Michael is a production music composer and content creator based in Toronto, Ontario.
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Ah this is so helpful - I've always found how Native Instruments package their expansions to be infuriating for discovery within Battery 4, and this is a great way to use Komplete. Thank you!
Thank you for the video. All I wanted to do is see how to set up or create a sequence over the course of a song or slave the rhythm pattern to the top of the song and have it play. What I'm not seeing is how you create the performance track in ProTools in the track? In other words, I understand how to create a percussion loop of kinds inside the app but I don't see how that translates out into the edit window or the track or just like if I'm using stylus slaving the application to the click track so that when I hit play the loop starts playing. Why is it so hard to find these functions? What is the step-by-step to just get the sequence that you create into the edit window so you can work on it or be able to see how the midi track plays out across the tune. Thank you for your video. I appreciate it
I started electronic music since 1988, I got my share of synths. then I quit for a decade and I retook it this year for good. I graduated from audio engineering in the 90s, took classical music lessons and latin jazz lessons as well. Today I am 49, I got basically every syn I always wanted and I got a tons of plugins as well. I have the money and the time. My conclusion: You do not need every plugin, you need is to find your sound. I have Logic X, it has everything! I got the Korg Legacy Collection, the Arturia as well and some others including the Moog. In hardware I have TWO virus ti2, Waldorf Q, X, Pulse, Rolad JD800/900 and so on. I bought internet. And you only need a nice controller and Probably Logic Pro X and in my case, the SOLINA!!!! the Mogs virtual instruments... meh. Actually, I could live with the Virus Ti2 keyboard and Logic Pro with Solina and call the day. Less is more and Logic Pro is already 3000000 more than what we had back in the 90s. Or go with Ableton! Is a very nice software too. I would go with a very nice compressor for the vocals only tho. And some mastering tool.
I'm a beginner in songwriting. I picked up the interest, which had been dormant for decades, after a friend brought me to karaoke and group vocal class at the local senior center. My abilities as a vocalist are not good enough for performance although my voice as such is pretty good and could be autotuned for demo purposes. My level as an instrumentalist is intermediate beginner. However, I have a strong sense of chord progression due in part to a little guitar background earlier in my life. In songwriting, my strength is lyrics and stories. I consider and list my influences as Bob Dylan, the Beatles (Lennon and McCartney), and Oscar Hammerstein II. My present instrument is keyboard. I have several questions. The first one pertains to demos. Is it possible in the present songwriting market to make a simple demo (vocal, lead line and chords) and have a band or artist pick it up? I am getting the idea that bands and artists want to be provided with complete arrangements. I would think they would want to do their own arrangements and maybe even alter the chords progressions to suit themselves but maybe it doesn't work that way. What's the situation in the present market? My second question pertains to Bandlab, and it is pretty simple. Does Bandlab have any value as a marketing tool for songwriters? That is apart from its value as a DAW. I ask because Bandlab seems to be a site for promoting finished music. My third question is more in the realm of a beef or complaint. I am trying to learn how to use DAW programs. I understand the issue with these. They have to be designed to meet the needs of advanced users and furthermore the advanced users probably constitute the great majority of the customer base for both the free ones and the paid ones. I have not been able to get good information about how to use any of these. All of the videos I have found are heavy on explaining what you can do and fall short on explaining the details of how you do it in any particular program. Seriously, the basic idea is not hard to understand. You layer tracks. Nothing new about that. The question I have is, do you know of any source of concise instruction in how to use DAWs? Concise instruction means, explaining how you get the program to do what you are trying to do. I have gotten the furthest so far in Waveform and Bandlab. I should count Paul SImon as an influence too. As a writer, his powers of evocation have been off the charts throughout his career, but he is too much of a squeaky complainer. He should know, once you put creative work in front of the world, you cannot control what other people think it means. He seems to have a problem with that and I don't want to be mentally involved in having to push back against it.
Well what annoys me the most with this product is that they ruined my perfectly fine Komplete Kontrol MK1 for it for no reason. It still had the prettiest light guid out of all three and now it is just always blue and the auto mapping doesnt work anymore.
Aw come on my brother, what are you doing to me? I just got session percussionist and uvi percussion factory, now here you are with this. I’m only 3 minutes into the video now I’m afraid to watch it. 😊🎹♥️
Who's had their mk3 for more than 6 months already? Are there any issues with the keybed? Are the drivers all good now? Is the keyboard holding up okay with a lot of play ?
Nice video mate! thx! Stems Focus it's better to use alone with a copy of Ozone so you can focus just on a stem I believe (I mean separate of all the master chain elements ), what do you think about? If not master works just on the part of stem you select I believe
Hello. Would you please explain how your computer is set up? Are You PC or MAC based? On my computer (PC) - Serum and Omnisphere just once on my computer - is a strain. My "C" drive is filling up. I like Toontrack, Spitfire and Native Instruments as well. Do you use external drives? What's on your "C" drive and your external drives. What is the size of your "C" drive? Mine is 1 TB.
I think you're seriously missing the point about Maschine integration - this has nothing to do with pads or faders... it's about removing highly useful functions that already existed in the current model of this controller, rendering major components of the NI ecosystem completely incompatible. In fact, most of the thing's they're working on right now is to try and bring back functions that we already had, versus actually providing new features
Yes u r right i have it But its not a playable instrument when it comes to heavy tones like shreddage, heavier strings or the session guitarisz for example...sadly
Thanks! I agree, and the feedback swells will come in handy for my next project with guitar on it. I’ve been missing out on it since only working with amp sims
