the production thread

apyssjw

Unbroken1 Thank you 🙂 Had a nice chat with ‘Fish’, possibly bored him for 20 mins or so. He gave Balance Croatia the thumbs up. Said that Dave Seaman and particularly Antony Pappa were gents.

hugopal

apyssjw Out (again) today

https://www.beatport.com/track/rush-dips/21486299

"Genre:
Dance / Pop"

?…

apyssjw

hugopal your guess is as good as mine. Nowt to do with me (other than I made the music).

hugopal

apyssjw your guess is as good as mine. Nowt to do with me (other than I made the music).

Seems a bit surprising. Maybe you might want to ask them if there was a reason behind it?

It appears most of the tracks on that release seem to have been given the same classification, albeit a few have other categories such as Tech House or “Mainstage” (whatever that is). I’d have thought that classification might make it harder for potentially interested browsers to stumble upon the track and release - given to my ears there seems other categories many of the tracks would more closely relate to.

303abuser

apyssjw That’s awesome, must’ve put a smile on your face!

apyssjw

303abuser It did!

I was interested to see if the mix sounded different when loud, as I knew he was going to be playing it out beforehand. Sounded pretty similar to be fair. Maybe the arrangement sounds a little busy, but then it was pitched up slightly which would have contributed to that.

303abuser

Morty-C-137 It’s all presets though so no actual going in and tweaking things besides some macros they give you.

Thanks, that’s all I needed not to bother. I have too much shit cluttering up the hard drive already. I’ll check out Micro.

303abuser

apyssjw Haha probably some nerves before you know the mix sounds ok in that environment. Good for you, nice to get some external validation now and again, that you’re not just throwing your music into a giant void.

Matt

I guess all the posters in this thread are well beyond the basics of Ableton Live, but is anyone aware of any decent tutorial stuff for beginners? thanks

apyssjw

Matt https://learningmusic.ableton.com/index.html is a good start. Browser based but sets out the fundamentals to then apply in live.

Unbroken1

…honestly, everything you need is on YouTube. It’s such a comprehensive application with so many different ways of achieving outcomes, It’s a never-ending journey of learning. Just when you think you’ve cracked it, you’ll discover someone who uses it on a level that completely blows your mind, but once you reach a point you can start to articulate your ideas, it’s extremely satisfying.

I rely on tutorials much less now than I did, but it can be really inspirational just dipping in to see how other people work or pick up a new technique if you are stuck in a rut or the juices just aren’t flowing.

For starting out, I’d recommend Zahand/Lotus Tunes- he’s a bit genre-preoccupied (has quite fixed ideas about what the rules about ‘progressive’ or ‘organic’ tracks should do, which I absolutely don’t), but he’s really consistent at recapping what he’s doing so users of all levels can keep up, is generally good at explaining stuff, and has a nice calm delivery:

https://www.youtube.com/@lotustunesacademy/playlists

…others worth checking out:

https://www.youtube.com/@Alice-Efe/playlists
https://www.youtube.com/@EDMProd
https://www.youtube.com/@EDMTips
https://www.youtube.com/@OscarUnderdog
https://www.youtube.com/@MXVDJ
https://www.youtube.com/@badeomusic/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@DowdenProductionAcademy
https://www.youtube.com/@NedRush

Matt

Unbroken1

apyssjw

YouTube was my first port of call, but there’s just so much stuff out there, you never know if it’s good quality content ot not.

There’s plenty of stuff there for me to digest anyway. Cheers fellas.

Manski

Unbroken1
Do you think it’s worth paying more for Suite?

Manski

This is really useful, thanks chaps.
Am looking to dip my toes into the confusing Ableton world after about 30 years when I used Cubeat!

Previously tried on v8 but gave up due to lack of time!

Unbroken1

…Roland TR-1000 coming

303abuser

Unbroken1 I was immediately intrigued, then saw the leaked price tag. If it’s actually $4500 CAD, I don’t understand how they sell a single unit. I can buy a rytm and anoctatrack for that.

Edit: looks like it’s $3500 CAD, still far too expensive given available alternatives

Unbroken1

303abuser …does seem a lot. I’m already guilty of underusing my TR8S, so wasn’t really considering the upgrade!

Manski …honestly, if you can stretch to it and are serious about giving it a go, I’d say yes. With Suite you can get away without any external VST’s/plugins for the most part, and the samples are enough to get you started, there’s not much you can’t do with the native stuff if you know it well enough.

Whether you decide to go for Standard or Suite, it’s worth registering and downloading Lite, you’ll get Black Friday upgrade discounts that way.

Manski

Unbroken1
Cheers.

Looks like I actually bought 10 a few years back so Suite upgrade is only £179. I need to actually invest the time this time around though… that’s where the problem lies!!

303abuser

Unbroken1 Apparently it weighs 12 lbs too! The demos all sound really good and it looks like something I’d use every day, but as you mentioned, pairing the TRS with the octatrack/digitakt2/mpc/etc. would be cheaper, probably more flexible, and cost far less.

Unbroken1

…full previews of the new EP are up, releases on Thursday 😉

apyssjw

Unbroken1 Congrats. A four track EP! I finish about four tracks a year (well a few more but not many)!

erik

Unbroken1 these are ace 👌🏽❤️

303abuser

Unbroken1 Great all around! I think Protean is my favorite, but the bassline on Articulate is fantastic too. Went from listening to the premasters for my next album to these and it was like taking out earplugs in a loud club lol.

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