It's not what you have, it's how you use it

[sixth sense]

I've been doing this forever now with Reason my shitty 1GB ram computer can only handle so much

[lightfair]

I for sure agree with the topic of this post.

I started making electro music a few months ago using only a mac and garageband. I started builded some tracks and was actually able to get decent sounds but at the end of the day it's way to limited for both production and live settings so i recently purchased ableton 8 suite.

you can check out a garageband made track here. i'll remake it in ableton once i figure out how to use it.
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[amphibian]

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It's so easy to get distracted from learning to use your equipment though. I've spent 6 months churning out shit when I should have been learning.

This is something I do regularly - at least 1 day/week, I sit down with just one plugin/instrument and fuck with it, seeing what warped sounds I can make by testing extremes. It's amazing what you can do with a 100% wet verb, resampled

[pandy]

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It's so easy to get distracted from learning to use your equipment though. I've spent 6 months churning out shit when I should have been learning.

This is something I do regularly - at least 1 day/week, I sit down with just one plugin/instrument and fuck with it, seeing what warped sounds I can make by testing extremes. It's amazing what you can do with a 100% wet verb, resampled

The semester's about to finish here, and I'm planning on spending as much time as I can over summer doing exactly this - though perhaps with a few other VSTs as well

[paravrais]

hmmm... just figured out (lol) how to do the lfo. Simply resampled the bassline and imported it into a sampler, which has LFO capabilities. hehe

This is the way to go. It's the way I go. I feel more comfortable with a sampler than a synth for whatever reason. That said Ableton sampler is my instrument. So much packed into that little unit.

As do I - as it gives you a greater level of control. However, I think it's good to have an LFO at-hand for ease-of-use when you want to see how something will sound/fit. I've really come to love ableton's sampler. It's super powerful, something the interface hides very well.

Sampler is the fucking boss. That's just a fact.