]

"Quantize that....Quantize that."

[@acityofbridges]

Futuremusic, for being all about music and audio it's really quite silly that you have mono audio in the video. Recording the output of his interface would be more than enough and it wouldn't take much. Great video though, thanks for posting.

[@sigmachad96]

I think they do this now on the new ones but they only upload to youtube the older masterclasses

[@GKNASIK]

He is an artist

[@GeorgSlany]

thanks, i didn't notice that. But yeah, you're right!

[@lbks16]

this is true artirst soo cool! what producing desk is that? looks really great

[@danielflecha4154]

i believe its just a big desk. the only thing special is that its curved and big. cant be too hard to find one like it

[@coolredpen]

Nu:tone!

[@OriginalSliz]

...woops... it is definately woopin

[@jojoyear]

great stuff, tyvm

[@Sean_Wick]

if you have a 9 to 5, this is definitely some shit you tackle on the weekend, nice work though.

[@thersten]

agreed. I'm guessing he only does this when he likes the feel of a sample & wants to incorporate it's elements.

[@KillerKingMusic]

What's that underneath his mixer? It looks pretty interesting, never seen it before though,

[@googler69er]

The Ronnie Corbet of DnB

[@AngryOscillator]

If you can work budget equipment into your aesthetic then brilliant! But for everyone else, unless you have 'your dad's old synth' reacting that analouge slip involves some very clever maths from some very clever people, and they need a wage. As it happens, it's far cheaper to get, for example, the waves version of a fairchild 670 than it is to get hold of the $30,000 dollar hardware unit. And if you dont know what a 670 is then go away :) Seriously though, sometimes you get what you pay for.

[@RalphGProject]

what's the name of original track played from the begining. I love that disco stuff ;-)

[@laserbeak43]

Thank you so much. This is always something I've wanted to get into doing, but just didn't have the motivation. You've given me courage!!

[@ChuckSilva]

Verrrry nice....thank you for sharing... @-0

[@smoqe]

nice vid..im also using two monitors but how is he scrolling from right to left when he uses reason

[@Lumo95]

Trial and error... and then more trial and error... after that usually some more trial and error. And after you've done that for a year... trial and error.

[@Ikas031]

Its a hot key on mac.

[@hamesstirozo1790]

it is the software he likes to use and it is his tutorial, who are you to tell one of the greatest liquid DnB producers that they are doing it wrong? :P

[@EqDior]

this is a great tutorial. kinda the same method I use

[@djjuno106]

the reason you recreate a sample part is you have greater control over the part your recreating.many times you may like the melody but the sound used doesn't quite fit in with new parts you've added so you copy the melody but change the sound which in turn changes the feel of the track.

[@georgemcnaughton8238]

+djjuno106 or to avoid paying royalties...

[@politicsequalsgarbag]

I know the goal of this wasn't for a perfect recreation of all the samples but as a beginner, I have a question: if we really wanted to get closer to the funky guitar plucks, how could we go about doing that? The recreated guitar seems to have more "body" than the original one. Would one refinement method be shortening the envelope's decay or sustain?

[@jonnyvelocity]

politicsequalsgarbag I would put a Wah-wah on it because the original had one. Maybe a chorus. Then mess around with the EQ to make it 'thinner'. But those are all guesses.

[@douche101ification]

+Jonny Velocity The original doesn't have a wah

[@Ex0rz]

Yes but what about mixer then? :) You cant have separate mixer tracks for different kontakt channels...

[@oopalonga]

chew aint neva heard a sample an been like, "chyo, diz sheeet be bad ash but it awta go lye diz?" you know what i mean?

[@DeepSociety]

new cubase 7 is the best looking daw imho

[@andymillman1]

you got them from the ejay website didn't you

[@Celektramusic]

Please do Insideinfo???

[@SP3NLOV3]

digital labz already done a seminar with him u can buy from their site

[@DjangoFlaherty]

No... Looks like I was wrong. At one point he seems to be scrolling between windows manually, as if they're all in a line. No idea how that works. Awesome :-D

[@thersten]

word.

[@Simplesimple123]

this would be half the time in ableton 9 audio to midi.. but still i like the skills

[@LBT-sy4dp]

what's the mixer of the back?

[@noisesdub]

I love future music videos. However, with this one I kept asking myself why recreate a sample? This guy has supreme technical ability but not the creativity to start from nothing....I don't understand. Anyway it sounded cool and was very helpful to watch this process.

[@djhopkinsdubstep]

I watched this whole vid

[@benflanagan7354]

ok

[@Rickardo3000]

He should write a disco album

[@TerenceKearns]

I'm totally with you on this bro. I love FM and this series, but this whole exercise seemed sad and pointless. If you really don't have enough creativity to come up with this on your own, pay the damn money for the sample. I mean, even if you likes the sound, you don't have to re-create it with such precision, the only thing you need to do is imitate the FEEL.

[@dang8249]

Toff.

[@borakim2755]

my daddy's vampire here

[@milhouse777]

I really don't get it the point in remake a sample part and take risk of copyright issues, instead of get the original sample and manipulate, or... he's just training his listening skills to transcribe the organic feel into midi sounds

[@yesthisisdonut]

it's just one of many ways to work, i don't get it either but he certainly has success doing it so it must not be entirely shit x)

[@elgamerico]

ELVISFX I get what you're saying, but a lot of people do this. Done it myself when i was working on some Latin hip hop. Saying that, it wasn't strictly re-recording a straight sample. It had been altered, but still obvious what it was. Can't remember the exact reasons, but there's some copyright reasons why people do this.

[@WhiteFrequencyNoise]

i didn't say he is no a great musician, i just comment on the video.

[@Lumo95]

Yeah cause the first thing I look for in a DAW is how it looks.