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Practice and patience! 😀

@@Modul8online no but like i just finished up your swing king videos and like how do you even know where to start with that stuff? how'd you figure out what the exact parameters were? it's an easy but still a very specific sound

Thank you!, Let me know if you have any new song suggestions 😀

Thank you!

Glad you think so! 😀

That's for Ableton 12, you don't have to pay for each 12 update, like this 12.1 update. It's true though its one of the most expensive DAWs but it comes with a lot of content and has some of the best synths, samplers and audio effects. Also there student discount is around 50%!

Thank you!

I agree, if it means I don't have to add audio effects when i'm creating a track that's a big plus for the songwriting process and my CPU too.

Don't worry you're note the first 😂

Thank you! My many years of teaching students has helped find that sweet spot..... I do also edit out some of the waffle though 😂

Ah I know!!! I remember talking about it in one of our lessons, nothing even came close to Harmony Engine and what it could do at the time. That being said if you used harmony engine and autotune in your tracks then it was worth it, Auto Shift isn't actually fully released yet too so just think positive things 😂 And I've not fully compared the two yet, I know Harmony engine has some features auto shift doesn't like the individual formant tuning, panning etc. Plus you also got Autotune in that price, which might sound better than auto shift!

The harmony shift tool is a Great improvement. I’m going to use that so much. A lot of singers I’ve come across cannot harmonise themselves and don’t have a budget for female BVS 🎉

I think this auto shift will be handy for doing simple shifting and a lot better than shifter for sure. It will be better as it has that global scale feature and scale transposition too but I do know what you mean.

You can have individual effects on individual sounds in drum rack you just need to look in the session view and expand the drum rack, it also means they’re all grouped together already, which is nice. You can also have sends and returns too, they’re just located in the chains view of the drum rack. Having all your midi in one clip can be easier as you can easily line up drum hits between instruments and applying swing using the grooves are super easy in one clip too. Also using multiple kontakts on different tracks will increase your CPU as you have multiple plugins running at once, you can use kontakt in multichannel mode to separate each sound into an audio track in Ableton but it’s a bit of a hassle setting it up to be fair Oh you can use drum sampler just as an instrument outside of drum rack just like simpler though. 😁

I use drum rack mainly in that way but as long as it’s efficient for you at the end of the day then stick with it 😁

One of my songs, just an idea 😁

It's not the most glamorous DAW i agree, but at least the developers can spend more time on making the plugins sound good 😀

@@Modul8online yes very uninviting at least for me, but I know that its popularity is unquestionable

@@EBMZEQUENZER what DAW do you have?

@@Modul8online FL junky for life 🍻

@@EBMZEQUENZER FL is very good, the fact your only have to buy it once it a lot better than Ableton but from what I can tell it does lack in some areas like synthesisers and some audio effects, but they are remedying this with the latest update bringing in that new vintage analog synthesiser. I'll have to give it a try.

Yes there are some aliasing problems for sure it would have been nice to have an oversampling option. I'm not sure about the tube processing though, Tube amplifiers emphasise even harmonics but it doesn't mean they don't add odd harmonics and from looking around online most still create odd harmonics. Even with these issues though it still sounds really good, which is all that matters.

@@Modul8online Could you please run the test again at 192K? I have an Intel Mac so I can't use the plug-in to test, or I would make my own video. lol

A bit dark but true I guess 😂

maybe you confused it with the compressor, limiter never had a sidechain feature

I don't think there's ever been a sidechain feature in the stock limiter, unless i've missed something?

@@igorglsv ah you are correct

YES!! How did they miss that.

That would be a good feature in some ways, but if it's a big project that takes a long time to open it could be problematic I guess, especially if you have other applications running it could potentially cause crashes.

@@Modul8online I started in Logic Pro. I guess I'm talking about the feature it has. Still love Live 12.1 over Logic and FL. I'm very happy I finally bought it last Oct in time to get the free update to 12. Live's workflow is superior.

So when you add a groove into the groove pool, there's a small yellow activation button next to it. This will make this the default groove for the project. Any clips created after doing this will automatically have the groove applied. It's useful if you create a drum beat a the start with a groove because everything you create after that will already have that groove applied as long as you create a new empty clip i believe. Hope that helps. 😀

@@Modul8online Oh ok I see. Thank you so much. Greatly appreciated.

Part 2 coming next week 😁

@@Modul8online I'll wait for the next part!

Glad you like them and thanks for supporting the channel 😀

The LFO tool is used for a sidechain compression effect, it basically lowers the volume of one sound when another plays, for example when the kick drum plays the LFO tool lowers the volume of the bass and then brings it back up when the kick drum isn't playing, this leads to a cleaner sounding mix as they don't both play on top of each other causing mess. You can use a regular compressor plugin for this but LFO tool, Kickstart 2 and others are better as they provide more control over the ducking process.

The preset and samples are in the long videos on the channel, Pt.2 😁

I did this say in the video when showing off the bypass below feature, there is a better example later in the video at 12:44

@@Modul8online Yes maybe so, but wouldn't the example have been clearer with, say, a square wave? You CAN do retakes when you make videos :)

​@@aronhidman1 Yes true haha, I'd always planned on having the drums as the main example in the video as to me it's one of the simplest way to understand how that bypass below feature works as distorting a brighter waveform wouldn't have as clear an effect because the waveform already contains a lot of harmonics if that makes sense. 😀Thanks for the feedback though as I didn't think about it when recording 👏

Glad it was helpful!😁

Thankyou!, about to record another breakdown for next week so make sure to subscribe 😀

@@Modul8online Great! Already subbed yesterday! Haven't produced any tracks in a long while, but I started learning Ableton recently after more than a decade of working with FL studio. Takes some time to adjust but I'm starting to get the hang of the basics. The stock plugins are excellent in Ableton!

@@Pazaluz Good to hear you're getting back into it, hopefully Ableton is working well for you as it's probably my favourite DAW for electronic music! We do offer private online 121 sessions if you'd be interested in learning how to master Ableton focusing around your genre of choice and your goals, drop me a message on instagram or you can contact me using this link: modul8online.com/contact/ and I can create a custom lesson plan for you if you're interested. No worries if not though and thanks for supporting the channel, if you finish a track or have an idea send it over and I can give some feedback 😀

@@Modul8online Sounds good! I'll keep an eye on the channel and the website. Currently just planning to produce more reguraly and learn. I might look into private lessons later when i have a more concrete goals ^^

​@@Pazaluz Yes! Consistency is the key to getting better, making one 4 bar loop a day is something i've done in the past to improve my songwriting!

In the full review on the channel I compare it to some other 3rd party plugins like Fab Filter Saturn and Soundtoys Decapitator and it sounds pretty similar to their "tube distortion" settings and they are two of the best distortions out there. I also analyse the way it shapes a sine wave and the harmonics it creates and it does have some complex processing going on unlike most simple wave shapers and distortions. But I do also agree that the differences are very subtle when compared to other plugins, it's just great that it comes for free with Logic.

Thank you!

It's not exactly perfect auto gain no, but increasing the drive increases the input level into the distortion and at the same time it decreases the output level too (not visually) so the overall volume stays roughly the same when changing the drive. It helps because you can actually hear when the waveform is being distorted instead of hearing the volume increasing and potentially speakers, headphones or other plugins distorting because of the volume change but i'd always double check the volume before and after and correct with the level out too.

Thankyou, it's extremely useful when you heavily distort or compress your sounds as those processes squash and remove that movement, it can work really well using an envelope too to add some more punch to a sound as well!

Thankyou, added it to the list but there are a few other Sammy tracks above it. 😀

Zup, I enjoy your videos a lot, as they are very clear and educational. Is there any chance you could analyze the track "Moonlight" - Sammy Virji? Thanks for the free content, I hope you will gain more popularity.

@@KhanKMusic thank you! I’ll add it to the list but it might not be for a while, thanks for the suggestions 😁

Knowing the basics of Music theory is a pretty essential skill to have not just for writing chords, bass etc but for matching samples and remixes too and it's easier than you'd think. But that being said learning music theory can sometimes hinder your creativity as you won't be as adventurous and use your ears to write music and many tracks just like this one don't fit in a conventional key so knowing music theory won't necessarily help. Keep practicing and you'll get there!

I doubt Logic would add one of those multichannel summing type plugins as the effect is probably too subtle and complicated to use for most users. Not having oversampling isn't the end of the world though and I still think it sounds really good especially for a stock plugin but there are some cleaner option out there for sure.