Live Stream 14/05/2024: Building a track on the Akai S1000.
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Published 2024-05-15
Second livestream is up on YouTube. making a track with audience provided samples on the S1000. Sequenced with Cubase 3 for Macintosh.
Discussions included a studio tour, how I use FXs on a mixing desk, why I use hardware when VSTs are an option.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro Tune: "Oh Yea" (S1000 Edition)
4:10 Starting a track from scratch using user supplied samples.
9:00 Realizing I didn't connect my MIDI cable to my current DAW of choice (Not missing much to skip this part)
13:45 Conflict resolution on the MIDI signal path.
14:22 Previewing user samples
21:21 Turning on Recycle to chop a break in sampler.
23:30 Setting up break in S1000.
24:20 Setting up MIDI For Break in Cubase
26:20 Question: What got me into Jungle as an American?
29:11 MIDI Channel 2: Finding the bassline.
29:37 Question: Do I Do this for a living?
31:50 Recording first version of the bassline.
33:42 Checking more samples in "Send me your Samples"
34:20 Question: Why do I use hardware instead of VSTs?
35:40 Scrapping the First Bassline in favor of a different one.
37:15 Sampling the new bassline into the S1000.
42:14 Making Bass Sample Program.
46:37 Adding Bass Program to the MIDI Sequence.
49:08 Sampling the Pad.
50:22 Making Pad Program
51:48 Adding MIDI for Pad.
53:08 Building the MIDI Arrangement.
54:39 Loading the Shakers
55:16 Drawing out the Shaker pattern.
59:09 Studio Tour.
1:03:23 Thinking a vocal sample, not sure what.
1:04:37 Testing up Test Program Melody
1:06:30 Trying out some melodies on Test Program.
1:07:09 Question: How Do I Apply FX's to a single sound from a sampler on my mixer?
1:15:53 Do I use Ableton or Logics External Instrument mode to handle latency?
All Comments (15)
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Enjoyed watching your workflow on the s1000 mate. Lots of useful info for everyone! Looking forwards to catching up with more streams✌️
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Akaï s950/s1000 c'est juste la combinaison parfaite.
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thank you for showing your workflow!!!
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greetings from romania! really nice studio ma bro, the akai samplers and the mackie mixer are killer gear.god bless!!
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Aaaaaawesome! This is great!
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Room of dreams! mad skills too fella!!!
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Great stuff dude! A hell of a setup as well 👍
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Fun times! 🎉
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Where did you find that pad thats in the intro song? It sounds like heaven
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Nice, that looks pretty much like my 90's studio gear wise. Always found the first gen of Cubase on mac had really sloppy timing though. What Mac are you using here? Recycle was a revelation when it came out though for sure, we were using Akai S2800's by that point. Nice SH02 and SP. You ever thought of Atari ST and Notator, I mean, that was tight AF.
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Whats the purpose of resampling a full sequenced phrase back into the sampler? Sounds almost like the sampler becomes a multi track recorder. Isnt it waste of memory to print several notes to a new longer sample when the midi notes + one single looped base note leaves more memory for other stuff? Also at 1:11:04 you say you apply effects via the mixing desk for both hardware and daw channes. Does that mean you run all instruments via the desk first, then direct out to the daw ins and then a selection of daw outs via the desk too?
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Super tight midi! Do you find this "old" setup more tight then beeing totally in the box ala Logic or Live ?
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Question: Why do I use hardware instead of VSTs? :medal-yellow-first-red:
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I still have my Akai S1000 , latest longer than my Fairlights
