These are sick! Are they processed in ableton or straight from the Sp-16! Man these hit HARD
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Thank you!
So stay with me on this one 
I made the original beat on the SP16 and bounced down the stems. The SP is limited to 4 bars and you can’t chain patterns so I dragged the stems into Ableton’s arrangement timeline and made a 48 bar sequence.
From Ableton, I played the arrangement back out through outputs 3/4 on my soundcard into my mixer.
Then I went out of my mixer’s ALT OUT 3-4 outs back into the SP16 so I could use the SP16’s Dave Smith filter and drive. And from there, I recorded the “take” back into Ableton.
Then I bounced the 2-track recording down to an MP3
I have a Universal Audio Apollo Twin soundcard and a Mackie 1202.
It reads more complicated than it actually is. I basically reran the track back through the SP16 to get that nice drive and filter sound.
Best answer ever. No need for tubes, transformers or SSL comps. Just the Sp-16 and our old pal Dave to make it rip.
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@Phillip encouraged me to push my last jam/sketch forwards. A few tweaks later and a bit of a mix, and this one is a bit more polished up.
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Dope! I’m obsessed with pads and strings right now. Digging it in your track!
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I’m always dropping ambience and texture in there somehow. Can’t get away from it! If you’re interested, that’s a CS-80 emulation, layered with a stock Ableton Wavetable Juno string sound, put through a bunch of FX.
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Forgive me, Mr. Heard. Recorded from the main outs of DN2, DT2 & TR-1000.
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Question for the househeads here. This thread made me look for more house livesets on SoundCloud and I found one that I can’t stop listening to:
Question: is this some kind of subgenre of house? I want more!
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Skimmed through, lots of tech house and deep tech house 
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Thanks!
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Some nice tunes in there!
Yeah, and when anybody samples wu-tang I am a fan for life 
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Oh really?
(Runs to find some Wu tang to sample
despite never having listened to a single Wu tang song before
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Little house groove on the Syntakt.
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Good stuff 
Curious - with the Elektrons, do you guys use a lot of compression? I’ve been experimenting with compression - I don’t need it for my store bought samples or samples from my record collection, but I find it helps with sounds from scratch. Curious
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I use a bit of parallel compression on most of my Syntakt recordings but not a lot really.
I do have some drumracks I made from sampled Syntakt hits which have been processed a bit heavier though.
So I guess the answer is: It depends 
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I do, not just in the elektrons but in general I use a fair bit of it in every mix. Either as a sound shaping tool on individual elements or smacking the crap out of stuff (even to the point of distortion) on buses. 
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Great idea for a thread!
Here’s one of mine, just released a couple of days ago.
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