![]() What I do now is, I record small sections into my daw (intro then 32 bars, the next 32 bars, a break etc), from individual outs if needed. The clock drift meant I wasn‘t able to edit and overdub as much as I‘d have wanted to do. I used to record from individual outs in one take, but it didn’t work well for me either. Those tiny, tiny differences (in theory negligible) tend to add up. I like the way the Analog Rytm sounds summed through its stereo out compared to its individual outs and also found that the groove can get lost when I‘m dealing with multiple recordings from individual outs and try to align them in the daw. I usually use individual outs where I really need them (for mixing, individual fx etc.), but try to record just the stereo out whenever possible. Some tracks are more fm and wavetable which I like to do in software (FM8, Ableton Operator, Massive, Ableton Wavetable, Surge and others), while others are mostly analog synths, drum machines and OT. With the techno you are multi tracking stem by stem in your productions or have a machine with multiple outs and do it all at once?ĭepends on the track. The productions can be quite dense & are put in to song mode on the EMX…Could be anywhere from 30-60 stems at times and preserving the groove is super important. We also use the Analog Rytm slaved to the EMX (which works great!) for additional drums. Using MacBook Pro (2015) with UAD Apollo 8 duo & a KORG EMX 1 and a UNO USB/MIDI sync device….Ableton communicates really well in external mode and responds well with the EMX but the tempo drift is significant (especially at the start and then it slowly calms down but still has minimal drift). Set up is relatively simple but preserving the groove/swing of the drum machine productions is essential and the drum machine doesn’t like to be synced to a master clock it works better as the master. Thanks so much for your reply!….yuh i was going to just avoid sync all together and manually start/stop everything by programming silence in the beginning of the production on the drum machine with one single snare hit so i can line the stems up in the DAW. Sorry for the very generic answer, but that’s basically what I found out - there are simply too many factors involved to recommend any specific approach other then experiment and see what works in your system. I’ve heard good things about Ableton Link, there are even converters to integrate non-Link devices.Ībleton Link does not have the traditional master/slave concept, everyone can change the tempo and for many it seems to be a revelation in terms of syncing gear. Whether you’re syncing hardware to Ableton Live or syncing Live to hardware - I can only recommend to experiment and try out what works best for you.įor syncing gear to Live, I’d invest in the Expert Sleepers Usamo or if you have more gear the ERM Multiclock. Those simple techno structures with all the subleties and details are extremely vulnerable to sync issues. I set my hardware sequencers to the same tempo as Ableton Live and manually start/stop everything. Actually since I started doing techno a few years ago, I don’t use any clock sync at all.
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