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Take Me Higher

By franky on February 8, 2026 7:56 pm

Week 6, Lets keep it goin!

I fixed the ASIO in Ableton Thursday night with the help of two friends, by running ASIO4ALL...I'm in a better headspace now, A huge cloud has been lifted off me. I couldn't sleep knowing it wasn't working. lol SO much troubleshooting just so I can wear earbuds. Anyway, after a long awaited weekend to arrive, I made the outline for "Take Me Higher" on Saturday Morning, then worked on it at night and now finished it up today. I wish I had more time to work on this track but I'm satisfied...till I get to work on music again which may not be till Friday, and I'll be gassed out from the week, so it'll be a test.
Happy early Valentines Day to the lovers on here heart

Thanks for listening smile
Cya next week!

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Whaaaaat! When it kicks in at 30 seconds, wow. It sounds so complete and polished and more importantly, funky,it doesn't sound like it was made in a couple of days, it sounds like a huge weight has been lifted off me!

PartiMellow wrote:

Whaaaaat! When it kicks in at 30 seconds, wow. It sounds so complete and polished and more importantly, funky,it doesn't sound like it was made in a couple of days, it sounds like a huge weight has been lifted off me!

It sucks I only have maybe, boiled down, like 15 hours to work on music. Its not a flex, I wish I had more time to add another sound or more notes or something, it needs something but I am glad to have an upload I like. Thank you so much PartiMellow for sharing your comment.

Yo this slaps! Yeah time is never enough, but I'm happy you've been able to solve the technicalities, is such a relief heart

Loving those Detroit-esque chords and the whole groove of the track!

I feel you when it comes to technical struggles. I've lost more than one upload slot because the project refused to render, or some plugin keeps crashing. I don't do much work on Windows but ASIO is nice... until it isn't.

Great work!

Damn mate this slaps. I have to agree with PartiMellow, this sounds very well rounded and polished. I can see what you mean by wanting to introduce something else as well but in my mind it is not required at all. Great track!

You're on to something good with this one, bass rolling like mustard gas. Kind of reminds me of the older Radio Slave tracks.

I got myself running properly on ASIO4ALL this year too. On occasion it gets into a mode where it starts breaking up and distorting, but closing and reopening Ableton completely fixes it and changed a few setting this week which seems to have stopped it.  But mostly it does its job and is forgettable, like a good tool should.

Coldsushi wrote:

Yo this slaps! Yeah time is never enough, but I'm happy you've been able to solve the technicalities, is such a relief heart

It really is, literally lost sleep over tech difficulties haha. Thanks Coldsushi


laguna wrote:

Loving those Detroit-esque chords and the whole groove of the track!

I feel you when it comes to technical struggles. I've lost more than one upload slot because the project refused to render, or some plugin keeps crashing. I don't do much work on Windows but ASIO is nice... until it isn't.

Great work!

I envy Mac for a lot of stuff, but I don't for not licensing out their OS. So I'm forced to run Windows but I'm actually really liking 11 pro. I've been listening to a lot of "Kevin Saunderson" and "Liquid" lately, love the synth instruments and chords.
Thanks for listening to all my uploads Laguna smile


qp wrote:

Damn mate this slaps. I have to agree with PartiMellow, this sounds very well rounded and polished. I can see what you mean by wanting to introduce something else as well but in my mind it is not required at all. Great track!

In the future I need to add more elements so its less repetitive but I need to keep the energy that comes along with it. I'm glad you can dig it qp!



waziam wrote:

You're on to something good with this one, bass rolling like mustard gas. Kind of reminds me of the older Radio Slave tracks.

I got myself running properly on ASIO4ALL this year too. On occasion it gets into a mode where it starts breaking up and distorting, but closing and reopening Ableton completely fixes it and changed a few setting this week which seems to have stopped it.  But mostly it does its job and is forgettable, like a good tool should.

After ASIO4ALL ran fine, the next day when I loaded in I kept getting errors at launch and would have to reinstall Ableton more than a handful or times. But now its working great and I probably wont do any updates for awhile now haha
Thanks waziam


franky wrote:


laguna wrote:

Loving those Detroit-esque chords and the whole groove of the track!

I feel you when it comes to technical struggles. I've lost more than one upload slot because the project refused to render, or some plugin keeps crashing. I don't do much work on Windows but ASIO is nice... until it isn't.

Great work!

I envy Mac for a lot of stuff, but I don't for not licensing out their OS. So I'm forced to run Windows but I'm actually really liking 11 pro. I've been listening to a lot of "Kevin Saunderson" and "Liquid" lately, love the synth instruments and chords.
Thanks for listening to all my uploads Laguna smile

My pleasure, man!

If you're interested in having a machine exclusively for production, you could get a system like mine (mid 2012 Macbook Pro running macOS 10.15 Catalina and an 8 in 8 out Firewire soundcard for aroung 150 euros / dollars (or even cheaper). Most of this era's machines accept 16 gigabytes of RAM and run even Live 11 (I chose to stay on 10).

For many, these systems are "too old even to browse their socials", yet I use them daily.

Since I read you dabbled on Live 7, you could even get aroung getting some older equipment. They even support the latest official Arturia and Native Instruments updates. I can tell you I've been keeping the same install for 14 years without a hiccup and maybe 2-3 crashes per year (counting it inherits installs from previous machines via migration).

My point is: you don't need the latest M4 Studio with 16 cores to run a Live project. I'm even restoring some older systems and have them as dedicated Kontakt "library" machines, ever since the whole Native Instruments debacle.

Hit me up if you need any details.

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