There is some distortion with the Retrologue about 8 mins in to 10 mins. It sounded a lil distorted when I was making it, but not as bad as it is in the video. I can only assume it's from the laptop adobe noob processing.
I tried to give Retrologue a fair go, just coz it was built-in but it sucked, hard. Like hardware, the VST also should be inspiring but it wasn't, it was poo. I used to get heaps of mileage out of the built-in stuff in Cubase of old, JX16, CS40, VB1, even the LM Drum Machines were in my bag of Goto's for years. Don't know what happened there but the Instrument VSTs built-in got left behind. In fact, just last week I tried to give Retrologue another go, I uninstalled it, along with Halion & Padshop. They should Update the JX16, was heaps more useful. Nice Lappie though for 500. Brand? Specs? Win 10 or 11?
I tried the LM drum machine, but none of the others. I started on Cubase 2 then went to 3 after a few months so not sure if they were on the older versions (cubase has been around since early 90s or late 80s I think?). Retrologue does not sound inspiring and isn't well developed to me too. I didn't like the LFO rate so used another to affect it and you can only send it to lfo 3 or 4 and I had 1 in use. Really weird for a soft synth to be limited that way. To not be able to use VST2 anymore is something I'm still getting used to. My laptop is an HP elite 840 g10. It is pretty easy to take apart and exchange stuff. It came with win11 pro and I installed a fresh copy without all of the HP junk. The cpu is a amd 7840u and has an integrated gpu that has the same performance as my video card that I used before my new build. That thing had three fans and was top of the line at the time and now it's in this small format making barely any noise and super chill. It's wild. Other specs are a Samsung 1tb m2 drive, 32gig of 5600 ram, the screen isn't great, but it helps the gpu perform better and my battery life is good. I am impressed by it for video. I can't do a lot of VFX, but enough to be able to use it and bounce it out. When I'm not using a lot of effects, it works fast. The making music video took 50 mins to export; it would take 8-10 on my comp! Pretty good in my opinion. This is going to be great as I have ideas for videos when out and can finally jot them down.
@@ModIcore For 500 bucks, Bargain Friday. Sorry, with those older synths, I was referring to Cubase VST32. I went from that to 5. Not doing VST2 must've cost them some loyal customers. Currently, I bounce between 5, 10 & 11, with 10 being the most used when Rewired to Ableton. Actually, for the past few months & after fighting off severe loyalty guilt-trip feelings, like for real, I decided to go all-in with Ableton & really see what it does. I can say now, without any guilt, for Jamming & Experimenting, Ableton is hands down the weapon of choice. It's totally made for Live, hence the Live I guess, duh. All the connection tools for ControllerWorld that I'd been looking for were there all along. Fuckin around with Gig Performer, VST Host & the like because of loyalty culture. Jeezus. I want to swap-out the Desktop for a Laptop, soon but stressing that a laptop might not be up to the task, shared resources & what not. Need a laptop anyway so when I getit, I'll see what the go is. Maybe Push 2 or 3? I'm just researching why ma are saying Ableton effed-up on Push 3 & that 2 is better, I need to know why. It never ends.
Weird, youtube didn't notify me of your message! Ableton is smart and perfect for the laptop. I would not have trouble working on large projects with it. I don't see a problem going all laptop with it, you would probably need a hub though. There are certain work flows that I don't like in Ableton, but just last week, I think on the modular synth fun song I said, "why do I put up with this, I should just go to Ableton!" C13 made moving things on the grid more tedious. I think a big part to me are the visuals though. Ableton works better because it's optimized for laptops and that sacrifices some gui luxury like how waves look. It's minor, but I work with waves and manipulate them frequently. I compare the Push to Cubase's CC121 in that they're both gimmicks to try and bring a hardware idenity that just makes for a slower work flow, but I am going off Push 1. I really don't know much about it and don't even use the session view clips so don't listen to me much.
@@ModIcore Session View was what i was referring to with jamming. I can assign vst across the tracks & drop or record midi clips on them & go from there, with Record on. It's just so much fun & can't do anything like that with any Cubase...Sshhh..it might get offended. This is how out of touch I was, 10 years later, I didn't even know CC121 existed, the contraption looks really awkward. If a laptop does the job, I'd be more partial to a 8x8 straight-up, naked, Launchpad like the Novation. I like the Akai stuff but I already have a Mixer with mute, solo, arm, launch, fader, etc. I bought a 4x4 pad for testing but that has become a device that I start/stop Arps with, where going across, the 2 rotaries on each row are Cutoff & Res, the 1st pad is Hold & then C1,C2&C3.Next row down the same with like G1,G2&G3, all on different midi channels. The last row I use for launching 1-shots.Works for me.One of my mini keyboards has the same layout as Launchkey25 so it became a natural continuation of the Ableton mixer Chan 9-16, without buying another mixer for now.The rotaries are Track Vol & the pads below each are Mute & Solo. One of its Presets used to make it a controller for my Arturia Spark which I had a problem getting a controller for in this country. I just ordered a 10 inch touch screen that I can drag Spark onto when I'm working & punch dots onto the whole matrix instead of the 16 beat line & switch instruments every time. Should've thought of that one long ago. It's a lot of fun, a long way from home but the crowning jewel is that I have no neighbors for about 100 mtrs in any direction & can go as loud & as long as I want, gonna miss that.
@AA-ge4uj Well Steinberg always kind of had a stick up its arse in a similar fashion to Pro Tools (though Pro tools, ewww). Novation's stuff is great. I really need to have one if their pieces, maybe the Peak if it weren't so expensive. I looked into the Circuit pretty in depth some years ago and was blown away how logical and fun it looked. I'm sure the Launch Pad is logically made too. I hope to check out you performing some time! Your setup sounds inspiring though complicated; I'm invisioning a lot of masking tape. I like how your neighbor's Karaoke is louder than the loudest music you play haha
There is some distortion with the Retrologue about 8 mins in to 10 mins. It sounded a lil distorted when I was making it, but not as bad as it is in the video. I can only assume it's from the laptop adobe noob processing.
I tried to give Retrologue a fair go, just coz it was built-in but it sucked, hard. Like hardware, the VST also should be inspiring but it wasn't, it was poo. I used to get heaps of mileage out of the built-in stuff in Cubase of old, JX16, CS40, VB1, even the LM Drum Machines were in my bag of Goto's for years. Don't know what happened there but the Instrument VSTs built-in got left behind. In fact, just last week I tried to give Retrologue another go, I uninstalled it, along with Halion & Padshop. They should Update the JX16, was heaps more useful. Nice Lappie though for 500. Brand? Specs? Win 10 or 11?
I tried the LM drum machine, but none of the others. I started on Cubase 2 then went to 3 after a few months so not sure if they were on the older versions (cubase has been around since early 90s or late 80s I think?). Retrologue does not sound inspiring and isn't well developed to me too. I didn't like the LFO rate so used another to affect it and you can only send it to lfo 3 or 4 and I had 1 in use. Really weird for a soft synth to be limited that way. To not be able to use VST2 anymore is something I'm still getting used to. My laptop is an HP elite 840 g10. It is pretty easy to take apart and exchange stuff. It came with win11 pro and I installed a fresh copy without all of the HP junk. The cpu is a amd 7840u and has an integrated gpu that has the same performance as my video card that I used before my new build. That thing had three fans and was top of the line at the time and now it's in this small format making barely any noise and super chill. It's wild. Other specs are a Samsung 1tb m2 drive, 32gig of 5600 ram, the screen isn't great, but it helps the gpu perform better and my battery life is good. I am impressed by it for video. I can't do a lot of VFX, but enough to be able to use it and bounce it out. When I'm not using a lot of effects, it works fast. The making music video took 50 mins to export; it would take 8-10 on my comp! Pretty good in my opinion. This is going to be great as I have ideas for videos when out and can finally jot them down.
@@ModIcore For 500 bucks, Bargain Friday. Sorry, with those older synths, I was referring to Cubase VST32. I went from that to 5. Not doing VST2 must've cost them some loyal customers. Currently, I bounce between 5, 10 & 11, with 10 being the most used when Rewired to Ableton. Actually, for the past few months & after fighting off severe loyalty guilt-trip feelings, like for real, I decided to go all-in with Ableton & really see what it does. I can say now, without any guilt, for Jamming & Experimenting, Ableton is hands down the weapon of choice. It's totally made for Live, hence the Live I guess, duh. All the connection tools for ControllerWorld that I'd been looking for were there all along. Fuckin around with Gig Performer, VST Host & the like because of loyalty culture. Jeezus. I want to swap-out the Desktop for a Laptop, soon but stressing that a laptop might not be up to the task, shared resources & what not. Need a laptop anyway so when I getit, I'll see what the go is. Maybe Push 2 or 3? I'm just researching why ma are saying Ableton effed-up on Push 3 & that 2 is better, I need to know why. It never ends.
Weird, youtube didn't notify me of your message! Ableton is smart and perfect for the laptop. I would not have trouble working on large projects with it. I don't see a problem going all laptop with it, you would probably need a hub though. There are certain work flows that I don't like in Ableton, but just last week, I think on the modular synth fun song I said, "why do I put up with this, I should just go to Ableton!" C13 made moving things on the grid more tedious. I think a big part to me are the visuals though. Ableton works better because it's optimized for laptops and that sacrifices some gui luxury like how waves look. It's minor, but I work with waves and manipulate them frequently. I compare the Push to Cubase's CC121 in that they're both gimmicks to try and bring a hardware idenity that just makes for a slower work flow, but I am going off Push 1. I really don't know much about it and don't even use the session view clips so don't listen to me much.
@@ModIcore Session View was what i was referring to with jamming. I can assign vst across the tracks & drop or record midi clips on them & go from there, with Record on. It's just so much fun & can't do anything like that with any Cubase...Sshhh..it might get offended. This is how out of touch I was, 10 years later, I didn't even know CC121 existed, the contraption looks really awkward. If a laptop does the job, I'd be more partial to a 8x8 straight-up, naked, Launchpad like the Novation. I like the Akai stuff but I already have a Mixer with mute, solo, arm, launch, fader, etc. I bought a 4x4 pad for testing but that has become a device that I start/stop Arps with, where going across, the 2 rotaries on each row are Cutoff & Res, the 1st pad is Hold & then C1,C2&C3.Next row down the same with like G1,G2&G3, all on different midi channels. The last row I use for launching 1-shots.Works for me.One of my mini keyboards has the same layout as Launchkey25 so it became a natural continuation of the Ableton mixer Chan 9-16, without buying another mixer for now.The rotaries are Track Vol & the pads below each are Mute & Solo. One of its Presets used to make it a controller for my Arturia Spark which I had a problem getting a controller for in this country. I just ordered a 10 inch touch screen that I can drag Spark onto when I'm working & punch dots onto the whole matrix instead of the 16 beat line & switch instruments every time. Should've thought of that one long ago. It's a lot of fun, a long way from home but the crowning jewel is that I have no neighbors for about 100 mtrs in any direction & can go as loud & as long as I want, gonna miss that.
@AA-ge4uj Well Steinberg always kind of had a stick up its arse in a similar fashion to Pro Tools (though Pro tools, ewww). Novation's stuff is great. I really need to have one if their pieces, maybe the Peak if it weren't so expensive. I looked into the Circuit pretty in depth some years ago and was blown away how logical and fun it looked. I'm sure the Launch Pad is logically made too. I hope to check out you performing some time! Your setup sounds inspiring though complicated; I'm invisioning a lot of masking tape. I like how your neighbor's Karaoke is louder than the loudest music you play haha