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Following on the office steppers thread, use this thread as a weekend general production chat thread.


I spent the day yesterday alternating between napping, watching X-Men films and running the sample pack files through some of my effects processing templates and bouncing out the results. Got a really weird sound by pitching down one of the samples (not saying which one ), reversing it, running it through a Comp/Delay/Reverb and then grabbing the output with Edison. Now just got to find a way to work it into a project

More of the same today, though it's 8am and I've got a short (4km) run to do first. Joy

No one else?


Spent the time since I got back making some sort of weird 170bpm track - not entirely sure how it's going to turn out, but it's using an offbeat bassline structure akin to something you'd find in hardstyle, but with broken beat drum programming.

I got the nova3 alpha vst installed on Friday night.
Wired it up to some Azian Dreamz strings and Omnisphere.
Awesome stuff.
Loving it.

Oh, Also figured out my headphones are making life diffucult for me.
Time for a change.

On friday i messed with sawer in Fl for the first time, found out that its pretty much a dubstep machine, and just got home from work and am now gonna work on my track with sawer. And sawer is alot of fun and doesnt give me a headache like other synths !

Electric_Head wrote:I got the nova3 alpha vst installed on Friday night.

That modelled on the Novation Nova hardware module? Been thinking of getting one of the old school models on the cheap in the next couple of months

RandoRando wrote:On friday i messed with sawer in Fl for the first time, found out that its pretty much a dubstep machine, and just got home from work and am now gonna work on my track with sawer. And sawer is alot of fun and doesnt give me a headache like other synths !

The heck is Sawer? Never heard of it - though I am still using FL8...

wub wrote:

Electric_Head wrote:I got the nova3 alpha vst installed on Friday night.

That modelled on the Novation Nova hardware module? Been thinking of getting one of the old school models on the cheap in the next couple of months

RandoRando wrote:On friday i messed with sawer in Fl for the first time, found out that its pretty much a dubstep machine, and just got home from work and am now gonna work on my track with sawer. And sawer is alot of fun and doesnt give me a headache like other synths !

The heck is Sawer? Never heard of it - though I am still using FL8...

upgrade to 10 man! what are you thinking!
its one of their new synths, it has a vintage analouge saw sound. Very basic and simple. Pick it up for 50 bucks in the sale they have goin till july 4th! great little synth

Just woke up, spent countless hours attempting to do a remix yesterday.
Gave up and went to the pub instead.
Might have a doddle around for some sample packs and plugins today. Any recommendations?

jaimelee wrote:Might have a doddle around for some sample packs and plugins today. Any recommendations?

I spent a bit of time yesterday messing around with TAL Reverb following the Reverb discussion thread we had. Haven't really deviated much from stock FL plugins for some time now, so was nice to have a change of sound on things. Put it on a few drum busses, reversed a few hits, bounced, etc etc.

Sample pack wise, depends if you're after free or paid?

Free for now, saving up for my desktop and stuff for summer.

Friday I actually started a new track which I just put up on my soundcloud. It was really just something I started cause I was extremely bored, and you could probably hear the boredom in it. I spent my friday morning on that, and then again saturday morning after I got off work. Other than that I spent my weekend working like usual. It's really a rather boring existence when it comes to my weekends now a days. I remember not too long ago I would have spent my weekend nights drunk, and my mornings recovering from hangovers......wtf happened.

JBE wrote:Friday I actually started a new track which I just put up on my soundcloud. It was really just something I started cause I was extremely bored, and you could probably hear the boredom in it. I spent my friday morning on that, and then again saturday morning after I got off work. Other than that I spent my weekend working like usual. It's really a rather boring existence when it comes to my weekends now a days. I remember not too long ago I would have spent my weekend nights drunk, and my mornings recovering from hangovers......wtf happened.

Doesn't sound horrible, just needs tightening up on the drums.
And also on that secondary synth, a bit flat I think..

Need to break this producing block... Everyday is a weekend now since college has finished.

Filthzilla wrote:Need to break this producing block... Everyday is a weekend now since college has finished.

the fuck are you doing then! i work alot of days straight and never have time, im always too tired when i get home, i would kill for some free time like you!

I had crazy producers block yesterday so i made some hiphop.
Found some really nice orchestral loops on looperman.com
In my sig if you wanna listen..
Also:

Trainrek wrote: Also:

Resampling?

finally started producing again without ending up quitting after 30 minutes and being pissed off for the rest of the day (the mere thought lets my adrenaline levels rise as i'm writing this...)
yesterday i made progress towards a current value-ish snare, and as i was practicing compression i accidentally ended up figuring out how to make schranz/hardtechno (which is the most horrible music i've ever heard in a club but who cares).
basically you could make a whole schranz track minus the hihats with one channel, it's ridiculous really...

i keep making the same tune over and over again! Need to stop myself..

^lol- sounds like a washing machine

How do you guys feel about recreating someone elses songs to learn the software you're using? Just when you're starting out of course. I'm still pretty new to a lot of the parts of production.
That's what I spent my weekend doing.

olyko12 wrote:How do you guys feel about recreating someone elses songs to learn the software you're using? Just when you're starting out of course. I'm still pretty new to a lot of the parts of production.
That's what I spent my weekend doing.

Sounds likea decent idea, I'm more just creating really random noises and saving them for later.
Have to keep the sample library tasty!

hutyluty wrote:i keep making the same tune over and over again! Need to stop myself..

^lol- sounds like a washing machine

Yea, I'm pretty sure that dude just came over to my house and recorded the sound my dryer makes when I put my boots in it.