I have a project coming up where I have to take some acapella vocals and create a dubstep song...from my limited listening so far dubstep is a special kind of dance music, heavy beat but what really is it?THANKS! - Shawn

I could try to explain it but I'd probably suck at it. However once when I asked my self the same question, I read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubstep

And may I recommend you check out this: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=reHGIYHAR2Q (foul language warning)

dubstep is originally a london thing, kinda off shoot of london garage, characterised by 2 beats to the bar, with basslines that have the cut off/pitch lfo'd heavily, if you are not a dance music composer in reality, then you have a big task to nail it, all the best on this one, any chance of letting me know how you get on with this ??

That gets me started ProjectM, it's for the grammy award winning group "The Sounds of Blackness" the song is called "UNITY".

- Shawn

wee tip for you here, the wobbly bass/sounds are mostly fm !!

Chregg, I'm a big VST guy and do a fair amount of techno and stuff so I thuink I can do it I just needed to know the genre better.  I will glady keep you posted!

Thanks - Shawn

aye do that Shawn, cheers !!

considering you have komplete Shawn, employ FM8 and massive on this one !!

try some of this here for sounds too, doesnt get much better than industrial strength sample for dub step and everything else http://www.industrialstre...s.com/samplepacks.html

Massive is the Dubstep synth #1! Check out musicradar.com for tutorials and articles on dubstep. It's an interesting genre from a production point of view