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“I'll have to check out Sisters. “

It’s on HboMax currently- just added it to my list too

I only take a master class from a master... like brauer or albini ... in electronic that would be the belleville 3... or like Alan wilder

“I'll have to check out Sisters. “

It’s on HboMax currently- just added it to my list too

you just saved me 3 minutes of searching. thank you!

I thought I read some not so kind words about deadmau5 awhile back in this thread, but I came across his MasterClass and wondered if it was useful - anyone taken it ?

Back when I was in art school, at the end of the previous century, I had a friend in the program who was all about the Juxtapoz magazine scene, and painting whatever she thought looked cool, and ignoring the prevailing tastes of the faculty, who were mostly raised on CalArts conceptual art dogma of the 1970s (ideas over aesthetics, beauty for beauty's sake being quasi-immoral, etc)... and this was about 10 years before the gate keepers of high-snobbery finally started to allow street art and other such wonderful and honest things to be deemed worthy of sharing the same auctions with more traditional gallery fodder.

The Chair of the department was a merciless critic of this friend's approach, a real protector of the prevailing order, and this Chair and the general outlook of the department made things not-so-fun for her.

BUT, to the Chair's credit, this friend had a showing of her Juxtapoz-y work, and she sold a lot of stuff. My friend confronted the Chair with this good news, and the Chair told her:

"Well... I don't argue with success."

She recounted the whole interaction to me the next day, because she was so happy to finally get a positive reaction/concession from the Chair. It meant a lot to her... and I've tried to keep this outlook in mind as I roll through this lifetime of new artists, new genres and changing tastes.

Anyway, all of this is my windbag way of saying "who gives a #@$% what anyone else thinks of Joel Zimmerman's work?". If you dig his stuff, and he has some tracks you'd be happy to use as reference tracks for your own mixes, I don't see how a Deadmau5 Master Class could be a bad investment. Nobody achieves the kind of rarified financial success he's achieved without also putting out a product that moves a lot of people. If you're one of those people, then Joel's advice is worth listening to, and probably even paying for.

Back when I was in art school, at the end of the previous century, I had a friend in the program who was all about the Juxtapoz magazine scene

This is why I like you... 99 tyler... my wife lived juxtapoz and high fructose though lol

This is why I like you... 99 tyler... my wife lived juxtapoz and high fructose though lol

I see what you did there... ohhhh the look on your face when you finally realize you and I are the same person. ;)

which means you're the same guy as NYC synth

which means you're the same guy as NYC synth

If only!

I'd finally own a sweet Oberheim Xpander, and I could take the Boss SE-70 off my wishlist :D

you don't need an expander.... you need to buy me one because we're the same person

you don't need an expander.... you need to buy me one because we're the same person

Ha!

“I'll have to check out Sisters. “

It’s on HboMax currently- just added it to my list too

Just finished Sisters this AM. Loved it. A thoroughly-modern early-'70s Hitchcock homage with no '60s hangover. Cheers to Jim for the recommendation.

https://djmag.com/news/ableton-announces-live-11-release-date

Also I might have a look at Cubase... https://www.musictech.net/tutorials/cubase/free-cubase-video-tutorial-series/

https://djmag.com/news/ableton-announces-live-11-release-date

The few Ableton employees I've know are great people. Ableton is a small, private company intent on staying private and continuing to build a great community around Live, Push, and Max. I don't know any of the Image Line, Bitwig, Renoise, or Reaper people, but I'm sure much of the same is true for them, to some extent, too.

If you like the workflow Ableton affords, I can whole-heartedly recommend their stuff from a community/user support and longterm product health standpoint. If there is an problem with a Live release, Ableton treats it like the existential threat that it is, and they move on it while communicating progress to their users. I can't say the same for every DAW on the market.

Seconded. Like every part right down to a couple friends employed there. Can’t say enough good things.

Didn’t know it was possible coming from a veteran Avid background. Kinda like having computer issues back in the day then Apple comes along in the early 00’ and just replaces anything you gotta issue with on the spot no questions asked (that’s faded since sadly) but yep- that’s Ableton now.

I'm glad.... just a heads up, HBO Max also has a lot of Kirosawa movie and all 3 Hanzo movies!

I bought live 10 recently after resisting ebcause of the upgrade to 11 which is loaded with CV features for my vintage and eurorack gear.... if its still on sale its worth it.

I also had my best friend buy me cubase 11because he's in cubase and he wants me to mix his triphop stuff in cubase and I have to say it runs well and is pretty good these days.... it still took awhile to get it to see all 30 of my outs and understand where my monitor bus was because of its old school routing system but the original VST system is still going strong in 11... I initially tried the artist demo to see if I could open these older SX2 projects before buying and there is NOTHING wrong with artist. It loses a few unimportant features for most people and costs less. I wasn't so expensive because Iw as upgrading from 8 so we did Pro, but Artist ispretty close. I honestly don't know that I need Pro to mix hybrid.

Comparing the 2, cubase is much better for recording long audio, ableton is great fr midi, looping etc but in a different way than FL studio... cubase can't touch the stock instruments in ableton but it has better channel EQ and compression options built right in like Harrison 32C if you need that. Cubase eats every other native solution for plugin and outboard latency compensation at a channel and bus level. We looped a tape delay trough out of my 24Ao into my 828 all wet and it compensated all the other tracks when i told it it to and if I adjusted the D time it tried to keep up with minimal gltching. Granted my system is down to like 3 to 5ms round trip now, but I added like 50ms to 200 LOL usnteady, its a loose 1/8" dictaphone tape!

Kinda like having computer issues back in the day then Apple comes along in the early 00’ and just replaces anything you gotta issue with on the spot no questions asked (that’s faded since sadly) but yep- that’s Ableton now.

I went back to PC years ago when mac went intel.... I almost went back this year but got an obscene Dell workstation and just optimized it myself and with high sierra giving my friends headaches I haven't looked back... I do have a multi boot setup with linux for day job (ha! we're still closed) windows and when mac gets their act together with every plugin manufacturer on the new OS I'll add a mac boot becaue its better for protools and in case I wanna do Logic (grrr, I miss emagic)

I' m curious about these new mini macs and where that's going for the power macs, but the whole system is not upgradeable, classic apple bullshit.

I'm glad.... just a heads up, HBO Max also has a lot of Kirosawa movie and all 3 Hanzo movies!

I've been mowing through the Kurosawas I haven't seen for months on HBOMax... it's a great tip. Was afraid a good chunk of Kurosawa's library was never going to be platform-streamable again after that service that had the Criterion collection when under. HBOMax has the best collection of old classics by far.

Don't forget to watch Hanzo the Razor, its dirty harry as a samurai... opposite of turning yojimbo into fistfulla dollars