i can imagine it, what a bloody nightmare. i've used midi controllers manufactured in the last twenty years. everyone sort of forgot that the thing that creates the musical information, shouldn't be louder than the sound you are producing. "but let's use a spring and a hollow resonant key design anyway":. and the part where they stopped making repairable key contacts also sucks about the controller industry.
Thank you so much for these guides! Seems like there’s a million awesome tutorials for painting and sculpting in Dreams but like 3 very limited music tutorials. So much of this I had no idea you could do!
I’ve just started with the early access on PS4 and I’m enjoying it but finding it awkward at times. Thanks for your tutorials which will help me on my road through the multitude of controls within Dreams. This music one is something I’m looking forward to trying. Damn, I’ve got that tune in my head now! 👍
Same here. Just got it last week and it’s been fun but the controls mess me up a lot. I’ll find myself spinning the camera around trying to move the imp lol.
Been having a look at your work on Dreams, it's fantastic. I didn't know you did tutorials as well I will defo check out more. I learnt so much about sculpting from scoping into your chinese buffet, thanks for sharing it. Yum! ~RAKeogh
Oh btw if you press down on the D pad when altering the playback speed it's much easier to tweak the speed!!!!! I noticed it today.. it's a better alternative then sliding it with the imp.. try it out👍
Also if you hover over you can press L1 and square and alter manually, note that the bpm is not displayed directly until you hover again after an edit! This was huge for me.
Thank you so much for making these video's, I really want to use the music maker in Dreams but I get so angry because I can't find any way to start learning and sorry to say this but for me it's a extreme up hill learning curve because I really thought it was far more simple to use this game. Again, thank you very much!
You can see a round shape top right and left corners of the instrument block. If you grab and pull it over that acts as a volume level, so you can fade in or out single instruments. If you want to fade out an entire piece of music use keyframes.
Lol. Sometimes when I'm off beat I change the tempo. Nice video. Also in the tweak menu there's a way to make it it only plays one note... I think lol. Hope your game is put on the ps store dreams is a giant contest 😂
I don't understand how to use the legato function. Could someone explain the setting? I turn it on, and try and do it in piano roll, but I can't get the setting to work. Only thing I can use I'd the crappy freehand one.
Its not for the piano roll its for the Freeform View. You hold down the buttons and move to different notes and in the piano roll you will see it is a soft line and on the timeline they appear as one note as they blend together.
@@DreamswithLadylexUK Nooou D: They should really show the piano roll some love, as it's the closest thing to the original music sequencer note placement of LBP2
hmmm. it would be nice if they made a tool different to the legato option in lbp2. because freeform view is a bis difficult. if you just could drag the end of the note to its exact position, that would make my day really. the sont that I'm Making btw has that on the main Melodie but it just sounds wrong without the tone sliding through each sound.
Can I recommend my website dreamschool.co.uk - look up any gadget for a full description, tutorial - and if one is made a jimmyjules153 beginners guide video
I've discovered a problem I cant delete my creation nor acess it to re edit it... it just plays without a timeline or anything and there is no way to delete it????? Is this normal.. I've tried searching for answers to both these problems and cant find one..???
So I found this tutorial trying to find out one thing the in game tutorial didn't teach. I was wondering how you manipulate a timeline so that only a portion of it loops continuously? I essentially have a slow intro portion of the music that builds and then drops into the more upbeat portion. Problem is I only want the upbeat portion to loop. I can't figure it out whether it needs logic or connections or what? Any help would be appreciated
Separate your music into two separate timelines. Add them to a selector so that the first part plays with a 1-1 counter at the end that is wired to the next output on the selector. then move to the next item on the selector which is your looped part.
is there a way to copy/paste notes I've played on one instrument onto another or do I have to draw everything all over again each time I'm testing an instrument?
how do you make a tone slide? I've been trying to make a song by deadmau5 (remixed by Andy C), but i don't know on how to make a perfect slide for a tone. yes, there is drawing it but that's not accurate enough, I need the exact note to make it sound better. can anyone help me please?
Do you know if you remix a creation and save it as your own, will you then be able to access it forever or will it eventually vanish. I remixed this cool little music studio a brilliant dreamer created and wanted to spend the foreseeable future making music in it
Unless you delete it, there is no reason for it to vanish. Upload it to the servers now to private if you currently only have it as local. This will add to your total available space when the servers swap over.
Help pls. I only bought dreams for music. But I can't find the menu dream shaping and browse and create 😢 do I have to complete the whole tutorial first?
I'm having problems coming from PC where is so easy to place the notes in the right spot when you are composing modules but here in Dreams i'm playing more or less and then I have to go to he notes editor and adjust every note by hand to get the notes where I want... maybe I'm playing bad when I'm recording the notes... but if you are recording like the bass for a dance song the bass sometimes is very fast and threre's no way you can perform the bass with accuracy in the notes at the moment at least for myself.
Thank you so very much,.. just made my first shitty composition,.. but I like it :)Now just have to figure it out how to put it into my level ,.. noob.
Yes they swapped it at launch. Now you save it as a game type rather than start out with one. Instead you just open start creating > New Element or Scene.
@Backyard Music Feedback When your Imp goes over a music note in the piano roll, scale it up or down with [D-pad up] or [D-pad down] and it will change its velocity :D
How do you turn off the first piece of music while you record another piece???? I just wanna listen to the metronome and make another piece of music but it keeps playing the first piece I made and I cant see no option to turn it off while I record something else..?????
@@DreamswithLadylexUK thanks I just moved the sidebar in the end... i have one more question have you noticed an issue where when you press the buttons to make a certain tune it just doesn't sound anything like what you made if that makes sense even if I speed it up or slow it down it's like it doesn't understand my input even though when I play with the metronome and make my sounds it registers and I hear it clearly knowing I've made it sound like what I want then when I listen back.. its totally different.. I'm not good at explaining things.. but I really wanna make some kick ass music but I cant figure out what the issue is... like if I select a sound and go dun dun dun wa wa wa.... It won't come out like how I've recorded it.. even if I slow it down or speed it up... I'm confused because I know you can make precise music and when I listened to yours on the video you got it to work... any advice? 😶
@@DreamswithLadylexUK oh btw I did exactly what you said and yeah fixed the problem now the game reads my inputs and responds exactly the way it should 👍
You can use pitch with a keyframe blend in your timeline to gradually move into your other key. You would then make the piece in the required key as separate block.
@@lindsey9650 You cant it doesn't exist anymore since the launch update. You get to Browse and Create by clicking on Dreamshaping and then search. Dreams Workshop is one of the sliding options just beneath. Your creations can be accessed through your profile page.
I think it is, but I dont have Moves so cannot say for sure. However I have noticed that the DS4 is the preferred controller scheme from Mm when making music.
"let's ask LLUK" before it takes all day then.. :( :) how can i turn a music timeline into a sound effect? the music in the game is localised (eg from radio).
What exactly are you asking here? Music is a sound effect it just happens to be music. If you want it to have panned sound then you can use a speaker gadget. Put the speaker gadget and timeline in the same chip to work together
@@DreamswithLadylexUK "music" follows the player. a sound effect eg. stamped on an object, gets quieter when you get further away. i want to associate the music with an object (radio) so it is only audible around the object in the scene.
@@DreamswithLadylexUK sorry again, i have used two clips in music and when i record, it always drops silent at 4 measures. "singing ambient pad" seems to have a hidden automation in it. so does "the holy 80s teen pad", i added them, tried to record new notes, i can see the notes i recorded, but the midi "All Notes Off" at 4 measures like it has reached the end of the clip. i fugre, this has got to be one of thos simple obvious wrtong new person things.
@@DreamswithLadylexUK ok i accidentally hit the "delete all" button, which is a good thing, because i will never know why it kept dropping silent at 4 measures. so for other newbies using contributed clips, "delete all" before you try and do things. i also found that when i made a new recording, the clip was 0% volume, i don't know why. that was relatively simple to fix but why would a new recording be set at 0? so "i'm ok" but wow, eg. yesterday i tried to make a sourced escalator face north instead of west...
They changed it slightly between Early Access and launch. Browse and Create is found from clicking on Dream Shaping and then press Search at the top of the page.
@@DreamswithLadylexUK LOL you noticed me. The video was great either way, I just started on "Dreams" a couple days ago and have already made a couple things. I've just started working on "A Walk Through Human History", too which is gonna take a while, but I used one of your videos to show me how to link the levels.
No more FL Studio!! Since now on, I'm gonna use Dreams
Just imagine being able to use a midi controller with this.
You can, there's guides to getting midi2osc up and running, a program made by Mediamolecule that lets you send MIDI data via a PC.
@@bluezaku78 Thanks for letting me know.
i can imagine it, what a bloody nightmare. i've used midi controllers manufactured in the last twenty years.
everyone sort of forgot that the thing that creates the musical information, shouldn't be louder than the sound you are producing. "but let's use a spring and a hollow resonant key design anyway":.
and the part where they stopped making repairable key contacts also sucks about the controller industry.
Thank you so much for these guides! Seems like there’s a million awesome tutorials for painting and sculpting in Dreams but like 3 very limited music tutorials. So much of this I had no idea you could do!
I’ve just started with the early access on PS4 and I’m enjoying it but finding it awkward at times. Thanks for your tutorials which will help me on my road through the multitude of controls within Dreams. This music one is something I’m looking forward to trying. Damn, I’ve got that tune in my head now! 👍
Same here. Just got it last week and it’s been fun but the controls mess me up a lot. I’ll find myself spinning the camera around trying to move the imp lol.
Do you know how to get to the screen that you see at the start of this video? (0:15)
@@lindsey9650 I think this what it looked in the beta before they updated the menus
Very useful, very clear to understand, and nice accent as well... greetings from France :)
I am loving your tutorials! Thanks so much
Dreams is amazing
Descendant of Kraff it really is! I’m blown away with the tools they’ve given us. The possibilities are so vast.
Cant wait to start playing with this
Gosh that inspired me. Looks like I need to start up Dreams again 😅 Thank you!
I'm getting this game today and I'm soooooooooo excited to make music and create stuff I will definitely watch your videos they are very helpful 😎👍
Put your tracks on RUclips!
@@onionheadguy7094 lol I will I'm halfway done with one but difficult haha
I was having a lot of trouble with the instruments, this has been helpful :)
Thank you! I was having fun layering premade instrument loops, but it is way more fun now that I can create my own notes and beats. :) Very helpful!
Been having a look at your work on Dreams, it's fantastic. I didn't know you did tutorials as well I will defo check out more. I learnt so much about sculpting from scoping into your chinese buffet, thanks for sharing it. Yum! ~RAKeogh
Music Sequencer 2.0!
😆 oh how I miss the music sequencer! It was so simple to use and similar to DAWs
this looks very confusing but also awesome. cant wait to make my own music
Oh btw if you press down on the D pad when altering the playback speed it's much easier to tweak the speed!!!!! I noticed it today.. it's a better alternative then sliding it with the imp.. try it out👍
Also if you hover over you can press L1 and square and alter manually, note that the bpm is not displayed directly until you hover again after an edit! This was huge for me.
That'll be a number one next week lol thanks for the info
Thank you.
Thank you so much for making these video's, I really want to use the music maker in Dreams but I get so angry because I can't find any way to start learning and sorry to say this but for me it's a extreme up hill learning curve because I really thought it was far more simple to use this game. Again, thank you very much!
4:33 Smoke on the water! lol
Very good tutorial. Thank you. Is there a mixer function, where you can alter the volume levels of each track? Best wishes
You can see a round shape top right and left corners of the instrument block. If you grab and pull it over that acts as a volume level, so you can fade in or out single instruments. If you want to fade out an entire piece of music use keyframes.
Lol. Sometimes when I'm off beat I change the tempo. Nice video. Also in the tweak menu there's a way to make it it only plays one note... I think lol. Hope your game is put on the ps store dreams is a giant contest 😂
Thanks you for this video your the best
Not sure if your aware of this but if you hover over any slider and press up or down on the d-pad you can make fine tune adjustments.
She did that in the video. She started out dragging it with X, then switched to d-pad when she was making it go down to 100.
I don't understand how to use the legato function. Could someone explain the setting? I turn it on, and try and do it in piano roll, but I can't get the setting to work. Only thing I can use I'd the crappy freehand one.
Its not for the piano roll its for the Freeform View. You hold down the buttons and move to different notes and in the piano roll you will see it is a soft line and on the timeline they appear as one note as they blend together.
@@DreamswithLadylexUK Nooou D:
They should really show the piano roll some love, as it's the closest thing to the original music sequencer note placement of LBP2
hmmm. it would be nice if they made a tool different to the legato option in lbp2. because freeform view is a bis difficult. if you just could drag the end of the note to its exact position, that would make my day really. the sont that I'm Making btw has that on the main Melodie but it just sounds wrong without the tone sliding through each sound.
I was wondering if you could do a video on the logic. What the things mean.
Can I recommend my website dreamschool.co.uk - look up any gadget for a full description, tutorial - and if one is made a jimmyjules153 beginners guide video
I've discovered a problem I cant delete my creation nor acess it to re edit it... it just plays without a timeline or anything and there is no way to delete it????? Is this normal.. I've tried searching for answers to both these problems and cant find one..???
I figured out how to delete something its strangely hidden away still unsure how to re edit music and not just hear it play without a timeline?? 🤔
So I found this tutorial trying to find out one thing the in game tutorial didn't teach. I was wondering how you manipulate a timeline so that only a portion of it loops continuously? I essentially have a slow intro portion of the music that builds and then drops into the more upbeat portion. Problem is I only want the upbeat portion to loop. I can't figure it out whether it needs logic or connections or what? Any help would be appreciated
Separate your music into two separate timelines. Add them to a selector so that the first part plays with a 1-1 counter at the end that is wired to the next output on the selector. then move to the next item on the selector which is your looped part.
@@DreamswithLadylexUK Thank you! I separated them and tried all the logic items that made sense, but I just didn't know how to wire them correctly!
Can you add echo and enviroment effects to each instrument ?
Yes, you can add to each instrument, each instrument block, or a section of the timeline, or the entire thing.
It was a very good tutorial!
I hope MM lets you control your Imp with your analig in the future. Using the controller itself is awkward. Still loves dreams though
Yes they have built that. Will be with the launch version
@@DreamswithLadylexUK Looks like they've added it early. Cheers!
Subscribed! Keep up the good work.
lo-fi beats to chill/develop a modern lsd simulator and lose your mind to
does it have preset loops with preview, and what kinda effect plug-ins it has, like compressors filters ring shifter etc
TAPgiles has covered most of the effect tabs
dreamskool.wordpress.com/music-and-sound-tutorials/
Thank you for the great tutorial!
Thank you so much for this! Very helpful :)
Dreams rly is just LBP advanced
it's basically: lbp you are god
is there a way to copy/paste notes I've played on one instrument onto another or do I have to draw everything all over again each time I'm testing an instrument?
Copy the block, lay the new instrument over the top - I describe this in Part 3
how do you make a tone slide? I've been trying to make a song by deadmau5 (remixed by Andy C), but i don't know on how to make a perfect slide for a tone. yes, there is drawing it but that's not accurate enough, I need the exact note to make it sound better. can anyone help me please?
Have you tried pressing the touchpad while playing the note?
omg thanks sooooo much
Press L1+square to type in a number
Do you know if you remix a creation and save it as your own, will you then be able to access it forever or will it eventually vanish. I remixed this cool little music studio a brilliant dreamer created and wanted to spend the foreseeable future making music in it
Unless you delete it, there is no reason for it to vanish. Upload it to the servers now to private if you currently only have it as local. This will add to your total available space when the servers swap over.
Help pls. I only bought dreams for music. But I can't find the menu dream shaping and browse and create 😢 do I have to complete the whole tutorial first?
Sadly I believe there are some compulsory tutorials you must complete before you have access to DreamShaping. Should take no more than 30min.
How do you get the screen that you start this video on? (0:15)
That was only in the early access, they changed that with the full release
I'm having problems coming from PC where is so easy to place the notes in the right spot when you are composing modules but here in Dreams i'm playing more or less and then I have to go to he notes editor and adjust every note by hand to get the notes where I want... maybe I'm playing bad when I'm recording the notes... but if you are recording like the bass for a dance song the bass sometimes is very fast and threre's no way you can perform the bass with accuracy in the notes at the moment at least for myself.
Try using the arpeggios functions when you sprees square while in perform mode, it will be at the top of the modules that pop up
I want to enjoy this game but being forced to move using motion from the gamepad instead of sticks is incredibly frustrating...
You just have to get used to it. Now it doesnt bother me at all, in fact I see the advantages, but on day one I hated it.
Non motion controls are in the works.
How do you set what part of the track is played when you hover over the thumbnail?
Yes, this has been a bit of a mystery for me too. Sometimes if gives me the option, and sometimes it doesnt. I think its a bit bugged.
LadylexUK figured it out. It’s on the screen when you publish your work. A button on the left.
Thank you so very much,.. just made my first shitty composition,.. but I like it :)Now just have to figure it out how to put it into my level ,.. noob.
Why is nothing working for me? I record and then playback is silence. Plus the metronome doesnt even work. Frustrating
Thank you thank you thank you 😊
You sound a lot like one of the game's actual narrators, interestingly :P
I was thinking the same lol
Thanks alot
I need help, how do I hear the audio when I playback what samples I have put down, I've wanted to make music for 10 yrs now, it's breaking me lol
Put it into a timeline.
When I open the dream shaping, those 3 icons don't show, then again I am in 2022
Yes they swapped it at launch. Now you save it as a game type rather than start out with one. Instead you just open start creating > New Element or Scene.
How do you adjust volume to an individual note?
@Backyard Music Feedback When your Imp goes over a music note in the piano roll, scale it up or down with [D-pad up] or [D-pad down] and it will change its velocity :D
@@jerryharrison-ford1120 oh god if that works I'ma give you a big smooch.
@@jerryharrison-ford1120 come here you! MMMUUAH! Sorry. One more thing if you would be so kind, bends. How??
How do I record and release the music?
Within Dreams or outside?
How do you turn off the first piece of music while you record another piece???? I just wanna listen to the metronome and make another piece of music but it keeps playing the first piece I made and I cant see no option to turn it off while I record something else..?????
You need to turn on the sidebar. Page 2 of the timeline tweak menu. Then select S to only play that row or the power to mute that row
@@DreamswithLadylexUK thanks I just moved the sidebar in the end... i have one more question have you noticed an issue where when you press the buttons to make a certain tune it just doesn't sound anything like what you made if that makes sense even if I speed it up or slow it down it's like it doesn't understand my input even though when I play with the metronome and make my sounds it registers and I hear it clearly knowing I've made it sound like what I want then when I listen back.. its totally different.. I'm not good at explaining things.. but I really wanna make some kick ass music but I cant figure out what the issue is... like if I select a sound and go dun dun dun wa wa wa....
It won't come out like how I've recorded it.. even if I slow it down or speed it up... I'm confused because I know you can make precise music and when I listened to yours on the video you got it to work... any advice? 😶
@@infinitepotential5167 Aha. Turn off Music Snap in the Settings tab. I do this straight away every time. I hate what it does to my inputs.
@@DreamswithLadylexUK oh btw I did exactly what you said and yeah fixed the problem now the game reads my inputs and responds exactly the way it should 👍
@@infinitepotential5167 Oh good. Thanks for letting me know.
Can you record in one key then move to another smoothly?
You can use pitch with a keyframe blend in your timeline to gradually move into your other key. You would then make the piece in the required key as separate block.
Do you know how to get to the screen that you see at the start of this video? (0:15)
@@lindsey9650 You cant it doesn't exist anymore since the launch update. You get to Browse and Create by clicking on Dreamshaping and then search. Dreams Workshop is one of the sliding options just beneath. Your creations can be accessed through your profile page.
AMAZING!!!!!!!
Is making music not MOVE controller compatible ?
I think it is, but I dont have Moves so cannot say for sure. However I have noticed that the DS4 is the preferred controller scheme from Mm when making music.
Just got this and it's rage inducing.
Just wanted a ps4 mini studio for music and I can't access any of the menus shown in this video. £35 wasted.
thats awesome
There is already no 'browse and create"
"let's ask LLUK" before it takes all day then.. :( :)
how can i turn a music timeline into a sound effect?
the music in the game is localised (eg from radio).
What exactly are you asking here? Music is a sound effect it just happens to be music. If you want it to have panned sound then you can use a speaker gadget. Put the speaker gadget and timeline in the same chip to work together
@@DreamswithLadylexUK "music" follows the player. a sound effect eg. stamped on an object, gets quieter when you get further away.
i want to associate the music with an object (radio) so it is only audible around the object in the scene.
@@DreamswithLadylexUK ok found it got it thank you
@@DreamswithLadylexUK sorry again, i have used two clips in music and when i record, it always drops silent at 4 measures. "singing ambient pad" seems to have a hidden automation in it. so does "the holy 80s teen pad", i added them, tried to record new notes, i can see the notes i recorded, but the midi "All Notes Off" at 4 measures like it has reached the end of the clip.
i fugre, this has got to be one of thos simple obvious wrtong new person things.
@@DreamswithLadylexUK ok i accidentally hit the "delete all" button, which is a good thing, because i will never know why it kept dropping silent at 4 measures. so for other newbies using contributed clips, "delete all" before you try and do things. i also found that when i made a new recording, the clip was 0% volume, i don't know why. that was relatively simple to fix but why would a new recording be set at 0?
so "i'm ok" but wow, eg. yesterday i tried to make a sourced escalator face north instead of west...
Can you extract Mp3s of music ?
I make mp3s by using a capture card (that I use to make my videos) and Audacity software to capture music from Dreams.
Will they let you do lydian scales?
You can set lydian as a key in the tweak menu and dorian and others
@@DreamswithLadylexUK thank you!
I dont see a Browse and Create...
They changed it slightly between Early Access and launch. Browse and Create is found from clicking on Dream Shaping and then press Search at the top of the page.
Can u make a tutorial on how to make flying or how to make hover board logic?
3:55 lol he’s transparent not opaque
oopsy
@@DreamswithLadylexUK LOL you noticed me. The video was great either way, I just started on "Dreams" a couple days ago and have already made a couple things. I've just started working on "A Walk Through Human History", too which is gonna take a while, but I used one of your videos to show me how to link the levels.
Good.
The control scheme with the imp sucks balls. If it was use the left and right sticks it was so much easier
You can. The controller scheme is available in the settings if you cannot cope with the gyro controls.
@@DreamswithLadylexUK I know. I figured out how to change it.
Why coulnt MM just give us a plain step sequencer?
Dreams is to complex
I can’t find browse and create wtf???? I just bought this game today to do music and can’t even fuckin do it
Have you done the beginner tutorials? You cannot make anything in Dreams until you have completed the compulsory tutorials. Sadly.
I assume this is the beta cos none of this is on my dreams game. Ugh
As far as I know the music creation tools have not changed since Early Access. What do you
think is missing?
@@sadoe9377. Yes, Music is made in sound mode.
@@DreamswithLadylexUK This person was veey confused