making beats
making beats
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Been smashing it in the studio the past few weeks.. all killer, no filler ..
Been focusing on dawless takes of parts, using outboard sequencers and always using a additional device (filter, analogheat)
Make something, move to next sound.
So so liberating.. no revisions, no endless changed record like 64 bars of different takes of the same thing, then pick the best and move onSo quick
- I need to take your advice... I think about the "make a sound, move on" approach a lot, and the simplicity of not playing end-to-end guitar parts.mg33
- Love hearing about different processes. What are you recording the parts with?mort_
- its all still going into Ableton, its not dawless in that regard, but I try and do as little as possible in abledroid..autoflavour
- but basically, start with a beat (usually just a kick and hit hat on off beat.. then I pick a synth to work with.. usually try and switch it up each song.autoflavour
- either try and play something or record it into a step sequencer. or draw some simple half bar or 1 bar pattern in Ableton and then just play around on synthautoflavour
- get to somewhere it sound good, press record in Ableton, record 4 bars of the thing, no fiddling with controls, just straight. then record second take for 5minautoflavour
- just fucking around, occasionally adding a extra note on the keyboard, changing patches, just messing around. once I am happy with what I have, I then go backautoflavour
- into Ableton, go thru and find some good 2-4 bar loops from that, maybe do a little bit of clip automation, still all in live view. once I'm happy, start nextautoflavour
- rinse and repeat until you have at least 5-6 parts .. then start working out what goes with what, what can be soloed, what can revised. but its all audio by nowautoflavour
- so its only just rough editing. then I usually get a reasonable flow happening, open a new track, set it to resampling, and just record like 10 minutes of meautoflavour
- live mixing the session.. there is always mistakes and happy accidents. I then take that stereo resampled file and rough edit a track out it in session view..autoflavour
- by this stage, its usually 3am and I go to bed and start a new track the next dayautoflavour
- plan is always to the use that rough resampled edit as the template to go back and actually build the song, but often I just go with what I have..autoflavour
- Nice. Been thinking along the same lines. Basically using Ableton as a tape recorder and committing to parts as audio.mort_
- Rather than trying to keep every instrument tweakable.mort_
- Appreciate the explanation. Thanks man!mort_
- For the moment, I've decided to mostly keep effects in the box, with the exception of the Analog Heat and a couple of pedals.mort_
- analogheat is a sleeper purchase.. I had one and sent it back after 3 weeks. then I got another 2 years later.. been using it for clean boost, saturation etc..autoflavour
- only slightly tho, no crazy distortion, just enough to add a bump to the mix.. its become my go to for most thingsautoflavour
- Yeah same. Been using it mostly on the TR8S. Great combo.mort_