AI APOCALYPSE ASSIGNMENT
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AI APOCALYPSE ASSIGNMENT
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[quote="FreethinkerInc"]
Challenge accepted and started today 
. I already used some of the sound-pack vocal for my recent release without knowing of this assignement. What a coincidence.
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Nice! Ha! Great minds
New Vocoder Techniques Tutorials
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2 new tutorials on using vocoders only for members in the Bonus Tutorials sections now... enjoy!
Rob Jones Happy Holidays Livestream Tuesday 13th Dec 18.00 GMT
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Mmmm delicious software pizzas! Easily as good as the analog versions! 
But no, it's prizes and there are 5 in total so far! With more TBC, so it's going to be properly festive with gifts galore!
AI APOCALYPSE ASSIGNMENT
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Some nice prizes in the process of being confirmed for this! They'll be announced in the livestream next week...
Rob Jones Happy Holidays Livestream Tuesday 13th Dec 18.00 GMT
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The final member stream of the year is happening on 13th Dec. Don't miss out! There'll be tips and tricks along with software prizes, news, QnA and more....
Check the Livestreams menu for the link to join.
updated by @ptmembership: 12/02/22 06:13:11PM
Andrew Weatherall and Nina Walsh Sample Pack. Thank You
General Producer Chat
You're welcome! He was a massive legend! 
updated by @ptmembership: 12/02/22 06:08:36PM
Analogue vs digital plugins
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EQ and Compression plugs are one way of achieving this, but any quality 'vintage' plugs can also emulate analogue processing. A few examples would be.... Moogerfooger pedals - very effective in applying analogue warmth whilst adding delays, phasers, filtering and so on. You'll hear the difference easily with effects like this, as they add quite a lot of extra 'fatness' to the sound, so are quite different from using Live's factory delay (the regular one, not so much Echo, which has some analogue features of its own), phaser and filter (again, the clean or regular one, as the analogue modelled ones are also pretty good!).
Soundtoys have some great effects for adding analogue touches too, with Radiator being a good example - it's just a step up from Live's saturator basically, although that does have a few different modes. Arturia's Coldfire is a great distortion effect as well, which can do the whole range of distortion - it has some subtle modes as well as full-on ones, for bulking up sounds. This is what analogue emulation plugs do essentially; they make thin, digital signals sound bigger and fatter. As such, you often need to EQ them after applying so you get rid of frequencies you don't need, like sub bass that a lot of them will add.
So yes, vintage EQs and compressors may be harder to hear in the analogue department, but almost always add nice improvements to a mix, especially as they stack up (you'll hear a lot of our tutors say it's better to have a combined result of an effects chain rather than expecting 1 or 2 plugs to do everything!). If you want more obvious effects though, you can try some of the suggestions above and stick to Live's factory effects for EQ and compression.
My Courses question
General Producer Chat
It's a good question! It's sadly not a feature at the moment, but we actually do get quite a few questions about it now, so we'll propose it to the web dpt again and see what they say.... watch this space...