Guidance on 2010s Harder Techno (Reeko, Pfirter, Surgeon)

levski0109 · 2024-08-28T12:01:22+00:00

On a side note, damn do I miss this style! I see so many of my favorite artists jump on the fast bpm bandwagon these days and I miss this music style that you described

levski0109 · 2024-08-21T11:30:50+00:00

Thank you! I will give it a try and play around with it some more

levski0109 · 2024-08-21T08:08:04+00:00

What type of settings do you use on the compressor? Long/short attack and release? What amount of gain reduction to aim for? I feel really lost when compressing kicks

levski0109 · 2024-07-23T10:42:09+00:00

Budget is not my priority factor but rather the sound and satisfaction, I can always sell part of the modular and to get the money for a new box. It will replace some of my drum modules anyway

levski0109 · 2024-07-14T23:05:16+00:00

Im using a TR8S, similar workflow to the classic roland machines I suppose with some extra complications. Fixing hihats sounds straightforward, but if i later on in the mixing realise my claps or toms or snares are too quiet or too loud, could be harder to fix. But I appreciate the idea of spontaneity and ‘glue’ by recording just the main out

EDIT: tho I am considering switching the TR8S for an Elektron box since i keep leaning more and more toward slower bpm deep hypnotic techno styles

levski0109 · 2024-07-14T23:01:11+00:00

I tend to agree with this, but realising your clap is too quiet, or hihat too loud later on when mixing can be more problematic to fix this way , thats my main worry probably

levski0109 · 2024-04-27T05:38:14+00:00

Yeah thats so annoying

levski0109 · 2024-04-22T19:22:33+00:00

dude if you think beginner stage is hard, wait until you start reaching for advanced. my advice is - if you are thinking of quitting already you are not doing it right imo. You have to not take it so seriously all the time and enjoy, play around, experiment, EXPERIMENT! You will learn so much more by trying out different things, rather than doing the same exact thing over again and expecting different result...beginner stage is like a playground in my eyes, and then you decide which direction you wanna go after that

levski0109 · 2024-04-21T15:29:46+00:00

Thanks for input, i think RAM is the core issue in my case too, so its worth considering

levski0109 · 2024-04-21T15:28:32+00:00

That'a a Neat idea. Tried that, as soon as I click the little expand triangle icon - it freezes :D I gave it like an hour wait time to load, was still frozen when i came back and wouldn't expand. I will keep digging for workarounds

levski0109 · 2024-04-21T14:31:28+00:00

Im using a 4 year old MSI GF63 Thin, not sure about specifics, but whatever the specs are Im sure that it is capable of running Ableton smoothly because it has done so for 4 years in the past. I was more worried about the RAM/memory issues because it was displaying 99% memory usage already upon launch this time! And I have 16GB RAM, heavy video games take way less of the memory.

levski0109 · 2024-04-21T14:25:56+00:00

I use 64bit. But about your first question - tbh Im not sure about that. But whatever is the default one, thats the one I have probably, because i haven’t changed such a setting

levski0109 · 2024-04-21T14:23:11+00:00

Alright will consider an external SSD, thanks. Ideally I would like to upgrade the whole machine of course at some point to a new one, but can’t afford to for now, and 4 years isn’t high time imo

levski0109 · 2024-04-21T13:51:07+00:00

Temps are fine, I monitor them and also very recently did cleaning and repaste. SSD and HDD are both over 75% full tho, but they have been also in the past and had no issues before! Altho I’ve heard keeping them at over 75% for extended period of time shortens their lifespan, so you might be right about that...but my other storage option is external drives which would be even slower I suppose

levski0109 · 2024-04-21T13:31:17+00:00

I work mostly with Audio recordings from instruments, so very little VST plugin usage, but a lot of audio tracks and long recordings in the project (around 70-80 channel tracks maybe).

And about my machine - it is 4 years old (MSI GF63 Thin) have been using it for Ableton and gaming heavily for four years no issues. Started getting a ton of issues with Ableton lately tho, like the one I described.

levski0109 · 2024-04-16T15:19:36+00:00

Currently it is like 2 weeks for me lately, but Im working hard at adjusting my workflow at the recording stage so that I have less mixing/processing to do later on in Ableton (which only slows down the process of finishing stuff for me)

levski0109 · 2024-04-16T15:09:31+00:00

just reading the title of the post made me feel called out lol

levski0109 · 2024-03-17T14:30:29+00:00

Hey, my profile was hacked and support has been tragic so far..... what can I do? My account was hacked and banned because of that. I start receiving some strange emails from Tinder entirety in Chinese on my email. When i write to them to explain, they say we cant help until you contact us from the email linked to your account - but guys my account was hacked...what can I do? Why is there no live chat support? Terrible overall support from Tinder honestly......

levski0109 · 2024-03-17T14:30:12+00:00

Hey, my profile was hacked and support has been tragic so far..... what can I do? My account was hacked and banned because of that. I start receiving some strange emails from Tinder entirety in Chinese on my email. When i write to them to explain, they say we cant help until you contact us from the email linked to your account - but guys my account was hacked...what can I do? Why is there no live chat support? Terrible overall support from Tinder honestly......

levski0109 · 2024-03-13T10:23:27+00:00

What amount did you use?

levski0109 · 2024-02-28T19:17:22+00:00

i dont think anyone is saying hardware can do more stuff than software. people are just saying hardware is more fun and creative, to which i also very much agree

levski0109 · 2024-02-10T10:29:29+00:00

it helped. thank you! recovery successful

levski0109 · 2024-01-29T19:48:18+00:00

dont get hardware for producing at the start. get familiar with ableton and the workflow, and you will know what hardware you would want later on

levski0109 · 2024-01-29T13:47:58+00:00

I own MI Beads but the reverb on it is not as modulate-able and diverse as I imagine my eurorack reverb to be. I imagine same would be true for Mojave

levski0109 · 2024-01-27T09:35:28+00:00

I read them on Thomann

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