Hi everyone. New to the forum. I think I must have read the main section for 5 minutes straight trying to figure out where to post this and still have no clue. So to the mods, apologies in advance if this isn't the right place and please move the thread as you see fit.
I was hoping to get some guidance from you guys on two things:
1) What is it called technically when someone takes a premade track and just adds a beat to it? Is that still called a remix? Re-edit? Something else, perhaps?
2) Are there any online articles/video tutorials that can guide me on how to properly do that? A perfect example to use, for me, is Mr. Todd Terje. I think his re-edits (or whatever you call them) are so, so clean and so good. Anyone know what he uses? Or his remix routine?
I've used Cubase for a few years and have "remixed" a few songs and I did it manually, by doing the following:
- Adding the premade song as a new audio track.
- Setting both the musical track and the premade beat to the same BPM.
- Placing both tracks on top of one another.
- And finally moving the track containing the music a little forward or backward when I notice it starts to go off beat.
At times, when I wanted to turn a slower song into a dance track, I've even used an option in Virtual DJ called "keylock" to speed up a track, but keep the track in the same key and also prevent the voice from getting high-pitched and sounding like a chipmunk.
So I wonder: is there's a less labor-intensive and "professional" way to go about achieving everything mentioned? I remember trying to use Ableton back in the day, but didn't quite get the hang of it. Is that "the" program to cleanly remix songs? Or is there a better way?
Thanks.
I was hoping to get some guidance from you guys on two things:
1) What is it called technically when someone takes a premade track and just adds a beat to it? Is that still called a remix? Re-edit? Something else, perhaps?
2) Are there any online articles/video tutorials that can guide me on how to properly do that? A perfect example to use, for me, is Mr. Todd Terje. I think his re-edits (or whatever you call them) are so, so clean and so good. Anyone know what he uses? Or his remix routine?
I've used Cubase for a few years and have "remixed" a few songs and I did it manually, by doing the following:
- Adding the premade song as a new audio track.
- Setting both the musical track and the premade beat to the same BPM.
- Placing both tracks on top of one another.
- And finally moving the track containing the music a little forward or backward when I notice it starts to go off beat.
At times, when I wanted to turn a slower song into a dance track, I've even used an option in Virtual DJ called "keylock" to speed up a track, but keep the track in the same key and also prevent the voice from getting high-pitched and sounding like a chipmunk.
So I wonder: is there's a less labor-intensive and "professional" way to go about achieving everything mentioned? I remember trying to use Ableton back in the day, but didn't quite get the hang of it. Is that "the" program to cleanly remix songs? Or is there a better way?
Thanks.
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