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I think this is a proper tip I learned from a friend of mine..
To get some extra chug or kind of shuffle going in my drums.
toggle the groove of the loop. i.e. drop the swing from 32 to swing 16 while you record the new drum clips. to kind off the give the drums a bit more life..
Cheers

ahhh nice little tip there



I got a tip for ya.. why dont you reach on into my pocket there and grab it...

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Cheers.
How about about this one...
Freeze your midi clips and move the frozen midi clips to an open audio track. Automatically bounces everything to audio.. Thats my favorite tip evahhhh..
BING...

Here's another:
Right, we've got a midi track of say, a quite busy hi-hat pattern that sounds too robotic. Create a blank midi clip, drag it into the groove pool, apply it to the hi-hat pattern. Turn down everything to zero in the groove editor (timing, quantisation etc), but turn the random up to about 25-30% and it'll give it a much more human feel. Works on loads of stuff!

notch wrote:I love family guy.. The only cartoon I can watch all the way through.
Cheers.
How about about this one...
Freeze your midi clips and move the frozen midi clips to an open audio track. Automatically bounces everything to audio.. Thats my favorite tip evahhhh..
BING...

thats effin amazing man. thanks so much for that one, will save a lot of time.

^^ +1

Wow some quality tips going down here, I'll share one of the techniques that I've used before, I wouldn't be surprised if you already know about this one but I'll throw it out there anyway.

This will work on both pad type sounds and short stabby sounds.

If your working on a midi track then follow one of the tips above for changing it into an audio track.

Reverse the audio track and apply a nice amount of reverb to the track. Set up another audio channel and patch it so that the new channel is receiving audio from the other channel but post-mixer.

Record the sound of the reversed audio (with the reverb) onto this new channel, record with some silence at the start and end of the clip so you catch the full length of the audio.

Then after you've recorded this, reverse your end result and what you should be left with is the original melody but it will have reverb in front of it. This can sound really peculiar and I've found it interesting to experiment with it.

I hope this is of interest to somebody and my apologies if you already knew about this one, I know it's not exactly a new idea but I still find it fun to have a play about with.

just posted in this in another thread but it amazes me how many people don't know.

If your wondering the key of an audio sample just do a midi slice and it'll place it in the right key. So simple as so many forward samples to musicians to find it out.

notch wrote: Freeze your midi clips and move the frozen midi clips to an open audio track. Automatically bounces everything to audio.. Thats my favorite tip evahhhh..
BING...

Dayumn, how didn't I know this? Is this in 7? Woo!

best tip i've ever got tbh. don't think any of my mates know this. shall spread the good word

Magma wrote:

notch wrote: Freeze your midi clips and move the frozen midi clips to an open audio track. Automatically bounces everything to audio.. Thats my favorite tip evahhhh..
BING...

Dayumn, how didn't I know this? Is this in 7? Woo!

I never knew that shit myself. It doesnt work for VSTs though...

Kapital wrote: I never knew that shit myself. It doesnt work for VSTs though...

Huh? It does for me. Freeze and bounce around.

Johnny Beat wrote:

Kapital wrote: I never knew that shit myself. It doesnt work for VSTs though...

Huh? It does for me. Freeze and bounce around.

Shit, I wasn't freezing it.

Yeah I have taught the freeze midi track tip to like 10 ableton users and no one ever knows about it and it saves you so much time.. The best feature in Ableton..

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thats effin amazing man. thanks so much for that one, will save a lot of time.[/quote]

Hey I want 320's:)

notch wrote:Yeah I have taught the freeze midi track tip to like 10 ableton users and no one ever knows about it and it saves you so much time.. The best feature in Ableton..

now I won't have to go have a smoke while shit bounces down lol

not that it takes that long but still

Best and only tip you'll ever need with any DAW: RTFM!

Large up to everyone for their tips! Ableton is amazing, luv that shit!

I have a quick question... when you freeze a midi clip, and the drop it onto a new audio track, is there any quality lost when it converts from midi to audio?

And what about consolidating, do you loose audio quality when consolidating clips together?

Large up to the DSF! This is what it's all about, sharing info and knowledge with fellow artists!

Nope no audio loss if you do either..
Also Before you drop the frozen midi clips in to in the audio track.. Make sure you Duplicate the midi clips so you can reuse them for other vst's..

thanks man, appreciate the tip! Gonna use today!