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See you in Tau Ceti

By laguna on July 7, 2024 11:56 pm

I had a somewhat unexpected setback: the battery of my main production machine (an old and trusty Macbook Pro mid 2012) got swollen so I removed it a couple of days ago. Little I knew Mac laptops throttle their CPU when NO BATTERY IS MOUNTED. So basically I got a machine at half speed that couldn't handle this week song.

I didn't touch the machine yesterday, because I was with my family in Madrid's PRIDE parade, and on Sunday afternoon, when I was about to almost finish my song, I realized I was topping the processor constantly, until I remembered the whole "Mac at half speed" dilemma.

So without time to migrate the project (and mostly the plugins) to one of my other computers (my "homelab" is basically stuck in 2012-2014... and I run my stuff happily!) I started this silly thing in my Windows PC, which is not completely set yet, so my own presets weren't installed.

Made in one hour. All Ableton internal devices. No plugins and no mastering. two wavetable synths, one fm synth. Lots of delay to cover my lack of planification smile

Anyway, it was somewhat fun. Thank you for listening and have a great week, WB family!!!

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July 8, 2024 9:25 am

ENC_

Oh, I have ran into that same issue with my old laptops. It makes it a pain to get old tracks running.

Stock Ableton sounds great here. TBH I don't think you need much more then what they provide if you know what you are doing.

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July 12, 2024 7:28 pm

laguna

ENC_ wrote:

Oh, I have ran into that same issue with my old laptops. It makes it a pain to get old tracks running.

Stock Ableton sounds great here. TBH I don't think you need much more then what they provide if you know what you are doing.

Oh, indeed. I forced myself to get out of Ableton in order to get out of my confort zone and mainly because I use Linux more than I use macOS, but I think it has enough devices and tools to keep you occupied for years. I've never been some great synth collector, but lately I got rid of some pieces because, let's be honest, I kept programming my stuff inbox smile

Thankfully, I got a replacement battery the next day, so my trusty 2012 Macbook could live a little bit longer doing its thing (maybe another 12 years?).

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July 14, 2024 8:51 pm

ENC_

laguna wrote:

Oh, indeed. I forced myself to get out of...

A reliable laptop and well mastered piece of software can in someways be ultimate hardware depending on how you look at it smile

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July 14, 2024 9:25 pm

laguna

ENC_ wrote:
laguna wrote:

Oh, indeed. I forced myself to get out of...

A reliable laptop and well mastered piece of software can in someways be ultimate hardware depending on how you look at it smile

1000 (A Thousand!!!) % agree on that. Sadly Youtubers talking about a certain software only get to reach "Tutorial audience" if you know what I mean. Total respect to hardware, but "hardware jams" in social media has become like some kind of "I'm REAL musician are Ur not with ya toy computer".

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July 15, 2024 9:29 pm

Tone Matrix

That pulsing arp sounds awesome floating over the bubbly bass.  A pleasing and soothing chord progression too.  Nice work!

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July 16, 2024 9:59 am

laguna

Tone Matrix wrote:

That pulsing arp sounds awesome floating over the bubbly bass.  A pleasing and soothing chord progression too.  Nice work!

Thank you, Eric! It's miles away from the quality of your harmonies, but at least I manage to make a chord progression with more that TWO chords... I'm into punk rock territory here smile

Thanks again for your kind words

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