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303abuser Looking forward to the album. Sounds very good from the snippets.

    Henry i always look forward to your new tracks, this one is really good too. love the wide pad swells and the piano sits in space really well. we need to work on something together at some point.

    and thanks, i’m pretty happy with the album. i’ve got a track on an ep from slope point out tomorrow, so i’ll post it here when it’s been released.

      Thank you. Much appreciated as always for the feedback.

      And sounds like a bloody good plan too. 😀

        Yeah good luck with release, 303. İ like the samples.

          Henry no worries. if you have something half finished or part of an idea you don’t know what to do with, send the stems my way. i finish almost everything i start these days, but i’m happy to do the same vs. trying to grind out an idea. and if it’s dub sounding, i have a couple of release connections now too, plus i can get it mastered.

              303abuser I can’t even finish my conversations these days, so as for unfinished tracks…. well… I have few that is fair to say! If I can find anything that I don’t think will result in embarrassment I will deffo bung you them your way. Will have a check over the weekend.

                  Henry haha no worries. send me whatever you want, i’m always happy to have new ideas to work with. i actually started a groove yesterday that i think fits well with your sound. if it doesn’t immediately click for me, i’ll send you this one.

                    here’s my new one out today on Slope Point’s EP “Slope Forms II”.

                    here’s the bandcamp link for the ep. lots of good dub techno again on this one.

                    and here’s the spotify link for Sleep Flight.

                    Henry out of curiosity, what does your workflow look like from a blank project through mixing?

                      So, I’m using Ableton as my main DAW, with Maschine routed through which is mainly for the drum machine (I think the engine is better than Ableton’s) and for auditioning the NI synths.
                      My template for Ableton project consists of the routing of Maschine, a number of midi and audio tracks: each of which has a FabFilter Pro Q; but no EQing yet.
                      Then it’s just case of throwing enough stuff around to see what sticks. I try to start with some textured sounds: quite like the grantulator synths quite a lot; various samples which I use in the granulator, Simpler or the Sampler. Beats normally come after I have a melody. Usually I know within 30 mins whether I have something or not to go with.
                      Once I have something I can take further, I sketch out the structure using Push 2 and start generating the flow using Clip View. I will either record the session live, or build it in clip view.
                      Once recorded, I start adding the FX, crashes, builds etc.
                      Finally I do the EQing, which I do on every piece of audio and midi channel: both mid and side EQ.
                      The very last stage is bunging on a multi band compressor, with some gentle EQing.

                      This is how it works out in a perfect session (like with the Provia track); but 98% of the time this does not happen…