I swear only the 808 was from abelton

Green track is the kaoss pad (https://korgusshop.com/products/nts-3-programmable-effect-kit?_pos=3&_sid=9d3d6f0c3&_ss=r) , yellow is my bass, brown is from the po-20 (https://teenage.engineering/store/po-20?srsltid=AfmBOopbNWwmoK9D7lDfaQzFf8onkUlwYCFjm5SLCwQ32HzNQitBiizg, gift from my brother) , peach, tan and pink are all from the horner instructor 32 (https://hohner.de/en/instruments/melodica/student-melodicas/student-32-melodica I can only find the student version I guess I got a second hand teacher’s?)

But you can argue that the po-20 and the kaoss pad aren’t much better but at least it required a little bit of technique (not pictured is my bass which I played three notes on. Also ignore the pc speakers). Should have I properly mixed at the end? Sure, but why do that when you can compress and forget.

(Don’t judge me for staying in C major)

Putting a compressor on the master output channel is kinda just giving up in terms of properly leveling everything…

I started today trying to look at more legit known decent chord progressions, then I realized I never learned roman numeral notation (see https://www.activemelody.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/The-Chord-Numbering-System.pdf) but I got distracted and just kinda started throwing crap into abelton until something sounded coherent.

The bass sounds alright but it still is midi-ified because I opted to use a sampled bass rather than being less lazy to use my bass. I’m also moving down the path of using the arrangement view to handle making these loops from now on. It forces me to think of anything I make as a whole piece rather than a collection of loop states.

I also finished the blade itself (book one of this series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Law) which I enjoyed (also it was pretty much the only book I read in 2024) but it ended kind of abruptly. Felt as if the whole series was written at once and then arbitrarily chopped. I found out today that one of the side books is getting made into a movie so maybe I’ll try to read that before it’s made.

Full Racks:

Idk probably nether. I drove for 8 hours today so this is a very half assed loop, but I think I might spend a bit more time on it to get a decent house sound thing going.

Abelton changed the arpeggiator settings in live 12 but they look neat.

I got Abelton live 12 yesterday and it rocks, max starts up quicker, samples load quicker. Modulators are in their own subcategory. The only thing that I think kinda sucks is the tree view from the instruments is gone and replace with the tagging functionality which I personally don’t like (just because I’ve been doing the same thing since live 8).

Anyways here’s a quick thing I made using the orchestral set from Ablelton (which I didn’t realize was also available since live 7).

Also there’s native auto tune baby!