Not really man, I thought I recalled hearing a strong reason against using midi for subs before. Something to do with some technical shit regarding clocks and phase issues so I was putting this out there to see what anyone had to say about it. I also get differing transients on it in Massive sometim...

Personally, I've been doing all my "chunky" drums as audio for a long time and I just tried to change that last night as an experiment. Did not dig. Auxiliary percussion/clicks/etc makes sense in midi to me. But when it comes to 808 style - trap type of kicks that I designed myself, I have...

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I've had this happen before... the part about the presets sounding like garbled bullshit for some reason once you reload the project. What I did in Ableton was to simply highlight the track that the problem synth was located on, duplicate it, then delete the old one. Now the new track plays the sett...

utility is a bit of a bitch cause you can't use it to completely mute a channel. I made a really simple audio effect rack which consists of another effect rack in it, and mapped a macro to its volume so i can automate from -infinity to 0. I don't see the need for all that because if you want the tr...

Yeah, OP didn't do a very good job of clarifying what sound he's referring to.... At what point does it come in? Do you mean that sound on every upbeat that is happening from the very beginning of the track? I'm pretty sure that is just the kick sent to a reverb with a small room size on a send, doi...

Thanks for the replies. I think I might actually swing out to my local music shop and grab a midi keyboard, assuming they have something nice that I'll be happy with. I've been in the market.for quite some time, just still never made it happen for some reason. I had just saved a new audio effects ch...

Yeah, it really is far past time for me to get some gear. For my electronic productions I've been using nothing but my laptop. I'm actually so used to working the way that I do that purchasing a piece of equipment to help me overcome the obstacle literally didn't even cross my mind until you said th...

So I put in the time designing a nice sounding synth, duplicate it, tweak it, layer it...etc. Then comes the time to give it some motion and movement. Automating various parameters gives me the sound that I like, however, just to get one measure length of moving, twisted dope synth requires automati...

I'm not really sure what you mean... Only because I think that's what I'm doing. I mean, I have a synth sound that is pretty raw already. Then I might resample it a little bit to make it a little more distorted. Then from there that is when I'm adding the filter and LFO. I'm not doing it all in one ...

;-) Why r you resample and then filter? Zebra's filters are probably better than simpler/sampler. You're probably right about that. To be honest I've just started using Zebra and I'm not that familiar with it so it's just the approach I took the last few attempts. I'm going to spend some time today ...

I'm still fairly new to producing on the computer. Actual instruments have always been my forte. However, I have been messing around just for the hell of it for a while, never taken it too seriously. Lately though I'm pretty psyched on it and this one aspect has plagued me every time I've ever attem...

Last night blew me the fuck away! God damn. I need to figure out how to get that kind of power behind my tunes. (Beyond simply playing it through 100,000 watts that is). Also, do these guys save songs specifically to play live? There was a lot of stuff I didn't recognize. Could just be that I'm out ...

VirtualMark, actually no, I haven't had the filter set to follow the notes. I have been wondering about this for a while. Certain notes it would sound exactly as I like it, then other notes certain aspects would be overwhelming or cut entirely. I understand why that is, I just wasn't sure how to &qu...

Alright. I wasn't really going to post it because it's not dubstep, and it's something I only put together realy quick before getting picked up to hit the bars after a convo I had with a friend who's big on sampling old tunes and making classic hiphop-esque beats. I had never tried that style of pro...

Thanks guys, sound advice. I have been having this issue for a long time with my basses after using the filter to get the sound I like, or applying the filter for LFO oscillation and have yet to solve the issue to my liking on my own. Appreciate the feedback, going to see if this advice gets me wher...

I'm having trouble with a bass synth right now. It's just an Operator based bass sound I created. In order to get the tone I wanted, I used the filter. Now it's got the roundness that I want but it's just sounding too muddy, and not cutting through like it needs to. I've got the Operator filter on, ...