Thank you. Next step will be making a full track in LPX
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Quite a big fan of LPX native drum machinery, special case when mixing down in PT.
That’s is awesome to hear. What do you like about the drum machinery?
I am not too familiar with Pro Tools. How as else do you use pro tools?
The drum machinery actually has excellent classic drum machine collections and presets that sound the way drum machines do out of the box.
Pro tool is a recording and mixing software/ hardware solution with the better of clocks rendering a very solid sound with exquisite transient performance, but not really focused on production with virtual instruments out of the box, although au/vst compatible.
LPX mix and summing, although fantastic, renders towards the nasal sounding.
Somewhere between is Steinberg’s cubase with a mix down and summing that is not as transient as PT, but quite much better performant than LPX with a warmer bass and a much much much higher midi and audio tick resolution.
If you don’t mind me asking? What is your “go-to” plugin?
Massive vst. You can make any synth instrument your mind can create.
I like that one as well. I can definitely improve my sound design 😂
Haven’t really been producing anything for a while to be up to date with plugs but the native LPX instruments and fx.
You?
I am not really up to date on all the plugins. I do like Massive, Serum and all of LPX stock plugins haha.
I am a poor bedroom producer. So not much opportunity to explore the world of plugins and other equipment.
Although, the recent developments in hardware synthesizers are quite surprising given the price and quality would the music call.
Any specific one that you want?
Probably something without needing computers to reduce visual production.
Would guess a sequencer such as machine+ or/and Roland’s sh-4 and/or minikorg for vocals / vocoder as a performance setup.
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Then there is that whole music industry thing which was the reason for getting out and detoxing from the crowd addiction, being on the road and your lifestyle which is the reason for hesitation.
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Crowd addiction?
Yeah, crowd addiction.
You know that feeling when playing live for an ocean of bodies dancing in unison to every beat addiction
All the Fabfilter stuff!
Yeah that stuff looks legit!!!
Holy cow, pricier than machine+
Must be sounding pretty legit too for that price tag
I hardly ever use a different eq than ProQ3.
Eventide splitEQ in special complex cases, like uneven drumloops or poorly tracked guitars. It's "magic".
TDR nova for some smooth dynamic EQ jobs (mostly de-ess, esp. in mastering).
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Which daw with?
I'm long time cubase/nuendo user... 20 years? 🙈
But all the daws are good these days, it's just a personal preference and muscle memory.
I used to be, about twenty years ago, and back then waves bundles were the what I presume to be equivalent of fabfilters bundles.
Always adored steinbergs summing compared to LPX or Ableton which are all good for their own purposes presuming.
You record acoustic music or electronic?
Some friends tell me how good steinberg summing sounds compared to ableton or logic. All I can say is I've heard great sounding stuff mixed in logic and bad ones out of nuendo.
Yep, I get what you say about waves in the 2000s.
I'm mostly mixing and mastering. Mixing any genres except for extreme metal. Mastering anything that comes my way. Some recording too, but fading that lately because I prefer to work alone.
Oh and a few years back I started working on game sound design. Learning new stuff. It's like creating sampler instruments, with various conditions, parameters... and building "worlds" out of them.
Yeah no, totally.
Although running the same tracks (buses) through different daws does make a good reference to compare them.
There are differences for sure, but unless we are talking about some very pure acoustic music session with a few tracks, where you feel any degradation quite quickly... you're always optimizing your work so it sounds good within your daw, so...
Anyway, what is your audio history? Are you in it professionally?
Audio history of about 5 albums 2 double album complications about 300+ songs and singles, three world tours, a few movie scorers and foley and some game sound design and system intelligent audio design. Still taking on some sound design and movie game score composition when not working with system, but the touring and production work not so much anymore.
Some demos and sketches can be found in my channel:
Wow, nice. Will check it out.
Btw, I never heard of intelligent audio design, what is that?
Intelligent audio design is the process of intelligence synthesis wave shaping shaping, and sound design for contextual intelligence.