How To Make - Dark Room Techno with Kirk Degiorgio / 550

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great course!

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Really helps one to watch an insider’s step by step construction of a whole piece that can easily be applied to one’s own work, and thankfully there are more in-the-box ways to approximate the thousand dollars of plugins used here.

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Great tips and walkthrough. Lots of learning. That said, by the end we were quite far away this being ‘dark’ techno…

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Interesting, spoke too soon — one the sounds went into arrangement, the groove didn’t feel “too happy” anymore and the darkness (or seriousness as I call it), came back. Good lesson on how much the same sounds can deliver a different message depending on the arrangement story you end up telling…

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This is a good course of techno music!!! :slight_smile:

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Love this tutorial, but the bass rumble is a key part and he already has a kick drum that has the rumble on it and then layers a couple of kicks on top of it. Any suggestions on how to actually make that rumble?

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is there any real alternative for numerologyVST, that works on windows? great tutorial btw

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look greatt !!

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Brilliant insight, great inspiration for my next release. Top!

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perfect

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Thank you for making this tutorial.

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It okay, he uses a ton of 3rd party plug ins, which is fine but harder to follow for people like me who cant really afford to drop hundreds of dollars on different VSTs. Albeton already has some of this functionality anyways, just show us how to use it.

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Seriously cool, but what drug do you have to be on to really enjoy this style?

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If you are a producer or established artist and wish to collab with me. Please feel free to hum. I use ableton and logic 9. 12 years exp, so of course I can make tracks, I have some releases on beatport as a solo artist, but i guess I would like to reach out and actually collab. stems is fine if we need to. peace

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Perfect!

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Is THAT music? What I must use before listening that “Musix”

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will i need to create music even the midi Keyboard ? or not?

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thank you! great course

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I am not an expert but is freezing tracks not much easier than exporting to audio in tut.5 ?

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Hey @debontehond

That would likely depends of what you’re aiming to do with your track & it’s a question of workflow too.

  • If you aim at just saving CPU & you plan to tweak your MIDI information or maybe add plugin automation, then you would like to FREEZE to be able to modify those later on.

  • If you are sure to be done with the sound & the MIDI & plugin automation then you could bounce the track to audio and it will save some CPU as well of course, but the difference between the methods is either you’re done with the midi track or not.

In this particular case, Kirk is not “exporting” the track to audio ( that would mean to render an audio file from that track outside the DAW from Live’s export option, which you can do as well ) but here he’s recording the midi track output to a new audio track. This is the common workaround in Live since you don’t have a direct “Bounce to Audio” feature like in Logic ( i.e ), you can do it in Live but you need to FREEZE the track & then FLATTEN the track.

Recording or re-sampling the output to a new audio track can also be used in a creative way or as a workflow because you could add new audio effects on the target audio track and record in “pre” or “post” Fx mode to create a dry or wet version of your midi track for example. You can even imagine to send the Midi output to an Audio Track A ( with effects ) & then send the Audio Track A output to an Audio Track B to get your final processed sound, like you would do when sending audio to an external device and getting it back into your mixing console in the analog world.

Live is very flexible in I/O settings to achieve very creative & cascading routing that can be very useful.

Hope that helps !

Cheers !