the production thread
at risk of shilling for plugin alliance again, they’ve got a sale through tomorrow … $30 for any plugin (minus a couple of exceptions) and they have two codes so you can buy two if you want. if you’ve never bought from them, you can probably stack their survey discount too.
if you’re looking at synths, lion and bx oberhausen are both really good, especially at that price and byome is an amazing modular fx setup.
HLLWN-2999 and PMPKN-2999 are the codes, happy shopping.
Got a PM about butt plugs again 
Where’s the FAQ’S when you need them
i feel like we’re talking about different things again. 
That kind of chat gets you a down vote.
Hands up who is using Ableton?
ableton has been my daw of choice.
Amps Also, delighted to see Jay in his Bayern gear, an unexpected bonus this saturday morning!
Gotta represent my team fella! They’re tearing it up as of late.
Amps Hands up who is using Ableton?
Largely all Ableton now although I would still consider myself a Cubase user as well. Quite frankly I’d do much more in Cubase if it weren’t such a CPU hog on my seven year old computer. 
Amps Ableton 8 (I think) on an iMac from 2006 
Pretty much exclusively Ableton. I’ve been using it so long it’s second nature now. I started on Cubase though but found Ableton just so much more intuitive when I switched over (which if I remember was version 4!). I have an old version of reason but never really invested the time to learn the sequencer - it’s something I’ve meant to do and as I’ve said above I’m planning to upgrade as it can now be used as a plugin. Am waiting for black Friday…
I should add that I’ve been using Ableton to mostly DJ with since about version 5, until the last five or so years where I’ve increasingly been producing in it as well. I still get better mixdowns out of Cubase though - which I’ve used since 1994.
loopdokter why cubase over ableton for mixing? just a familiarity thing or workflow?
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303abuser why cubase over ableton for mixing? just a familiarity thing or workflow?
I get better results. My mixdowns sound better. Low end sounds tighter. I don’t know why exactly it is, but I’m not the only one who has this issue with Ableton. Apparently people have done audio engine comparisons and it’s supposedly the same as other DAWs in terms of quality, but I’m not entirely convinced.
That said, in terms of ease of creativity nothing comes close to Ableton that I’ve encountered. The audio and routing capabilities are pretty phenomenal.
loopdokter fair enough. i’ll be sticking with ableton as there’s no way i’m learning another daw, but it’s good to know the differences.
ableton 11 upgrade out early next year …
…yeah, lanes, that’s it. Fucking annoying you have to turn off automation view to see them, I’ll never remember that in a million years!
What was that function where it cut between the different lanes based on a user set pattern? sounded mad
Got an email from Ableton offering 20% early bird which I will go for.
30 minute overview of the new features with Petrichor here:
Looks really good. Can use MPE with Push 2 which is a bonus. Hybrid Reverb and scale option for clips also big pluses that I can see myself using a fair bit.
Also got an early bird invite for the upgrade with 20% which is a no brainer. 
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picked this up yesterday. if you need another delay/echo, check it out, i absolutely love the sound that comes out of it.
https://www.audiothing.net/effects/wires/
…how much from 10 > 11 H?
…fuck, that’s quite a lot, only upgraded to 10 last December
The update from 9 to 10 took years so agreed this is a bit of a pisser having this come so soon.
Bit disappointed about not getting a new synth too. The Poli synth has been around for ages and looks a bit shit. I do wonder whether this will be a regular thing now with more regular releases.
Having said all that the updates I mentioned earlier plus the additional packs that will surely follow will make it worth it.
it’s definitely early and i appreciate that they dropped the upgrade price, but this seems like a 10.5 version rather than 11.0.
Comping and scales overlay on the piano roll I’d definitely use - which are time savers more than anything. I already have beatseaker so it’s a bit annoying that it’s going to be an integrated feature. I’m not sure how linked editing would be helpful. Extra macro’s is fine. Easy on additional packs / effects etc. Biggest issue for me though is that my music computer runs Windows 7 and this will be Windows 10 only. I don’t really want to reconstitute it again, having survived the harddrive crash from last year.
Anyone got any tutorials or info on making giant fuck off laser noises? Preferably in Ableton or using a nice free VST. I can’t see much, so my assumption is that ‘laser noises’ are called something else in the world of proper production. Think Chemical Bros etc.
Have you tried googling ‘pew, pew, pewwwww’?
Works in Lego Batman