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On this thread, we like synthesisers.

I don't really take advantage of all the Daft Punk-esque sample chopping stuff; perhaps I ought to. I just like the drag and drop nature to it all and the fact it's just two screens for everything that you can flip back and forth to.
 
Karl Masks said:
All the cool kids use Ableton. I'm sure I would to if it wasn't a million quid or soemthing :D

I use Reaper. It has it's issues, but then I dont' make time to learn it, too busy writing stuff. I made a bunch of sketchpad song templates for my main synths and scribble stuff down that way.
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I would love to use Reaper purely for the reason of supporting the people who make it but when I was learning to use a DAW there were ten million ways to learn how to use and integrate Abelton into any iteration of hardware or software I cared for. Reaper? Nothing but the manual and I tend to have to read them, sleep on it for a few months and then read them again before they start to become slightly less opaque.

How you getting on AverageJoe?
 
bmd said:
Loads of people love Reaper. I was watching something the other day about some pretty big artist and they had Reaper open on a screen in the background. Did you give it a go?
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Nope. Although I see little point in learning another DAW if I don’t intend using it. Does it have any advantages over Ableton other than price?
 
bmd said:
I would love to use Reaper purely for the reason of supporting the people who make it but when I was learning to use a DAW there were ten million ways to learn how to use and integrate Abelton into any iteration of hardware or software I cared for. Reaper? Nothing but the manual and I tend to have to read them, sleep on it for a few months and then read them again before they start to become slightly less opaque.
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Ableton seems to be very popular and so is a bit of a go to, afaict.

Reaper is very customisable and flexible, apparently. You just have a bit of work up front to customise it. That is something I haven't done much of. I find the midi editor a bit of a chore. I'm sure I could learn better ways of using it but the view options and pointer can be a bit annoying. For example, if you mouse over a note to extend it you might trigger the velocity option instead and just have to fiddle with the position a bit. Also I've noticed that, sometimes, if I Select All the data on screen, it then ends up selecting all the data on every track so if i want to delete taht data I end up deleting everything. That's not intuitive!
 
bmd said:
Can you please say a bit more about what these are?
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Cadac channels. Basically a mixing desk that I use as a side car for my desk. Came out of a theatre / Lloyd Webber production.
Squaeky clean, very musical EQs, flexible routing. Using them for vox and drum stems atm, but have bigger plans for them. Need to build a patch bay to fully integrate them into my main desk.

Main Trident desk - good for drive and saturation, rock'n'roll
Cadac side - very clean, almost SSL-style

Got them for a very very good deal when a studio around the corner closed down.
 
Got a cheap, second hand Elektron Model Cycles the other week.
Really getting into it now. It’s a lot of fun
 
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Oh and I am trying to learn the other screen in Ableton. The horizontal one rather than the one with Clips. I think
klang said:
Cadac channels. Basically a mixing desk that I use as a side car for my desk. Came out of a theatre / Lloyd Webber production.
Squaeky clean, very musical EQs, flexible routing. Using them for vox and drum stems atm, but have bigger plans for them. Need to build a patch bay to fully integrate them into my main desk.

Main Trident desk - good for drive and saturation, rock'n'roll
Cadac side - very clean, almost SSL-style

Got them for a very very good deal when a studio around the corner closed down.
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I thought they looked like an SSL-style layout. So you basically send channels into them and then, what? Map each knob to whatever on the desk? Sorry if this is all a bit noob.
 
Magnus McGinty said:
Nope. Although I see little point in learning another DAW if I don’t intend using it. Does it have any advantages over Ableton other than price?
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The footprint is tiny. The price is bloody amazing and it's not Ableton. I could have googled but that's what I actually know right now. I'm sure a Reaper enthusiast will be along at some point.
 
I haven’t used Ableton but reaper is phenomenal. You can do anything you want with it. I think its flexibility is part of the daunting complexity of it. but you can just use it as a single track editor or produce and master 100 track song. It is also really light on resources. Doesn’t come bundled with fancy plug-ins but there’s 1 million companies selling those.
Magnus McGinty said:
Nope. Although I see little point in learning another DAW if I don’t intend using it. Does it have any advantages over Ableton other than price?
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xenon said:
I haven’t used Ableton but reaper is phenomenal. You can do anything you want with it. I think its flexibility is part of the daunting complexity of it. but you can just use it as a single track editor or produce and master 100 track song. It is also really light on resources. Doesn’t come bundled with fancy plug-ins but there’s 1 million companies selling those.
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The beauty of Ableton is how easy it is to use. It made sense almost immediately. Plus I have the Push to control it. I don’t see the point in learning another DAW.
 
bmd said:
So you basically send channels into them and then, what? Map each knob to whatever on the desk?
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Can be anything I want it to be. I can use them as mic or line pres straight into pro tools or I can send busses from pro tools straight into it. Or I can group channels from my main desk into it and use it for sub mixes. Or I can use it as a plug in from my desk and back into it. The possibilities are endless.
 
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klang said:
Can be anything I want it to be. I can use them as mic or line pres straight into pro tools or I can send busses from pro tools straight into it. Or I can group channels from my main desk into it and use it for sub mixes. Or I can use it as a plug in from my desk and back into it. The possibilities are endless.
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The routing stuff out of a daw and back in via hardware channel strips makes my head hurt. :D

Although I can do it a bit on my Soundcraft Signature 12mtk which is my interface, I spose.
 
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bmd said:
I like that. I left it on while I was doing something and remembered at the end that it was yours when I thought "mmmmm".
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Cheers. Needs finishing but I want to play around with the piano and massive reverb thing again. I'm still not very good on keys but a piano and huge reverb = instant moody ambience.
 
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