The Hello-Thread: Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself 👋

figures he uses Logic, even protools is more compatible these days

welcome, post early, post often

Cubase is like the distant cousin. haven't got many friends running it. Didn't think of dropbox!

These guys are amazing! I am forever on this site! It is the best go-to site for dialling in on a sound or just asking advice. Welcome aboard.

I used to use dropbox to collaborate but now I use google drive since EVERYONE has a gmail account.

back before apple I was a logic guy strictly for MIDI and it wasn't much of a lead to go Steinberg when Cubase sx came out providing all the audio handling I could want at the time.... now I literally use FL for everything. I was an early adopter when it was just a PC based sampling beatbox and I am really happy not having to export my sample based tracks to another sequencer/recorder now. It makes everything so quick to be able to arrange little snippets of audio, program vsti's, sequence and record hardware synths and create live instrument loops all in one continuous arrangement/mxing process. Since hardwiring some of my equipment in the corner of my son's playroom I can get a rough mix done in a day when I have a clear vision for the arrangement going in.

I built a moderately un-portable porta studio to allow me to work on projects until I build the studio proper... It gives me a synth, drum machine, laptop and additional screen, speakers/ monitors and interface all self contained and wired in and it sits on a folding keyboard stand, with pedalboard supported underneath. Design was so I could drag it to various locations if need be but the thing weighs far too much to enjoy moving it at all.

FL is like a jet engine once you start to get used to it. Compressors, EQs, samplers that chop for you, tape simulations. Not to mention all the usual reverbs/delays/choruses. Pitch shifting, gross beat.

Only thing it doesn't do that well is basslines, but even then you can work around that by using "Outside The Club" mixing preset on samples for old school 90s boom bap filtered basslines.

I still need to try ableton, I feel its compressors/side chaining is probably the sound a lot of the beat scene guys have. FlyLo/Knxwledge in particular.

I have a MIDI Moog, Sub Phatty, ARP Odyssey, DX7, two 303 clones, a korg volca bass.... bass is not a problem... if anything I am typically taking my recorded hardware tracks and making surgical cuts with EQ to thin them out and free up dynamic range... I tend to have at least 3 bass tracks into a single insert channel, one of which will be a vst and the other 2 will be hardware, generally a moog and the DX7 for pop songs.... but there's no rule. Lately I have been enjoying warming up my DX7 thru the Sub Phatty's filter and envelopes which allows me to MIDI sync everything so all the filters are modulating the same way in response to velocity in the master sequence that drives all 3 tracks

sorry, TMI

but honestly, Harmor and Harmless are great bass plugins for most purposes and if you know what you are about mixing you can get wonderful stuff even from the little 3xOsc

welcome... I'm a huge fan of the Archies... okay, not really.... but the guy who wrote "Sugar" for the Archies used to work for my rock band about 10 years ago.

but welcome, post often

Howdy Lizzie.

I built a moderately un-portable porta studio to allow me to work on projects until I build the studio proper... It gives me a synth, drum machine, laptop and additional screen, speakers/ monitors and interface all self contained and wired in and it sits on a folding keyboard stand, with pedalboard supported underneath.

pictures???

gear porn on my board... I talked it up but it is all there.

G'day Lizzie.... I live in New Zealand West... I mean Australia. Good to have you on board on the board.

Welcome to the board ya'll. Good to see that you already dug in a little and started getting into the spirit of things.

all music has some merits, well, most of it.... and as a player and writer you should listen to music you hate just to figure out what other people like about it and then assimilate those ideas. Playing music you dislike well is a challenge every musician should take on.