Ableton Forum

Chang wrote:I mean really, with all these brilliant videos of all that Live can actually do I have to laugh when people complain about some of the Live wanted wishes updates. Future sound of London was brought up. They take an Eventide with 15 year old technology and make brilliant music long ago but somehow people need new Live wishes to make same thing happen when its right there in front of you. The DAW envelope has been pushed to absurdity imo as far as wishlist.

FSOL, Eon and Orbital had a tenth of what Live can do at their disposal at the time yet people still complain for more Live wishlist in 2009 thinking it will make them sound brilliant or better. It wont.

end blabing. good videos.

Nick the Zombie wrote:

beats me wrote:I just used your demo youtube video to create my first completely useless sound! That's not a diss. I've never designed a sound from scratch before, useless or otherwise. It's all uphill from here.

Yeah, that'll happen occasionally. I've found over the years while using these techniques that with practice you will start to learn when you're about to take a wrong turn into useless-sound-land Equally important is knowing when to STOP developing a single sound and work on the track as a whole. Then go back and add the details once you have more context within the track. For instance, don't add a huge, drawn out sustain phase on your sound when you don't know whether it's going to end up being a stab or a pad. That sounds obvious, but in the head of the moment it's easy to lose perspective of how your sound is going to service the most important thing: the finished song!

Interesting conversation that has spawned out of this.

- Nick

beats me wrote:

Nick the Zombie wrote:

beats me wrote:I just used your demo youtube video to create my first completely useless sound! That's not a diss. I've never designed a sound from scratch before, useless or otherwise. It's all uphill from here.

Yeah, that'll happen occasionally. I've found over the years while using these techniques that with practice you will start to learn when you're about to take a wrong turn into useless-sound-land Equally important is knowing when to STOP developing a single sound and work on the track as a whole. Then go back and add the details once you have more context within the track. For instance, don't add a huge, drawn out sustain phase on your sound when you don't know whether it's going to end up being a stab or a pad. That sounds obvious, but in the head of the moment it's easy to lose perspective of how your sound is going to service the most important thing: the finished song!

Interesting conversation that has spawned out of this.

- Nick

I look forward to checking out the full tutorials. It will beat flipping through a thousand presets on a dozen softsynths to conclude with "eh, close enough". I'm sure they will help with creating the sounds from scratch and going from close enough to full on trend of the moment carbon copy.

UKRuss wrote: For me it's given presets a whole new lease of life though, just record some shiz, stick it into sampler and re-tweak from there. hey presto, new sounds!

Sibanger wrote:As soon as the Aussie $ improves, (if it does) I will check out your videos Nick.

Paypal is only giving me about .62 cents for 1 AUD.

Nick the Zombie wrote:

Sibanger wrote:As soon as the Aussie $ improves, (if it does) I will check out your videos Nick.

Paypal is only giving me about .62 cents for 1 AUD.

Ack, that sucks man. I've been hearing many similar horror stories from other people from all over the world. It's definitely a tough time. I always take that into account, especially when coming out with new series. Lately I have experimented with a model where you can get a pretty huge chunk of my current sound design series for $7. I am also working on a bunch of free videos right now for Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/oubliettezombie).

- Nick

Sibanger wrote:

Nick the Zombie wrote:

Sibanger wrote:As soon as the Aussie $ improves, (if it does) I will check out your videos Nick.

Paypal is only giving me about .62 cents for 1 AUD.

Ack, that sucks man. I've been hearing many similar horror stories from other people from all over the world. It's definitely a tough time. I always take that into account, especially when coming out with new series. Lately I have experimented with a model where you can get a pretty huge chunk of my current sound design series for $7. I am also working on a bunch of free videos right now for Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/oubliettezombie).

- Nick

Hey, that's super nice of you Nick.

I noticed the $7 discount thingy, but can you include the $7 to come off the Mega pack ($49.99) as well as the Full package ($37.00) ?

I am interested in the Mega pack.

Thanks

Incy wrote:I don't pay $$ for things that end up on youtube next month.

Incy wrote:I don't pay $$ for things that end up on youtube next month.