Great video, it's great to see people keeping the old skool vibe alive. Would love to see what you did to get those 3 breaks to sit together so well. Subject for another video? :)
Awesome track and tutorial! Found this video while searching for the Roland U 220 being used for hardcore/jungle production. Gonna have to get one for those strings! I'm just starting my foray into the world of music production, particularly on vintage kit, have a lot to buy and a lot to learn!
There's a great video I found the other day about the Roland U 220, where the person in the video showed how to turn one of the strings presets into the strings from The Prodigy - Out of Space. It was amazing! Give me a shout if you get stuck with hooking a vintage synth up to Ableton and I'll do a video explaining how I do it.
Wicked vid. Love stuff like this and always lookin for more. It should have way more views. U-tube's been hiding it from me for 10 months lol. Cant wait to see the next 1🤪🤪🤪
Hi mate, that's a bloody good question! My mind has gone blank on that one though as I'm in the middle of moving house so I will have to get back to you once my brain is back in studio mode! :)
Great job mate. I'm sitting in front my PC right now writing a 90s style hardcore track! I'm struggling with the arragement. These old tracks don't follow the boring build/dropformat that modern house tends to but have loads of elements. Got any tips?
I guess you could take inspiration from some of your favourite old tunes, or even tunes that are just similar in style to what your tune sounds like. Try dragging a full tune you like into your project and then program similar changes/events in your track to match what you're seeing and hearing in the classic you dragged in. Even if you're not making the exact same style of tune, at least you could use it as the inspiration to get you over the hump you're stuck on?
@@raveblaster92 Cheers for the reply. that's what I've been doing but can't get my head around it. How are you approaching it? You doing it just by feel or do you have a plan/template whatever?
@@RaveyDavey For me, every tune is different. I don't have a template, but there generally is a rule of thumb for how many bars i'll have in the intro (usually 32) probably 4-8 bars in the breakdown. After that its anything goes, whether its a stab riff into a bassline breakdown or intro a pads/strings section etc. Just go with what feels right with the context of whats just happened before it in the tune. Making music is more about feelings for me rather than having a template or layout of a tune. It's good to have a rough idea of how to layout a tune though.
Hi! Yes, it was released on vinyl by a record label based in Tenerife. www.discogs.com/master/3313282-ROP-Stu-Chapman-Episodio-13 Not sure if they are making the digital version available. I'll have to check.
Thanks for the tutorial! I tried to replicate that piano riff with the m1 sample. But somehow mine sounds far less "alive". Are you using the m1 vst or a sample? Do you have any tips on effects to use?
I would have to dig up the project and look to confirm exactly what I used, but generally speaking my processing is the same on pianos... Yes, it's the Korg M1 VST. It would definitely have an EQ Eight on it, removing the bass region of the spectrum and then adding some top end brightness to it as the M1 sounds a little bit dull without it. I also sometimes use the Drum Buss effect in Ableton, which can be used to do a bit of work to the transients, and it has a nice resonance dial which can make it sound brighter as well (gotta be a bit careful with that though as it can introduce unwanted harshness). Given the length of the tail of the last chord at the end when the piano stops in the video I would say that I'd added some reverb to it as well. I hope that helps? Let me know if not and I will dig up the project.
@@raveblaster92 thank you that helps a lot! I started experimenting after i wrote the comment and managed to get a good result. I added some reverb, saturation, a transient shaper and a tiny bit of a vintage chorus.
So mad I used the same samples on my latest track (Rave Culture) having been searching for rave documentaries to pinch samples from! I hadn't seen this video yet!
Oh no!! Thinking you've found some samples that no-ones used before, and then finding out someone beat you to it is so frustrating! :( I feel your pain! I hope your tune worked out OK anyway!
@@raveblaster92 oh I'm not angry, I meant mad as in that's crazy coincidence! Yeah I should have figured that would have been a popular resource, if I had thought about it then at least ten other people will have before me 😂 Cheers Stu, keep up the great content mate, really enjoying this series here!
@@RaverOperatorGeeza hahaha yeah, it's definitely like that where samples are concerned. Good to hear you're enjoying these, I should get around to doing another one soon really!
It's being released on a record label who are based in Tenerife (Canary Islands), I'm not sure if they are going to sell the digital version or not though. I'll have to find out.
I more than likely originally sampled them from my vinyl collection, but there's a tonne of old 90's sample cds knocking around online that would probably have them.
