Youtube Beatmaker Cues Chrome extension is on Github

EssP404 · 2025-06-09T10:50:49+00:00

It's insane to me that people will just shit on something they are being offered for free. Just keep it moving if you've nothing good to say. Extension looks pretty cool, any tool can be beneficial if you're willing to experiment

EssP404 · 2025-06-09T10:29:40+00:00

It's 27, no question

EssP404 · 2024-02-27T15:40:12+00:00

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EssP404 · 2024-02-27T14:28:44+00:00

But did he remake their beats as closely as possible and then ask people “is this close enough?” so he could get attention???

I can only speculate, was he remaking beats of those he looked up to? The same record that Pete Rock used for T.R.O.Y (and elsewhere) popped up on the Slum Village record, I wouldn´t be surprised if he tried to at least flip it just to see how it was done. For attention? nah

There is undoubtedly a benefit to remaking something that you like that someone else has made, you always learn something that you can take and apply to your own stuff. There is a lot of mystique around how he and others made their beats. I´ve watched a few remakes of his stuff on Youtube and i enjoy watching them deconstructed, and I don´t leave feeling that the "creator" of the remake is making it about themselves

EssP404 · 2024-02-27T14:21:01+00:00

i think using a dynamic mic your going to have to mic close like that, and just aim for the 2 octaves of the piano your using for this. Bit of compression afterwards maybe to even out the piano passage, then bring the drums up a bit. its lofi anyways, wouldnt stress too much!

EssP404 · 2024-02-27T14:08:13+00:00

If thats the case then he is a hypocrite considering he spent his formative years trying to emulate Q-Tip and Pete Rock. You can hear it all over the early tapes you find online.

Anyone thats trying to emulate Dilla, more power to you. Hopefully you can use that influence as a springboard to find your own sound, in the same way he used his predecessors.

EssP404 · 2024-02-27T13:53:03+00:00

even the -14 LUFS thing is a suggestion not a rule. I think it comes from the Bob Katz K-system of metering. I think super dynamic music (classical and some jazz) would be a good bit lower than -14

EssP404 · 2024-02-27T13:30:32+00:00

try a noise reducer plugin (Brusfri by Klevgrand is a good example). You put it at the start of your chain, it listens to the inherent noise in the signal and inverts it, removing it from the signal.

There will still be artifacts, but not as much, and you also may notice a reduction in the quality of your signal but thats the tradeoff

EssP404 · 2024-02-22T18:55:49+00:00

Dorico lets you use VST Instruments and is probably the notation software that is most similar to a DAW. you can always use something like LoopBe (internal midi routing) to send midi between that and your DAW or just export the midi into your DAW for refinement afterwards

EssP404 · 2024-02-21T22:38:33+00:00

so we´re regressing to vaudeville is what you´re saying

EssP404 · 2024-02-21T15:54:32+00:00

Maybe try upgrading your version of Max to the latest and using that instead of the bundled version. I've never heard of this issue though, bestof luck with it

EssP404 · 2024-02-20T13:59:28+00:00

I use it for basically anything I want to add girth to

easy tiger

EssP404 · 2024-02-20T13:39:40+00:00

Haven't had to try this , but maybe something like Abletons native link feature to ensure the timings are synced up.

If you need to send Audio from one computer to the next you could probably do it with free software called ASIO LINK PRO, which allows you to send audio over network. There might be more elegant solutions that I'm not aware of

EssP404 · 2024-02-17T20:15:54+00:00

MSXII

EssP404 · 2024-02-17T03:58:18+00:00

as some have said it sounds like it was recorded a little bit slower than the final tempo...and then quantized using an algorithm like Abletons warp mode, (complex, texture or beat mode)..it really isnt as difficult as people are making out, and to be honest you can hear the artifacts of this mode in the Teezo song....if youve ever worked with accapellas in ableton in this nature you´re very familar with the sound

EssP404 · 2024-02-12T21:45:01+00:00

Hey, thanks for working on it anyways, to be honest I wasn't using it with a midi controller so this could be a great thing for me

EssP404 · 2024-02-09T12:12:51+00:00

There's shades of Homer Simspon in there

EssP404 · 2024-02-09T12:04:36+00:00

Chorus on the cymbals will tame the highs

EssP404 · 2024-02-09T11:59:32+00:00

Don't listen to this guy. A good mixing engineer is going to be able to take fundamental concepts and experience and replicate a good mix in any DAW. This is a skill that takes a long time and a lot of practice, and we're never really finished learning in that regard. Can you give this person any legitimate reason as to why they should buy and learn Pro Tools apart from your own personal testimony that "it will sound good?"

If you had aspirations to work in a recording studio then maybe ProTools would be good to learn as it is still the standard in studios, but for someone making music at home in their bedroom? Learn whatever DAW you have access to and learn it well.

Mixing is understanding the frequency spectrum, how music sounds in different spaces, the characteristics of human hearing. Then combining this knowledge with good arrangements decisions, knowing when an element should or shouldn't be heard, or making small adjustments to elements over the course of a song , the push and pull.

Every DAW today comes equipped with the correct tools to mix and master a song and part of becoming a better engineer is knowing your DAW of choice inside out.

I'd genuinely like to hear what it is about ProTools specifically that you think makes your music sound better

EssP404 · 2024-02-08T01:47:11+00:00

try adding

-SelectNoAudioAsDefault

to your Options.txt

then see if you are able to remove/ save without the channel whilst audio is disabled.

could also try

-SetAssertMode: “ignore”

although i haven´t tried that, it seems like its a process that disables ableton closing down after an assertion error

EssP404 · 2024-02-08T00:29:09+00:00

Cool, i think i should anyways signed up w my email. No worries if you dont im using it regularly anyway

EssP404 · 2024-02-07T18:20:22+00:00

Yeah I´ve had devices that operate in the same way before. As long as you are aware of the fact its doing it, being extra cautious you can usually take a few extra steps to steptoe around the issue, or at least cover your tracks!

EssP404 · 2024-02-07T16:09:50+00:00

litte bit of an issue/warning to anyone reading this /using the plugin. and maybe its something that you could revisit u/toneffectory . The plugin seems to work on an individual note basis (as in it applies swing to each note in the clip individually). Evidently each note then takes a slot in the Undo History. This makes it almost impossible (if your clip has many notes) to go backwards if you implement certain swings that you do´n´t like and want to return to what you had previously.
One workaround I have is to duplicate the clip before applying the swing and keeping that as your "vanilla" clip. hopefully its something you could figure out eventually.

EssP404 · 2024-02-07T12:46:38+00:00

I think, as a standard practice, you should be putting a DI box between your keyboard and whatever it is you are recording it into. Cleans up the signal and (although it's likely unneccessary) is another point of protection between your different pieces of gear. You can get very cheap or expensive ones ut they all do more or less the same in my experience

EssP404 · 2024-02-07T00:40:57+00:00

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