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Finishing the arrangement of a track to where I don't feel it's too repetitive is the hardest for me. All of the songs I have finished, I mapped everything to midi controllers and recorded a live take. Jackpf's advice to use paulstretch and atmospheres is good, it's fun to play the track to the buil...

I use a trick Into the Void posted a while back, stretching kick samples to make rolling basslines, good stuff. Could you please repost that trick? I use PunchBox from D16, too. Here you go Take any kick, load it as an audio clip. Go in to the clip editor, switch to warp, beats mode. Create a warp ...

I mostly use the stock ableton 909, saturate with nearly 100% drive, eq, compress and add some side chained sine waves. Just ordered a RYTM, hoping I like it enough to use as my dedicated kick synth :P I use a trick Into the Void posted a while back, stretching kick samples to make rolling basslines...

Hello subsektors! Does anyone know any easy to use free web browser based DaWs? I have a lot of downtime at work and it would be great to get some ideas into a simple daw. Just need a basic synth, drum samples and easy to use midi sequencing. I've found a decent one in the past but when I am searchi...

I spoke briefly with The Black Madonna on this issue and she recommended Sensaphonics hearing protection, she typically DJs with turn tables and headphones, likely listens to main mix in her booth feed and cue in headphones. I guess knowing my protections DB reduction and monitoring my booth with a ...

Good to know, I'm using Traktor to DJ right now so I use headphones to listen to Cue. Seems like it might be kind of weird to wear headphones over my protection but as long as I can hear the PA mix and Cue mix clearly without my head exploding I'll be happy. In some clubs like F8 I imagine it would ...

Question for those that are performing techno gigs, is it usually insanely loud in the booth? Do you wear hearing protection? DJ headphones on over your hearing protection? My 2 favorite clubs in San Francisco, The Midway and F8 have Funktion 1 rigs, holy shit does it get loud in there. When I saw A...

I saw Richard Devine made some patches for it, looks like a cool plugin. On sale now for $97 but my wallet already hurting.

Amazing advice, working on patches now. Funny thing is, the closest I have gotten to satisfactory results in my attempts to make this sort of groovy techno sound, came from an accident. At work I was opening up a laptop to do an audacity recording, the laptop mic and speakers were both on, I hit rec...

I get most of my structure ideas from going to live shows and trying to remember what really worked for me in the moment. There are distinct structure concepts tied to DJ sets that I am trying to incorporate into my work in progress tracks. Such as, filtering out the kick of a track where the kick h...

This is another one of those "how do I" threads that seem to piss off old timers so greatly, but at the risk of being scolded for my lack of sound design intelligence, I come here asking, please techno gods! Help my figure this sound out. I have browsed many threads from multiple years on here but h...

If you have ableton, you can get extremely similar results tweaking with abletons saturation effect. Like other said, roll the decay off a bit, eq out some of the super low bassy tones, then stick a saturator on it and tweak with the drive and curve type settings.

Just finished up 4 new tracks. Had a lot of fun making them using my new ableton template designs. I design all the sounds first, map everything to my push, launchpad and 2 midi mixers then just press play and see where it goes from there. Heard all the tracks like 50 times now so they are really st...

Going to be picking up the rytm myself, vermona would be my 2nd choice but the functionality of the rytm is just amazing from the youtube videos I've seen. Will definitely take a bit of time to master the work flow but I haven't heard any sounds that interest me as much as what the rytm has. A lot o...

It seems to me that the high level of bass that is in the snare drum is causing the transients, try eqing the bass away from the snare drum, if you want bass in that part create is separately rather than having it come from the snare.

I produce on a desktop using ableton, windows 10 with asio4all driver. Never had any problems, any crashes I have had were related to some fucked up vst I was using. I too am in the market for a laptop but macbook is just too fucking exspensive. Asus is a solid brand for laptops, not sure what your ...

Great read, I think this quote is very interesting to think about "But the question that is extremely difficult to answer is how [electronic music] would have been without [Ableton], because we have no clue." I know ableton has completely influenced the way I make and perform music, if I was still u...

I just found this dj Rebekah, love her techno style!

https://youtu.be/J84ZalC1u_g?list=PLdiK ... TwtoF37jzj

I think it starts out a bit too slow, when you can start hearing the synth come in around 30 seconds and builds up over the next minute and continues on for the rest of the song, it doesn't really feel right, maybe you should introduce it with a filter sweep or other form of modulation. I'm not gett...

Dramatic - the synth instantly sticks out to me as being awesome, sends a direct message to my brain that I should be dancing. Around 1:03 there is a noise sweep sound, I think you could go further with this, bring up the level and you could sort of sweep the song away, cut out the bass, then drop i...