I don’t premeditate anything I do, you wont catch me humming along to some phrase when im walking home and itching to get on FL studio so I can draw it up I just get in my little mental zone, and start blindly plotting away melodies with the 3xosc and a little effects here and there and see what I can come up with on the fly and when it starts to work melodically for me, I build around it, and adding in other elements, like loading in NI’s Reaktor as a VSTI into FL Studio and mangling parameters. Experimentation is 80% of how a deadmau5 track springs up from the ground. One thing I love about FL studio that even the current “top notch” applications I use DOESN’T HAVE, is the ability to rearrange your chain of effects on each mixer bus I wanted to strangle nuendo a billion times for not having FL Studios “move down / move up” option in the chain especially when im experimenting. In the beginning of any of my productions, quality isn’t at the forefront of my thoughts, its getting the ideas down, then refine. It’s ease of use and fast results are what get the ideas down as fast as they come to my head, and that’s really important for me. I load it up as a VSTi and begin building additional content for my current project like, little funky breaks, maybe a new synth line when need be, but its always running in the background and ready for me to switch over when I need to sequence up and render out a break or phrase that wasn’t rendered out the first time I did the big multichannel export.įL Studio has, and probably will remain the main ingredient to my workflow.
I mainly use Nuendo for compatibility of course with all the studios I operate in and around because their either Protools / Logic / or Nuendo themselves so I like to keep my stuff portable so that im not getting stuck in a Studio that might not have FL.Įven when im in the Nuendo environment my FL usage doesn’t stop there. Each of these tracks are then coarsely dumped into each of their respective tracks and I begin the actual “mixing” process. I export each element using FL’s mixer down to their individual tracks using the “export multiple tracks” option on. So the base of the track is composed almost entirely in FL Studio, all my piano roll / midi data is stored in FL Studio. I Use FL Studio for that because I have found that the piano roll is by far the FASTEST way to “plot” my melodies and rhythms down because although I have an ear for it, I couldn’t “play” a melody to save my life. I actually stumbled across FL studio back in the super early days of the application… i believe it was through a random websearch, I grabbed a demo copy of Fruityloops 1.7 (perhaps even older than that?) and I’ve been hooked ever since.įirst and foremost, I launch FL with the beginning of each little idea I have in my head, whether it’s a fast melody, or a drum groove to start out with.
Of course many years have passed since then and I have moved from endeavour to endeavour dealing mainly with audio freelancing for video games, media companies, software companies and liscensing companies alike.Ĭheck out the DeadMau5 XFer sample collection. Adam hosted a show on a local radio station (101.1 The Planet) at the time and to make a long story short, I essentially came on board as the all purpose “whiz kid” to help out with the weekly production of the show. So began my quest for better software, and it was around this time I met up with Adam Delaire of Cyberdyne Systems, a prolific DJ / MC as well as business owner based in Niagara Falls.
Of course, you had your mod trackers and all, but at the time, i couldn’t help but to think that alot was still missing. I first got into the whole computer music scene back in ’97 / 98… there really really a lot of options to explore when it came to making music with *just* computer music software. How did you get involved in creating music ?