Hi Poppi,

Thank you very much for the Vote!
You cannot here the original tracks as you need to subscribe to the contest, but i can send the Live packs to those who want!

Hi EveryOne,

I Did an Ableton challenge to remix a track from M83, Junior Boys and Nosaj Thing,.
The difference from here is that you only have 24 hours to do your mix, only by using Ableton Live (other software tolerated but preferably Live)
I really advise you to do it, because the samples provided are really cool and interesting, and from 3 great artists (specially Nosaj Thing)




So Weekly Beats Challenger, I need your vote!!
so I can win an "Ableton Suite with free upgrades for life"
I swear i'll share those plugin with you all wink

So please Login to your Soundcloud and vote for my track (unless you hate it) :

http://contest.ableton.com/tracks/625
http://contest.ableton.com/tracks/625
http://contest.ableton.com/tracks/625




PS: Being said that i did this remix, i won't have time to do this weekly track so a question for the admin: Can i post my remix of this track here anyway? because i think they are shared as a common license!

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Hello to the admin of the site!

I'd like to change my  webmail setting because my hotmail account has been pirated, but I can't see any links to change this setting (and no forum post either)?
Could you send me a message on the following address in order to help me?


Thank  you!!
Alex.



[email protected]

I think you misunderstood my answer! I was giving a response to Little Scale and ThursdayBloom who said they used their own sample or free samples!
And I explained that it was not the same thing at all!

I understand that there are rules imposed and of course i'll be careful in my future upload (as i said at the end of my post)

Welcome!!
Your production are very good and very original!
At the moment even if they are not my favorite song of the site I think they are one of the best produced song!
Your visuals are very cool as well^^
With which soft are you drawing them?

Yes but that's not the point!
if I used THOSE samples it's because there was a reason, not because it was of good quality (or as you said to choose it because it was free), but because there was a meaning of why I used them, because even if it's taken from a masterpiece (which is only available from the business industry) it's also a part of me (I think), as it is what I am and what I like and that's why I want to share it and rework it!!
I guess the only solution is to use it, but change it so hardly that nobody except me can recognize it, and that's what most electronic artist does (well not all of them wink )

Oh all right, i just received them all in one shot and just like 1 hour ago!
I'll be careful for my next 'creation'  and will put some bloody hard distortion or something in the way on it ^^

I don't know why buy my first upload as been deleted? It contained voice samples, but i think it's a bit late for deleted them?
And my last upload was also deleted for no apparent reason because there were no recognizable instrument?

Very impressive! Keep doing this as long as you can!
You must spend more time to criticize and listen than to make your own beat ^^
Thank you for putting me in your list for this 3rd week!

There's more to come wink

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You're Welcome!
The piano roll is almost on every Music Software i guess!
Becoming professional means buying stuff! lol! Sorry to say that!
Not that you can't produce professional music without good gear, but considering you are making techno and if you want to play guitar you'll need a good microphone and good pre-amp, good DAC converter,etc...

But I think starting by producing a lot (like this site allows), trying to do lots and lots of tutorial and above all sharing your ideas and your work is the best solution to become professional. That's why I do it!

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Check this as well:

http://www.image-line.com/documents/pow … e-oldfield

So, i'm sure you can continue to produce some good music with it wink

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It is very hard to give the proper advice on which soft to use as it really depends on the way you are writing or making music.

As a sound engineer I learned to mix with Cubase and ProTools, but the one that really suited me the most was definitely Logic, firstly because I like its interface and its design (as always with Apple). I like the fact that this soft is really oriented for both Mixing and Editing, as well as providing you a very easy way for creating, combined with the Komplete Instruments it is just a dream! But as you said it is also f****** expansive and I couldn't afford it as well, I just learned in a University in Wales and worked with my cracked version of Cubase and a little bit of Fruity Loop as well.

I would advise you to use Reason more as a VST as there a some good Synth and Effect in it, but the Sequencer view is a pain for me...

Anyway, when I came back to France I also learned a lot on MaxMsp as an Internship Work, which carried me to have a big interest on Ableton Live, and this was a real revelation to me. The way with software is designed is totally oriented for Musicians. The fact that you can work with loops and arrange them in real time really helps you to be very creative and improvise music with a smaller amount of musical theory (and on this side FL and Live have maybe a lot in common) but you'll need to do Tutorials and learn the minimum anyway. Besides, because there is a big community of Max developers, there a lot and lot of plug-ins that comes with it and assists you for writing in the good keys for example (cf. your other thread on musical scales and also have a look on that:   http://www.ableton.com/schwarzonator  ). I still think that the arrangement (where you can edit, copy, past, write your automation, etc...) view is not as clear as the one from Logic, but it's still better than reason.

My last advice will be about fruity loop. If you started with this software, I think you should continue to work with it, as their are many professional musicians that use it and make very professionals production (example: http://www.pogomix.net/category/videos/) If you have enough money to buy it, just do it, but I'm also still a student and must admit that I don't use an official version of all my soft (i think Try before Buy is good wink ).

You said you don't have a lot of knowledge about writing music (and i don't have a lot either) but if you feel it you can always do something, Just Listen and Play!!!

There is a specification about "using samples" i'd like to know?

In my track, i'm using some samples from a Hitchcock movie, which I didn't know if I could use it (but I did it anyway).
I'll certainly use some Jazz (or other genres) samples in my future tracks and I don't know how it works for using them without being deleted?

I was going to post the same comment!
I'm really thankful for all the people making good comment of my track, but i'd also like some kind of constructive criticism.
Beside showing to the world our masterpieces ( wink ) I think it is the main goal of this website to improve our skills, so tell me what's wrong in my music and what is missing so that I can be better!!

21/12/2012

Will be our REAL last perfect track!!!

sadness...

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I see that there are quite a lot of chip musician here.
I'll start by uploading my mix made from Ableton, trying to master the soft as fully as possible, and in the same time building a Midi controlled Arduino linked to a sound chip from the Sega Master System.
I'm also very often starting with a basic loop (sampled from jazz most of the time) and building my song around that with any existing (or non-existing) instrument.
Hope my work will be pleasant for you and you'll give me some feedback to improve my skills!
Can't wait to start and hear your work as well ^^