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If you can then obviously both, but if you have one choice then here is what I would say: You can do everything in Battery that session drums can, but session drums cannot do everything that Battery can. Therefore I would say that Battery is the better option. I create music as a freelancer for a nu...

The fake surround channels is the right way to approach this, but remember the the more off-axis a sound is, the more reverb and the more dull it sounds, along with already mentioned point of being more delayed, with respect to the original signal. You could make a rack that adds delay, low pass fil...

I'm only guessing here, but taking longjohns suggestion very literally try this: 1.) Make an effects rack with two chains 2.) Put your compressor on the first chain, followed by a Utility. 3.) Leave the second chain as the vanilla audio chain. 4.) Invert the phase of the Utility on the left and righ...

For sure, that's how I have been doing it up to this point. You can indeed do some wicked stuff with racks that's for sure. There are just a few "simple" things ( simple conceptually.... ) that I have wanted for a long time to combine into super-efficient and super-small "audio nodes&...

There is no catch as far as I can tell, and your point is very valid, but in a different context and for a different purpose ( which part 7 of the original description clarifies ); let me explain: In the case you've given the original signal would be unaltered, which would not support the idea of mi...

Because the side-chain of most compressors creates an envelope that is less than ideal for your kick ducking ( and as you have observed it clicks with low attack/release times ), I'd recommend thinking about the problem differently. Make a new track with a separate kick that uses the same midi patte...

So then.... Has anyone checked it out yet :wink: I am interested to hear what people come up with. Maybe you would all be more interested if I hurried up and finished the MIDI LFO that I am working on. The next plug-in I am giving out for free will be able to generate a MIDI LFO and/or a MIDI signal...

I have managed to do this for entire songs before with success, but you godda do some manual work. This version I give here means that you do not have to work with bounced audio, this more intensive conversion process will work with the MIDI data. The first thing to know is that you cannot just load...

Hi everyone, I've been doing some programming lately in my spare time and whipped up this little VST tool tonight ( PC only ) that I am already finding immensely useful for combining things in weird ways and thought that I would share. It is the first of a great deal of ideas I have had for a long t...

Oooops, sorry for the misinterpretation . I totally understand though - making dance music it is difficult to move away from the way quantized music reduces grooviness - I've sent you a PM with a rather detailed tips about getting your MIDI groove on - hope they are useful!

Definitely, along with slight modulation of pitch, timing ( sliding in non-grid mode a little forwards or backwards to add some more groove ), filtering ( LPF more for quieter hits etc. ), layering, reverb etc. etc. It's generally good to do all of these things at a later stage of production - else ...

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Cheers! Glad to hear you dig it. It is only a couple of hours of mucking around, so there is a lot that I will need to do to it. Funny you should say you like the drums, they are the first thing that I want to change! They were just a template kit I made up a while ago to put in tracks that I am sta...

Wow, can't wait to try that out! In the meantime I wanted to show you what last nights excitement and lack of sleep produced - a track inspired by Battery working with Live like I have always wanted it to - very early days so please no comments about how shite the mixdown is, I know ;-): artist - ev...

Thanks alot E-Theory. I asked Ableton more than once about the this restriction and did not get any answer. Finally some definitive answer wether Live, Battery or VST is to be blamed :D No worries! Always glad to be of help. I like to dabble with coding too and have made a couple of interesting VST...