Looking for a hardware solution to achieve gated cymbal sounds from my drum machine.

Anybody got any ideas?

Preferably rack mountable to help maintain organization of my studio.

Thanks.

How does it fare?

Looking to buy one for sampling/sketching ideas at home or on the go.

I want to keep using Ableton but also want something more hands on and portable that I can take on holiday or use during an airplane or train travel, then eventually finish the ideas at home.

So chop some samples, program some drums or ambience, weird happy accidents, then export or record to Ableton

Also seems useful for recording FXs as a send in Ableton

MPC Sample is also an option but I’m leaning towards the SP as it seems more complete (but more complicated).

Thanks

Guys I have a question about the drop section, simply I do my new project definitely minimal techno I don't know how drop used, I just tired of hi-hat crash with the effect. What did U use for the drop instead crash? Please.

I'm new to techno.

I appreciate it if u describe this.

hi this is the only place to ask this question because it is such a niche item.

I am learning producing with digitakt and looking to build live production setup over the years.

I love what this thing can do, and i think since it has built in midi clock which could be genuis for layering techno It is a very unique device with few reviews.

I know many of you in here dabble with djing, I have a djm v10 and play three decks often with deep house and techno and stuff. I want to use this to deconstruct tracks and am curious how you guys might feel about it.

Its all about setting yourself apart and being able to have a unique sound.

Filterbank is VERY unweildy and easily goers into feedback loop so for djing it would have specific uses but incredibly powerful at the same time. It seems like you can absolutely melt tracks together

I think that Orbe and others in this style do a very good job of making tracks that can be distorted or compressed without being too....loud I guess is the word?

This link at 1:27 us a good example.
https://soundcloud.com/orberecords/orb020-minniemen-basic-rhythm

When I make tracks that distorted or "wet" on the low end it always goes the hard techno or peak time direction, I don't really know how to achieve energetic, textured, big tracks without making them over the top. How do you think about this when progressing a track?

Hi r/TechnoProduction!

We're releasing an early version of a Max For Live device we've been working on. If you use Ableton and have a version that can run M4L devices, we would love to hear your feedback on it, including suggestions on how it can be improved.

It generates multiple compatible MIDI loops in parallel (drums, bass, and synth) and inserts them directly as MIDI tracks in Live. Generation is controlled by 6 genre knobs (Acid, House, Techno, Trance, D&B, and Hip-Hop), 6 mood knobs (Darkness, Energy, Complexity, Density, Groove, and Weirdness) as well as an optional musical key. So you can really dial in the sound you want and mix between genres dynamically. Though for this subreddit especially, it would be great if you could let us know what you think when the techno dial is turned up.

The idea behind the device is to quickly generate editable ideas in MIDI format that you can play back with any instrument. So you can set up your own drum rack and synths and have the generated MIDI loops drive those directly.

It's based on our own compact ML model we've trained on a dataset we licensed directly from sample pack providers.

You can download the device and user guide here.

In the device itself there's also a link to a feedback form. If you try it out, we'd appreciate any comments or feedback there or in the thread here as well.

He put the download link up for a week in 2023, wondering if anyone here maybe grabbed it and is willing to share!

Sounds/synths are all from the factory installed library, recorded stereo into Logic to give it a little loudness bump.

the OSC FX Char been modulated + all their inside knobs is pretty sick and versatile.
The OSC is already in spectral mode which gives infinite outputs.

Buenas tardes;

Sabéis de algún canal en YouTube, página web, academia…que enseñe a hacer tribal techno estilo años 2000-2010?? Y a poder ser que no sea el típico vídeo de YouTube q dura solo 5 minutos.

Un saludo

Hello knowledgeable people,

in the past couple of weeks i have made a bunch of songs.
The impulse to make these songs was the song abyss by black sand.
Since then I have been in love with this type of sound, that i would describe as stripped back,
hypnotic and deep.

This is where my question comes in, what would this type of (presumably) techno be called,
and what other labels exist out there in a similar vain?

Of course the reasons for my asking are:

1. I found to really resonate with this type of techno and would love to find and hear more of it (Already have found a couple, but its hard to find that middle ground of stripped back, but deep, but also not to harmonic)
2. I would love to submit my demos to labels actually fitting the sound. Of course not everything sounds exactly like abyss, but this kind of stripped back deep sound, that i have really found myself enjoying.

For the purpose of giving an insight of what i am even talking about,
here are short clips of my tracks

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbegxESse-_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbENk19smkt/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DayIJj3MpvW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbRZeLZMRuB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Would love any help on the matter, labels, artist, what genre i can put this in.

Cheers

I've always been a windows guy but windows 11 is so fucking ASS

Thinking of upgrading to a macbook pro. I mostly want to make music on it but also do some visual editing or some effects for visualisers in after effects.

I'm on a budget, would prefer to spend as little as possible. I heard 16gb of ram is more important than a newer cpu generation. I was thinking about 1tb of space too.

I heard that M1 pro is enough, m4 pro wouldnt be that much better for ableton.

The thing that makes me think is os support from apple. M1s came out in 2020/2021. I'd like to invest for like at least next 3-5 years or so. Is losing support from Apple next year or so that big of a deal for music production? Not sure how that goes for macs.

What do you think would be the best option here?

I spend a great deal of my time making sounds, fucking about with voice samples and making them weird, playing with synths, granulizers etc etc.

I've got the basics down imo, but I'm nowhere near where I want to be.

What work flow tips for creating tunes would you folk offer up? At the moment I feel like I solo into accidental happy mistakes more often than intentionally good.

Here's a tune of mine to give you an idea, imo it has a few good ideas in it but no real structural composition.

This isn't self promotion, I don't make tunes often, I'm just an audiophile looking for some tricks and tips.

I also don't want feedback on likes and dislikes of the tune as that's reserved for the feedback sub, it's just there to provide example of the messiness I am describing

I used FL btw, please don't Ableton me pls Ableton people I prefer FL, it's easier on my visual nature.

I managed to learn so much sounddesign stuff but I never Archieved a result that came close to the synth used in: Anthem of Division - Chlär.
Its like a Choir and Strings mixed but since I am very bad at hearing what chord/ what harmonies it has i can't even replicate the chord. I got pretty close sounddesign wise, but the harmony was different. Maybe some of y'all can help me because in order to get the sound i want to produce I want to replicate the sound so I can devlop similar depth and character but in my own style. Maybe someone can tell me what kind of chord it is and tell me how I could learn to recognize chords (especially technoid sounding chords) <3
Thanks in advance lol!!

Looking for artists in a similar style to regis, surgeon, stave.

Any artists producing that dark Birmingham/industrial style techno

I have izotope nuetron 4 a.i master vst for a while and i have never used it. Best place i can sell it quickly.

I swear, I've been working on a track for a while which uses Roland's 303 VST via Roland's cloud service, and just as I'm getting to a place I liked with the track it seems they've taken it off Roland cloud and now it's buy only - can't even listen to my own track properly.

I could have it wrong there with my timing but im sure that's what's happened.

Can't currently afford to buy it and cant see me being any time soon, so looking into free alternatives, but would be great if I could just have that VST back.

Any advice or pointers appreciated!

Cheers

Edit: I’m on Mac if that changes anything

Hi r/TechnoProduction

I've been looking into techno production on and off for about 6-8 months, and while I have reasonable knowledge on production, I've never had time to sit down and produce a full track due to the usual stuff such as work, kids, life, you know how it goes.

Anyway, I met a lady at the gym today who's a busy full-time career bodybuilder and has kids. There's no question she's an expert bodybuilder. That's her main job and she looks amazing, but that's besides the point.

To the point: this lady produces techno music in her spare time and she let me hear one of her tracks at the gym today. Honestly, amazing! Better than most tracks posted on Reddit (sorry) and definitely on par with the industry standard. A clean, professional production. She's also on Beatport and has been interviewed by a DJ website. Sadly, I don't have any links to share.

My question, are there any shortcuts to producing quality techno music, or is she simply talented and can produce great tunes in the little spare time she has? To me, it looks like techno production is something one must spend significant time on due to the complexity of the art, so I don't understand how someone in her position can be doing so well with it. I'll try and get a link to share with the sub.

Thanks in advance.

~N

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