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Also, how can I loop vocals similarly to everything in its right place?
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>Schism edition
Is it worthwhile to treat (compress/eq/saturate/etc) samples before arranging your piece in a tracker or after the piece is done and you export the stems for the individual tracks for mixing.
I prefer getting the levels right in mono first without too much processing. But I do a bit of mixing (EQ, compression) as I arrange it.
>But I do a bit of mixing (EQ, compression) as I arrange it.
I wish I could do this, but the old school trackers don't allow for it unless you want to export and re-import samples.
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I imagine it'd be best to get the samples as "right" as you think you can before arranging, and then only use light touches on the stems.
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Seriously, wtf was this? I've hung around here for years and have no idea.
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I updated to catalina the other day and now ableton won't work until I move from 9 to 10. I've always torrented it in the past but not sure if I can trust pirate bay now that there's no comments...I downloaded it but my mac is telling me it's malware, even though it has thousands of seeds. Is there a better place to torrent it? I'm out of touch. Thanks in advance.
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Is there a genre of electronic music that's like, super simple? Like, the whole point of it is to have a bass just be a filter saw/square wave or something? Like, the philosophy is to not get too crazy on the effects and processing and just sounding kinda... basic? I guess is the word I'm looking for.
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No, that's not what I'm talking about.
Thanks. Do you think the file I already downloaded from pirate bay might be alright and mac is just being paranoid? It seems unlikely that such a highly seeded torrent would be malware, but I tried downloading izotope rx7 and all I got was my default search engine changed.
>all I got was my default search engine changed
>all
You wish, kiddo.
No-one can really make a guess like that, my experience of mac patchers for Ableton is that they use memory patching when generating licence files (Windows cracks probably do that too) and OS X will likely see that kind of activity as potentially malicious in a program, but that might not be the only thing that's being picked up.
You really need comments from users (ideally computer-literate ones) who have lived with the program for a while to see what their experience has been, so you can be more confident.
Okay, I think I got what you meant. It's not what I was trying to say though, the transients don't need to be similar OVERALL, just similar in dynamics. And that is mostly true for electronic music, where you will have a bunch of hard ones hitting all around. Best case scenario you have drums that don't seem to belong to a coherent kit and even the hard ones don't hit hard or appear because the groove is obfuscated, or, worst case, you get ultra fast peaks that can clip your track absurdly without your DAW or most meters even showing anything because it's too fast.
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What else should I be worried about?
This is a really shitty example of what I'm talking about, but 5 mins in Ableton and 4 operators later and this was a close enough idea. Just electronic stuff that isn't super processed or fancy. It's just.. like an 8 year old computer decided to make music.
True, so I guess pirate bay is useless now that comments are gone.
Has anyone had any luck putting ableton 10 on a mac with catalina? The rutracker comments are full of people having issues. I could just stick with 9...I guess it still works but I'd have to convert files to wavs before importing them which I cant be bothered with.
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You're just gonna keep naming genres even tho you know it's not what I'm looking for, aren't you? I'm okay with this desu. Good meme
how can I spice this up a bit more? I want to keep it short
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>the transients don't need to be similar OVERALL, just similar in dynamics
Yes I was talking about the dynamics too.
If you want your drums to sound good in the traditional sense then sure (and it's way more common to go for this sound than otherwise), but in many experimental genres (or even in some trap) you can easily have just one or two drums (usually kick and/or snare) that have different transient dynamics for emphasis (especially for drums that hit only once in a while or variations of your normal ones).
Obviously if has to be a stylistic choice and not a mismatched selection of sounds, otherwise it'll sound jarring and out of place.
For example you could have punchy kick and snare and softer-hitting percussion in the background, or even the opposite, with soft kick/snare and punchy percs in the background at a lower volume.
Or you could have a soft kick that's more of a low pumping sub and a punchier snare/clap/snap (at an appropriate volume) that plays more sparingly for accents.
Etc.
To make a dumb analogy, it's like colors. You can use analogous colors to make something that looks nice with everything fitting well together, or you can include some complementary colors for a bit of contrast used to your advantage to get a specific effect.
When it comes to transients there are even more factors at play. There's the dynamic, the frequency content, the overall volume, and the context it's in.
If you play with different combinations of these factors for how you want to use a sound (like a highly dynamic sound at low volume, or a softer attack but with a bright pulse in the beginning, etc.) you can balance things out and make them stand out without them being too jarring.
But I'm not really an expert at mixing/engineering so maybe all of this sounds like shit to anyone with a good ear and I'm just not realizing it lmao, who knows.
I'm going to bed now, If you answer I'll respond when I wake up.
I've read that one of the best ways to learn how to produce is to copy a track. How would you copy a track that is very sample heavy? Like drum breaks and random noises from movies and shit. It seems like it would be more difficult to copy a track like that than it would be to just make something original.