all joking aside, how did you make this vaporwave track? is it mainly sample-based?

you gotta ask vantage dude, I bet he used samples, vsts and stuff.

yea it should work with any daw that can read it.

I'd do a bit of digging to see if it is compatible with other daws though.

and quite honestly, that's more of a performance based midi controller. if you'd combine it with the apc40 mini/apc 40 and you'd be in pretty good shape for doing live stuff with ableton.


Though, even though it's more performance related, it still seems to be a good tool to have in the studio.

I'd personally would want a nice midi keyboard with weighted/semi weighted keys. I currently roll with an m audio 49 key midi controller and an mpd18. that literally have all i'll need to make beats with.

But considering how you'd want to control your automation, you might need more knobs and faders. I know i am good with just a few faders and always just write in my automation.

but that's a perspective you should consider

Quote from: Mussar on May 27, 2016, 07:31:33 pm

If you think your personal experience is indicative of the music industry as a whole, you're welcome to that belief.

You are the one who stated that practically everybody does this, and when I say that I have never seen this on my own behalf you come off like a know-it-all.  Well lucky me who have not encountered "practically everybody".
My experience is that the labels gamble the release cost against a percentage of rights and royalties, not lending the artist the basic cost for reimbursement later.

I'll defend mussar's perspective in sharing the knowledge that comes with understanding.

He's not a know it all, other wise his attitude might be a little different (plus you have the consider the body language context that's taken out during text)

Mussar is also studying music(and probably the business of it to some degree; either on his own in depth and at the very least in his classes), so what was given was a time and monetary investment on his part, for free.

Besides, what you're saying is true, as you may not have experienced it, but what mussar is saying is also also true (in the sense of the majority of people practicing/being in the music business).

Just trying to pass on the info, nothing persnickety about that.

I don't know about feed me, but I know madeon loves making snares, so I'm pretty certain what I said was along the lines of what he was talking about. plus he was talking about it recently on twitter and mentioned it. not to discredit what you guys said, but try what I mentioned!

I end up doing that exact same thing given the parameters for my all of my drum hits.

the point is not stacking transients with your layers. Taking that to a larger perspective, that can be applied to when you make loops and synthesizers as well.

depending on what is doing what at any given time, could translate to keeping peaks in your tracks under control.

Yeah I will definitely be doing trials, no interest in wars, just wanted a good place to start. Or maybe an opinion on which is closest to LPX workflow.

assuming LPX is logic pro X...

i'd suggest you test out reason.

logic seems to be more oriented towards manipulating audio stems rather than creating stuff with midi.

reason is pretty good now with creating, but you may have to get use to work flow.

ableton is cool, but again that's a work flow

fruity seems ok to me, but that's also work flow.

but what seems to be more aligned with logic seems to be logic....sorry i can't give more info than that.

It's ok, you just need to be focused on your job right now. and honestly, that's school.

I have first hand accounts of asian culture from a friend as well as another who have studied it, and it's not a joke when it comes to education.

I would suggest you study hard and pass how ever many tests you have left, and then after you perform well consistently, you break the news.

But i will say this, music is a distraction in place of learning if you don't have time to commit to both disciplines at once. That's especially true if your school DEMANDS that you put in a large amount of time. It's sad but true.

Until you get to a point where you can have the balance of school and music, you'll have to give up something in order to achieve something else. I have to give up music in order for me to do my home work during the school year. I am even giving up music during this summer so that i can do  self study for my next course i will hopefully take next semester.

It's tough to go from music and back to studying, i can't even do it. If i manage to do a good chunk of home work and then open up the daw, and fire up my monitors, i won't be able to any thing after that....

Keep focused and be realistic, your parents want the best from you, and education is a way to better yourself. Music is fun and stuff, but unless you want it to feed you, you're going to have to commit and work hard, and if not harder, than you would if you were to go get a degree and end up being a professional of some kind.

It's still tough, all of it. Be mindful and be aware of what your goals are and how you can accomplish them in the most easiest way possible.

cultures are diverse, that's why there's so much trouble and brilliant ideas when ever you cross two together.

interesting article though.