the production thread
That story is pretty funny, the podcast is a bit of a nightmare though lol.
Henry Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. We’ll probably start another project next fall/winter, we both enjoy working together and despite how long this one took to get done, we actually work pretty efficiently now. I’ve got a solo album to finish up (I’ll probably have about 20 tracks done in the next month or two), have to get through racing season, then we’ll pick up again.
That’s great news. The sound that you both have is quite distinctive and evolving nicely.
20 tracks. Fucking hell. Have you been taking Mike Monday “Splurge” pills? In any case, one shall be looking forward to hearing that.
Haha I appreciate the enthusiasm. It’s funny how the sound evolves to something distinctive, we’ve honestly barely discussed it. We just pass stems back and forth until we’re happy. I think our skill sets compliment each other well, Stephen is a proper musician and makes up for a lot of my shortcomings.
I haven’t release a solo project in almost 3 years, so it’s way less impressive than it sounds. There’s probably an album and a few eps in there. Some of it is 80-90 bpm slow, heavy dub and it goes up to 140 bpm techno with a dubby flavour. I’ll just keep writing as long as the inspiration is there and sort it all out at the end.
Always wanted a mutronics mutator - possibly only because of it’s name. I’ll probably buy the behringer copy of it ever comes out.
Can’t believe it’s been 5 years already. Wish I had a pile of cash sitting around with nothing else to do with it.
…Bandcamp release today!
Congrats! Did you put it together on spec and send it to them?
Fantastic work Damo. Made up for you.
Great work Damo. Congratulations!
Unbroken1 Nice!
Morty-C-137 …thanks mate!
OXI One MKII out now. Really tempted by this as an external sequencer to Ableton.
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.
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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
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.
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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.
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.
Don’t know much about this ecosystem, but apparently it’s a good deal (free).
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I bought into the NI ecosystem when I purchased the Maschine II bundle about 10 years ago, which was bundled with Komplete at the time (although haven’t updated it for years now).
Massive X is very good. But the interface takes some getting used to although you can make some very interesting sounds from it. I would say that the sound engine used to be incredible vs the stock Ableton plugins and when I would load it into Ableton vs say a Wavetable it was night and day which of them had more depth.
Battery 4. I sometimes use this. Every drum sample I drop into sound better. Lots of controls for adding saturation, compression etc.
TRK-01. Great little drum rack.
Replica Delay is also very good. Always sounds different to the other delay plugins I have.
NI are having a massive fire sale at the moment so their sales must be suffering. And they deserve that for not updating Abysnth for Apple Silicon.