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Unbroken1 they are ‘proper’ producers and kinda studio heroes of mine

I know what you mean - but we are all proper producers here 🙂

      Great work Damo. Congratulations!

        Unbroken1 Great baseline in that. Solid track even before the original elements come in. Congrats, Damo.

            OXI One MKII out now. Really tempted by this as an external sequencer to Ableton.

              apyssjw

              Yes. I use it religiously for stem extraction. It’s by far the best extraction I’ve come across and they make it easy to even remove effects if you so choose.

              Some of the transport functions are a bit finicky and take getting used to., but what it lacks in those areas it makes up for in the stem extraction. It’s constantly being improved too.

                  loopdokter I have used Traktor 4’s stem separation which works well for tracks with few elements. It split Bicep Umber really welll for instance, because that has pretty clear bass, drums, pads, vocal. More complicated material is a bit of a challenge for it.

                      Henry I’ve see Oora using it, looks really impressive. I think if I ever wanted to perform live, I’d take a hard look at it.

                          303abuser He either genuinely loves it or is getting paid to do those promotions.
                          I’ve got a Push 2 and have done for ages but barely use it because the pads are shite and lack any tactility. Would need to check an Oxi One out in the flesh first to see how the pads feel.
                          Also thinking of upgrading to a Digitone II but that’s another story 😅

                              Henry I’m sure he’s getting paid. And yeah, I’ve stayed away from any DN2 videos, it looks amazing and I absolutely don’t need it. Pretty sure I’m going to pick up the new novation launch control when it’s out, I’ve been waiting for something like that for more “live” arrangements.

                                Looks pretty compact. Will that replace the Tascam?

                                No, just add to the setup. I use the tascam for hardware and would like to be able to use them in tandem.

                                apyssjw The whole stem extraction thing is becoming a very competitive space.

                                Rip DAW does the best offline stem separation I’ve come across so far and make it easy to get into the finite areas and delete the stuff you don’t want when you extract. I’ve heard that MAGIX Spectral Layers is the best sonically, but for the life of me I can’t figure out how to use that program properly - similarly with iZotope RX and only deleting certain elements. Rip DAW forgoes the whole spectrogram method and goes about it in an intuitive way.

                                The upside is that this technology is only going to improve more and more as the AI models are fed more and more data and computing power improves.

                                    Unbroken1 I came in here to intitially compliment you on this remix Damo. Well done!

                                    Duncan is a nice and down to earth guy. I’ve had a few conversations with him over the years and he immediately removed any of the ‘hero status’ I’d given him in my head. I’m glad they let you put it out!

                                      loopdokter The one built into Logic Pro works well enough for me. None of them do it without artifacts.

                                          Morty-C-137 some are better than others. I haven’t tried the Logic one so I can’t comment on it, but RipX DAW is quite incredible for getting clean vocals that are initially bathed in reverb and delay. Obviously it takes a while to go through the file and remove that stuff, but I’ve been quite impressed with the results. I’ve always wanted to do a reworking of Bassomatic’s (AKA WIlliam Orbit) ‘Fascinating Rhythm’ and it gave me a lot to work with - including a very clean vocal.

                                          Where it struggles a bit more is things like plucky sounds or synth parts.