If you write every melody like that and don't end up with a #1 track, you will finally end up in existential crisis.

@minoda3104

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@ryandodsonmusic

Ай бұрын

This has to be the most un-fun way to produce music I’ve ever seen. I was having an existential crisis watching this by 6:51

@algh5693

27 күн бұрын

Good practice if someone is bored enough with unlimited free time.

@TENTS

6 күн бұрын

@@ryandodsonmusic ya and honestly like, Charlie Puth is a freak, we all know that but it almost seems like a troll here. The opposite of flow state.

bless your heart charlie for producing magic in pro tools

During that first tip, I genuinely thought this was a comedy video making fun of producers.

@alyssacubed333

Ай бұрын

i kept thinking to myself "oh good god is he for real?"

@johnvcougar

20 күн бұрын

I think your initial impression was bang on …

@TENTS

6 күн бұрын

me too!

something else that i noticed is how charlie is saying very often "that thing that benny told me about", goes to show having friends or mentors that can teach you interesting things is also something really important to make cool music like he does, so thank you so much for this video!!

Bro hates MIDI bc he's producing in Pro Tools 😂

@isaacdynys6518

Ай бұрын

Yeah fr. The fact that splicing together individual audio clips is easier for him is crazy💀

@idkhahaok

Ай бұрын

@@isaacdynys6518 FRRR 💀💀💀 I see no benefit either, you can humanize and adjust transients and decay parameters inside the instrument/synth that’s just basic ADSR 💀 no need for all that

@ChrisRodgers5150

Ай бұрын

The best way to use MIDI in Pro Tools (at least in my experience) is never work on another DAW so you don’t know what you’re missing. It worked for me, now I don’t see too much of a problem with PT. Ignorance is bliss! 😂

@isaacdynys6518

Ай бұрын

@idkhahaok exactly. It sounds way more realistic, plus you get to make use of high quality vsts that have tediously recorded notes at different velocities. Also what if you want to change the melody later?

@idkhahaok

Ай бұрын

@@isaacdynys6518 TRUTH

20/20 10/10 for Charlie's Gems and 10/10 for the Breakdown!

Benny! Great to see you here! Nice breakdown!!

8:05 What a Trip; his Natural Voice has so many Harmonics right out of his face. 🎉

Good video. Thank you. I also want to throw out there for anybody that's using OVOX, remember you can use the MIDI out to use your voice to play any of your instruments. Even if you don't want to create a dominant instrument layer with it, you can use it to have like a backing sound to your vocal similar to what Charlie did here.

Great to see it's still all about musical touch and feel even for one of the best producers out there

Nice that you share!❤

Im a newbie starting producing music as a hobby and this is truly inspiring ❤

I love how he takes his time to explain it perfectly to the world

These tips are actually really great. This is the kind of care that brings music to life.

@Studio

Ай бұрын

Glad this was helpful!

I’m picking up everything he’s putting down. I love it

Thank you for this, amazing tips

I just discovered Charlies music (late I know) and he's my new music guru. Very few people on the planet can produce hits by himself like this guy, with no collaborators.

one of the BEST videos ANY producer can Watch to Learn

Thanks for this! cheers!

Charlie is really talented and all, I've listened to his stuff since See You Again and I respect him a bunch. But playing each note and then bouncing to audio?? I've also heard some pretty bad things about producing in PT and now I know that Charlie uses it, mad respect for him for that loll

@henriksalomon1

Ай бұрын

i'd say the main advantage is that you get very clean notes with reverb and or whatever other fx on them... if it wasn't individually done then you'd have notes bleeding into each other muddying things up, so it absolutely makes sense to do it his way.. but it depends on the sound too

@CrypticSoundFX

Ай бұрын

@@henriksalomon1 Isn't there ADSR for that? Or does PT not have ADSR?

@henriksalomon1

Ай бұрын

@@CrypticSoundFX i can't see how you would achieve the same effect, please explain

@CrypticSoundFX

Ай бұрын

@@henriksalomon1 You can use envelopes to stop the notes and reverb bleeding into each other. It's faster than bouncing to audio and then doing things to it, and it's automatic, which is always good in a large production. I get that Charlie is a very analog person when it comes to producing, he loves his waveforms, but in the end this is not a video showcasing his talent, it's meant to be him giving tips for producing. Bouncing each note to audio is a horrible tip to give someone (if they do not share the same interest in raw audio manipulation like he does), especially if they're just starting out. His course is meant to be for the newbie to intermediate skill range too, which makes it worse in my opinion, especially when there are easier ways to do what he's doing. This is just my take on this as a Logic/Ableton media composer, I don't know how Pro Tools works, (nor that whole genre to be honest). Other people in the comments say MIDI is horrible in PT, so maybe that's a reason he learned to do things this way 🤷‍♂

@brawrecords

Ай бұрын

The good thing about bouncing to audio is that he commits to the track and the sounds.

If you always have a stereo audio track under your Software Instrument Track - instead of 'Committing' the MIDI to Audio you can just select what you want to commit and drag the MIDI on to the Audio track ... job done

@get2del

4 күн бұрын

Maybe when he made this, that feature wasn't available :/

I guess the flip side is that music was never meant to be so perfect where you shape every individual note to perfection. Because you can now with modern DAW's, doesnt necessarily mean you should. For me, it loses its magic

@user-rx2qx9ou8l

Ай бұрын

sure. This is honestly such a silly opinion- spend years of your life mastering making music so that it is as good as it possibly can be- but don't put that work into a single song so you have an actual quality piece. I feel like so many just say this because we're lazy- and don't want to go to the levels Charlie puts goes for his music.

@darkozoric4184

29 күн бұрын

@@user-rx2qx9ou8l Perfection doesn't necessarily mean quality. What makes you different from me in a performance is the little nuances you do differently. By quantizing it and cooking it into perfection, it removes all the characteristics that makes that performance you and makes it generic. So I end up sounding like you and you sound like me. Music has always been a performance to some extent....we are now cooking all elements so much so that there is no performance any longer. Its just a series of perfectly cooked sounds put together

@johnvcougar

20 күн бұрын

A wise lady once said to me: “perfection is a waste of time” … like this whole video, lol.

@johnvcougar

20 күн бұрын

100%. The grid is for computers, nothing human about it.

@johnvcougar

20 күн бұрын

My #1 tip for producers: do what works for you. And it ain’t this ADD trip (well, not for me, at any rate).

I love this video. It's about patience. If your patience is short, you won't survive this process. I'm doing some of this in my tracks accept transposing Midi into audio. I've done that before but not all the time. I really think this is a cool process if you have enough patience to carry it out. Bravo Charlie keep up the good work.

respect to you man... to endure that process, you deserve all your millions

@yashark1893

Ай бұрын

He seems to be having fun though! Doesn't he? The process is not painful to him. Maybe he is not in a rush to get to the fruit of the action. He enjoys the journey. He takes his time.

last tip is goated

One tip that is not explicitly said but is kind of a bonus tip: sing your melodies first. Then find them on the keyboard. I find that when I put my hands on the keyboard, i consistently go back to the same patterns, the same shapes, etc. But when I’m just singing and imagining it in my head, it’s pure and unaffected by my interaction with an instrument and I can kind of intuit what’s musical and appealing about a phrase before playing it on a keyboard.

@juangarcia-rp5ov

14 күн бұрын

Is there any app or ia available that i can sing a melody and then return the notes?

@evanseesred

14 күн бұрын

@@juangarcia-rp5ov good question. I’m sure there is. Ableton let’s you drag an audio file to a midi track and it interprets it into midi information, but the results can be kind of mixed.

awesome video, thank you!

Vid is great and really interesting to see how accomplished maestros use the digital realm of music production. But would love to see Charlie have a one on one hour with Tache and Bitwig... Just to see how many times he gets the 'mind blown.gif' during the sesh😂🤯🤯🤯

I love that for him tools are just the means to the end

great info, thanks

Music production is just perfection.

Was not expecting Benny in this video

The entire first part is actually a concept. But he seems to be unaware of it so he tries to describe it. It's what you could call "mindful production". What do I mean by that? It means that you should try to be very conscious and deliberate about EVERYTHING. This helps you to evaluate every decision and not fall into the trap of doing something the same way every time out of habit, which would lead to uninspiring and boring tracks. He just explained it poorly by talking about weird dogmas. But there's no one way to be mindful of your production, this is just HIS WAY. Rendering out things is a great way because it automatically forces you to be mindful and helps you to move forwards instead of second guessing yourself, the ultimate killer of creativity. There are actually a lot of tools to achieve this, btw. It's a really fascinating field of psychology

@Solanaar

Ай бұрын

If anyone wanna know about a cool method, I can recommend searching for "scrum sprints". It is a method of breaking projects down into smaller sub-projects, at the end of which there is always a finished product. This iterative way of working encourages you to concentrate on the essentials. At the end of each sprint, you consider what is needed to complete the project. Rinse and repeat.

@Solanaar

Ай бұрын

Another tricks to think of projects as assignments. Venus theory made a great video about this concept recently.

@thebellbrothers3279

Ай бұрын

@@Solanaarwhat is the name of the video?

@thebellbrothers3279

Ай бұрын

@@Solanaarwhat is the name of the video?

@Solanaar

Ай бұрын

@@thebellbrothers3279 Idk if I can link Videos in comments, kzread.info/dash/bejne/dIx-ko-hXaeuo8Y.htmlsi=xSYyp2MQ33biNcSq would be the vid. It's called "The Homework Theory: Making Music Effortless"

Thankyou, alot of great insights on this video!

@Studio

13 күн бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

People see a different approach, people start dissing. Welcome to an ordinary world

i clicked so fast too, love the vid!

This Channel Is awesome like the Holy Graal

do people realize how crazy it is that he's working in Pro Tools? Nutz... I thought he'd be in Ableton for sure.

@stampusbeats

Ай бұрын

Why it's crazy?

@andreslozano6035

Ай бұрын

@@stampusbeatscuz pro tools sucks for production. It’s a good DAW for mixing and tracking tho

@stampusbeats

Ай бұрын

@@andreslozano6035 As someone who uses PT, Ableton and Logic I have to disagree... but I guess we're talking about opinions/personal preferences and not facts

@iAmDusti

Ай бұрын

@@andreslozano6035 No mainstream DAW "sucks" they just have different pros and cons. Pro tools might be less intuitive for production sure, but I'm sure since Charlie is familiar with it, it's not even a big deal or something that even crosses his mind.

@toddkreuzburg4162

Ай бұрын

@@stampusbeats Pro Tools is widely known to be used by rock, country, live bands, etc. Not often used for Pop because of the lack of midi tweaking.

Imagine you have everything and u still record vocals on a mobile phone.

@gurpyarsingh574

Ай бұрын

😁

@brandonsandoval9890

27 күн бұрын

It’s all about the textures. That melody would sound ass on a clean mic. Think before you speak

@BrianG8367

18 күн бұрын

Part of having a great style is when you use techniques you used when you had the bare minimum setup....

let me just whip out my phone and completely hit every note from memory with my mouth without reference. dude's a beast

I’m 2 minutes in and this HAS to be a joke

@robbiep742

Ай бұрын

I'm no fan of Puth's music, but he has 4 Grammy nominations. Do you?

@orangeoctopusjim

Ай бұрын

@@robbiep742 not yet! I don’t listed to him either but fascinated by his process and it just seems to go against everything else I’ve seen from him and Benny Blanco… where they use whatever’s on hand, lyrics with voice memos, from start to finish in a half hour, etc… just seems like he’s trolling in an over engineering tone. That said maybe he’s just bored with yesterday’s process which is fine!

@inshal6420

Ай бұрын

@@robbiep742it’s because he is super talented so it doesn’t matter if he does it but the first tip is actually terrible advice lol.

@sheekyking

Ай бұрын

It did seem like a joke at first 😂

Great Video

Charlie! thank you so much !

I have to admit: while I don't have any interest in the style of music he produces, his production techniques are very inspired and well-communicated, so much so, I even got inspiration for song ideas just from watching this. I'll consider myself a fan of his now. 👏🏾

Wait, y‘all already did a video on this

dude i wish this song existed irl it would literally be on repeat

@undrwatertape

Ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/i62omtalXdDQado.html

Charley Puth doesn’t even need a Studio. I want to see him record a Hit Song on His laptop in the Bathroom at the Airport, then finish the Final Mix on the Plane Ride.

Majority of you disliking this process, are the ones who love just dropping sound kits into FL studio to so called “PRODUCE’ a record, y’all are cookie cutter arrangers, THIS IS REAL PRODUCTION.

1st tip is absolutely redundant, there's ADSR for controlling volume shape of sounds lol

@miguel5652

Ай бұрын

foo just edited all the clips instead of turning the attack up lol

@pianoatthirty

Ай бұрын

You get variable attacks and releases when chopping audio like this, so no, not the same thing as a static ADSR setting

@jmd489

Ай бұрын

@@pianoatthirtyThis. Everyone bandwagoning hate but clearly didn’t see the small differences that are made that can’t be done by just a blanket knob setting.

@pianoatthirty

Ай бұрын

@@jmd489And the funny thing is, this is what top level guys do - they play with audio in very nuanced, delicate ways. It's hilarious to see people in the comments think they know it all and then offer up their I-know-it-all "solutions".

@archmichaels

Ай бұрын

Music production is just perfection...

Ive seen quite a few folks do tutorials like this. What do they use to capture the audio in real time like that? They've got something capturing the feed from pro tools right? What do they use?

The sound of the mouse clicks!!

im not gonna judge a top class music producer and artist but the sustain and fade and everything he wanted couldve been done using an envelope inside a synth. he would have absolute control inside a synth

I often work with just audio and commit my MIDI ideas quite early and deactivate the plugin so that it saves RAM and CPU usage. I use Cubase 13 which is pretty great at rendering MIDI to audio. I like Charlie's approach to music.

@Waynyce

Ай бұрын

With modern computers is ram and cpu still an issue 🤷🏾‍♂️

@inshal6420

Ай бұрын

I bought an m1 pro Macbook Pro so I dont have to print anything lol.

@inshal6420

Ай бұрын

@@Waynyceit was until a few years ago. Kontakt instruments are really intense. Apple did some magic with their new chips because I tried crashing the thing with 1000 kontakt instruments and it kept going. Computers in the same price range before these chips would struggle with 15

so dope

why the heck did he play every note seperately

@RukqMan

2 күн бұрын

He loves stress😂😂😂😂

Charlie is a real genius

I play for a good groove and i record with a good groove the band has to have a groove when we rehearse or when we play out kinda like the funk brothers did at Motown do you loose the groove when you record this way ?

Charlie Puth makes #1 hits because he's a gifted songwriter and has good marketing behind him. It has nothing to do with "recording each note individually" because that's awful advice. If he'd have flipped the synth to monophonic and adjusted an envelope, he'd have accomplished everything those edits accomplished in probably less than 30 seconds.

@user-xedwsg

Ай бұрын

Agee with your comment. Something to consider though - "Practiced Songwriter". No one on this earth is born with arbitrary gifts.

@marcinbenedek789

11 күн бұрын

@@user-xedwsg great comment. I love the attitude of, "there is no talent, only ass-hours you committed to develop the skills". Maybe this attitude does not always work, but... you do your best, you do your part :)

it‘s kinda hilarious that he’s going to all this length to make it sound human and off the grid, when you could have just played it in directly

"Her way" PartyNextDoor ... a great example to break out of common rules.. and have a look over the fence.

I hope he had some tips about HOW TO SPREAD YOUR INSTRUMENTS ALONG THE SPECTRUM OF FREQUENCIES

Amazing that Charlie does all this in PT. Someone got a new toy from Sweetwater.

Where to find Charlie's video?

Ingwye Malmsteen said he uses pro tools as just a recorder. Remember, both Yngwie and Puth are notorious for their perfect pitch.

why does he increase the attack in the transient master and then add sidechain with lfo tool? That's like turning on a humidifier and a dehumidifier on at the same time.

@glennfordsolinap8606

Ай бұрын

maybe he likes the way it sounds dynamic, although even w/o the transient master, it would pretty much sound the same because of the lfo tool...

@glennfordsolinap8606

Ай бұрын

also, i think the lfo tool that he added was only within half beat, so with the transient master added, it adds this groove + the that strong plucky sound...

@signaltheplug

Ай бұрын

He didn't use those plugins on the same audio channel, the lfo tool was on the Juno channel

when will there be a subscription? there aren't too many courses.

Dang, last tip was not I was thinking of!

14:07 he is not really panning the sound and leaving space in the middle for other elements, he is just widening the sound but regarding frequency and not space.

You need all the legit plugins to produce and mix that smoothly in Pro Tools 😂

Bruh this is a w ads

don't know much about the theory & all, but if you write one line of the melody and then you sit down to write the midi then the next line of the melody might get lost .think the creative process is just have the melody worked out then carry on (i think so) . don't know to read write structure. sorry i need to learn more

gold

I don't think I would have the patience, I spend ages on production but a single note at a time? I play the full all way through it feels more real. I suppose it's why Charlie is a muti millionaire megastar and I am not. I use Cubase which is great for me but wouldn't start again on it. Great vid 👍

I clicked so fast

Ignore that guy who is talking , as we ignore “KZread” ads Focus on Charlie🎉

cons of pro tools is we can't use free plugins when the devs not release the aax format of it bridge aax to connect vst? nah

@juanmejia6186

Ай бұрын

big nah

Is it convenient to work with midi in Pro Tools?

@juanmejia6186

Ай бұрын

not at all. it is one of pro tools' downsides.

Converting the MIDI to audio? That seems new. And hateful lmaooo Props to that Madeon shoutout! Love his sound.

@juanmejia6186

Ай бұрын

not always. i convert midi to audio in order to free up CPU usage. you can have all the plugins and audio effects on the track, committed into an audio file. then you can remove those plugins to free up CPU usage. also you won't need the VSTi anymore, which can consume a lot of CPU depending on the VSTi

Haha I do the same thing with Valhalla delay

He’s that Lorde South Park bit

Amazing! I just realised how lazy of a producer I am. This level of detail almost requires some sort of aut*sm that I wish I could have :(

@pepthelad

Ай бұрын

Guess I have autism then

@KYLETISZAI

Ай бұрын

Basically

@selliantuttimusi6735

Ай бұрын

​@@peptheladDon't waste it bro, create amazing things please!

@Solanaar

Ай бұрын

I disagree with the notion that to be intracte you need to be autistic. It's more about diligence and mindfulness, something everyone can do. But also check if that's actually what you want to get out of making music. For me it's something I relax with. So my goal is different and it's totally valid to just slap some cool sounding presets together or use the same melody every time. But if I want to create an actual song I am much more deliberate and work at a slower pace.

@dominikperkovic3058

Ай бұрын

Push yourself harder, you cant be lazy at anything if you want to suceed, but if you dont, who cares, do what you enjoy 😉

Is there a full uncut video of CharlieS process

@mukeshpathak7302

Ай бұрын

I'd also be interested to find

@Octxvius

Ай бұрын

I think on mix with the masters

You guyz need tk get Illenium or Martin Garrix a Studio Masterclass 🤕

Bro needs to check out studio one lol

the intro is inspired from the song of "walk to the earth".

@angeloalcazar7355

Ай бұрын

he used that kind of vibe for another vibe song related to the copied

can't believe he took the transients out of that synth (painstakingly and by hand instead of using the envelopes) just to add them with a plugin later

He has to be trolling. This can not be how he produces music everyday 😵‍💫

Sounds like his song BOY! That song nice tho

seems more like programming than music to me but to each their own I guess. There's more technology in these songs then the Apollo missions...

he is literally me

You already upload this right?

@karensachl

Ай бұрын

I remember too

Charlie hates MIDI more than my CPU ☠️

Wanna see how Charlie finishes this song? Check out his full class on Studio! Follow along as he writes, records, and produces 2 brand new songs from start to finish, right in front of you, explaining everything he’s doing along the way. studio.com/classes/charlie-puth/pop-production

@BENJAYmusic

Ай бұрын

comment: 8 hr ago video: 7 min ago WTF!!!?????

We want kygo here❤❤❤

@inshal6420

Ай бұрын

Kygo would see that first tip and run for the hills.

@KomalSammal-hd6hj

Ай бұрын

@@inshal6420 and will dive into sea🤣

"I WANT THE PUTH!" "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE PUTH!"

I can read the cvv but not the card Number,somebody can help?

Great tips. V49 on the other side is the worst keys Ive ever owned.

I’m not surprised at all that Charlie uses audio instead of midi for everything. He’s an analog, real world musician first, and then got into production after that. And him singing everything out like that and then translating into some other kind of instrument that blends with his voice with actual audio.. is pretty much how Michael Jackson did stuff with Quincy Jones. And I can assure you they weren’t using ableton 😂 I love this process. And the results speak for themselves.

Prompt : make me a charlie puth song, and make it good

I can’t wait to feed all this info to my Ai music maker.