Sound Forge - How to Record Audio

Thanks for this. It has been quite a few years since I looked at Sound Forge.  While I thought not much had changed, it seems some things have.  It did take me a minute to realize, you can not have any windows open when you want to change your preferences.

Masterclass :: Dominique Ansel

Was looking forward to this class for some time, so was excited when I could clear away things and spend some time with it. I have been a baker and chef in the past but nowhere this level. I wanted to improve my techniques, gather new recipes, and fix and inaccuracies i had in my own cooking.

Going in, I had actually never heard of the cronut. I had no idea who Dominique was or why he was famous.  This was going to be fun.

His mission is very simple. Be creative, love your work, and love food.  Since being a dad, sharing these flavors has always been a thing for me. Baking is precise and ordered.  It is simple and easy to do, if you do the steps, follow directions, and remain calm.

He is a very calm teacher and slow.  He goes into why he does certain things and the stories about how he learned.  Reading past these stories is helpful as you never know when a moment can teach you the lesson you were not expecting.

Lesson 2 he shares the secrets of his success. Don't listen to others, and follow your own sensitivities.  The world is big enough that everyone can have the success they are searching for.  This lesson is also in Steve Martin's masterclass.

The pastry cream is very close to how I was taught.  There are definitely some finer technique that was missing from my method.  This will be recipe fun to practice and master, especially since he uses it in many of the other recipes in the class.

The chocolate mouse was very much how I was taught, except I always whipped the cream too much. I always went to the point it would hold on the whisk. Can't wait to fix this one, and see look on small faces as they eat it.

Ableton :: Evolving Pads in Wavetable

Thanks for this video!

I very much like how you went into more detail about why you made such choices.  The explanation between high and low settings for various settings was great.  Moving the slider so you could hear it, and giving some words to it.

Ableton Tips

Bound 2 Divide

Ableton Wavetable Videos

How To Make Slap House Bass In Ableton Live Wavetable

Thanks to :: Rudram

Used this to create a bass used in part of an upcoming song called "Deep Groove" by 31ric. I liked how the bass cut through on it's tone in his track, but was going to target mine to be a little brighter sounding. This video led me to put some variation in the original sound. It was a good video to get started with twidling the knobs a bit. He does not go into why he is setting things the way that he is though. 

I got a lot more out of this video, by ignoring the values he was setting, and worked towards something that worked better within my song. 

The very quick bit at the end with the saturator was a nice little tip for me as well. I threw that on both basslines and it perked them right up. I have found a new effect to play with for a minute.

5 Wavetable Sound Design Tips You Should Know!

Thanks to :: Dowden Production Academy

The random tip in here was great! Thanks very much for that. Added to the instrument, and the other bass sound, and it added just that little bit of variety.

Watch out world

Gamakas

Nice intro to gamakas. Slow and gentle for us westerners. 

https://youtu.be/AIPraIlSmIk

Ableton Collections

Discovered a new thing this morning in Ableton. Collections.

So when I hovered aroudn the word, a little 'edit' button became visible.

Of course I clicked it.
This lead me to a series of colors, that I enabled.

I then surfed around to a plugin, and was able to add a color to it by right clicking on that plugin. I went back, and right click on the color, or 'Ctrl + R' let me rename it.

Good compression tutorial

https://youtu.be/LX-DMXKWeNs

Freddie Joachim - Made in Ableton series

Grabbed some tips from this. 

Thank you.

https://youtu.be/kadQYV3yLwU

Thanks for the video

Chris Punsalan TV
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In this episode of Figure It Out, I show the EASIEST way for me to sample using the Time Warp function in Ableton Live and how I chop samples using the slice to new midi function in Ableton Live.
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Thanks for this. Was helpful and gave me some new ways to look at ableton and music writing.

Mr. Bill

I have just discovered Mr. Bill the artist, and his you tube channel has quite a few Ableton videos on how to get better, so I am looking forward to the next track where I can incorporate some of these.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDxTQYPyq4JTRvdmYDiykyOdoEjjyuQgI

Great quote from Dave Weckl

What a great quote and great attitude towards music.

”It is my goal to inspire as many young (and not so young) people as possible to want to play music, whether it be drums or another instrument. With all the problems of the world today, I feel this is my way of contributing a positive action towards spiritual happiness, which music can be a big part of, if you let it. So parents, if your child has a talent for music, please allow them the opportunity to develop that talent!”