Another great one @ben-m ! Love those Faithless like chords :D
And @simon-unsigned ; Yeah, the guitar riff is nicked from New Sensation 
Glad you liked it, not sure there's a secret - if any, perhaps the about 50 Producertech courses I took :D
This one just kind of happened, but I also quite liked it tbh
Posting it here even if it's not really a proper 'electronic dance' track. Hope you enjoy it!
Found a small pocket of time to (hopefully) slightly improve my mix, and have updated my entry.
But wow, what a lineup once more! All bangers, and all so lovely different. Like them all, and yet again I'm very happy I'm not the one picking a winner here Well Rob should have his challenge too, right! :D
Happy 2025 :D
That's quite a journey of a track mate! Again, love your synth work. Very nice. Production also sounds very good to me.
If I should nitpick one little thing, is that I kind of miss a recurring motif to tie it all together a little more.
But great work as usual.
Right, time flies and stuff piling up for the weekend too :O So had to try and get this one done ...
Ideally should've spent some more time on percussion details and especially the acid synths - and mixing - but hey I'm totally flabbing around in the deep end here anyways, so not sure if it'll make too much of a difference :D
Anyways, I've sampled some bits from a couple of my (many) favourite 80's songs and tried to make something in the spirit of early Fatboy Slim ... hope it's not a total abomination. I called it 'Move Yourself' and here we go:
Hard at work trying to piece together something Rob! This was more difficult than I anticipated tbh ... :O
Good thing I still have a week!
Great stuff @transpire ! Really funky!
i also have the M32, which I don't like at all actually ... minilab is way better imo.
I'll make sure to try the Novation series next time I'm in a music shop that have it :D
BTW, I forgot Nektar, panorama series is really good too, but also the more expensive.
And lastly, the Roland A49 is a little bit left field here, but for the price, the key action and playability is quite good tbh. However there's really very few other controls on that one. Might be worth checking out,
Hi Paddy
I believe this is both very subjective and very budget dependent. I'm currently on a StudioLogic SL88 (hammer action) midi controller + an Arturia Minilab3. Very happy with both. However I have considered adding a 49/61 keyboard with semiweighted keys as well (more synth action, which I miss a bit since my old Roland MKB died a while back), so been looking around a bit.
I have not yet been able to try out the Novation.
I didn't really like either of the NI Kontrol A series nor the Arturia Essential series (the budget options).
I did like NI S-series, Arturia Keylab mk3 and Akai mpk series. All solid and very playable imo, but obviously more expensive. The Akai is also ripe for an update, and speaking of that, none of these (nor Novation I believe) have MPE support, and I would think it's only a matter of time before that comes to more midi controllers. Admittedly a bit too advanced for my level right now, but thinking of future proofing
Ableton Push has it, as well as the new Arturia Polybrute and the Expressive E Osmose. I've seen some vid's on MPE, and it looks really cool.
So now I consider just waiting till a good MPE midi controller drops, or buying a used Akai MPK249 (which can be had pretty cheap) to fill the gap in the meantime
