yeehaw, keen to jump back in for another year!
2 December 28, 2020 11:55 am
Re: 2020 - Reflections (13 replies, posted in General Discussion)
This was the first year since 2014 that I've actively slogged it out for the year, and I have to say that I had fun doing it.
In saying that, I dropped off towards the end of the year because of work, a macbook logic board blowing up and other commitments - I think I missed six or seven weeks over all, but I definitely got what I wanted out of weeklybeats 2020. At the start of the year I wanted to up my production game to the point where I could feel confident enough to not only be satisfied with finishing and releasing music, but also get myself out there and working with other like-minded people.
definitely learned a lot of new techniques and skills along the way too - hell, prior to week 7 i was barely EQing anything, and even towards the end of the year i was noticing i'd get to a point where i could pump out an idea super quick and be happy with what it sounded like - both with the compositions and the mixes.
so i guess overall 8/10. achieved my end goal of getting myself back into making music again as well as keeping myself to a deadline - even if it was the night before. keen to dive into this year's stuff and listen back to the collective output too - i've been sorely inactive for the most part besides posting my own stuff whoops lol
3 January 12, 2020 2:44 pm
Re: What kind of setup you guys use? (36 replies, posted in General Discussion)
in the box, i'm using ableton 9.7.4 on my 2012 i5 macbook pro. it struggles a bit at times but it's still quite serviceable. had a few issues recording audio last week for this week's weeklybeat so i had to work around that. VSTs i use heaps of are massive, sylenth and m1. also use and abuse splice to a degree (nothing copyright infringing of course, only royalty free!). finally for the software side of things, i managed to get a hold of ozone elements 8 for free last year before they put out 9 so that really adds a bit of sheen and sparkle to the final products.
i haven't used any of my hardware on my two submissions (it's mainly been about just getting into a workflow for the first few weeks) - but i do have a microkorg, a korg ms2000b, a roland jd-xi, a casio cz5000 and an sp-505.