the production thread
303abuser I have about a dozen projects across the Digitakt-Syntakt-Digitone. I am in the process of transferring those to Ableton to do the arrangement and then pre-mastering as an album. Once mastered, not sure what to do with it. I might approach some labels. Or I am leaning towards just pressing a few dozen copies onto vinyl and releasing (non-digital) on my Bandcamp. Probably not soon though! I am aiming for later this year.
Henry Just checked and you’re right. I’m impressed they’re still giving these updates away at no cost.
That sounds solid, can’t wait to hear it. Curious to see how self-releasing vinyl does if you go that route. We went with Insectorama again because the exposure it decent and Markus is pretty easy to work with. Branching out seems like a headache without much additional benefit.
Yeah I really like Markus. It’s a great little label he’s running and he puts in a lots of effort. It’s probably not an Insectorama release though. If I go to vinyl only I will lose money for sure and I’ll probably end up with most of them sitting in a box. But just something I wanted to do for a while.
That’s fair. I think some of my new stuff is right on the edge of what he’ll want to put out on the label. We’ll see.
I get the labour of love idea, would be nice just to have the vinyl just for the collection.
Henry I’ll buy a copy!
The reality is if I put a track on bandcamp I get maybe ten listeners and I think 3 people have paid £1 for a copy of a track (across all of them).
I’d love to press some vinyl, but the copies would be for me. It’s absolutely bang in the midlife crisis box though - so expect it in the next few years 
apyssjw 3 people have paid £1 for a copy of a track (across all of them).
Can you sign mine?
Might make it worth more as a Ltd edition when we re-sell it to Wally, Hursty or Funky.
@bosstrabs is always in the market for NonFungibleTunes as well I hear?
Think I’ll spend some quality time this week with pigments working on sound design. The update looks interesting. I’ve been starting everything on hardware the last few months, maybe time to change it up.
Unbroken1 It’s really deep. I’ve used it, almost more as a sample processor than anything else, but haven’t used it enough to really get to know it. I get the feeling like pigments could be all you need along with a daw for arrangement.
Haven’t tried the v collection, if I can’t make whatever I want with the gear I have, there’s a problem that isn’t going to be resolved by buying more synths. That said, I use the fx collection all the time. The space echo emulation is on everything I do. I’m impressed with the value arturia provides, most companies don’t offer this many (really good) free updates.
@303abuser user"#p277946 …have referenced this here before, but always tried to avoid collecting too many VST’s to avoid the risk of spending more time tinkering than actually making anything, but desperately wanted a 303 plug-in and was sold on Acid V.
Basically the upgrade deal to V Collection was as much as Acid V at full price- effectively 38 synths free!
Yeah that makes sense. I’ve got the abl3 vet and a tb3, plus the syntakt, analog four, and dfam are all pretty capable of reproducing a decent 303 sound. I’ve been wanting to do an acid project for a while, maybe after the current album I’m working on is done.
I’ve found over time that if I take a week every once in a while and just do in the box sound design, that scratches the itch to just make noise. The patches and samples that come out of those session often end up being foundational for future tracks, so it’s a win-win.
Unbroken1 Had the V Collection for some years now. Currently got V9 but didn’t go for the upgrade on account that I am rarely using VSTs these days for my main compositions. There are some lovely sounds through and I have probably used Arturia stuff more than NI or any other vendor over the years. They are pretty deep, but I found that in the end I only scratched the surface of the V Collection without really fully understanding how to properly manipulate the synths.
As for reliability. The only issue I have had is on my M1 Mac where the display would sometimes have screwed dials etc. I had a couple of tickets open on it with their support. Not used it for a while do I don’t know if it’s fixed or not.
Pigments is a beast though. The new version had a new engine ‘Modal’ which is pretty sweet….
303abuser …I’ve yet to get my hardware properly integrated into my workflow, but really enjoy tinkering with it ‘offline’, i’ll get it happening sooner or later!
Henry …actually think I’ve learned quite a bit in a short time with them, but obviously the parameters and quirks of nearly 40 VST’s take some getting your head around. Not encountered any issues with the MBP, actually don’t think an Arturia VST has glitched/frozen/crashed on me yet, unlike Diva, which sounds incredible, but is, ironically, a bit of a Diva…
Unbroken1 Matt Thomas has done some highly entertaining videos on some of the main Arturia synths that are worth checking out.
I had been holding out to buy Diva in the Black Friday deals, but they didn’t drop the price. Which was probably a good thing as I really do not need another virtual synth in my life.
Good intro here to the DX7:
Unbroken1 The best thing I did for my hardware set up was picking up the model 12 mixer. I’ve got all my synths wired in, a sub output on each channel that runs to the digitakt so I can sample any combination of inputs, 2 aux channels for the space echo pedal and the internal fx. I come up with a looped sequence that I like, track it out individually into ableton and arrange/process from there. I can do live takes for different sections, builds/breaks/etc.
It’s really made the workflow more fun. If I feel like just jamming out on hardware, I can. If I want to work hybrid or int he box, I’ve got those options too. It’s a lot to manage at the beginning, but it’s so worth it once the workflow clicks.