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- fadein111
Cheap / free plugins / audio units anyone?
What are the ones you can't do without?- http://www.resoundso…autoflavour
- Flux Bittersweet is niceautoflavour
- wow - brilliant - thanks :)fadein11
- https://tal-software…lodef
- autoflavour-2
so much equipment.. yikes..
- autoflavour3
the original ARP 2600, complete with actual settings from the Original Star Wars movie..
This is R2D2
- Ianbolton2
Not sure if I've posted this before but one of my friends is constantly smashing tracks out, all of which sound quite experimental but fun.
- I was expecting something experimental but if anything it all sounds very poppy and traditional, not too bad, mindWeyland
- I did say 'quite' experimental, but cheers man. He's just very proactive, unlike me!Ianbolton
- Lol very cool.
D-I-L-D-Ofuturefood
- imbecile1
140 bpm glitchstep trap / glitch-hop rap w/ vocals
- imbecile1
more experimental rap...
written at 170 but still comes across 85
http://soundcloud.com/falsecause…
- ApeRobot0
New track
https://soundcloud.com/monkeyrob…
- autoflavour0
Free drums and hits..
- autoflavour2
So I went down last night to the Ableton User Group meeting in Berlin.. the presentation was pretty interesting, it was on using Operator for making a 909 Kick drum..
but yep, talk about a fucking sausage fest.. there was literally 1 women there, and she was the moderator..
of the 40 or so guys.. at least 10 were electrical engineers .. complete with geeky lisp.. Neil Goldman from Family Guy level..
- lodef2
he's worked on a ton of movie and game soundtracks like mad max and batman. check his channel out he has a bunch of making of /howtos etc,
- prophetone0
- #supportedimbecile
- That logo is fantastic.mg33
- yeah i am fan of the look of this..autoflavour
- It's like a software elektron machinedrumsublocked
- the name makes me think i'll be waiting some time for the kickstarter reward.kingsteven
- i wish overbridge was single screen like this, too many tabs. this kinda reminds me of the waldorf attack vst which is no bad thing.kingsteven
- sublocked1
FWIW, finally dug into this book. Great inspiration and resource if you feel stuck making music, in a rut, or uninspired.
- It's not ableton-specific either. They just published it.sublocked
- Just downloaded. Picked up a Kindle this weekend actually, it's getting me to read more often with less distractions (ex iBooks)mg33
- And, I'm in this same jam, trying to get focused and actually get some songs fully finished.mg33
- i have it, never read it yetautoflavour
- mg33 & autoflavor...I just cracked it after having it for months. Wish I would have read it earlier. Very inspiring. Don't cheat yourself.sublocked
- nice, thanks for the link.ApeRobot
- Getting into it this evening for sure. My big problem right now other than time is trying to narrow down a focused sound for what I've been recording.mg33
- I veer into either a mostly instrumental guitar, limited synths sound, or a mostly synth sound, with textured guitars.mg33
- I like both, but I need to find that perfect blend of both and let that be my focus. The exploration is half the fun; just want to be productive.mg33
- Examples: Guitar focused: Rough recording - http://mg33.net/musi…mg33
- Example: Ambient / synth focused: http://mg33.net/musi…mg33
- i like the tone of the guitar...reminds me of red sparowes / jesu ...real dreamy / almost surf soundsublocked
- or another band i like "irepress". combining the synth with that is fresh.sublocked
- fadein110
Why is Logic Pro X still caught somewhere between that hideous Apple skeuomorphism and flat design ffs? How hard is it for them to reskin and/or overhaul the interface? Not exactly short of resources. The last update addressed some of it and it does look better but Christ on a bike - music software should be 100% function.
It's a great fucking app (and far superior to Ableton in many ways IMHO) but God it's fugly.
- you know things are fucked when ableton is setting DAW design standards.kingsteven
- i like skeumorphism in music software.inteliboy
- soon all our software will be flat and everyone will be nostalgic about the golden age of design in 2012.inteliboy
- just like how people reminisce here about flash websitesinteliboy
- ha yes I was prob a little harsh - I just would like a cleaner less fussy interface. but as I say I love Logic overall.fadein11
- mg330
Speaking of Logic, anyone else feel a little underwhelmed with the new Alchemy synth they introduced in the most recent update? Maybe I've not downloaded enough of the sounds, but I just don't find very much at all in there that sounds good.
Maybe i need to mess around with it more. I like a lot of what's in the Retro Synth, which was already in there.
- it's okay - it's basically trying to be NI Massive. Not bad for a freebie with the app. Found some useful stuff. the fx seem to be the best so great on big warmfadein11
- cinematic pads... using it right now funnily enough.fadein11
- You've used logic for a long time right?mg33
- only 3 yearsfadein11
- put it this way - I got a new macbook and was moving my plugins from imac onto it - not going to bother putting Massive on as Alchemy seems to do all I wouldfadein11
- ever use in Massive.fadein11
- I just d/l'd the entire alchemy libarary expansions today, gonna check it out tonight maybe, some decent youtube vids out thereprophetone
- i've never messed with massive but alchemy seems pretty awesome and flexible so farprophetone
- Alchemy is fantastic, like all Logic you've got to get in deep to find the good stuff... anything that can resynthesise samples as additive osciallatorskingsteven
- is good by me. the preset/ easy/ morph section is for the plebs.kingsteven
- keewee1
Native Instruments is having a 50% off sale on Komplete 10/Ultimate, having a difficult time deciding on pulling the trigger on this or pick up a Moog Mother 32. Any experience with either or both?
please halp!
- i have the mother 32 & want to buy ultimate. i don't use the moog as much as i thought i would & i prefer the diverse selection of sounds offered by kompleteimbecile
- appreciated! I was wondering how you were getting along with that bit of gear.keewee
- it can be awesome, but it is an analog synth. it comes with a manual showing patches to make different sounds, but in the end, it makes analog synth soundsimbecile
- synth.. always.. in 10 years time, your software will be useless, synth will keep being a synthautoflavour
- but yep, moog have a very particular sound and unless that is a sound you think you will use, they can be a bit muchautoflavour
- I lust after a Moog Mother 32 too but you'll get much much more out of Komplete. The synths are amazing. New REAKTOR blocks!microkorg
- Along with pianos, strings etc. But yeah - REAKTOR blocks : your own virtual modular synth!microkorg
- A synth will hold value tho. Depends what your goals are. Prob get more finished articles from Komplete. But more doodling with the m32microkorg
- fadein112
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- imbecile1
On the topic of that book from Ableton, I bought this book a few years ago, I rarely read it but when I do, it always has an impact on my production.
http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Musi…there is an updated version as well (third edition)
