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this is our fave thing to do eh? :)

@HumanSynthetics it is like Meditation.

Thanks so much, yeah a lot can be done with simple starting points - glad to help.

Yes I am from the @Endle185 school but we use booze instead of plants.

Thanks holeshot! You're close to 1k tho!! Keep at it. I think title and thumbnail make all the difference, even though I'm hit and miss at that myself! But looks like you're well on your way.

Arcologies does a sick job of those evocative thumbnails, but I think yours are on point too!

Cheers Glen, my pleasure!

Thanks! Feel like I'm scraping the surface here, but the basic stuff goes a long long way. So much is in the jam and arrangements, the overall ark of the tune. Thanks again!!

Thanks! Oh gosh I'm not sure, got sent this by a mate along with a bunch of other lesser known breaks. It could well have been run through an Akai or Emu on the way over.

@ ok cheers. The search continues then!

Thank you! Appreciate the comment

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Eagle eyed!! Great spot - took me a second to work out what had happened - my MIDI keyboard has a mod slider on it that has a touch ribbon. I must've brushed it when I took my hand off the piano keyboard to use my laptop keyboard. I'm pretty sure the mod strip affects the position of the wavetable by default.

In short - by accident haha ;)

Update: I actually have the osc pos 1 mod set to 100 in the Mod column of the modulation matrix!

@@HumanSynthetics Haha, thats brilliant! I was following along because the final sound result was great, but got so caught up in that. Ashamedly, a little too obsessively.

@@HumanSynthetics Ah ok. Let me go open Ableton :)

Nice one!! This sums it up perfectly! I completely agree, even one good result from something generative can be all you need.

hmmm - couldn't be you've updated Live since making it? It's definitely visible under your Slicing Defaults in Ableton's User Library?

@@HumanSynthetics yes it was visible. nice one mate, I managed to figure it out. I'd been using a new laptop that I imported all my stuff from my desktop and think I accidentally changed default location of user libraries on my devices somehow.

You're absolutely right, and something I missed when making the vid. You can bolt on sampler to Standard as an additional purchase. A work around might be slicing to drum rack? You could get the same results, albeit a little differently. Thanks tho ;)

Cheers! Yeah think it didn't sound too bad against the clock - I'd love to spend some more time on this version of the Scorpio break, was really pleased with how it came out.

but this sounds so much like the akaizer, v sick tutorial im def gnna use this technique

Thanks! I think there are a few ways to get pretty close to Sully's sound. I know just use a stock delay with very short delay time and high feedback. The feedback controls the resonance, with some additional reverb you get pretty close to that 5ives sound! The break, and real fine tuning of the delay controls can drastically alter the sound. I'm not sure exactly how comb filtering works in terms of the science, but it could be its introducing some sort of a delay a la karplus strong, which is what Sully said the effect was when I asked him on Instagram haha.

My pleasure Distant Lands. Wholeheartedly agree!

I think you're right! I have a few stock Echo devices on my return channels in Ableton, think the one you're referring to is either 1/4 dotted, or 1/8. Probably the first of those settings, from memory.

Thanks, I'm always keen to improve my use of compression, I don't think I have a vari-mu style compressor in my arsenal - any good ones you could recommend that I can give a spin? Cheers!

It's a long road to get back to yourself haha. I think you've got to go through this stuff, imitation and copying to learn, but the best music is just being yourself.

It may seem maddening at points, but I can hear the difference and think it's worth it. Not always, but sometimes and knowing when's enough is important. That said I do love these bits at the end, digging into the details.

Hey thanks so much for the super chat!! It means the world that people enjoy me just making tunes and talking about it. I'm glad it connected. Big up!

Good shout! That would be nice, I've got a bunch of those and would save some time.

Big up G! Really appreciate that - you of all people know the time sunk into editing, but I think with practice I'll just quicker and quicker at editing the highlights... this was a sick stream to do that with!

@@HumanSynthetics Gotta get those premier pro editing Hotkeys down. then you speed through :)

@@groovining actually need to learn/apply those! Pretty happy with the shortcuts but you can assign macros??

I have a Maschine on the way from ebay, I already have this and many more as rex files already chopped. It will be nice to trigger new patterns from the pads but still all can be done in the computer. I mainly got it for easier sampling and chopping on the hardware but it does a lot more, I need it now to play on.

Ahh nice, yeah something real to hit makes a huge difference. I couldn't do without my MIDI controllers. Hope you have lots of fun when it arrives!

Well... thank you so much for the nice comment... I couldn't ask for more really! I've been deep on a Paradox tip the last year of so (fave tracks 'Back from Eternity' with Seba and 'Atka'). I love not only the way his grooves sound, but just how funky they are. Like intricate but not too much so, and all the while so soulful. I love this way of working with breaks, and I love the additional flavour Amigo adds, this first I wanted to do with it is integrate this way of working. And always my pleasure sharing the insights and learning. We all apply it in a different way, and that's the joy of music. Hope you figure it out in Logic, I'm sure if you do others would love to know how you do it. Thanks again :)

@@HumanSynthetics Hopefully comes this morning. Only £164 MKIII. I found the maschine can load rex and hopefully the midi as well, but coming back out and slicing into Amigo is too much of a ballache for me. I think would be better off progamming them first and bouncing to audio and loading in amigo if needed to. But if amigo could do rex or something similar then I would trigger amigo from the maschine instead.

My pleasure man! Glad it's been useful, I'm just finishing up the layered breaks video edit from the same livestream. Cheers

I deliberated about making this into a shorter video edit, but glad I did. Really appreciated the feedback, I'm sure others want to do this kind of thing and it might not be obvious straight away.

For me at the Moment the Alligator Bogaloo is my favorite Break, also the whole SoulPride. I am totaly adicted to chop Long Breaks into sections Like kick + hat, snare + shuffle and so on. In January i will send you some new racks If you are interrested in.

Yes please GL! I loved the og devices you sent me, I thought they were really smart and sounded great. I'd be delighted to spotlight them here for you again. I completely agree about Scorpio. I love that snare!! So big and metallic. I haven't heard the Alligator Boogaloo - I'll check that out asap.

Cheers GL - 'chopping breaks is a meditation' - get that on a tshirt I reckon!

I'm a complete newbie to this sort of thing, but for me I tend to just slice using the equal option instead of transient and that keeps the slight offsets in the original sample. Lazy/efficient and with extra groove, win-win! 😛 I appreciate the additional effort that goes into this method though!

Cheers @boootros, glad it hit them mark ;)

Ableton is very good

Thanks Endle, really helpful feedback. Actually tested it out tonight and you're bang on about the bass - someone else picked up on exactly that. Actually found the kick pretty decent but kind of agree with you about the snare. Balancing the two is bloody hard haha especially with the break. Appreciate the feedback!

Ah cheers! My pleasure

Cheers, thanks so much - it can be hit and miss, think the pressure of coming up with something reasonably finished in front of an audience helps! And lots and lots of practise - a lot of terrible sessions have come before haha. Yeah the jamming thing is kind of integral to my workflow, I've just got used to it over the years and it works for me. Don't get me wrong - I spend a TONNE of time after futzing with midi and god knows what else, but it really captures that initial vibe quick. Thanks again :)

Cheers Golab! Fun little generative technique

Salute!

Big up Holeshot!! Really appreciate the kind words, keeps me going ;)