Can we all just brag for a moment?

rastabean · 15 days

After years of working towards and dreaming of a day where I'd have my music validated by a proper record label's commitment, I recently got my first recording-publishing contract signed! http://www.beatport.com/artist/walko/249541 <3

EDMFeedback · 1 month

Sylenth1, alchemy, operator, and zebra 2 make appearances in this track, and some noises from my modular :D a lot of sounds were sampled from kill the noise and others and then screwed with, actually. hopefully that's not scummy of me.

EDMFeedback · 1 month

http://soundcloud.com/walko/railgun-walko-remix

just submitted this to the remix competition that was advertised here a few days back, the rest of the entries are up at http://soundcloud.com/groups/zala-railgun-remix-contest-group/tracks, all are absolutely epic!

nyerp · 2 months

Yup! You map MIDI notes to turn effects on and off, and then create a MIDI loop which sequences the state of the chosen effects automatically.

lorposralem · 2 months

Hey there! Midi mappings are something of a specialty of mine, and I own and am quite experienced with the Xone:4D. Send me a PM if you'd like to get a conversation started on getting the most out of it.

The major advantage of the 4D is the built-in soundcard, but the midi controls are also perfect in a large number of situations. If you open up traktor and go over to the controller manager in the preferences window, you should be able to select the Xone:4D from a dropdown menu somewhere (if you've got the drivers installed properly) and add in your own mappings to the box below. I would strongly suggest making your own mappings, as especially with traktor, the things you choose to have immediate control over will make a noticeable influence on your mixing style.

As I said, PM me if you'd like some more specific advice!

MilesBDyson · 3 months

In the movie "Dave" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106673/) there is a scene where the protagonist, acting as president, places his arms into some mechanical contraption, and then controls a giant pair of industrial robot arms by moving his own in the desired manner. Is this for real? How does it work? Who uses it? What's your end of the deal?

nyerp · 3 months

Very good point. It is foolish to assume that for a track's worth of given lyrics there exists only one style of accompaniment which is suitable.

I guess what I mean, though, is with vocal music, you have a starting point. When there are vocals present, there is SOME direction in the song; how a producer chooses to emphasize that direction is the decision he or she has got to make, but there are still options which the composing producer will simply not consider to be acceptable.

With pure instrumental, however, you're not putting a musical spin on a lyrical subject, you're putting music to something else... I guess that something else is what I'm asking about. That underlying purpose that takes the place of words in instrumental music.

WeetThins · 3 months

If you've got a bit of cash, pick up Bome's Midi Translator (http://www.bome.com/products/miditranslator)

It will happily convert keystrokes to any MIDI note signal you like. You'll also want MIDI Yoke (http://www.midiox.com/) installed to route things properly :)

nyerp · 3 months

Yep! Per-clip automation works for audio and MIDI :)

nyerp · 3 months

Yep! Per-clip automation works for audio and MIDI :)

shuritsen · 3 months

This was halfway through my 4th year of producing, I can't remember exactly which tracks I played but I think they were mostly selections from what I had produced in the preceding six months.

Everyone has their own speed, it tends to come down to how much you start and don't finish. I start a lot of tunes and throw them out partway through because I don't feel like the idea is good enough. The ones I stick with often take 8 consecutive hours of work followed by several weeks of fine-tuning :P

From the other end of the spectrum, I have a friend who occasionally wakes up and decides "I'm going to write an album today" and stays up for as many hours as are necessary to take 9-16 tracks through to completion. I'm not exaggerating. Not all of his stuff is gold, but he learns at an alarming rate and has some beautifully insane ideas.

Both methods are perfectly acceptable, I think. I believe it was Gershwin who was quoted as advising that a composer writes as much as he/she possibly can, purely for the purpose of getting the bad stuff out of the way :D

shuritsen · 3 months

It went quite well! Positive audience reactions can teach one a lot too :)

shuritsen · 3 months

I do! Once you've got yourself a solid portfolio of tunes and a substantial fan base (amongst friends and etc), do a live set of all-original tunes! A more underground setting is ideal as at a lot of mainstream events people will want music they've heard before.

I had a little 1-hour gig at a local music festival (sort of an official after-party) and it was the first time I played all original stuff; I learned a HUGE amount about my own music that day. I guarantee that seeing the audience's reaction to your tunes will make a huge and wholly beneficial difference to your approach to composition :D

U2PrideITNOL · 3 months

Hi!

I do something similar with my setup; I crap audio out from Serato into Ableton and then output from Ableton to my mixer.

Here's the issue: as far as I know, you need audio out to AND IN FROM a USB soundcard for this to work properly. I run a Xone:4D, which has a suitable one built in, but for $150ish you can get an external one for which setting up the right signal path should be relatively straightforward. I'm a little busy at the moment but if you want to send me a PM I'd be happy to help you figure out what needs to be done to make this work (since this kind of audio routing is fantastic and certainly worth the $100-200 that a soundcard will set you back).

nyerp · 3 months

The audio clip is actually supposed to be silent. It doesn't actually make a difference since the track is on monitor "In" mode, but for tidiness' sake a silent clip tends to make the most sense. Rather than following my own advice and recording on a channel with no input, I just cut out the last bar of a track of mine, so there's a little bit of veeeery quiet reverb tail in that clip :P

nyerp · 3 months

My pleasure! Let me know how it works!

nyerp · 3 months

I put a brief explanation of how to make a silent audio clip in the description of the video :) Essentially, set an audio track to take input from nothing (the "No Input" option) and then record for a few seconds.

After setting it to take no input, arm the track with the circle-inside-a-rectangle button (at the bottom of the channel in performance view, at the far right while in arrangement view)
Go into arrangement mode (if you're not already in it) by pressing tab
Click the record circle up next to the play and stop buttons, then press play).

You can get access to the input dropdown (if you haven't already got it) by clicking the "I-O" circle on the right side of Ableton, under the vertical scroll bar.

The envelope view should open up when you click the little capital E in the bottom left of the screen while in clip view. (get into clip view by double clicking your silent audio clip, or clicking the waveform/empty rectangle in the bottom right next to the name of the channel after clicking on your clip once).

I apologize that these things were not made clear in the video! I'm shooting for the semi-experienced audience with these tutorials, since it is often difficult to effectively pass on a lot of low-level comprehension without time and back-and-forth conversation. Let me know if my description here has helped at all; if not, I'd be happy to start up a private message conversation to help get you better acquainted with Live :)

nyerp · 3 months

Awww, squeakyneb, you make a man blush! Thanks for the positive remark :D

nyerp · 3 months

Haha! Will do! Thank you!

EDIT: Wait, hold on, did you mean keep up with the posting about it on /r/DJs, or keep up with the making of the videos?

nyerp

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