Lush AF.

What's your workflow?

Lush AF. What's your workflow?

For this one (and to some extent the last few weeks)
Make a big pack of jungle/breakbeats from samples, match tempo with ableton. This makes it really easy to swap things in and out / create some variation on the M8 later
Make a similar pack of pads at the same bpm
Fire up the M8
Fiddle around until I come up with a pad + beat combo and come up with a basic baseline and pick a key
Just build on that with the various synths on the M8, chorus, verse, bridge, usually some combination of a fairly raw wave with a lot of delay, some hypersynth chords and plucks with delay.
Hopefully come up with some kind of half coherent outro before I run out of steam / it's time to submit but often that doesn't happen

I just render down on the M8 and don't really go back to a DAW lately. If I was spending more time on each track I'd render to stems and go back to ableton to improve the mix with a bit more manual filtering (mostly to cut bass from some tracks) and add vox samples at this point. I feel like after WBs is over this year I'll do one a month and take this approach

[quote=naught101]Lush AF. What's your workflow?[/quote] For this one (and to some extent the last few weeks) Make a big pack of jungle/breakbeats from samples, match tempo with ableton. This makes it really easy to swap things in and out / create some variation on the M8 later Make a similar pack of pads at the same bpm Fire up the M8 Fiddle around until I come up with a pad + beat combo and come up with a basic baseline and pick a key Just build on that with the various synths on the M8, chorus, verse, bridge, usually some combination of a fairly raw wave with a lot of delay, some hypersynth chords and plucks with delay. Hopefully come up with some kind of half coherent outro before I run out of steam / it's time to submit but often that doesn't happen :) I just render down on the M8 and don't really go back to a DAW lately. If I was spending more time on each track I'd render to stems and go back to ableton to improve the mix with a bit more manual filtering (mostly to cut bass from some tracks) and add vox samples at this point. I feel like after WBs is over this year I'll do one a month and take this approach :)

This is really fantastic. Love the vibe and drum work and all the lush synth sounds

This is really fantastic. Love the vibe and drum work and all the lush synth sounds

This really goes into outer space with excellent accuracy.
- Spider

This really goes into outer space with excellent accuracy. - Spider

Enjoying the melodies:)

Enjoying the melodies:)

I am also never going back to the daw after finishing a track, but the only thing I really miss is nice reverb. This work flow sounds interesting for the pads (and chords, I guess), I might give it a go. Thanks!

[quote=Vivi]Make a big pack of jungle/breakbeats from samples, match tempo with ableton. ... Make a similar pack of pads at the same bpm ... I just render down on the M8 and don't really go back to a DAW lately.[/quote] I am also never going back to the daw after finishing a track, but the only thing I really miss is nice reverb. This work flow sounds interesting for the pads (and chords, I guess), I might give it a go. Thanks!