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I`m really sick of programming music these days. Tracking adds more EXACT placing of stuff, but multi tracks tend to have better over all feels. FL Studio is too ... FL studio sounding... and My drum machines are broken. I was thinking about switching to cubase or logic. I got an AMD 900 with 256 megs of ram, so I am sort of skeptic about it running well on my machine. RIght now I just DONT WANT TO FUCK AROUND WITH SOFTWARE. The least amount of fighting with my computer the better. Any advice? Ableton maybe? I need a really good sequencing solution but with out all the CPU. The perfect peice of software would be a multitracker that had MOD TRACKING built in... cause there is nothing more annoying then having to keep adding new patterns and shit. Something like the FL studio playlist editor, but with a trackers style of building your patterns. |
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You might wanna try Abelton, but it sounds like you aren't inspired ATM. Peeps don't wanna recognize sometimes but flstudio can do a lot a lot a lot. Stop using the crap that comes with it. Get some samples, make your own. Just get a mic or take those old Flsamples and twist the snares into pads or bass drums into high hats. You get the idea |
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Fuck software, buy some hardware stuff and start jamming. |
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Kawai Q-80 |
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i like this one www.renoise.com |
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out of logic and cubase id say logic. i use it but i always go back to FL. like stoner says, make your own samples. thats what i do. dictaphone and a pc is my setup at the moment. |
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FL studio sounds to FL? I kick your puny breakcore ass with FL!!! |
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try renoise |
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Thanks for all the advice! No no no, don't get me wrong Flstudio is very good, everyone I know who uses it makes amazing music with it. I meant the over all SOUND of the sequencer tends to have it's trademarks. I don't know why but there is something about a song mixed only in fruityloops that sounds like it was made in FL. The few people that have surprised me with thier mixing in FL would be Blaerg and Impakt. I think I might actually go with the Kawai Q-80. I use to own an alesis mmt-8 and loved it. But there was no disk drive! And yes I think I am a little uninspired, electronic music doesn't really move me like it use to. It's all kind of crap now. |
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acid pro |
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Well if you have a drum machine, do the drum programming on the machine and then export your beats as wavs into fl. Then you don't have to deal with fl. Also try sync128 instead of 6-point hermite. I dunno how else FL could make a track 'sound' a certain way unless you compare noob trax to noob tracks. |
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I've been hot on shit for a little while now... |
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for software maybe try bidule by plogue, or audiomulch or more on the fruity style there is orion renoise has already been said but it needs a second mention for hardware, try a full on analog style midi/cv sequencer if you have the money (doepfer,etc...) |
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i'd recommend ableton Live as well. it is very easy to use out-of-the-box but it also has potential for tinkering and persnickity sample editing/cutting/pasting if you wanna go that route. if you ever used Acid Pro, the format is very similar, though ableton is waaaay better. you can reWire it really easy and running VST's on it is a cinch. Even big VST's like Reaktor or Battery or Absynth run along side, no problem. so you can get a lot of mileage out of ableton. |
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I've used Jeskola Buzz for so long I can't even remember how to use anything else. I like software though, trackers especially. I like the capability for such absolutely meticulous detail and complexity. |
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Lives simplicity is its downfall |
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What do you mean? |
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Because it's too easy and you make albums in hours? Wha? |
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futureimage; shit albums.. |
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lol, no seriously, with Live it's really easy to keep working and get good results. Everything else usually bores me (Cubase) or I get stuck in but the results aren't so good (FL). |
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You should check out EnergyXT, brilliant modular sequencer that's dirt cheap. I love it! |
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Yamaha QY100 |
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I would suggest not using a computer if your lacking inspiration. Try sequencing on something that doesn't get you to plug your notes in on a grid. |
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If you think a certain software is sticking you in a certain sound because of how it operates, diversfy. Choose your "master" platform, be it Live, Cubase, or whatever, then start creating patterns on different gear/software and importing it in. You could probably get fresh results doing a pattern on an old school 16 step sequencer, then maybe take a rip of that sequence and load it into a granular synth or something and mess with the start point, length, etc of the sample. Try mixing and matching and matching between what you have and what is available online to get more interesting results. |
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Because, you know, if it didn't take ages to make, it can't possibly be good. |
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it doesn't have to be simple. you can run Reaktor through it as a VST if you want to dry your contact lenses out mapping wacky effects. you can meticulously snip and arrange slivers of samples if you like. you can draw funky ramps and picket fences with your envelopes if that tickles your fancy. you can chain supatrigga to a delay on a send channel and to a reverb on another channel, route them to a lesley and stutter some ambience into your arse if that's what gets you hard. or you can just load up a heap of loops and hotkey them all and play your QWERTY board like you were some kinda techy beathoven dork if that's what gives you a stiffy. you can do lots of shit with Live. but the beauty is that you don't have to know how to do all that stuff to get your cherry popped. |
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Get a ZX Spectrum. |
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