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DrGatineau wrote:ear

if you're mala

"I'm in the middle of mixing down my next album"

Really good interview. Checked out those headphones though, over a grand. Fuckin' 'avin a laugh ain't ya?

It's weird what he said about FL and Reason, that its important in the early days to quickly translate your ideas and emotions into music, and that they're really good to do that because I've found the exact opposite to be true. I've been trying to get into producing for about 4 years now and I've maybe racked up no more than about 30 hours in that time of playing about on FL then later on Logic. Find DAWs to be extremely overwhelming and really not getting very far at all (musically and in terms of getting to know the program) after numerous hours and then I never return to it until like a year later because its completely ruined my motivation. I've started to move to little bits of hardware and I find it much engaging and fun. I guess he may be comparing those programs to real instruments, which even still I'd say DAWs are slower to translate ideas and emotions.. I pretty much taught myself piano around 11/12 by just sitting at a piano and pissing around but I can't get my head around Logic for shit

Try Ableton if workflow is your problem. I'm not completely fluent in FL or Logic but I've done collabs with a few people where we used FL and Logic on their computer and I found the workflow for both (especially FL) to be awful compared to Ableton. Especially the way the tracks / the mixer is set up in FL... and changing between views in Logic was something I found very cumbersome but maybe if I fully learned the shortcuts it would be easier.

ableton is designed by satan

DrGatineau wrote:Try Ableton if workflow is your problem. I'm not completely fluent in FL or Logic but I've done collabs with a few people where we used FL and Logic on their computer and I found the workflow for both (especially FL) to be awful compared to Ableton. Especially the way the tracks / the mixer is set up in FL... and changing between views in Logic was something I found very cumbersome but maybe if I fully learned the shortcuts it would be easier.

I'm the complete opposite, I can use abelton quite well (imo) but I hate the mixer layout and the lack of windows. FL's shortcuts are pretty easy to learn too.
Reason was the first DAW I used and that put me off trying for a year. All that hardware emulation can be daunting to someone who knows nothing about music

OGLemon wrote:

DrGatineau wrote:ear

if you're mala

cheeky. must be a good ear though cause his mixdowns are top notch.

gr8 interview

TLDW?

Common man, I don't even like mala that much and I watched it.

Riddles wrote:TLDW?

How Mala makes music being deaf in one ear.

Looking back at In Cuba.

Dubplate culture.

Sound systems.

Inspirations/collabs.

How good their headphones are.

Cheers, ive heard most of that stuff from him in the past. im just curious how long it takes to release a medi plate these days.

nothing about medi (that i remember). only release info is that he's almost done with an album. didn't say which label.

DrGatineau wrote:Try Ableton if workflow is your problem. I'm not completely fluent in FL or Logic but I've done collabs with a few people where we used FL and Logic on their computer and I found the workflow for both (especially FL) to be awful compared to Ableton. Especially the way the tracks / the mixer is set up in FL... and changing between views in Logic was something I found very cumbersome but maybe if I fully learned the shortcuts it would be easier.

Agree with this, Ableton is a piece of piss to use, Bitwig is similar and also really intuitive. I'm using Renoise though, which looks terrifying at first but once you get the basics down is possibly the most intuitive DAW of all. Unless you really like the FL stock plugins or piano roll, I don't know why anyone would use FL over Renoise.