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shrikeParticipantOMG it natively saves out live sets. That’s incredible.
Gaaaaah anyone wanna buy an mpc live???
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,shrikeParticipantOh yes yes…this shit works. Very very good.
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,shrikeParticipant? ? ?FIRE ? ??
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,shrikeParticipantJoppa!
Mate I think you are getting better, for sure.
This one has some balls on it. The bottom end is fit to burst, but manages to hold it together.
I do think that kick is a bit distorted, and not in the good way.
Heavy, tho, mate, very nice work.
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,shrikeParticipantThis is nice. My only overall feedback is to work on the sc’ing of your kick and snare a bit more with the other elements. They are taking second stage, and for those moments of transient, I’d personally like to here them poke out a little more.
Very cool.
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,shrikeParticipantWelcome, Waxx
Interesting track. On more of a jumpy, commercially vibe (commercial meaning accessible).
That snare is awfully polite…try adding a layer of noise on top so that you fill in that 2-6khz range a little more…at the moment it sounds muffled.
It’s hard to give arrangement notes with this, as it is just kind of a clip at the moment.
The halftime is fun. Filter or effect that male vox a little bit throughout, it gets a little repetitive, and doesn’t move in any particular direction.
fun party vibe
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,shrikeParticipantLOL, shit, Mind Zero. Just read that you want NO neuro or reeses.
Sorry about that, it’s pretty much all my list has on it.
But for the rest of you, maybe still useful.
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,shrikeParticipantI have a decent list of youtube “tools” that I have acquired.
I don’t put things on this list unless I have gotten something out of them:
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,shrikeParticipantOn Youtube you’d do well to check out AU5, ArtFX, and Venus Theory. Varying levels of “personality” that you have to put up with, but you’ll learn something in there.
On SG, the State of Mind and Jade bass tutorials are outstanding.
Joe Ford also has several good bass tuts out there, on YT & SG.
I will however, sum them all up for you right now:
synthesize (or sample), distort, compress, 3-filter mod (1bp + 2 notches), chorus/phaser/flanger, limit…resample, rinse, repeat
That formula above is the foundation of most of what you’ll find out there, give or take.
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,shrikeParticipantOHMYFCKNGGAWD
Just peeped what BW 3 will include. “The Grid” is actually a non-linear nodal-based DAG. It’s the same thing I use to build shaders in CG and do compositing in Nuke (visual fx, my main gig).
This. Is. Huge.
For those that don’t know, this will create power like never before seen in any DAW, and no I am not hyperbolizing.
BW 3 will be an instant purchase for me. I’ve had the same idea for a few years now, but I am just a dumb artist, not going to build any software any time soon. Finally someone has done it. Linear workflow is for the birds, man.
yesyesyes
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,shrikeParticipantHarry uses and digs it,I believe.
I use it, sometimes, but mostly for sound design, cuz the modulators are truly out of this world. It outpaces Live in that regard: the modulation system is so easy and useful, and so many fun crazy modulators that can instantly be assigned to any property of any plug.
Other than that, it is kind of a bizarro world clone of Live. The skins and colors are different, but the workflow is virtually identical, right down to the arrangement/session views, and the way that you can chain and stack devices.
The synths are strong, as are the rest of the effects, and it’s much cheaper than live suite.
The other thing that it has going for it is the unique cv control. If you have any hardware synths, like, say,a modular even, that use cv, BW will actually send cv data out. I’m going to try this soon, after I get another audio interface. If I get a 24 out interface,I then have 24 different cv control outputs to send to the hardware. That’s huge, if you need it. AFAIK there is no other daw that does this straight out of the box.
It’s very much personal preference, but for some reason Live just feels more like “home” to me right now. But if it were wiped off the face of the earth, I think I’d have very little problem switching to bitwig. It punches well above its weight, and Live users will feel right at home.
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,shrikeParticipantYo I have been slacking on my feedback…need to get back into it.
If you’d like, make this tune DL’able and I will put it under the microscope. I hear freq issues, but would rather not guess at feedback…
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,shrikeParticipantAKOV
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Break (<—-esp for mastering!)Oh and Rob Data, but that one is likely a non-starter
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,shrikeParticipant“Oops, we couldn’t find that track”
Busted link, mate, please repost
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,shrikeParticipantAbsolutely. I keep my SC on lockdown cuz I’m just not ready to come out of the oven yet.
And mind you it’s been nearly 2 years at this point for this stretch, and I still keep my tracks private. Cuz they aren’t good enough. Wanna get better at producing? Do it cuz it’s fun and because you love it, then add a dash of insane focus, then everything else will fall into place.
This video helps sum up the circumstance for all of us, at one point or another (don’t mind the kinetic typography…just listen)
Ok, my tunes:
https://soundcloud.com/the_shrike/sh-terrible-wip01/s-rmrC2
https://soundcloud.com/the_shrike/sh-sd-diversion-wip01/s-bVT10
https://soundcloud.com/the_shrike/black-friday-mix-edit/s-Psg39
https://soundcloud.com/the_shrike/lock-n-lold-wip01/s-nwPCd
https://soundcloud.com/the_shrike/thekillingfields-wip01/s-gZ4CC
https://soundcloud.com/the_shrike/markofthebeast-wip03/s-84sc6
https://soundcloud.com/the_shrike/sh-lampsamples-v004zzz/s-iCsMz
https://soundcloud.com/the_shrike/sh-slochase-wip01/s-249pr
https://soundcloud.com/the_shrike/sh-gfynye-v02b-wip01/s-3sP2b
I did the next two in addition to the entry I submitted for the Lamp Challenge. In all I think I did 5 total tunes/clips for the last challenge. I found it to be a very nice sample pack, and that a lot of what I made from it started veering in the same direction.
https://soundcloud.com/the_shrike/sh-lamp007-driver-wip01/s-cBtMT
https://soundcloud.com/the_shrike/vm-lampofuggingo-wip01/s-KKYpv
https://soundcloud.com/the_shrike/sh-attack-plan-wip01/s-P3IZq
https://soundcloud.com/the_shrike/sh-2-3rd-time-wip01/s-h2CkB
https://soundcloud.com/the_shrike/sh-reroute-wip01/s-bCbyL
https://soundcloud.com/the_shrike/sh-theshrikesnaretest-wip01/s-pgOG8
I often do a clip a night, and then if it has legs I will work it for some days more. All of these have issues, but I generally learn from the issues and move on. One thing you will read and for a moment possibly obsess over: should I always make full tunes? Should I finish every single thing that I start? I’m stuck in the 8/16 bar loop hell…?
Think about this: if you want to be a commercially viable dnb artist, you’re gonna need some fertile creative ideas, and you’re gonna need a fuck ton of them. Now is your chance to stretch, try, fail, and make shit that just doesn’t work…cuz you are trying to find that 0.5% that really does work, and is even somewhat unique in the whole genre. You aren’t going to reinvent things in a day, but you should act like you can.
It will be frustrating, you will want to quit, and you’ll hate much of what you make…until you don’t, and then the confidence will build and so will your repertoire.
And we are here! Always here, to help you along the way.
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