Hi guys
First I have to sorry about my english maybe I cant find the right words to explain 100 % whats in my mind.
I am doing technomusic since 2010 with Ableton Live, later Push 2 and plugins only.
I never had the budget for expensive hardware synthesizer like the elektron stuff.
The thing is when you are making music with pc only everyone who thinks he knows techno said to me : without the right hardware you arent able to do the RIGHT technomusic. Techno can only be made with a studio full of expensive gear.
And the software synth sounds weak and thin and so onâŚbla bla.
So since i am trying to do my music with pc, deep in my mind there was a voice saying you need this thing or that thing to do the real phat techno aso.
So I decided to invest in real expensive and very high pushed hardware Instruments from elektron. Bevore a year I bought the Analog Rytm for tight Analog Drums and the Analog Four for analog warm and rich synth sounds. So that I never had to make my Drums with Plugins or Maxforlive Drums or what else. Because analog had to be good.
So first I had to learn to understand the new devices to be able to control them like my Ableton Sets bevor. To know how to get them sound as i want. And yes i had to spend a lot of my time to understand how to get sound them right.
Today it is a daily fight against on the one side me who is thinking i am doing wrong and the devices are right, i had to be to nooby to programm the sounds i want. Or is it the boxes? Are they doing wrong?
AR: I am not able to get the hihats and the cymbals and the clap sounding so good as i want to. There is something with the tuning or the phase of the hihats and cymbals that i am not able to programm what i love to. Bevor the rytm i often used from D16 Group the 808 and 909 plugins. And i never got trouble with hihats or claps.
The A4 isnt such a big problem to me. I know how to get it sound much deeper in bassrange. But sometimes I am wondering about the osc waveforms. Why are they sounding soâŚhmâŚdifferent to for example my microbrute.
Often i am turning the knops for hours to get interesting sounds to see then i have done four patches which are all sounding little similar and boring. I am not a good patch programmer or what is it?
It is really hard to get it sound phat.
To get it sound phat with reaktor 6 blocks with a simple bass patch is much easyer to me.
Why is it so hard for me to get that boxes working?
Even the second chapter Overbridge and recording a live performance in Ableton is as pro it has to be , to be not working 100 % . Sometimes the MidiDriver (Win 10 ) is not working in the middle of a Jam Session. Or i get the bit reduction glitchy sounding elektron OB boxes issue. Than i have to power off and on again . Or i forgot to save a kit and press reload kit and arrrghhhhâŚ
Now when i am scrolling through my old ableton only projects i think wow how good is that groove sounding even its only software.
Not as good as my rytm.
Someone of you might had the same creative crisis after changing his running system?
Do you have a tip for me how to get further and to get happy with my stuff again?
To sell my boxes isnt a good solution too, because of the mk 2 series the prices are fallen dramaticly that i will loose to much money.
Yes luxury problems i got. But i need a little help. I am loving my Elektrons and the same time they stealing my nerves and making me sad.
Thank you