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By fmcave on February 9, 2014 11:40 pm

Tried switching from Ableton to Logic this week to see how the workflow was. I like the way audio just "sounds" in Logic (if that is even a real difference) but for this type of music the workflow is a bit clunky. Looping is easy but copying and pasting is weirdly not intuitive. I also miss the ability to easily tune individual samples as well as insert effects on a specific sampler note mapping. Maybe this can be done in Logic too though, and I just haven't figured it out yet.

On the other hand Logic's stock effects are better I think. Unfortunately I ran out of time this week and didn't get into the nitty gritty automation that I wanted to try based on feedback from last week and overcompensated by just throwing a ton of samples at the song. Next week I am going to try using only a few sounds, and tweaking them to flesh out the track, rather than just piling things on.

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Awwwwww yeah.  Great beat, great hook.  Nice sounds, and nice work. 

cool track

body rockin beat

Yeah nice stuff.

I'd suggest use Ableton for composing and Logic for mixing/finalizing. If you are used to Ableton's super intuitive and fast-sketching environment, Logic seems like many steps backwards.

This definitely sounds worth trying. I'll give it a go!

akira wrote:

Yeah nice stuff.

I'd suggest use Ableton for composing and Logic for mixing/finalizing. If you are used to Ableton's super intuitive and fast-sketching environment, Logic seems like many steps backwards.


onezero wrote:

Awwwwww yeah.  Great beat, great hook.  Nice sounds, and nice work.

Thanks! Been learning a lot so far.

Production on this guy is top notch. Percs hit hard, sounds were clear. Love the dynamic range and how things come in and out. Some things that caught my attention was after the kick cuts out the second time I felt it lost alot of its energy. When it came back it didnt add anything new to the mix which kept me lacking just a bit. Overall though great work. Id like to see more ideas thrown in your next track but still keep the tight mix you have here!

really excellent production. in the past, i've rewired Ableton into Logic and mixed down the audio in logic... might be worth trying. i've gotten better at bending ableton to my will though, so now i'm no longer using Logic. really great work here!

really nice quality and great beat going on there. Nice breaks, too. Like you already said in the description, some (more) automation on maybe some few selected elements would be even more pulsating. But nonetheless excellent piece!

preciouskindred wrote:

really excellent production. in the past, i've rewired Ableton into Logic and mixed down the audio in logic... might be worth trying. i've gotten better at bending ableton to my will though, so now i'm no longer using Logic. really great work here!

I don't know if you will see this...but I haven't messed with rewire much. Does that route audio live during playback from Ableton to Logic? (or app a to app b). Is this preferable to bouncing each track in ableton out and then loading them into logic?

Perplex On wrote:

really nice quality and great beat going on there. Nice breaks, too. Like you already said in the description, some (more) automation on maybe some few selected elements would be even more pulsating. But nonetheless excellent piece!


thank you!

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