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EADD Music Production Thread: Side B

They do have variable velocity (and pressure sensitivity / aftertouch too) although you can override that and have them send 127 velocity by default with the full level switch. My small gripe is that occasionally when you're bashing away you'll hit one pad either slightly to the edge or just not quite hard enough and it won't trigger. It might get better as the unit wears in a bit but if not I'll open her up and stick some tape underneath the pads which apparently sorts it out perfectly.
 
I love that seminar. Ill Gates seems like a pretty sound guy, he hovers around GHF on the odd occasion. Makes people wet themselves when he says hello.
 
I'm trying to keep my mind occupied while not smoking. Thought I'd fire up Ableton again but within literally 1 minute I want to launch my laptop off a wall. I cannot fucking stand that software. Can anyone recommend something else to use to knock together shitty beats? Something with a simple learning curve. I want to use Fruity Loops but I can't on a Mac without a lot of hassle.

I want to just be able to go - Kick drum on the 1 & 3, snare on the 2 & 4, hi-hats all over the shop, play! & hear some music. Not fight with the fucking thing for 19 hours.


Edit - Either that of if someone could point me in the direction of some simple to follow Ableton tutorials that won't make me smash my computer (this would probably be preferable as I've already got Ableton installed). Bear in mind I'm off the weed so my patience is at an all time low.
 
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I don't know if this is complete lunacy but there's a bloke I know who can actually make the occasional ok sounding beat in Garageband of all things. If your nut is still fried from your NYD excesses then perhaps the simple, child-friendly interface will help you vent your feelings.
 
I guess you won't be needing this then, which was my next suggestion

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knockando said:
sorry :| it is a bit catchy :) I've been mucking about with synthesisers so I've managed to oust the last lingering refrains from my head.
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jancrow said:
What kind? Soft or hard? Want to buy a malfunctioning Korg Delta?
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Soft. No thanks, I'm on a physical downsizing tip so as appealing as boxes of analogue electronickery might be I just can't.

In particular I've been starting to get to grips with Reason, and I've got Ableton and Reaktor lined up for later. I've been bashing my head against a creative brick wall with various bits of software on Linux and while I fully intend to go back to that (not bashing my head but doing something interesting) I think a change of technological scene might be good for me.

First impressions of Reason are: not as fucking straightforward as it pretends to be, and the documentation is pretty poor.

So, maybe I'm just shit!
 
Ceres said:
Linux is bullshit for audio production, still.
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There's nothing like a fair judgement backed up by a reasoned argument to make your point. In fact Linux is pretty good for audio production as it has a rock-solid audio subsystem, good hardware compatibility, and a wide range of modular synthesizers, sequencers and audio programming languages available. There are plenty of people making music with Linux right now.

It falls down if you're looking for monolithic applications which do everything. You have to do a lot of plumbing manually. But for that price you get a lot of flexibility.

At the moment I find the flexibility a bit too much and usually get distracted by stuff that doesn't end up anywhere.
 
Well, I've been producing music since 1995 and using linux since 1996 and have never once seen anything as useful as what you can get for windows (osx even) come out of linux - and I do keep track of things. Linux is just bullshit for any kind of media production, this is why I use windows for creativity tools and linux for what it's actually good for, i.e running development environments and network server stuff.

But I'm sure now you will tell me GIMP makes Adobe CS redundant....
 
Ceres said:
Well, I've been producing music since 1995 and using linux since 1996 and have never once seen anything as useful as what you can get for windows (osx even) come out of linux - and I do keep track of things. Linux is just bullshit for any kind of media production, this is why I use windows for creativity tools and linux for what it's actually good for, i.e running development environments and network server stuff.

But I'm sure now you will tell me GIMP makes Adobe CS redundant....
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Still waiting for a reasoned argument, you just keep saying "I don't like it" :p (which is fair enough in itself).
 
knockando said:
Still waiting for a reasoned argument, you just keep saying "I don't like it" :p (which is fair enough in itself).
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I could make a reasoned argument if I could be arsed, but, the ratio of people i know that make music in terms of those that use linux, and those that use windows or macs, is about 1:100. And there's a good reason for that.

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Ha, makes me think of the Silicon Teens album, which is a bit horrible, but in a good way. What synths do you use for your chippy sounds?
 
I use the SubTractor polyphonic synthesisor in Reason

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This thing ^ And that setting for my last tune.


I have a Korg x50 but have yet to find a way to link it up with the 'puter so I can record directly from it. The sound card it comes with is a great deal better than what my PC has. Do I need a certain cable? It links up with Reason fine, but Reason overrides it with its own digital synths.
 
Aha, that old chestnut. I should have a look at Reason again, it's been years and years since I last fired it up.

I would have thought that the USB connection would handle that in some way but I'm not really a USB don... more of 1/4" jack sort of fella.

edit: whoopsno, apparently you need to do this.
 
x50 just sends midi, so in reason you're just using it as a keyboard to trigger the reason synths, you need to record the audio output of it directly from the main outputs -> your soundcards line or mic inputs. Hope that makes sense, DXM clouding my mind a bit atm.

does reason support vsti's yet?
 
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I need a line in cable thing. Luckily my PC seems to have a jack for that...I still need to get a lead to plug into the L/R outputs on the back of the synth that ends in a mic-jack-sized thing to stick in my computer...hmm...Any idea what I need to search google for?
 
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