Phil, I was watching the MK tutorial and went thru the whole process. I liked the tutorial [I’m a break beat/Speed garage head at heart] so good job on that… I do have a few questions.
1] I do not have the menu option in the sylenth. How do I get it?
This is the part where you kept reseting the sylenth.
2] When you make your tracks I see that you typical do minimal bars. When/How do you record to get to the [Wave Editing Screen] to layout your song?
I’ve been trying to solo record, let’s say the kick, for a “progressive” dj friendly intro. into the kick plus the hats/claps etc into the synth plus all the drum groups combined. It doesn’t seem to be as easy as you make it to be. Can you explain to me how you come about this process?
You seem to loop the different segments but do you record all channels at once and then cut the segments out during the arrangement process to create the song?
If I don’t make any sense I’ll explain in more detail if you’d like.
Thanks and +1 on the Klass & Felix the housecat tuts.
Obviously Phil should explain his theory and reasons for the way he does things. I can answer your technical questions though.
Sylenth Menu: it’s a button thats in the upper left corner of the LCD screen in Sylenth under the 1,2,3,4 buttons for the banks. This is where you can also load the other banks that come with the synth etc, etc.
Record Arrangement: I find that its easiest when getting ready to arrange to record all of your loops at once until the last one has finished. Hit stop, switch to arrangement view. Then crop back to normal size. Cut, paste, and edit to your hearts content.
Drum Group: All the drums are programmed using impulse, mostly one instance. Then you seperate all of them out using the “in” buttons on the audio channels and linking them back to the Impulse. Think of it like seperating the notes on a keyboard out. You can do this with all midi, you just have to know exactly what note or sound you are trying to separate from the “group”. The reason you separate the drums, and then group them back together is so you can easily mix them without having to use the volume controls on Impulse. As well as adding FX to certain parts (ie. reverb on the hats, you don’t want to verb the whole group, just the hats). Once your mix is right with the drums, you group and compress to bring it all back together. There’s a science to this, and its not as redundant as it seems. Hope this helps the technical stuff…
Not sure why Phil does things the way he does, but I like it! 
Raymond
Yeah, that helps…
On the sylenth lcd screen I have “ABOUT” in the top left corner I don’t really see any other options but I haven’t messed with it… Ill give it another shot… and let you know
As far as the “Song Layout” that’s what I was doing was recording, let’s say 5 minutes of all elements" and then switched to the other view and cut and sliced etc to get it how I wanted… I just wanted some type od confirmation that’s the standard way of doing it… Thanks.
Lastly, I would like to know the “Before I even start track” process…
It doesn’t say menu right about Arpeg?
Raymond
is it a demo version or something?
As far as starting a track, I think it’s definitely to each their own. I like to build it all the way up and then arrange it using subtractive arrangement. I usually get started by hearing a sound or bassline I like and then taking that idea and going with it. Then developing off of that. As far as the record to arrange, you could just copy and paste your clips to the arrangement window if you don’t want to have to sit there for five minutes while you record it… I do the record til the last one is done so it puts them all in the right place. To some people this isn’t a big deal…
Raymond