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That synth is totally a Yamaha DX7 preset.

Phaser. Make sure it's set deep and wide, and so that it sweeps all the way during the duration of the stab.

Setup one channel with a basic synth sound (Analog or Simpler), make it loud with short attack, decay, release and full sustain. Set this channel to midi in from your keyboard. Mute the track output.

Setup a second channel with the material you want gated. Put the gate on here. Set it to sidechain ...

You shouldn't have to pay more that $80 for that ram, so if that's your only issue, you should just get the ram upgrade.

However, the HP is clearly an upgrade on that Dell. You'll see a performance boost across the board.

Latency is probably a soundcard issue. You can fix that for $100 or so by ...

2 concepts to really deal with that I identify.

1. Long long long samples. This is better if you have a fantastic patch, and that's what you want to replicate. I have heard a number of sample sets of synths that quite simply, rock the house. Some of those are Atmosphere, sample sets that came with ...

Thanks for your help on that.

Well, I finished moving into the new house, bought myself Ableton 7, and have finally set up my studio. I haven't really had a chance yet to do any music because I'm still unpacking everything...

I'm running Battery 2 + I have Komplete Sound 2. Not really planning on ...

sounds to me like a bunch of distortion and some side chain compression. The distortion is creating the harmonics you like, and the side chaining is giving it the behavior you are describing.

Also part of what you are hearing is how the bassline is written. It's a pedal bassline that does octaves ...

Analog Days is a very good book, covers Moog, Alan R. Perlman and Don Buchla amongst others...

Also check out "My Life in Music" by Ichiro Kekehachi, the founder of Roland. Lest we forget that that Japanese also were part of the electronic revolution!

Thanks for lending your insight. However I'm pretty sure that I'm not explaining this very well.

I watched a video about what's new in Live 7. In the drum racks section, they show that the drum rack has kind of a "frame" that is analogous to a trigger fingers pads. You can slide this "frame" up and ...

sounds to me like a bunch of distortion and some side chain compression. The distortion is creating the harmonics you like, and the side chaining is giving it the behavior you are describing.

Also part of what you are hearing is how the bassline is written. It's a pedal bassline that does octaves ...

Do these play nicely together? I'm upgrading to Live 7 in the next week or so. On the video for it, I saw that you can slide the frame around in the drum rack, and whatever the frame was over, the m-audio trigger finger would play. I think this is a very cool feature, and I was just wondering if ...