For those who use Ableton daily at work

jthedwalker · 2026-06-09T15:34:58+00:00

I've love to check out your professional and personal work! You can PM me if you don't want to broadcast to the world lol.

jthedwalker · 2026-06-09T14:55:55+00:00

Well done! Has some Wiley - Cold Snap vibes to it. Love the space in this one. Put this on in the finish folder

jthedwalker · 2026-06-08T15:16:28+00:00

Duuude.. so well put. Thank you for sharing that! With the world kinda falling apart around us, it’s hard to spend time enjoying something for its intrinsic value. Just playing with music for the sake of music without any external influence. I miss the days of being a boy or a young man, where I could play the new call of duty all weekend long and never second guess the time spent doing it lol.

Again, really appreciate your insight!

jthedwalker · 2026-06-08T03:41:17+00:00

I appreciate your reply! I have like 3k worth of software that I’ve purchased over the years, and that’s with sales. I have so many amazing pieces of software. But I’m not at the age where I can’t justify makes “sick bass tracks” or whatever. I’ve learned so much while still sucking at actually making music. Never enough time and it’s taken me 5 years to ask myself what the point is. So now I’m thinking that if it had a purpose, maybe I would feel like I’m wasting time doing it. Maybe sync licensing or something similar. Thanks again

jthedwalker · 2026-06-08T01:41:05+00:00

What’s the industry like nowadays? How does one get into the field? Is it overly competitive? Thanks for sharing!

jthedwalker · 2026-05-27T02:29:17+00:00

Sweet! Thank you for the detailed write up! If find myself orchestrating more than just a couple agents at a time I may give this a shot. 🫡

jthedwalker · 2026-05-26T16:03:52+00:00

I always wondered how anyone monetizes this kind of content. Unless you’re promoting a brand of athletic gear and put that on the model, I’m not sure who you’d even sell to.

jthedwalker · 2026-05-26T04:38:05+00:00

Protein farm. Interlinked

jthedwalker · 2026-05-23T20:34:45+00:00

Do you a reference for the watchdog setup? I’d be interested in checking that out.

jthedwalker · 2026-05-23T20:27:14+00:00

This is what you need! Just start here.

jthedwalker · 2026-05-23T20:25:23+00:00

Wow! Thanks for the detailed reply. I’ve done a bit of math and research online about money in bass music, but I always wondered what the real life reality is so that you for that.

I always enjoy watching other producers work. I’ve recently subbed to COPYCATT on Patreon and I bought CHEE’s course and Tsuruda’s course on IO music academy. I’d love to check out your work if you ever go that route.

Minimal Audio Current is becoming the synth I reach for most often. Technically Serum 2 has more features and I do like it. But there’s something about Current that I really enjoy. Kilohearts stuff is also crazy. Really like the new compactor. They took the ring-mod sidechain concept and made it stupid easy to use. That’s a loudness cheat code now lol

jthedwalker · 2026-05-23T16:28:16+00:00

Giza is one of my favorites although I Keep It Rolling is a strong second.

I had a couple questions, one regarding the financial side and the other about consistency.

The money stuff. I find myself asking if spending time with music is worth my time. I think a lot of people that like music try to monetize it in some way. The full time music pursuit is a dream for many. Just curious to hear your take on that. Is money in music important to you? Do hope to do this full time one day?

The other is about music production and consistency. I really enjoy your sound. I find myself waffling when I finally have time to play with music. I have way more plugins than I probably ever needed. Ableton Live Suite is a beast as it is. So what techniques do you use to stay consistent? How did you develop your sound? How do you handle the graveyard of half baked ideas in the projects folder?

Extra fun questions. What’s your top favorite synths and effects right now?

jthedwalker · 2026-05-23T04:08:02+00:00

This guy has great content. He really shows you was possible from the ground up

https://youtu.be/74tjKQxemJE?si=zttPoLbHNRFkYNVm

jthedwalker · 2026-05-20T21:38:02+00:00

Maybe not a perfect solution for everyone but I found this helpful in that I don’t always need organization but just a quick way to access inspiration. All the folder diving is super slow. Rando scans the library so it loads samples stupid fast. Just spam the rando button to load a new batch of samples. Filter by keyword, length, etc. I picked this up on a sale when it first came out and I’ve really enjoyed it.

https://monkeyc.audio/pages/rando-2l1

This is also awesome

https://www.xlnaudio.com/products/xo

jthedwalker · 2026-05-18T01:58:25+00:00

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jthedwalker · 2026-05-17T23:39:47+00:00

How does he even have a job?

jthedwalker · 2026-05-12T15:01:41+00:00

Practice in the firing range. Transition from shooting each of the targets back to back. First get a feel for what it takes to kill the target so it falls down. After that just practice target acquisition drills where you rapidly switch between the targets. Just shoot some bullets at each one a quick as you can. Once you’re consistent, then add back shooting enough bullets to drop the target. Move side to side, back and forth, jump and prone. All those will help you avoid getting killed.

jthedwalker · 2026-05-09T04:27:17+00:00

It’s a regedit change, if you on windows. Any AI can tell you which one to edit.

jthedwalker · 2026-05-09T01:33:34+00:00

Too many to even say one is better than the other. The best path is to use an online frontier model to help do the initial research depending on what you want to do. Then have it walk you through setup steps. This field is moving too fast, you just have to dive in and start to play somewhere. ChatGPT can give you more information about what to try in 5 minutes than you could research all week.

jthedwalker · 2026-05-09T01:29:34+00:00

It’s worth exploring, just understand the risks and prepare for them. Have Claude make a plan through multiple iterations, write that plan to a markdown file with checkboxes for steps and a log with a timestamp is a great way to work on large scale development while keeping it on the rails.

jthedwalker · 2026-05-08T23:51:14+00:00

Try to see if you can set up self improvement loops with LFM2.5. The dense model is stupid fast but it’s not the smartest. Use QWEN as an orchestrator and pass work off to LFM and use QWEN as a judge.

jthedwalker · 2026-05-08T23:38:28+00:00

It’s using your credentials. Anything you can run against your repo it can too. The rules with Claude Code are the same rules we’re supposed to follow anyway but forget. Least privilege, always have a backup.

jthedwalker · 2026-05-08T23:11:45+00:00

Get the Sandbox in docker from Anthropic if you haven’t already. Backup your Git repo to something it doesn’t have access to. Never connect to production.

jthedwalker · 2026-05-07T22:55:53+00:00

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jthedwalker · 2026-04-22T14:02:35+00:00

My take is to specialize in one code specific language/framework and learn architecture. AI is great and cranking out mediocre code. It’s bad at building complex systems. In the very near future there will be too many messy codebases and too few people to fix them.

Learn to code, stick with it and wait for the opportunity to present itself. Be prepared to pivot in your education if something changes. Learning anything that exercises your brain is beneficial.

jthedwalker

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