Very glitchy in some point. I very like it !

Yeah, towards the beginning, for sure!

Mick is a god.

Just bounce your synth dry first - it'll free up resources + give you one last opportunity to mangle the sound before applying the final FX. When you're ready to finalize the sound, re-bounce the entire chain; FX and all.

Harmonic and melodic minor scales are your friend if you want to sound like the classic Armada trance guys.

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to follow up with the promised YouTube tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmSeyFZ6Rms

I just uploaded it, so it's probably only viewable at 360p. Give it a bit to fully process the 1080p version.

Thanks, and let me know if you have any additional questions!

Would like that idea? Do you think this might ever succeed? Or does "limited" mean just "modern" and it's here to stay?

I would like that idea. I can't help but think how much we (general society) are damaging our ears on a daily basis because of increased volumes. It only takes a single subway ride to hear people blasting tunes into their skulls from point blank range using their iPod earbuds.

Do I think this might ever succeed? Probably not. It would require all syndications to get together, establish this new metering standard, educate their clients about it, and then have it implemented. That sounds like way too much work when the status quo is too easy to maintain. I reckon music syndications like radio have limited budgets, and to allocate billable hours to something like this simply wouldn't fly from an upper management financial perspective.

I think limiting is here to stay. People seem to love that wall of sound because it is exciting. A perfect quality of music from a production standpoint seems to be an elusive, never ending summit that we all work towards. Unfortunately, mass listeners hardly give a shit about this (more or less) and appreciate loud and exciting earworms, even at terrible sub-128kbps broadcasting standards.

A super small utility called FlicFlac.

http://www.sector-seven.net/software/flicflac

If there's one thing I've learnt about making music it's not the sound design or the music or the marketting, its about the idea of what it means to be a human being. I was lucky to grow up in a culture of self assessment and questioning the world around you, which is being lost right now. My favourite music growing up was grunge, and grunge wasn't about being depressed, or hating the world, it was about taking a step back and questioning and learning about the world around you, not because you have to, but because you WANT to.

The more you learn as a person the more you will learn as a human and therefore as an artist, the rest doesn't matter.

Making music is, in a way, an ability that allows us to transcend past this fleshy shell that we are encased in. I think you're alluding to translating your thoughts and concentrating them into sounds that are synonymous with the person you are at that moment in time.

A bit too philosophical for me, but I get what you're saying.