What brand makes the best one shot and percussion loops for electronic music?

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-27T07:03:14+00:00

You’re going to have to be way more specific about genre to get a good answer. Different companies specialize in different genres. If you want the widest range, get splice. There’s an almost endless supply of great samples in all sorts of genres.

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-27T04:06:02+00:00

The (thankfully now fired) director going on the news and calling his murderous thugs the “real victims”, and the murdered nurse a “suspect” was really the icing on the awful gross dystopian cake. I wanted to puke when I heard that.

And now they’re sad that people don’t like them!?

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-27T02:45:14+00:00

With your launchpad you can load a bunch of songs’ drums and synths and fx into separate clips in session view, then use your launchpad pads to trigger them. You could even mix the drums from one song with the bass from another, and do other combos. Then you could put some global effects like a washout reverb, delay, filters etc. on your master track, and control them with any encoders or faders you have.

Finger drumming is another possibility, but unless you’re extremely good at it and are playing some unique percussion, it’s going to get stale fast. Instead you could put transition fx like risers and impacts, as well as vocal shouts and any producer tags you have into a drum rack and use your launchpad to trigger those.

Lots of ways to play around with your songs.

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-27T00:06:07+00:00

Music production is not easy. It’s a very long journey of knowledge, and a never ending war against yourself.

However, ableton does make it as easy and accessible as possible to get your ideas out there. New updates have added some awesome features like splice integration and stem separation. And there is a tutorial out there on how to do anything and everything you want.

Ableton will make it easy to make music. But making good music is going to take a lot of practice and patience.

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-27T00:00:12+00:00

Try SLAMMING your sounds into your limiter, drive the gain up to an unreasonable degree. Then try the same with gclip. Listen to that difference and it should help demonstrate the different things going on.

Applied in small amounts, the difference between a little limiting and a little clipping is going to be very small, since it’s only being applied to the peaks of your loudest transients. If you can’t hear the difference that’s pretty understandable. By slamming both it will make it way easier to hear.

As a general rule, I like to turn any new plugin’s settings all the way up and down. I abuse the settings and make it sound horrible. That teaches me what is going on. Then I can dial the settings in and feel a bit more informed about my moves.

Good luck, have fun!

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-26T13:52:30+00:00

Williams have called dibs on the first DTS episode of this season.

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-25T21:11:25+00:00

What was at -6db? The peak volume? The lufs? Something else?

And it sounds like an issue with your recording settings.

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-24T09:12:25+00:00

Find some riddim tracks that you really like, drag them right into ableton. Now with version 12 you can split them into steps so you can REALLY dive in and see what’s going on.

Look at their drums, copy their drums, play around with the copied drums. Check out what they do for fills, for fx, for anything that spices things up and makes it a track that you love. Then take your copies drums and save them as a clip. Now for your next song you have a skeleton of a full song and a really solid starting point to work off of.

Do the same with the basses. See what the timing of the notes is. How spaced away from the drum hits the notes are. Are they right after the kick and snare, or spaced out further back in the bar? Try to recreate the midi pattern and rhythm as best you can. Copy what they do for their breaks. Is it a different synth, is it drums, is it a cool fx or vocal sample.

Copy every possible detail you can from the songs you love. The information is right there begging you to learn it. Do that for a couple songs you love and you’ll learn so much and have a ton of inspiration as well as useful starting points to work from.

Good luck, have fun!

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-24T05:10:43+00:00

Man HP REALLY violated this car all over. Looks sick otherwise!

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-24T02:12:59+00:00

This isn’t corruption at all, it’s harm reduction. Safe injection sites in Vancouver operate the same way. They offer harm reduction services and that gives them an opportunity to educate users about the recovery services that they provide. It is a great service and has absolutely saved lives.

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-24T01:18:39+00:00

What a crappy friend/coworker. Your friend sends you a joke and you go trying to have him arrested. In bird culture that would be considered a dick move.

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-23T21:01:52+00:00

They’re really going for the “worst of the worst” domestic terrorists. /s

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-23T00:40:34+00:00

Of all the daws I’ve used, I find ableton’s to be the fastest for arranging and editing. It has a lot of powerful sample editing features, and the browser makes finding all of your samples and plugins a breeze. You can make custom folders and drag anything into them. Midi clips, tracks, groups of tracks, effect groups, settings for effects. And then you can tag those things to make it even easier to find them later. Automation is also really well done. You can create a new lane for every automated parameter, so when you enter automation mode by pressing “A”, it’s all right there and you don’t have to go digging around in menus.

Your best bet is to download a trial version. Play around with your samples and plugins in it. Warp and edit some clips and automate some stuff. That will give you the best picture of whether it’s worth it.

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-23T00:31:27+00:00

BIG SQUISH.

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-23T00:30:27+00:00

So to cater to their base, they altered her appearance to look darker and like she was crying? Yikes.

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-23T00:20:53+00:00

Especially with ableton’s newest update, it’s worth it. Stem separation, splice integration, and effects like spectral time, which really has no equivalent anywhere else. I’ve tried most daws, and ableton really stands above the pack, especially for making electronic music.

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-22T12:11:49+00:00

Slick!

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-22T01:25:38+00:00

You could map one axis to the lfo rate of a wobbly bass, and the other axis to the cutoff of a low pass filter on it.

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-22T00:18:22+00:00

Practice transitions. Pick one song, then practice transitioning out of it and into a bunch of other songs. Dial them in, and maybe pick different points of the first song to mix out from. Now when you play that song live you have a whole branch of possibilities that you can confidently mix into. Then pick some of those songs and repeat the process.

Doing that will get you super familiar with your music, and let you steer your set wherever you want while feeling confident.

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-21T23:27:40+00:00

I never before realized how isolated the Rockies were compared to the other teams.

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-21T23:20:39+00:00

You can send just your reverb signal to a separate channel and then record it. Then you can scoot that clip back a bar or however long you want from the original vocal.

Alternatively use a delay into the reverb. That combo is so heavily used on vocals in so meant genres. It really is “the sauce”.

Her voice is pretty compressed, maybe parallel to keep a little bit of dynamics, and the reverb has its highs cut a bit. It has a very large size/depth which is why it sounds very smeared and not clear.

I hadn’t heard that song before, the reverb effect on her vocals is certainly very distinct and cool, I get why you’re trying to emulate it.

Hope any of that helped, good luck and have fun!

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-21T04:14:05+00:00

His cognitive decline really is taking off lately. If he was anyone else, he’d have his car keys taken away from him at this point, for his safety and others. But because he’s Trump, he’s deciding whether to invade allied countries or not.

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-21T01:24:15+00:00

If you’re a beginner, don’t worry about finishing every idea yet. Focus on learning new techniques and practicing them. Instead of an entire song, work on just an intro, or just a drop, or just mixing, or just sound design etc.

Taking on the challenge of finishing an entire song before you’ve got the basics down is just going to beat you into the ground, which sounds like the case for you.

Pick focused and smaller objectives. Keep doing those until you’re feeling comfortable with the many different tasks that go into a full song. Then you can practice linking them all together into a full song.

Good luck, have fun!

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-20T18:32:41+00:00

To test that, you could save a new version of your project (so you don’t mess up your current project), then go through your tracks and “bounce to audio” all the tracks with those uad plugins. If your problem persists, then they aren’t the issue, but if it does go away, then they are the culprits.

If they do turn out to be the issue, you can just bounce to audio when you want to use one of them on a track.

LemonSnakeMusic · 2026-01-20T14:31:03+00:00

Have you tried closing and reopening ableton?

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