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  • the production thread

apyssjw Thanks, looking forward to seeing what you think. Congrats on the new album too!

    Push 3 out. The MPE expressive pads look useful. Not sure how useful the other elements are but I’ve only seen a brief vid this afternoon.

      apyssjw Paid about £499 for Push 2. And it isn’t that great. Push 3 has added a some additional MPE sensitivities. A few more buttons. And slightly better graphics. And they want £899 for it. The standalone looks nowhere near as good as Maschine + which is around half the price of the Push 3 Standalone.

      Ableton 11.3 is out today too. A worthy addition is Drift which is a simple subtractive synth (do we really need another) with some nice ambient sounds. Can’t really see anything else worthy of note in the upgrade. Probably is some small improvements here and there. If I could be bothered to look.

          I think if I was working completely ITB, I’d probably own a push. Every time I look at what they want for what it offers, I’d rather spend the money on hardware or creative plugins. The cost for v3 seems insane to me.

          Henry Paid about £499 for Push 2. And it isn’t that great.

          Oh yeah agree. For clip launching I prefer my original apc40. I do like doodling melodies with the pads, but everything else I could do before. Honestly I barely use either at the moment.

          No way am I arranging or mixing using a stand alone box. I need a bigger screen not a smaller one.

          Still happily on live 10.

            a month later

            Eventide Quadravox for free at Plugin Boutique using code: 3sMZIDk3

              11 days later

              I have experience in writing “club” tracks and ambient works.. but mainly the former could no longer interest me much the past two years or so to a point where I could just not be bothered to make one.

              About a month or two ago I sat down to write a more “electronic” pop of the EDM persuasion (I guess.. I’ll leave the pigeon-holing up to others). I’m leaning more to the pop side for this because of the short sections and getting to the point quickly.

              After it was done I let it rest for a month or so and listened back and decided there was nothing more I could do at this point in time to improve upon it (till the next track).

              Side note: this is prob the worst demographic to pitch this stuff to though 😆

                Free dynamic EQ from Melda. Usually £49 or something. I had been waiting for Track Spacer to drop in price, but this looks like it does something similar, when trying to deal with frequency masking issues etc

                If you haven’t installed any of the Melda stuff before, the install is something like 600Mb. But you basically toggle off everything you don’t need so it’s not really bloatware.

                https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Effects/16-EQ/1102-MDynamicEq

                Morty-C-137 I’ve been working on shorter 4/5mins style tracks, with perhaps a more traditional ‘songwriting’ sytle arrangement. All helpful to grow the arrangement muscle.

                    and ..

                    released the album I’ve been mentioning for a while. Still not got to 303s latest yet (but I will!).

                    Should probably mention that the arrangement of a couple of tracks were ‘mentored’ by Funk D’Void during lockdowns - tracks 4 and 7.

                      apyssjw Congratulation on the album. 😀
                      Really enjoyed that. I imagine Mr Lieb enjoyed mastering it as well.

                          Henry

                          mono-stereo

                          Cheers both. Definitely think its my best / most interesting. Am laying the groundwork for the next one - no doubt coming 2025 at the earliest 🙂

                                apyssjw I hope you’re proud of the album, it’s really well done. I enjoyed the breaks, the leads are cool, it’s all put together very nicely.