Thanking you. Granular synthesis has always been a fave of mine too, but i have to admit i never really got to grips with how it worked - just played around. So this will help me hugely. Will watch later today!
Depending on what you want to do, and accepting that generally, you can do everything on one DAW that you can do another - that being said, having used FL extensively for years, then switching to Ableton, that Ableton is infinitely better than FL in a plethora of ways. Namely;
Recording - far easier and actually better monitoring I'd say
Creativity - workflow is supposedly easier on FL but once you get your head round drum racks and such on Ableton, you have far more flexibility
Max for Live - insane amount of amazing stuff
Stock - Ableton's stock plugins are often as good as third party ones - FL not so much.
Collaborating - even if your using the same DAW as your collaborator, its useless if they're using loads of plugins that you don't have. I'm unsure if FL has it but Ableton's freeze feature gets you round this pretty handily - as long as you're accepting you can't change anything on said tracks
Nice - excited for Granulator 3 after watching your new Ableton 12 preview vid. I've always loved that synth - it and Paulstretch are the gods of ambient music.
Sometimes I will write a nice little piano melody, then stick it in a granulator and extended it as much as possible - and you have Brian Eno-eqsue ambient track almost instantly.
Super fun genere to make, especially if you like meditating like me, and want to create custom soundscapes for yourself. 
Hardstyle and Big Room have always fascinated me as they seems to be huge in Europe & The US, but not in my native UK - I feel like i'd be hard pressed to find a venue or festival that plays exclusively that stuff so I'm quite unfamiliar to it. Is this referring to Martin garrix and Avicii? Or something else?
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Ah nice
Found a nice version of God Rest ye merry Gentlemen which I'll try to butcher..
See you on the other side!
[/quote] Hahaha cannot wait to hear that one! maybe I should try a Christmas carol instead. Not long now till Xmas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6yRb-sDf9s Rob's just posted a new vid with a sneak peak!
[quote="manixdj"] Think I found the answer, it was an LFO that was linked to the filter and using a square wave to oscillate the filter, hence the reason for the on/off nature of the High Pass…..I think!! Seems to have cured it, though I am not 100% sure I fully understand how that works…so want to try and get my head around it for my own understanding. If I do, I will share! [/quote]
Ah, glad you found the culprit. If it was Square LFO, that might explain why its so harsh - perhaps change the LFO shape to a sine, so its much smoother?
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Yes! That's awesome Samuel, so glad you've got the ball rolling. I most definitely believe this way of deconstruction/analysis has an added value, at least for some of us, the analytical types with brains working a certain way ("Programmers Do It On Command!", "Programmers do it with pointers" etc.).
Your BPM indication for Jungle at 75-85, goes a little over my head since I thought the Jungle "standard" was approx. double that (>=140 BPM), I have tried to educate myself by reading the somewhat related Reddit discussion "Dubstep - 140 or 70 bpm?" [link] but it still is a bit cloudy for me, that wonderful reference track that you mention (Euphoric intro [Special Request - Pull Up (Tim Reaper Remix)]) I simply can't imagine to be < 140 BPM (it turns out to be 165BPM) but I understand you just want to highlight the euphoric intro of this track; Goldie's track is 163 BPM. I feel a bit stupid when I see Sully - Swandive (YT comment: "Which 3 chumps disliked this absolute banger, ffs!") is a surprising 112 BPM, so I take it some parts were on 1/32 grids or higher (?). Anyway, me being too noob for not getting the bpm trickery is not the topic!
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Hey no worries! My specificity about BPM comes from my days as a DJ - almost always, if I analysed my tracks before playing, jungle tracks would always be at a halftime BPM, ie at 80BPM, instead of 160 BPM. Same with dubstep - would always be 70BPM, instead of 140. So to me, they're essentially the same thing, depending on how you count the beats (not very scientific I know!). Jungle and Dubstep tracks seem to be discussed often at the halftime BPM - not sure why, some kind of subcultural trait!
Glad you like the bangers! Swandive is definitely in the 80/160 range, but the proliferation of snares often confuses BPM counters, so only trust your ears 
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Thanks Samuel,
I recently watched a 10 hour course on YouTube solely about compression - yes, 10 hours!
Here's the link, if you're interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksJRgK3viMc&t=11s
At least I understand it better now, so hopefully this will help in future mixes
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Nice - thanks for sending it over. Not sure if you knew but there's a couple courses on PT that cover comp if you need any extra advice: https://www.producertech.com/search?sSearch=compression
Yes, it's a difficult thign, but I find the more you do it, the more natural it becomes, like most things.
Good luck!
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Ding dong, bring it on!
Looking forwards to getting on that vibe and hearing everyone else's versions as well..
@SamuelClouston - maybe both?
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Me too - I'm thinking of doing Last Christmas, always been my fav tune. What are you thinking?
