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Good books on Electronic Music

General Producer Chat

The Ambient Century by Mark Prendergrast

https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/9780747542131?shipto=GB&curcode=GBP&gclid=Cj0KCQjwtsCgBhDEARIsAE7RYh0EGMfqStyVBQeXvcMKp91FpXkZhdROhDNRL2QqbRbgl2D2qhw-O_8aAlGvEALw_wcB

Great book - makes you realise ambient has been around a lot longer than Brian Eno, and that is permeates nearly all music genres!

Anyone want to make a track in 35 days?

Collaborative Space

I don't know if anyone saw but Rob's running a 7 Day Intensive Fast Track production course, where you make a track in just 7 days! bit of a challenge compared to 35 but still worth a shot i reckon 

Mini Album

Let us hear you!

Me and a few chums decided to challenge each other to write as much music in a month and present it in an album format -. I was quite pleased with my work and tried to incorporate a variety of stuff! Not at all perfect (or particularly well mixed), but fun nonetheless.

https://soundcloud.com/tamlinspeaks/sets/un-dia/s-MkJNUJy9370?si=0a53f42d284f4a92949b339d77d3fb62&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Cheers

Patience pays off - first track published by a label

Let us hear you!

Great work! I think you posted this track in the forum a while back. Banger! Glad to see it's out and poppin!

New Member Tutorial on using the latest Bass Processing Racks

Announcements

Thanks!

Looking to buy a controller

General Producer Chat

Hi all

I've been thinking about buying an Ableton Push, or Novation Launchpad or Akai MPD. I want to spend less time on the screen and more using tacticle knobs, pads etc. Just wondering what experience people have with these, and which ones you would recommend. I've had a look but want to hear testimonials. 

Thanks!

Tutorial Requests

Member Content Requests

[quote="RobJones"]

I'm obviously happy to do plenty more lessons on compression but you may also want to check out my Compression Fundamentals course as well... in a nutshell, Live's glue compression is a slightly gentler, more analogue compressor compared to Live's main one. It often gets better-sounding and more musical results. It's really great on buses as it's amazing for gentle compression that just helps knit everything together, hence the name!

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True! I'll go there first and get back to you with any more questions... peace

More bass processing racks for Ableton Live

Announcements

Nice one! Gonna try these out this evening 

Saturation

DAW or Software Questions

[quote="smillington"]

Hi - there is a great free Saturation plug in from Softube.  I used to use it all the time.  Recently Ive been playing around with hardware EQ emulations and enjoying the saturation that they give with an EQ boost (such as SSL plugins)

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Ahh yes! I actually got that for free a few years ago from somewhere - it's one of many plugins I havent got round to utilising properly yet... I'll give it a go, Thanks!

Saturation

DAW or Software Questions

[quote="HRVST"]

Output Thermal, Ableton's Stock Saturator and Saturn are going to be All Around workhorses, they can do tape saturation, tube saturation, wavefolding, and a number of other types of saturation. Some (read Not Ableton's Saturator) allow really granular control and multiband saturation which can also be great for easily applying the saturation to just specific frequency bands. Hope this helps!

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Hey, thanks for your detailed response. I've been using Ableton's for a while and i agree its great, just looking for something with a different sound. I think I;m gonna try Output Thermal and see how it goes. I've heard its particularly good for applying to drums.

Cheers again!