Yeah comes of badly, but if you find yourself in a session tracking drums
and guitars for example. Say 14 mics. You want Pro Tools on your side
All in all it really depends what iām doing as they are all good at different things, Ableton I find good for manipulation of sound and effects etc Logic for composing and arranging and synths and Pro tools for tracking and mixing.
Itās all subjective at the end of the day some absolute tunes have been produced on really early crappy software.
interesting man. iām in the exact opposite boat - been sitting on ableton for almost 3 years now and iāve grown further and further from production. i find that session view is kind of a ātrapā in that itās very easy to get cool little 2-8 bar loops going, but i always get lazy or stuck when trying to translate or expand that to actual tunes in arrangement view. i often end up creating upwards of 5 or 6 āsong ideasā in one project file and just making a mess but never making any progress on a legit tune. i feel like logic will force me to stay more focused.
Iām getting a new laptop soon and planning to do the opposite - keep logic (I have 9) but donāt download live, at least not for now. To be fair, part of the reason iāve grown stale with production is because my laptop is very slow (hence, the new laptop). It takes like 1-2 mins for a drum rack to load for example. completely ruins your workflow. but iāve been planning to learn logic for a while, partly because some people i want to collab with use logic but also because logic comes with waaaaaaay more samples and iām awful at spotting good samples, especially vocal samples. itās easy to find really EDM-y vox like ātrap chantsā but finding vox that work in this kinda music is something iām just awful at, and logic seems to come with some vox that are actually usable.
I feel like Iām asking a lot of fl studio recording 10 line level inputs of synths and drum machines lolā¦itās a little trooper though! lol
i used to make beats primarily in fl studio and then just import them into logic or ableton but now i just use fl studio, i mean it has a nice interface and i can do the same things in fl. bloody hell even skream, one of the biggest names of dubstep made some of the best tracks in fl studio. at the end of the day as long as you donāt call yourself a serious producer because you used garageband in a music lesson at school, youāre good to go.
cubase, reason, logic, ableton, fl studio, sony acid are all great.
Huh, Iām surprised there arenāt more reason users considering this is dubstepforum lol.
I did try and do it, but I got this:
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I tried to as well, I canāt either. Would need to start a new one.
caitlyn_bubonic?
Where is dubsturbo? ffs [edit: i see this has been brought up already, sort it out]
I use ableton and maschine, mostly ableton
I only ise protools at the studio Iām currently placed at or at uni. Here we have prism ada 8xrs. At uni its 192s. I donāt wanna use native ptools cos its crap and I tend to use loads of effects and tracks ahahahah
Yeah for large sessions you need PT HD(x). As long as you donāt record through
a lot of plugins on native, it can handle quite a lot though. Itās really only
about DSP power and latency isnāt it?
In mixing you can find ways around missing the DSP power. I generally keep everything
to a minimum anyway. Mixed some big sessions on my macbook actually.
*edit: by native I mean just using the computer, not the HD Native system.
repping the fl studio demo
Not saying its not doable! I just have a piece of shit computer and donāt have th money for a Mac book as well which is basically a huge set back.
seems like this thread has a lot of ableton users. Just wanted to know how do you avoid clipping whenever you resample a track? plus, is there any techniques that you can do in ableton alone that can widen up your stereo field? Im kinda stuck using OzoneIzotope to do the trick but its not enough.
With stereo width everything is relative. Iāve heard mono recording that strangely sound sort of wide. Instead of smearing everything around with stereo imagers why not start the stereo field small in the track and then automate you panned elements to go wider (using pan) after the drop or in the chorus. Its the change Iām stereo that people seem to notice most. Also Iām not slating stereo imagers but I would only use it on one or two track or subtly on the master
i do but i dont recommend it
Also Iām not slating stereo imagers
IMO, they do suck.
Haas-effect (sample delay) + M/S EQ > any shitty one knob stereo imager.
they have a use. mainly for making things mono though rather than the other way around. like i like to mono the low end on a sample im using if its in stereo because it helps tighten the low end up a bit.
I do that too, but usually by using eq, since you can get sharper cuts that way. Iāve noticed many stereo imagers are designed to be really transparent, so itās always like using 6db/oct highpass filter.
try using fewer stereo tracksā¦I make a lot of stuff mono these days and work on getting the static panning correct. when I track my synths I usually track one w a nice reverb and one w a nice delay-- in mono. I find I get a nice steer field this way.