the reason I started producing in the first place honestly
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Been watching Icicle production vids, and he did a tute on neuro synth stabs using Vital. Downloaded Vital, made some nice sounds, made most of a tune (not Neuro)
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Can someone tell me why, when I route audio from Ableton out to an old guitar pedal, it wont turn on? But when I plug my Crave synth into it it lights up and functions as it should?
trs vs ts cable?
Hate to admit it, but I mainly use mini-jack trs cables with 1/4" adapters.
The pedal lights up only if I plug in the headphone out from the Crave, not directly from the VCA.
Edit:
Did a double take on what outputs I’ve been using, turns out I’ve been plugged into input 3-4 on the back of my audio interface thinking it was the outputs.
you typically need TS cables aka “instrument cables” for guitar pedals, the connections are wired differently than TRS. Being mini jack vs 1/4" doesn’t really matter or differentiate the two types from eachother
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You’re 100% right. Plugged in a patch cable (TS) that came with the crave and it lit up right away…
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You still need to consider line level vs Hi-Z impedance.
that always confuses me personally, I dont really ever touch weird instruments like guitars etc
like my granpa always said “if its line, im fine”
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my Moog Grandmother needs TS or the signal output is very low. It is specified in the manual. I think it’s the only synth I have that it matters, my other Moog works fine with a TRS output. 
I wonder how much “defective” stuff these gear retailers get back because of stuff like that.
It’s user error/RTFM, but specific stuff that tech support can’t be expected to know. Easier to just issue an RMA.
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as someone who works at a brick and mortar retailer like this, yeah we test everything that comes back as a warranty/repair issue before we take it in because a huge amount of the time people just don’t know how inputs/outputs work or what to connect where, didn’t flip the right switch, etc etc etc
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Whats the best plug in sampler for making hip hop beats on Logic?
never made hip hop in my life and fancy something new to get me excited again
is it really worth buying a hardware sampler or can you get the same out of your DAW?
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hardware samplers will get you “the sound” right away but it’s a pain in the ass, imo just use whatever sampler you find comfortable to use and throw a good bitcrusher VST on for some flavor. I like decimort 2
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nice one brö
know any good free hip hop drum samples lol?
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The built in sampler in logic is rly good imo, easy to load up a sample in slices and just groove it out. You don’t have to cut the sample slices yourself either you can use this transient scanning thing to automatically cut it in the sensible places
If u wanna get fancy with it you can use the mega synth/sampler alchemy which comes with logic too
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Oh cool man, I’ll have a look
Got a cool little DIY set up in my kitchen so feel like hip hop is appropriate lol
Is it just me or does it feel like you can make hip
Hip anywhere unlike other shit where I feel you need a studio
liar, I remember that amazing beat you did for your mate, best UK hiphop track I’ve heard
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Ok, twice 10 years ago and that was one of the two tracks 
I wish I still had that
I got a ton somewhere. Hmu later amd ill send some over
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