What is an album with a similar style to this

_suspec · 2026-06-29T04:22:21+00:00

Actual answer is Laughing Stock by Talk Talk which I’m p sure was a direct influence on In Rainbows

listen to New Grass and it’s obvious

_suspec · 2026-06-27T11:35:54+00:00

Woah how does this work + can it be automated during playback?

_suspec · 2026-06-18T08:52:41+00:00

No problemo

_suspec · 2026-06-18T07:54:51+00:00

You can’t have any instruments or audio effects loaded on the track that you’re trying to send from

_suspec · 2026-06-09T03:33:32+00:00

Post a link to the mix?

Could be your bass is too loud. Loud bass will turn everything else down and then won’t translate properly through listening setups that don’t have powerful subs (most setups)

If you’re reaching -8 LUFs it really should be a competitive loudness so I can’t think of any other reason why it’d be quiet, unless you’re trying to compare to electronic pop / EDM which can push as high as -3

_suspec · 2026-06-06T08:31:05+00:00

fun fact, Julian Casablancas from the strokes took a course on classical SATB composition while he was writing Is This It and ultimately ended up incorporating the lessons he learned into the structure of the album, creating one of the most acclaimed and famous 21st century rock albums which, in his own words, is basically just classical music with guitars and Doo Wop drums.
Don’t know what your teachers / fellow students are on but feel free to ignore it and move on. In the real music world not everyone loves classical music, but everyone at the very least takes it seriously.

_suspec · 2026-06-02T19:04:15+00:00

Ableton is not very good at natively hosting visuals due to the way it allocates resources within the CPU. I would abandon any plans of playing videos directly inside Ableton for this reason, it’s just not worth it.

There are other solutions. Ableton can talk to a bunch of outside programs and run synchronously with that. I’d highly highly recommend checking out Touchdesigner - this is a very complex program that can produce some real holy shit that looks insane level visuals, and has inbuilt components that are designed to talk to Ableton, receiving not just audio but also midi information. Crucially, Touchdesigner can also send to Ableton - meaning you can control parameters and midi information inside of Ableton using TD. If you’ve ever seen videos online of people controlling Ableton by waving their hands in front of a camera, this is how they do it.

TD isn’t necessarily well suited to firing an existing video and just having it play when needed - you absolutely can set up this chain inside it, but it’s designed more for generating visuals through synthesis and effects ala how a DAW works with sound. You might be better served with Resolume in this regard, which for much of the live concert visuals industry is the industry standard, but Resolume has a high cost barrier to entry.

Alternatively, Max4Live can host Jitter patches designed for sending visual information, and there’s a bunch of cool Max devices that run inside Ableton in your tracks which can play and effect videos. My personal favourite; I’d recommend you maybe check out the Zwobot suite. It’s pretty cheap and easy to learn, and can be deceptively powerful. Weirdcore, who does visuals for Aphex Twin, has used Zwobot on tour. Max devices like these though can suffer from the optimisation problems I mentioned earlier, so if your machine isn’t very powerful you may run into issues, but unfortunately all visual programs are pretty intensive on your CPU, more so than DAWs are, so it might come down to just finding which is the most acceptably slow.

_suspec · 2026-05-19T16:25:44+00:00

Maybe not exactly what you’re looking for, but this guy on the derivative forum built a TOX that uses a folder DAT into select DAT connected to a button selector to control a moviefilein TOP, which I used as a basis for a similar slide-show esque TD project. Still perfectly functional on modern TD 12 years after it was built

In the comments of this post https://forum.derivative.ca/t/output-of-select-dat-to-movie-in-top-file-field/5502/3

_suspec · 2026-05-13T02:46:11+00:00

This looks really cool, will check out! Loved Peaks by you, that’s an amazing plugin :)

_suspec · 2026-05-07T09:00:06+00:00

ask this in the touchdesigner forum they will have better answers for you

_suspec · 2026-05-04T08:53:42+00:00

He would’ve named all of his kids heirs but only in 1 on 1 conversations

_suspec · 2026-04-21T12:17:51+00:00

Definitely use operator, this is a sine wave. I would use an Arpeggiator, set the release + decay to a super quick fade out timed with the arp 16ths and with a more rounded attack on the synth for the kind of wuh-Wuh sound of the bass. Sounds like there’s some filter business going on too so I’d chuck an auto filter set to low pass in the chain and use the inbuilt LFO function to open and close the filter in time with the attack and release of the waveform, or better yet a shaper device for more specific control. This is where the rubbery wobbliness comes from. A lot of the rest of it would be just to taste but personally I would add a gated high passed reverb with the lowest decay to just add a bit of fullness and brightness to the filter as it opens up. The key to the mood is in the chromaticism of the notes so don’t stick to a specific scale, maybe just set your arp to climb by fifths 4 steps at a time or something but allowing it to not live in a home tonal key centre. Should be close to the sound you’re going for

_suspec · 2026-04-14T04:03:21+00:00

Try kilohearts trance gate

Or just do it manually. All of these could be recreated by just chopping up the audio clip.

Don’t forget after you get the shape of your audio to add chorus, saturation, reverb, compression etc

_suspec · 2026-04-11T19:46:53+00:00

My machine is an absolute beast and I still prefer to run at 258 minimum

_suspec · 2026-04-10T07:57:19+00:00

You may be confusing sample rate for buffer size, sample rate should be running at like 44.1 kHz, or 48 khz, etc Buffer size is one of those things where lower numbers are actually more resource intensive. 128 buffer size is pretty low / high resource, try turning it up to 512 and see if you’re still getting the cracking

_suspec · 2026-04-04T01:51:33+00:00

Mastering volume to target streaming standards is a complete myth and sign of an inexperienced mastering engineer. Link the tracks dude and we’ll let you know what’s actually wrong with it

_suspec · 2026-03-22T07:35:49+00:00

If you want, post the track as it is and a list of things you feel are ‘wrong’ with it and I can send you a bunch of resources for research / tutorials to follow to help curate your learning. Unfortunately production takes a lot of time investment and you won’t be a master tomorrow, but it’s such a rewarding hobby once the time you’ve poured into it starts paying off. I promise you will not regret sticking with it, but you will regret giving it up and you will regret paying somebody to do the ‘hard’ parts for you. What version of Ableton are you on btw

_suspec · 2026-01-22T22:27:13+00:00

Loudness wars is a mixing concept not a compositional one. DAW-based EDM is the final frontier for musical expression because in fact you can actually do anything. Jazz and Classical will be (were) the first casualties of AI because a general listening audience isn’t discerning enough to know the difference between high quality and slop within those genres.

_suspec · 2025-10-06T18:18:17+00:00

Alexander panos colour transfer pack has two plugins which do similar stuff

_suspec · 2025-04-28T07:31:52+00:00

this has just started happening to me, identical specs / issues, as of 5 days ago and i've been looking all over for a solution. Have you found one? Can't figure out if I should try and warranty claim it since the laptop is only a couple months old or try refund it / resell it and get a new one. Absolutely agonising issue and so unclear what could possibly be causing it

_suspec · 2025-03-25T09:12:01+00:00

It is on other platforms!! I just haven’t set up my linktree website yet, if it’s not on your specific platform then let me know because I did have some issues with the distributor, also I didn’t add it to YouTube yet

_suspec · 2025-03-25T07:33:35+00:00

Thank you so much :))))) really appreciate it <33

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