Psytrance Production In South Africa
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 10:30 am
THIS IS QUITE LONG SO BEAR WITH ME!!!
I've been a user of Ableton Live 6 since early 2006 and since have been building my skills continiously over the years. Up untill early 2010, Iv'e been primarily making chillout beat type of stuff since if only used Ableton's standard effects and instruments to create music.
That's when I finally got my finger out of you know what and started looking at apps. to used with Ableton. To be honest, the fist time I heard of VST's and VSTI's I was completely baffled. What the hell where these things and how do you use them?
After aqcuiring some simple vst's, I was blown away. Stuck behind a screen for hours on end downloading VST's and VSTI's from all makers and types. After experimenting with them and made some prototype mixes for the future, I eventually found the best out of hundreds that I found and used them prodominately ever since.
All this effort was due to my extreme love for Psycadelic Trance. And being fortunate living here in South Afrca (Cape Town) where the Psytrance scene is the best in the world, I fell in love with it ever since and as a result, my producing has found a genre to fit into.
But through my meeting of DJ's and Producers alike, I found that most, if not all Psytrance producers use Cubase. Mistified as to why this is, I found some relative points concerning the producing of proper Psytrance.
But although most producers use Cubase, I gotten to learn Ableton over the years and find it difficult to transfer over to Cubase witch brings be to my question.
If I can get input by producers and DJ's alike as to what their oppinion is concerning the production of Psytrance, what is the prefered sequencer etc.
Would appreciate any non-sarcastic input.
I've been a user of Ableton Live 6 since early 2006 and since have been building my skills continiously over the years. Up untill early 2010, Iv'e been primarily making chillout beat type of stuff since if only used Ableton's standard effects and instruments to create music.
That's when I finally got my finger out of you know what and started looking at apps. to used with Ableton. To be honest, the fist time I heard of VST's and VSTI's I was completely baffled. What the hell where these things and how do you use them?
After aqcuiring some simple vst's, I was blown away. Stuck behind a screen for hours on end downloading VST's and VSTI's from all makers and types. After experimenting with them and made some prototype mixes for the future, I eventually found the best out of hundreds that I found and used them prodominately ever since.
All this effort was due to my extreme love for Psycadelic Trance. And being fortunate living here in South Afrca (Cape Town) where the Psytrance scene is the best in the world, I fell in love with it ever since and as a result, my producing has found a genre to fit into.
But through my meeting of DJ's and Producers alike, I found that most, if not all Psytrance producers use Cubase. Mistified as to why this is, I found some relative points concerning the producing of proper Psytrance.
But although most producers use Cubase, I gotten to learn Ableton over the years and find it difficult to transfer over to Cubase witch brings be to my question.
If I can get input by producers and DJ's alike as to what their oppinion is concerning the production of Psytrance, what is the prefered sequencer etc.
Would appreciate any non-sarcastic input.
, I'd suggest that the reason most psy-trance producers use Cubase, is that it's been around for longer than Live (a lot of psy-trance producers have been at it for a long time now), and it is easy to get a cracked copy. It's become a self-perpetuating trend in that everyone wants to use what their favourite producers use. 
, as Mr Olly says, it genuinely does not matter in the least what software you use. Unless you're trying to use Word to make a beat or something. Then you've got problems.