the production thread

Wasily

Great work Damo. Congratulations!

Unbroken1

apyssjw …plugging away!

Wasily …cheers Alex! 😉

Morty-C-137

Unbroken1 Nice!

Unbroken1

Morty-C-137 …thanks mate!

Henry

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

Unbroken1

Henry …nice one Henry! 😉

Henry

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

303abuser

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.

loopdokter

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.

apyssjw

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.

loopdokter

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.

303abuser

Unbroken1 Sounds amazing, well done!

Henry

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 😅

303abuser

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.

Henry

Looks pretty compact. Will that replace the Tascam?

303abuser

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

Morty-C-137

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

loopdokter

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

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.

Morty-C-137

I have bought a license for Serum 2 a couple of weeks ago after a great time playing with the demo. Great fun building patches in that one!

I had been using Vital for quite some time and still nothing comes close to that kind of easy and quick modulation system, but damn.. serum tops it for me in terms of filter and fx quality. The sound engine is also a touch more ‘pristine’ if that’s the right word. Probably the way the oscillators are oversampled.

Anyway; can definitely recommend. If you like rolling your own patches with an do-it-all-the-only you’ll ever need-monster synth: look no further.

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