Totally awesome! Haven't been working with music for quite some years, but Armin van Buuren answers a lot of questions I had back in the days. I think its really great of him sharing his tecniques and trix.
I'm truly impressed by Armin's choice of not bricking the whole track with over compression. I dont hear many guys making dance music these days expressing the importance of that. Easier on the ears and makes for a nice dynamic mix.
yea i recall when french electro house (justice-sebastian-)came w/ that intense compressed sound on every track_to the point of being the heavy metal of digital clipping distortion_they blew up so everyone started goin' louder & louder to compete & it just got out of hand_limiters & compressors squash dynamics & bass_period. thus_a genre so defined on drum & bass_need ALL dynamics_the french electro compression is a good niche_but its not good for every genre all the time like a lot of people still use it to this day_& there are some transparent limiters like ozone_etc._but Im just gonna use a gain knob on the master channel & try to keep them levels green_in hopes where its gets played_it'll out bump the rest in bass_& the listener/frontstage engineer will just turn me up a bit to knock their socks off
After watching this and listening to the whole track; I have to say this this track is absolutely amazing. This track "grabs" you; the baseline, vocal reverb, and overall flow is outstanding. I have to say this is one of the best trance songs I have heard. Very amazing job. Keep up the outstanding work.
I still like to revisit armin videos from time to time. Im more a techno dj these days but a lpt of my roots are very trance orientated. It os nice to see aemin using omnisphere. But far one the best and biggest plugins. It has great multisamples and synth combinations, and also, is pretty much the best go to when your stuck for sound design ideas.
Armin van Buuren is truly innovative, and open minded when it comes to creating and making tracks. I never honestly understood his process, but after watching this, it is pretty clear that Armin truly strides to be unique, original, and creative within his song making process.
he is just amazing guy....unlike any other producers interviewed by future music mag he made me crystal clear in every thing he showed... others they try to hide things like its pepsi ingredient....
You know, it's not only the music that Armin produces that puts him at the top, it's that he gives back to other producers some of his ideas for us to play with--it just make trance so much more inclusive than most other genres--in a sense he's saying share your voice to what's going on in this part of the music scene. Great masterclass, really--thanks! =)
its not and never was custom. They are Mackie HR-824-mk2's as of the date of this video. the monitors was first designed & tested in his studio yes and he got the first pair, and 6 months later it was in the stores selling for $850 The big studio monitors are the Genelec mainline 1030-A/B which 3 years later he switched for the 1234-A's SAM studio monitors which are also Genelecs. & run for around $12,000
these are mackie 824s which are genelec clones. They are ultraflat (which later prooved not even be that great) and aren't hence specifically made for Armins room. Nevermind that the have a muddy bass response due to the massive radiator so you get a lot of echo bleed from the kick into the bass. not sure what armins talking about at all.
Meng Xiong I know what trance is, been listening to it since the early 90's. It's still a category of EDM though, as much as it pains me to admit in a weird way, since it separates itself so much from anything else inside the EDM category.
Meng Xiong Naw this isn't trance, trance is Astral Projection, Cosmosis, Etnica, even fuckin Shiva Shidapu if you like. Trance is about the psychedelic experience, this is more about dudes who think they're cool cause they take ecstasy, drink bud light and spend spring at panama city beach.
Helder Pinto EDM is not Trance, and vice versa. EDM is literally anything nowadays which is popular and "is dance music". The "Trance" than these producers are making isn't "Trance", at least in it's rawest, generalist way. It's EDM, it's pop music, it's DESIGNED for people to listen to for a week then forget about it. Dance music has sadly become the new pop - EDM is that pop. EDM is a very new term and yet people seem to think it's been around since the 90's; it' hasn't.
Step one: Learn. step two: Learn more. Doesn't matter how expensive your equipment is, if you DON'T know what you're doing, you DON'T know what you're doing AND you're wasting money.
Lloyd Richards yeah, what a load of shit. The only way to analyze your mix in the 30-400Hz range, is to get speakers with humongous drivers, hahaah. Someone gave him a really good sales pitch.
Omnisphere is my favorite synth plugin. I loved watching this video, Armin is one great producer. Many times when I watch the FMM videos with famous EMD producer i become a bit disappointed with limited the knowledge and techniques, and the vocabulary which the producers use, but not with Armin I actually learnt some things and I have new ideas after watching this video.
Captivating... i use Cubase, since 1.01 since 1989... but i never used it that way. Armin van Buuren is very mature in his work, a very talented genius, in its own unique manner. So interesting ! Thank you !
So..... there's a WHOLE LOT of science and knowledge to it. It's not just making a track on Fruity Loops or similar and adding vocals to it as I always thought it was :) So much to learn...
+komalthecoolk no it's actually pretty simple, he's just really into details when the main thing to focus on is the melody. That's why pretty all of his songs have a really bad melody but he stills manages to make it sound right.
+komalthecoolk The tool is only as good and as complicated and completed as your creativity. I think people who make music should focus less on the tool and more on the creativity. IF you don't know how to create a particular effect there are always forums and youtube. Actually, today is the best era ever to be creating music :)
+Andre Bismara I don't agree much on that because creativity is not easy or difficult. It either exists or does not. We need an outlet for it. As someone who grew up around music, I have a lot of ideas in my head but if I choose to use the digital platform to bring out my creativity, then there is a whole lot of stuff that I need to know and that is what I was talking about.
It's like the drop is an exotic rainforest, and as the cute, gentle piano floats in you are entering a narrow cave, and you can hear the water dripping except when you come to the end it is a two-sided waterfall; and by the time the intoxicating synths explode you have been catapulted into a sunny jungle. All in all a truly stimulating listening experience.
I've used audio loops in my tracks, but I always use edited loops along with sequenced drums. I never considered just making a custom audio loop all together. I might try that sometime.
Can someone explain why the professionals like Armin have 600K views, while teens playing non-sense EDM have 2M+ views?. I' ll give you the answer: Because technology gave access to music production, to every single dude that doesn't even know the notes! The worse is that other dudes actually like it. if you grow up with nonsense you will like it. The old principal still in effect... Every single year that passes... from worse to worst. Armin van Buuren.. WE LOVE YOU!!
Answer, these kids are Jews or crypto Jews who many times pretend to be chritians but they are not. Hope you guys understand that. All money goes into Jewish pockets everywhere.
great video can you get him in a studio session to show us the making of ''Burned with desire'' ? that's one of the tracks that got me into producing and imo his best tune
+Mojo Prum Thats not a Nord Wave. Its a Nord Lead 3. You can read it (for example) at 3:04. I personally don't know the diffrence between a wave and a 3 (There's a 4 to btw. I assume that one is newer). But the Nord Lead is far cheaper than the wave.
Armin's the god of trance, he sould've remained 1st. Hardwell's turned gay but he can remain in top fifty as a used-to-be-a-good-house-music-producer. Skrillex brought dub and dub-sub genres out in the spotlight so he has deserved a spot in top five. Best up-an-rising funk producer Deorro goes in the top as well. Then Krewella as good who-da-faq-knows-what-music producers in the top five as well, and Nicky Romero for being a good house producer and not releasing crap. And finally R3hab for his epicness in house. His build-ups in his songs are freaking awesome, but the drop sometimes ruins them as in his latest song "Fliht".That would be my top five.
To those in the comments...none of them have ghost producers, they work on projects with other producers to get things going when they get writers block...or someone sends them something for them to take a look at or use and they mix it up and make it their own...they’re not just producers, they’re DJ’s as well genius’s...they literally mix tracks produced by other people and create compilations under their labels...a team of producers works within a record company or label and all add their bit to it...each label has a representative that is capable of making all their visions one...as well not all producers want to be famous and bothered all the time, some just want money for making music
Learning from the god of trance himself! It's like I'm receiving a baptism. holy shit.
AMEN to you Sir.
armin god of trance, lolled
ferry or tiesto would be that... by far
dj mag wins doesn't change that
^ Lol. Tiesto doesn't even make trance anymore dawg.
***** so? you think "this is what it feels like" or "d# fat" is trance?
What about the other 95% of his tracks ?
the thing with the speakers being designed for his room is just so sick. no wonder he has the best sound quality in his tracks.
Avb has such a distinct sound to his songs. It’s great to see his mastery of detail and layering in play.
I could watch him do all of his library and never get bored. Perfection
He was so ahead of the times. Gosh, absolutely amazing
Totally awesome! Haven't been working with music for quite some years, but Armin van Buuren answers a lot of questions I had back in the days. I think its really great of him sharing his tecniques and trix.
20:36, Armin is startled by his own brilliance.
That made my day sir
LOL!
Positive tensions, maybe?
😂
ok?
I'm truly impressed by Armin's choice of not bricking the whole track with over compression. I dont hear many guys making dance music these days expressing the importance of that. Easier on the ears and makes for a nice dynamic mix.
yea i recall when french electro house (justice-sebastian-)came w/ that intense compressed sound on every track_to the point of being the heavy metal of digital clipping distortion_they blew up so everyone started goin' louder & louder to compete & it just got out of hand_limiters & compressors squash dynamics & bass_period. thus_a genre so defined on drum & bass_need ALL dynamics_the french electro compression is a good niche_but its not good for every genre all the time like a lot of people still use it to this day_& there are some transparent limiters like ozone_etc._but Im just gonna use a gain knob on the master channel & try to keep them levels green_in hopes where its gets played_it'll out bump the rest in bass_& the listener/frontstage engineer will just turn me up a bit to knock their socks off
Yeah, compression should be seldomly used.
@@fireraidTastefully, not seldomly.
@@Mopark25 well said
19:19 legend say "reverb is still on"
PsychoCaki 😂😂😂
20 years decay
@@buzzardmusic5606it still fucking goes on
@@buzzardmusic5606 lmfao
i've been looking for this a long time, two days, happy I found it so fast, thanks Armin
Its always in the last place you left it!
After watching this and listening to the whole track; I have to say this this track is absolutely amazing. This track "grabs" you; the baseline, vocal reverb, and overall flow is outstanding. I have to say this is one of the best trance songs I have heard. Very amazing job. Keep up the outstanding work.
I still like to revisit armin videos from time to time. Im more a techno dj these days but a lpt of my roots are very trance orientated. It os nice to see aemin using omnisphere. But far one the best and biggest plugins. It has great multisamples and synth combinations, and also, is pretty much the best go to when your stuck for sound design ideas.
Love your work Armin and thank you so much for talking about the over compression issues. Lets stop that loudness bull. :)
Armin van Buuren is truly innovative, and open minded when it comes to creating and making tracks. I never honestly understood his process, but after watching this, it is pretty clear that Armin truly strides to be unique, original, and creative within his song making process.
Honestly this never gets old. I absolutely love Armin and he will always be my favorite artist. Just Gold. 👌🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼👌🏼
This was in the November 2012 issue of the magazine
20:36 EPIC SCARE
lmao, he jumped
I cant find a better teacher. U r a huge inspiration in my life mr. Van buuren.
it seems it was yesterday... wow man! :) I just saw him live. great as I remember
Well I've watched this maybe 10 times now. And it's still not enough.
This is by far the best sounding track of all "in the studio" sessions.
he is just amazing guy....unlike any other producers interviewed by future music mag he made me crystal clear in every thing he showed... others they try to hide things like its pepsi ingredient....
"Like it's Pepsi ingredient"? That's a first.
@@walker_19880 #Fickle
You have great videos. I really like that you share your knowledge....and your technology. Excellent work! Thank you.
Thank you for sharing, I am still playing catchup after 30 years! ❤️
He has the periodic table as his keyboard. That's boss.
I think that is the "Logic Keyboard" :P
I've now watched this about 8 times.
So good to see this. This is the kind of music that brought me to electro music, listenings to songs by armin and the tiesto's sunrises volumes.
You know, it's not only the music that Armin produces that puts him at the top, it's that he gives back to other producers some of his ideas for us to play with--it just make trance so much more inclusive than most other genres--in a sense he's saying share your voice to what's going on in this part of the music scene. Great masterclass, really--thanks! =)
The title of the video should be "God In The Studio With Future Music"
Armin seems like a really nice person. I can tell he is very down to earth and creates some very cool music. Those speakers sound great!
DAT SOUND !! i love his sound in the room its amazing
Now I can really appreciate this track. Love it once again
19:06 sent shivers down my spine
hahahahaha
those are awesome kick samples damn
big thank you for this video! even though I'm not a trance music producer but I've learned so much from watching this guy. keep up the great work!
A lot of great tips here! It will certainly help in my own productions. Thank you for sharing your knowledge :)
Wow I learned a lot
"These speakers were made for this room."
Jesus Christ, I should just quit.
its not and never was custom. They are Mackie HR-824-mk2's as of the date of this video.
the monitors was first designed & tested in his studio yes and he got the first pair, and 6 months later it was in the stores selling for $850
The big studio monitors are the Genelec mainline 1030-A/B which 3 years later he switched for the 1234-A's SAM studio monitors which are also Genelecs. & run for around $12,000
these are mackie 824s which are genelec clones. They are ultraflat (which later prooved not even be that great) and aren't hence specifically made for Armins room. Nevermind that the have a muddy bass response due to the massive radiator so you get a lot of echo bleed from the kick into the bass. not sure what armins talking about at all.
@@kingprone7846 I think he was talking about the large built-in speakers
guys youre blind he’s talking about the soffit mounted monitors in the wall not the mackie’s
Oli.Vyae lmfaoo right
Thank you very much for showing us its great I love it.
Wow! never knew so much time and effort goes into these trance tracks!
Absolutely amazing! People that say that EDM is not music are dinosaurs.
This is trance.
Meng Xiong I know what trance is, been listening to it since the early 90's.
It's still a category of EDM though, as much as it pains me to admit in a weird way, since it separates itself so much from anything else inside the EDM category.
Meng Xiong Naw this isn't trance, trance is Astral Projection, Cosmosis, Etnica, even fuckin Shiva Shidapu if you like. Trance is about the psychedelic experience, this is more about dudes who think they're cool cause they take ecstasy, drink bud light and spend spring at panama city beach.
Helder Pinto EDM is not Trance, and vice versa. EDM is literally anything nowadays which is popular and "is dance music". The "Trance" than these producers are making isn't "Trance", at least in it's rawest, generalist way. It's EDM, it's pop music, it's DESIGNED for people to listen to for a week then forget about it. Dance music has sadly become the new pop - EDM is that pop. EDM is a very new term and yet people seem to think it's been around since the 90's; it' hasn't.
Helder Pinto mapcore?
Step one: Buy $100,000 speakers. Cheers.
Lloyd Richards i concur
Lol
Step one: Learn. step two: Learn more. Doesn't matter how expensive your equipment is, if you DON'T know what you're doing, you DON'T know what you're doing AND you're wasting money.
Lloyd Richards yeah, what a load of shit. The only way to analyze your mix in the 30-400Hz range, is to get speakers with humongous drivers, hahaah. Someone gave him a really good sales pitch.
Lloyd Richards step two:10k+ worth of not used synths for background image. step 3: make cheese.
Armin always seems likeable and in a good mood. His music is outstanding. I like him.😊🎵👏🤙👍
Magnifico!!!
The elements of the bassline
Awesome armin and than future magazine...
I think I just earned a college credit watching that
Justin Rome even a bachelors degree perhaps.
Literally college can be such a joke
You can't learn experience 😉
a lot of work goes into each track well explained enjoyed the documentry still dont know how he does it x
Omnisphere is my favorite synth plugin. I loved watching this video, Armin is one great producer. Many times when I watch the FMM videos with famous EMD producer i become a bit disappointed with limited the knowledge and techniques, and the vocabulary which the producers use, but not with Armin I actually learnt some things and I have new ideas after watching this video.
This guy speaks perfect English. Armin Arlert be damned.
lmao the fuck man i laughed so hard
I don't get it?
@@thaohuyennguyen3877 summerarlert ist that you?
Dutch is very similar to English.
You guys really need to do this with Infected Mushroom
only one word : thank you for this, thanks to you we see very interesting things, which softs he uses...and all his work
Captivating... i use Cubase, since 1.01 since 1989... but i never used it that way. Armin van Buuren is very mature in his work, a very talented genius, in its own unique manner. So interesting ! Thank you !
Armin jonge! Goed bezig!
8:15 he had a Jim Carrey moment
2017 and i still come back to this
Non-stop in the mix, with Armin van Buuren!
Watch & Learn :-)
So..... there's a WHOLE LOT of science and knowledge to it. It's not just making a track on Fruity Loops or similar and adding vocals to it as I always thought it was :)
So much to learn...
+komalthecoolk no it's actually pretty simple, he's just really into details when the main thing to focus on is the melody. That's why pretty all of his songs have a really bad melody but he stills manages to make it sound right.
+komalthecoolk What you call "science and knowledge" is actually the easy part.
Thomas Haley What is the difficult part then?
+komalthecoolk The tool is only as good and as complicated and completed as your creativity. I think people who make music should focus less on the tool and more on the creativity. IF you don't know how to create a particular effect there are always forums and youtube. Actually, today is the best era ever to be creating music :)
+Andre Bismara I don't agree much on that because creativity is not easy or difficult. It either exists or does not. We need an outlet for it. As someone who grew up around music, I have a lot of ideas in my head but if I choose to use the digital platform to bring out my creativity, then there is a whole lot of stuff that I need to know and that is what I was talking about.
It's like the drop is an exotic rainforest, and as the cute, gentle piano floats in you are entering a narrow cave, and you can hear the water dripping except when you come to the end it is a two-sided waterfall; and by the time the intoxicating synths explode you have been catapulted into a sunny jungle. All in all a truly stimulating listening experience.
This was great nice work Armin.
armin's job is not that easy..... it needs expertise... a realy tough task and thats why he deserves his fan following
InstaBlaster...
09:56 "i've just opened Ableton" oh yea!!
Finally!!!! I wait for it all the time!!!!!
Wow, great insight! Thanks so much, Armin and FM!
Holy. I thought I got some bad pixels it was video tho.
Het maakt inderdaad vaak niet uit welke DAW je gebruikt... het is maar wat je er mee doet!
Great video! Learned a lot, and that track sounds amazing, great vocals too! :)
A real masterclass from a real master! Very inspiring.
5:39 the guy accidentally start talking dutch for a second and then startet talking english real quik again
Still waitin' "Skrillex In The Studio With Future Music"
Diego Belmont no one gives a fuck about dubstep anymore, house and trance (and techno) is taking over.
It’s been 4 years 😞😞
Date Mike Ever heard of Jack U?
@@bluba1lz144 techno is shit lmao
Armin is the best....I learned so much. Thank You
I've used audio loops in my tracks, but I always use edited loops along with sequenced drums. I never considered just making a custom audio loop all together. I might try that sometime.
Learning from God himself. Wow.
Maybe 1 out of every 10 songs of his is good (even great). The rest are... (yawns).
"there are no rules in music... that's the first rule" datz a paradokz aight
Armin Rules!! Really like his comments about Mastering.
This was really inspiring, thank you Armin Van Buuren.
Can someone explain why the professionals like Armin have 600K views, while teens playing non-sense EDM have 2M+ views?. I' ll give you the answer: Because technology gave access to music production, to every single dude that doesn't even know the notes! The worse is that other dudes actually like it. if you grow up with nonsense you will like it. The old principal still in effect... Every single year that passes... from worse to worst.
Armin van Buuren.. WE LOVE YOU!!
+vapon1 yeah but Armin maybe around in some 10 years, and those 2m plus view dudes may be not.
Answer, these kids are Jews or crypto Jews who many times pretend to be chritians but they are not. Hope you guys understand that. All money goes into Jewish pockets everywhere.
+Manfred klaus why do people have to mention religion in everything ?
+Manfred klaus fuck off
its simple, the masses are stupid.
New drinking game: Every time Armin says "uh", take a shot. Happy drunk.
Or whenever he says, "in this particular track" haha XD
*****
take "less boring" for extra
great video can you get him in a studio session to show us the making of ''Burned with desire'' ? that's one of the tracks that got me into producing and imo his best tune
amazing speaker... i am a small-time producer but just from watching this i'm pretty sure that sounds realllyyyy goood.
Benno de Goeij...
+ Armin van Buuren. They work together :)
The way Armin pronounces his name reminds me of one Czech swear-word.
Which one? lol
Chuj, it's from Polish or Russian and it's basically a word for dick...
Lol :D
The Hell is that KeyBoard. ?? I don´t find it on the allmighty Internet ?
Nord Wave -www.musicradar.com/reviews/tech/clavia-nord-wave-121851
thx rly
I´m studying Music in Germany
+Mojo Prum Thats not a Nord Wave. Its a Nord Lead 3. You can read it (for example) at 3:04.
I personally don't know the diffrence between a wave and a 3 (There's a 4 to btw. I assume that one is newer). But the Nord Lead is far cheaper than the wave.
+ARMOLA N wo?
I could listen those single elements for hours !
I love how you say the sylenth and the nexus
Does that lead bass sound distorted only to my ears?
Yeah, but it does sound sweet when the kick side chain comes in doesn't it?
vaiman7777 exactly what I thought ;)
Armin's the god of trance, he sould've remained 1st. Hardwell's turned gay but he can remain in top fifty as a used-to-be-a-good-house-music-producer. Skrillex brought dub and dub-sub genres out in the spotlight so he has deserved a spot in top five. Best up-an-rising funk producer Deorro goes in the top as well. Then Krewella as good who-da-faq-knows-what-music producers in the top five as well, and Nicky Romero for being a good house producer and not releasing crap. And finally R3hab for his epicness in house. His build-ups in his songs are freaking awesome, but the drop sometimes ruins them as in his latest song "Fliht".That would be my top five.
Bruh, almost all of these are shit. Punk, mau5 & buren are the only skillful producers mentioned in this thread.
@@rickf6375 Tiesto, or was he not on there.
I seriously learned soooo much stuff from this. Awesome.
Gracias armin pondré en práctica lo que has puesto.ozone tengo que comprarlo si o si. Gracias
Logic Pro is only available for mac computers and as I see this is not apples mac computer how he runs logic pro in this pc
If you have money you can have it on pc
Weed Herbalist how please tell me where can I buy it?
A U F I D E R Z E
It's a Mac
it's a basic screen but with mac...
A U F I D E R Z E google hackintosh. I got os x running on my pc.
pongan subtitulos porfavor !!
aprende ingles porfavor
vik beat aprende a escribir "porfavor"
wow new found respect for him, he really knows his stuff!!!
Admin you music is always lifting and inspirational
Plot twist: Armin has a ghost producer to make his tracks
Jk I love Armin, he is one of the best trance producers
I know David Guetta has a team of them, I heard skrillex does aswell but i don't really know
Adis Kay I highly doubt Skrillex does.
To those in the comments...none of them have ghost producers, they work on projects with other producers to get things going when they get writers block...or someone sends them something for them to take a look at or use and they mix it up and make it their own...they’re not just producers, they’re DJ’s as well genius’s...they literally mix tracks produced by other people and create compilations under their labels...a team of producers works within a record company or label and all add their bit to it...each label has a representative that is capable of making all their visions one...as well not all producers want to be famous and bothered all the time, some just want money for making music
I love how matin garrix has more views than armin.
This society....
Max Turtle armins career is so long and still going, that's the true test , this new era of electronic music won't have a lasting impression
Internet thats why
Awesome, great video!
Good video and the information is very valuable, ty
When he says, "ugh" it reminds me of Tina from Bob's Burgers, lol :)
Damnn its more easy to play the guitar ;)
Back in the day when armin has more hair
pre hair transplant you mean
Profesional!!!! You are the teacher!!!
Some famous last words about compressing the masterbus and the loudness war. Great insight in the masters kitchen!