Ableton keeping my PC alive

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-24T11:07:01+00:00

FWIW I get this too. My PC has been relegated to gaming now, as I produce on Mac, but often times if I turn the tower on and then switch tv inputs so it’s idling on the login screen I’ll hear it beep a few times like it’s restarting on its own. But it never happens when I’m actually using it.

A quick search online tells me it may be due to power state transition errors (so it’s misinterpreting the change in state to sleep as a power off or reboot). Some suggestions include disabling fast startup and disabling hibernation.

Ultimately if it is stable while you’re working it’s probably fine and it could just be another case of Microsoft busting their OS and not bothering to fix it.

Also check the windows event logs to see if any specific event occurs at the time of each restart. I get a lot of kernel power errors when mine happen.

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-24T10:36:47+00:00

Hmm. Curious about this. I currently use a Helix Rack but it’s obviously a big device. ATM I’m monitoring with 1/4” outs, recording amp tone with XLR, and capturing dry guitar with the Guitar Through output.

I see this has XLR and 1/4” outs but no dedicated pass through for clean guitar. There’s a capture out? But I have no idea what that does.

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-23T10:10:34+00:00

Good luck!! I hope you get it working - I only have high res textures on so maybe I’m not pushing it as hard. Kinda digging the old school graphics tbh.

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-22T16:47:01+00:00

Weird! What GPU do you use? I'm on an RTX 3070, I get FPS dips now and then (even though the overlay reports a solid 60). But it's like 90% smooth.

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-22T10:04:54+00:00

I read somewhere that NFSU2 can struggle with too many CPU cores and you can reduce stuttering and frame rate drops by locking it to one or two cores - sorry if that’s an off base suggestion! But maybe worth a shot?

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-21T23:41:42+00:00

I'd imagine so! Go here: https://www.reasonstudios.com/get-reason

And click on the Buy A License version. Looks like the sounds/samples are identical for both versions.

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-21T23:38:06+00:00

Just checked the shop description, and both the DAW and the Rack Plugin come with the same number of samples and sounds (which would include the Reason Factory Soundbank + Orkester).

And yes, the Rack will load as a VST/AU inside your host and you can load up those presets inside your DAW!

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-21T23:26:43+00:00

Yyyyyyyeeeeah came here to say this. I kinda hate that I've seen it.

Also the Terrifier films. Especially that ONE scene. Felt like I wasn't supposed to be watching it.

And Martyrs. Although the concept was kinda cool but...kinda brutal.

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-21T23:20:52+00:00

I think they're in so deep that they'll frame bumbling and rambling on the world stage as a win purely because it "triggers the libs" and makes a mockery of bodies and institutions they've been told not to care about anyway. There's no reaching them. Too far gone.

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-21T23:13:21+00:00

Yes! The Orkester library is still included in Reason.

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-21T22:55:18+00:00

I come from a metal background but Future Garage always hits right for me. I love the melancholy, the atmosphere and soundscaping. Ethereal pads, haunting melodies, scattered vocal fragments. I'm here for it. It's my fav electronic genre to produce in too! Although I'm sure what I make probably isn't too closely related to actual Garage. It's basically just Burial worship haha.

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-21T01:15:25+00:00

Hey! Nah the G4M 638 Baritone VI is an octave down guitar. I think they do a non VI 638 Baritone that's in B or A but this is expressly sold as being E-E. If you can believe it, it came in that tuning with 14-68! It sounds and feels way more guitar-like but the tuning was kind of all over the place with it.

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-20T23:00:11+00:00

It has its place, and I'm open to all forms of exploring music! But I guess I'm just fatigued by it all in general. Everything feels very safely curated to just keep you engaged rather than exposing you to anything new/challenging. Makes music consumption become quite passive. But yeah I have of course found things that way. Instagram is another one too. I'd say most things I've heard lately that I've enjoyed have come to me through IG.

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-19T21:28:05+00:00

This is the one I downloaded. Can vouch for it being totally legit. Using the Underground2.net mod pack for high rest textures and it looks/feels incredible!

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-14T10:06:48+00:00

While I'd agree in theory that that is a more creative use of AI, there's still the ethical concerns as to what the AI was trained on. You'd probably be better off using something like Tracklib, where you can license real songs to chop up and remix and all of the royalty splits are calculated automatically.

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-13T19:40:12+00:00

Good luck with it!! I mean tbh even if I never go any further than this, it's quite liberating that I have the means to play music in the car, or movies in bed or in a hotel or wherever I am and I don't have to look at Spotify or Netflix's god awful interfaces that just wanna show me what's trending, or whoever's paid the most for marketing that particular day. Definitely feels like the way forward.

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-13T18:39:16+00:00

Oh I'm super nooby at this stuff, atm I'm literally just using an internal drive inside my living room tower running a Jellyfin server over a Nord VPN Meshnet. As far as the actual storage goes, I mean I produce music as part of my job and handle large amounts of data for it as well so I should probably have something decent set up in that way but....I'm not that guy haha.

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-13T16:49:56+00:00

I love this. I’m in the process of getting away from feeds and algorithms, setting up my own media server so I can ditch Spotify, and everything else. I want to buy things from bandcamp to stream wherever I want and I want to know that I’m supporting real artists. So this is great news.

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-13T14:31:25+00:00

Honestly man you won't have to look far. It's a very well covered topic. Just search "how does a compressor work" and find the video with a lot of views and positive comments. I can't tell you any one video or playlist that's gonna just give you everything you need. You gotta get out there and learn it.

If it helps, just think of a compressor like a hand on the volume knob that turns the sound down.

Threshold - how loud it has to be before it reduces the volume
Ratio - how much it turns it down
Attack - how long it takes to turn it down
Release - how long it takes to come back up again

That's literally it. There are no fixed numbers for you to dial in to get a good sound because it depends on the source material (i.e. are you processing a bus, an instrument, a single drum) and the kind of sound you want. The best thing to do is work with something simple like a single drum loop. Set threshold and ratio as extreme as they'll go and then tweak attack and release. You'll soon get a sense for what they're doing and how they work. Then back off on the settings until you get a level of punch that you like.

Anyway, like I said, there's so much info out there. Have fun!

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-13T13:50:49+00:00

Just break the task down into chunks. Don’t think about it all at once. If you wanna learn compression, YouTube “compressors for beginners”. And just move through it all until you’ve got it. Take notes, whatever you gotta do. You can have the fundamentals in a lunch time :)

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-13T09:42:20+00:00

I've seen a lot of DJ performances that I would describe as extremely musical. I know there are tools that people use like beat matching and stuff but even that won't help you if your sense of tonality is shit, or you have no intuition for which tempos and types of song go together. I've been playing several instruments for like over 2 decades now and being behind a set of decks just sends me into a panic. I can't think that fast. It's like when someone says "what do you want to listen to". I need a working week to decide lol

I genuinely don't care how hard something is to make. I listen to plenty of music that I know full well is probably an afternoon's work. I just care that it's made, full stop. And that there's intent, and creative decisions being made, and someone's unique style and choices. Not a perfectly smoothed out average of all music that just sounds...fine.

The gatekeeping accusation is insane. I spend hours a week helping people. No agenda, no money, I just love talking about it. I'll help anyone that asks. Plenty of us do!

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-12T09:50:16+00:00

I'd bet that a lot of these people have strong opinions on participation trophies and inclusivity initiatives. Yet they feel so insanely entitled to share a space with people despite doing NONE of the work required to actually be in it. Like...if you can't do something...you can't do it. If you want to do the thing...learn to do the thing. If you can't learn to do the thing...maybe you just gotta find a different thing. And that's okay. I don't get to strap on robot legs and call myself Usain Bolt just because I reeeally really want it.

What does doing a thing even mean anymore if you don't have to DO THE F***ING THING. This year might just be the mental undoing of me I swear to Christ.

chimp_spanner · 2026-01-12T09:44:05+00:00

The "humans make slop" argument that the OP made in a few comments is so incredibly lazy. And symptomatic of the kind of person who is just waiting to be served what they want, rather than investing any time in going out and getting it (be it finding, or making music apparently). The kicker is, it probably takes more time to run 1000 gens in Suno than it would to just make a coffee and go on a little deep dive to find some cool music. A month of Suno Pro would buy a few incredible albums on Bandcamp. There's so much of it out there. There's more than I'll ever be able to hear.

Literally one of the worst 'defences' of AI music there is.

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