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- tomkat
been to the studio with my drum&bass liveband lately..
like it or not?(go to hearit -> dropdown boxes will appear..)
- saintlukas0
well when you go to play it, the original site loops are still playin, had to click blind for a bit to make that stop...not that you asked for site crit, but it makes the music sound funny
- ********0
it's not bad, however, it sounds like the other 100,000,000 electronica chill out CDs that are on the market. I guess think about throwing in some samples of some type to spice things up. I like the feel of your beats though. What are you using to create your stuff, might I ask?
- tomkat0
a bass drum, a snare drum ...
it's mostly played live, rest is sampled beats, reason / cubase sx
uups, i knew i forgot something .. click the equalizer to turn off loops....
- ********0
That's interesting. A friend of mine and I use live drums and then sample the hell out of them with an AKAI MPC2000 XL, typical rap/trip-hop hardware, but it can be used for sped up tempos like DnB. I also use Cubase SX and Reason. Reason's sampling capabilites aren't bad as well, that is once you have your sampled beat mastered and ready for resequencing. :)
- tomkat0
well thats what we use..
the studio we recorded was equipped with protools and logic6.. guitar & bass was recorded with a bassPOD..
- ********0
ok I see, if you want check out our hardware and software at http://www.machvinyl.com but this is a just a playground area for us. We develop bubbele-gum pop sound loops, because it sells, it's not our art. :)
- jox0
loose the dropdown links, forces me to download them. If you had them like regular text links, i could just drag them into my playlist! Yes, im lazy but very effective!
- tomkat0
you have reason 2.5 update ??
like it ??
- ********0
yes I have it and yes it's nice, I can tell you why. The Distortion effect modul alone is worth the upgrade. It gives you so much control of making a preset sound new. You cannot tell when making beats or importing MIDI notation or whatever you might want to do. I haven't yet figured out Vocoder module yet. :)
- tomkat0
ok .. so i will update soon, too..been too lazy lately.. :)
a friend of mine recommended the ditortion to me earlier but i wouldn't listen ..
btw:
very nice list of influences you have on ur site .. chemical brothers and colltrane in one lineup ..
that could have been me ;.)
- Hypo0
sounds good to me
- davetufts0
music crit: very very good - why not just post the entire MP3? it's good music, I'd save it, listen to it and remember your name if I had the whole mp3 - i really really liked the snippets, but they're too short to save
site crit: i too, had no idea how to turn off the loops - I turned off all my volume, loaded an MP3, and saved the source to by desktop. VERY annoying - just add a link that says 'off' (i swear I clicked the eq and nothing happened)
- tomkat0
thx..
but man .. i know i forgot to point out the 'sound off' function -- shame on me -- but it's first time i heard it's not working .. have to check that .. thx anyway
don't u hate if you have to open .flas you thought would never see again ?? :(
- ********0
there is so much you can do with Reason 2.5 even much more than 2.0. What a friend and I do, is sample drums from whatever and whomever, resequence it in whatever sequencer such as Cubase SX and then import into ReCycle! 2.0 and then export once sliced perfectly as .rx2 or .rex files and then people can re-import into Reason using it in Dr. Rex or ReDrum. RedRum let's you take each slice from the original. it's amazing!
- tomkat0
.rex is the reason we all love Reason for..
;.)
- ********0
absolutely! I will bring up my freebies we have made.
- tomkat0
there you go !
tomkat thanX JazX..
- ********0
just some fun man.... not really DnB...
- ganon0
tomkat, jazX...what software would you recommend for someone (using OSX) with little experience with constructing multitrack audio files, sampling, mainly importing audio from a sony MD?..does reason have a steep learning curve?...
thanks
- ********0
I would advise Reason 2.5 for Mac, they support it and actually I've heard it's pretty good for Mac. I would say Reason isn't that hard to learn. It's a matter of knowing how to place things underneath one another. Intuitive as hell after let's say a week or two.