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- kingsteven0
*ordered
- Nice little (big) treat for yourself! These are quite a size.microkorg
- heh, she's a beast alright... gonna look tiny beside my korg z1 & casio cz3000.kingsteven
- fadein110
Anybody on here make house or more 4/4 work?
Would like to hear and share perhaps.
Always seems to be D&B or downtempo stuff.
Where's the nice house music?- https://soundcloud.c…autoflavour
- there are a few in thereautoflavour
- https://soundcloud.c…ltjohnrambo
- sorry i meant anyone who made their own house tracksfadein11
- I produced that Chromeo remix.ltjohnrambo
- mantrakid0
Video for the intro track to that Riff Raff album was released. Not gonna comment on the contents of the video, but its cool to hear my beat :D
- Geez Dope track kid! were you drinking essence of "88 to 92" when you made it?keewee
- i was indeed. :Dmantrakid
- thats you @mantrakid?? tight!!! propsBrokenHD
- Congrats man! I'm feeling everything I've heard off the album so far.ltjohnrambo
- ********0
need a production partner.
email me
work[at]somethinofnothin[dot]net
i wanna make an album & need serious producer/engineer as i am one and would like to build...
- lessfloor0
I haz beats
- ltjohnrambo0
I'm looking to get some new monitors. What are you guys using? I hear the Focals are good.
- I know a few people don't like them, but I love my KRK'ssem
- < with you on that Sem. Love my little rocketslessfloor
- Do you guys pair it with a sub? How do you deal with the lowend?ltjohnrambo
- I love the sound the bass is perfectlessfloor
- Yamaha HS-80..autoflavour
- killerautoflavour
- sem0
Good 32 key midi controllers? I want something med sized to fit on my desk and leave me space. My Axiom Pro 49 is great and all, but its too big and heavy to keep moving it when not in use.
Was thinking Axiom Air Mini...just hope its not too mini like my Akai one.
- microkorg0
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Lessfloor, it's a Granular Sampler by Bastl Instruments
http://www.bastl-instruments.com…They also make these little bastards ...
Really quite fancy the MikroGranny 2.0 though!
- fadein110
I have the basis of at least 3 tracks I am happy with. I use Logic and end up spending hours turning tracks on and off to do a live arrangement which always sounds quite good to me. Anyway, come to do the arrangement properly and struggle to get the flow right. I make house music and I have never been a DJ so wonder if thats the issue. I know how I want a track to build but never quite get it right in the arrangement window. How do you guys arrange a track? Just curious. Fed up of turning tracks on and off, need more flow / fills etc. any tips much appreciated.
- microkorg0
Fadein11,
Have you tried using Ableton Live (or the new Bitwig)?
Live has two views the Arrangement and Session views.
Arrangement is like DAWs like Logic, Cubase etc - a multitrack linear timeline. This can be quite stale when it comes to inspiration and may lead to doing the same structure in songs over and over again.The Session view however allows you to split your song into "lego blocks" to bring in and out as you please and really 'jam' with your parts to create mixes and compilations of elements that you might not have used together in arrangement view.
Using a mouse is still quite restrictive with Session view as you can only click one thing at a time.
Get yourself an iPad and get the app Touch-Able or similar. It allows you to be able to trigger multiple clips at a time and also to control lots of effects/channel volumes etc at the same time.
What I do is set up all my "lego blocks" of a song, use TouchAble and set up all the bits of the song i'd like to tweak live - these things might be effect sends for channels or the cutoff/res of a synth etc for build ups etc. Then I just sit down and literally record a jam for 15 mins, half an hour.
I'll then save this as a wav which i'll listen on my ipod, in the car, at work, at home over and over to find the best parts of the jam then i'll go back into the ableton jam file (recorded as an arrangement view with all automation etc from touchable) and chop out the best bits and use them to structure a song.
It's a good method to make sure that your songs dont all follow the "dj song rule" where it starts with a woosh, beat for a few bars then bassline kicks in and everything is a real predictable "dj friendly format".
- this makes total sense - ironically I avoided ableton and move to logic because i was used to its timeline / arrangement window - butfadein11
- arrangement window and ableton demo i downloaded seemed like relearning a lot. this may be the problem - need a new way of arrangingfadein11
- a new way of arranging. automation always seems painful as well,,,fadein11
- microkorg0
My MicroGranny 2.0 arrived from Bastl Instruments in the Czech Republic this afternoon and I've been playing with it tonight. Great little sample mangler and I've been loading in my own samples and seeing what this little thing is capable of.
Look forward to getting this hooked up to other gear too, :)Loving the hand-drawn packaging, nice touch to go along with the hand-made instrument.
- nice! this is mildly sparking me to finally solder up my WTPA Sampler Kitprophetone
