How to Make Electronic Dance Music with an miki

miki is a powerful and easy-to-use music production software that lets you create your own electronic dance music. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to make a basic EDM track using miki.

Introduction

mikis are a type of electronic musical instrument that allows you to create your own unique sound. By programming different sounds into the miki, you can create any type of electronic dance music you want. In this guide, we’ll show you how to get started making electronic dance music with an miki.

What You Will Need

In order to make electronic dance music with an miki, you will need a computer with a sound card, a microphone, and some type of audio editing software. Audacity is a free and open source program that will work fine for this purpose. You will also need to download the miki plugin for Audacity, which is available for free on the internet. Once you have downloaded and installed Audacity and the miki plugin, you are ready to begin.

Setting Up Your miki

Now that you have your miki, it’s time to set it up so you can start making music! Luckily, setting up your miki is a relatively simple process. Just follow the steps below and you’ll be ready to start creating Electronic Dance Music in no time.

1) Unpack your miki and all of its accessories. You should have everything you need to get started, including the miki itself, a power adapter, a USB cable, and a software CD.

2) Connect the miki to an available USB port on your computer. If you’re using a laptop, you may need to use an external USB hub if you don’t have enough available USB ports.

3) Once the miki is connected, launch the included software from the CD. The software will walk you through the process of setting up your miki and calibrating it for use.

4) Once the calibration process is complete, you’re ready to start making music! Use the included software to create your own beats and melodies, or connect the miki to other music production software for even more flexibility.

Creating a Melody

Now that you have your drums, it’s time to create a melody. For this part, you will need a MIDI keyboard or an electronic keyboard that can connect to your computer.

If you are using a MIDI keyboard, open your DAW and create a new MIDI track. Then, set the input of the track to your keyboard. If you are using an electronic keyboard, you will need to use a USB-MIDI interface to connect your keyboard to your computer.

Once your keyboard is connected, you can start creating your melody. For this tutorial, we will be using the piano sound in our DAW. To add this sound to our track, we will need to insert a virtual instrument plugin on our track. A common virtual instrument plugin that many producers use is the Native Instruments Kontakt plugin.

Once you have inserted the Kontakt plugin on your track, load the piano sound into the plugin. Now that our piano sound is loaded, we can start playing our melody. When creating a melody, it is important to keep in mind the chord progression of our song. In our case, our chord progression is C minor – G minor – F major – C minor. So when creating our melody, we will want to use notes from these chords.

Once you have created your melody, it’s time to add some more elements to our track. In the next section, we will learn how to add a bassline to our song.

Adding Basslines

In electronic dance music, the bassline is often the most important part of the track. It provides the low-end frequency that gives the track its “thump” and drives the dance floor. Creating a great bassline is essential to making a great EDM track.

There are a few things to keep in mind when creating a bassline:

1. The bassline should be strong and powerful. It should be able to stand on its own and be heard over the rest of the elements in the track.
2. The bassline should complement the melody. It should support the melody and not compete with it for attention.
3. The bassline should have a good groove. It should make people want to dance!

Here are some tips for creating a great bassline:

1. Start with a kick drum pattern. A good kick drum pattern will provide a solid foundation for your bassline.
2. Use a low-pass filter to remove high frequencies from your kick drum signal. This will help to ensure that your bassline is heard over the kick drum.
3. Add a sub-bass element to your kick drum pattern. A sub-bass is an extremely low frequency sound that gives EDM tracks their characteristic “thump”.
4. Layer different sounds together to create more interest and depth in your bassline. You can use synth sounds, sampled sounds, or even real instruments like guitars or pianos

Adding Drum Beats

There are two ways to add drum beats to your miki track. You can either use a drum machine or your computer’s built-in MIDI sequencer.

If you have a drum machine, you can simply connect it to your miki via a MIDI cable and start playing. The miki will automatically sync with the tempo of the drum machine, making it easy to create a tight rhythm track.

If you don’t have a drum machine, don’t worry – you can still create great-sounding rhythms using your computer’s built-in MIDI sequencer. Simply create a new MIDI track in your sequencer and select the “miki” as the input device. Then, start programming in your beats!

Exporting Your Song

Now that you’ve finished composing your song, it’s time to export it so you can share it with the world. In this section, we’ll go over how to export your song as an MP3 file.

1. Open the project in miki that you want to export.

2. Click on File > Export > Export as MP3.

3. Choose a location to save the file, and give it a name.

4. Click on the Export button.

5. Your file will now be exported as an MP3!