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Here is a screenshot of me making noise on my linux machine, it is still a bit chaotic looking but is managable:



seq24 is a midi only sequencer that emulates some old hardware that I have never seen before, hydrogen is a very nice drum machine, I must admit I have never used a drum program or plugin which I enjoy more. It has these nice "humanize" knobs which make stuff sound less "perfect" that I havent seen in other programs and I can layer new kick sounds and stuff without leaving the program. Zynaddsubfx is a synth which is fun so far but I have yet to unlock its real potential. Supposedly it it very versatile and makes alot of neat sounds but I haven't been able to make many different sounds with it yet. I think there is another window that pops up which has alot more knobs and stuff on it that I need to find. The bottom right is a program called qjackctl, it is alot like rewire and is reponsible for routing the midi and audio between programs.

At the moment it is kinda ghetto looking but I hope to set it up so that things happen a bit more automatically, I am looking into that at the moment. I can make all the programs launch at once but I still have to connect them all together myself before I can use them, still looking for ways to script that part. When it is all done I hope to have a separate runlevel where only music programs run and some sort of template that arranges the windows and adjusts each program to be ready to play.

There is one big plus to the set of programs I have chosen, they are all very tiny, even my window manager is a tiny program. Simple tiny programs leave plenty of the CPU for the real important task of processing the sounds and stuff. My system would probably be inadequate for music using the full-featured apps because it is close to 3 years old.

Idecided I needed to simplify my production routine so at the moment I limit myslf to this really simple sequencer and the drums and 1 synth. I also have a sampler and a soundfont synth that I use on occasion. Later on I hope to incorporate ardour and audio effects plugins into the setup but I want to do basic midi compositions first before I get too deep in manipulating audio.

So what about you guys? How bout some of you take pictures and explain your software arrangement, I think this might be a fun way to bounce ideas off of each other.

your no fun

why u gotta be like that posting stuff in what is supposed to be a helpful thread, sigh

there is mine, running Cubase SX 3, with alot of VST Plugins, and effects, and an Edirol PCR 50 keyboard, and some Alesis monitors, u can see that the project is kinda "spaced".. i like to have things organized and structurized..

My pic is insanely huge so I'll just post a link:

http://organik.1g.fi/works.jpg

I think it's pretty self explanatory, really - I've got the Reason rack in 1 monitor and the sequencer in the other.

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery My pic is insanely huge so I'll just post a link: http://organik.1g.fi/works.jpg I think it's pretty self explanatory, really - I've got the Reason rack in 1 monitor and the sequencer in the other.

very nice skin, where did you get it from?

Here's my shot of my current track

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Originally posted by ronk very nice skin, where did you get it from?

I can't remember anymore, actually...

frost: maybe it's different in your version of logic, but have you tried using the looping function. Maybe you have used it but from looking at the screenshot it seems you just copy and paste parts.
The looping function could save you time. Just thought you might want to know.

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Originally posted by tripudio Here's my shot of my current track

i bet you wack off while producing

hahahahaha need some modivation sometimes

I always wanted to know what some people's projects looked like.

here's mine...
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Originally posted by superddman frost: maybe it's different in your version of logic, but have you tried using the looping function. Maybe you have used it but from looking at the screenshot it seems you just copy and paste parts. The looping function could save you time. Just thought you might want to know.

I know logic in and out .. Once you get those loops in place you can use a hot key and make them normal and not looped which makes them easier to manipulate.


I found the name of the command, its turn loops to real copies.. Do a search for it in the hotkeys menu logics is extremely powerful, providing you know the hot keys...

tripudio, what's that korg unit? Can you use that to organize midi controller arrangements?

Its part of the Korg legacy collection, sorry I dont know much about midi, so I can't anwswer your question I just use my mouse and keyboard lol

One more FL user here...

Here's a screenshot and here's a short sample for the track I just started working on a few days ago...

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Originally posted by Kinde One more FL user here... Here's a screenshot and here's a short sample for the track I just started working on a few days ago...

Organize your tracks and never mix with a mastering software on the master channel.

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Originally posted by Corteoz Organize your tracks and never mix with a mastering software on the master channel.

Yeah, I know it's a bit of a mess right now but haven't really arsed to organize it or think about the mastering issues and putting izotope through send channels just yet..

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Originally posted by Corteoz ...never mix with a mastering software on the master channel.

Your opinion.

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Originally posted by DigiNut Your opinion.

+1

I find it very key to do tracking-mastering (composing and mastering at the same time). It will ALWAYS make your cleanup job a lot easier and it will also usually generate a nicer overall output. This way, if you find that one instrument doesnt fair so well through your multiband compressor then you arent stuck re-rendering the thing for another 10m to change one single instruments settings.

Cheers,
Zac

Well, I said never MIX with mastering software. You should always render with it...

You might have misunderstood me, let me explain.
I always try to make the track sound as good as possible without any mastering tools on my master channel. By doing that i'm working a little harder to get a better sound before mastering. When mastering, it gets even better, and voila! A high quality song.

When using mastering software on the master channel you won't see weather your levels are wrong or what sounds clip where and etc.

Well, you might be right. It's just my way of doing it.

You're right, one should work to make a track sound good without any mastering. Still, that doesn't mean one should finish the entire mixdown without checking it against their mastering tools. I find that it's better to do it in sequence as different sections of the track are developed, and it's far easier to make any necessary minor adjustments inside the sequencer than to re-render and do the mastering all over again.

It's practically a necessity for me to do it that way anyway since I use a few output buses and master each one differently, then do another final mixdown/master all together. It would take forever to do that if I did the mastering outside the sequencer...

Anyway, everyone has their own workflow and they're entitled to use their own methods. I would never tell someone that they *should* do their mastering within the sequencer, it just works a lot better for me.

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