apoplexia.music

nice! this is kinda flattering to see a sound i made become sort of reference for a "yoi"

i was also wondering about this, because i have had the same problem with one kit i made, and UB can never find one snare sample... but for the other kits i created, everything works fine...another strange logic bug...

indeed, the plug-in seems to work that way...doesanyone know why this is? is it how tape distortion works on old reel-to-reel machines? anyway, with a bit of gain, everything can be brought back up to crushing volumes

no prob i still have A LOT to learn myself, but i'm getting there...books such as David Gibson's The Art of Mixing and Rick Snoman's Dance Music Manual are incredibly useful with tons of vital notions and insight into sound design, programming, production and mixing techniques and even mastering notions that i find quite practical to know when working on a mix. i also learned progressively, by reading articles on mixing techniques in Mix Mazagine Online and the afore-mentionned books, and also by road-testing my mixes with a friend who does professionnal mastering jobs, that the Channel Strip Settings in Logic aren't really practical or representative of real recording/mixing techniques. Then again one could argue that it's a matter of personal preference when it comes to the finer details of compressing, EQ-ing, De-essing, Noise-Gating and Effects-processing your tracks. But of most of all, the lesson to take from these sources is that there are general guidelines that are really helpful to follow, but everything is relative to the context of recording, programming and music style and so forth for the project that you're working on

your beat is really wicked! i could easily hear this in a dancefloor filling mix along with some TTC, Ghislain Poirier and even some dubstep tracks! but there is a tiny technical problem with the mix...when the drums are playing, it sounds like it's clipping...and by a large amount. the waveform doesn't look like it, but it definitely sounds like your whole mix is distorted by the beat, which may be too loud. One tip may be to roll-off your drum-mix at 50Hz with a 48dB/Oct. slope. Another could be to apply a limiter to your drum-mix just to catch the transients your compressor lets slip by. Another thing, probably most important, would be leve about 6dB of headroom to your mix, bounce the stems and remix them by boosting the gain of your Master channel by 6dB, inserting a multiband compressor with very light compression or the mids and high, a bit more compression on the lows and low-mids, and a limiter or multiband limiter (like the Sonalksis MultiLimit) to prevent any clipping while preserving a nice dynamic range! hope that helps!!! but it definitely sounds great stylistically!

do you mean that you make drum loops with various kits and then chop them up? i've never felt the need to do that...guess just out of lazyness or an unfounded concern about filling up useful hardrive space. i like to play around with transient designers to cut or boost the tail of some sounds, but to keep a really tight control on every part of the drum kit, i prefer to just work directly from Ultrabeat or the EXS and use the multiple output feature i affect the sounds indenpendently.

all you need to do is create an ES2 and tweak around with the waveforms (the third ocsillator has a white/colourd noise waveform) or download the YMCK Magical 8-bit plug-in which has a raw white noise waveform

really like your music! i am a fan of 8-bit goodness myself and i really enjoyed listening to your tunes!

that is sooooooooooooo fresh! wow! congrats!! where can i get the soundtrack!

thanks for the feedback! my tracks are basically an orgy of drums! in Jackhammer Riddim, it is the tight studio kit & drum n bass kit 2 from Ultrabeat, mixed with a breakbeat loop that i sliced up and effected with the Effectrix plug-in in the track right after in the playlist (Zero Riddim Dub), there the same Drum N Bass kit from Ultrabeat, an Amen Loop chopped up from the original sample and layed out in the EXS at normal speed, 1/2 speed time-stretched, 1/4 speed and more time-stretched, and select sounds from all speeds reversed as well ; there is also a drumloop from an Ohgr song...and Speak n Spell samples!

hello i've starting building an ultrabeat kit from the ground up, using David's Ultrabeat Sample Player with Velocity as a starting point. The only problem is, i can't get my samples to play at different velocities even if i routed the Osc2 Modulation to Env1 via Velocity for each of them, and the volume range is from -50dB to -4dB for each sample. Should i instead use that routing to affect the overall voice volume, rather than the Osc2 volume? thanks

i was also wondering about latency issues, i've read on this very forum that the buffer size should always be 128 or below, but when i try setting my buffer lower than 512, Logic crashes every goddamn time! what can i do about this?

nice! i sense much anger in you, young jedi!!!! nice integration of the synths, which usually sound awfully cheesy in metal, but these work great! the guitars sound totally awesome...In Flames meets Death meets Dream Theater indeed but i have to agree with some comments about drums that lack a bit of liveliness otherwise killer song and killer mix!!!!

damn! that is a sweet Dinosaur Jr. style rendition!!! good effin' work!!

here are some tracks i made using Logic 8 (except the one called The End of an Era, which was made in FL Studio when i was still in the murky sewage of the PC world) http://www.myspace.com/apoplexiamusic the most recent one is a demo of an old-school jungle track : JackHammer Riddim tell me what you think!