Final Stages Part 2

Of course, Ableton's obviously not above things like bringing back The World's Most Annoying Auto-filter Bug (suddenly causing a sample to distort at the start of any track with auto-filter on it - happens to me quite a lot but I've never found anything on the forums about it) and also playing a really really really loud ride cymbal I forgot I had in the track thoroughout. It appears there's some bug with Simpler that causes sounds with a long release time to cut off almost as soon as they were triggered - this meant that I'd completely stopped noticing the ride.

I laughed at my terrible choice of ride sample then deleted it - no ride in this track.

Another mild point of interest - this is the first track I've ever done in this genre without snare-roll builds. They're out of fashion anyway, but I thought I'd try messing around with white-noise swooshes and highpass filters instead - that's what all the kids are doing these days. Ah, the next track I do will probably have those in, in any case.

I don't really enjoy this final stage of mixing that much - it's mostly a big pain in the bum. When I've worked with Pete, he tends to save this tweaking for the next day. It's good to rest your ears, but I haven't done all that much else today and I really need to get this track in the can so I can do more Mode 7 work in the evenings.

I tried installing Ableton on this laptop earlier and it sucks hard - I think it's probably down to the audio driver though. If I buy a cheapo portable audio interface which is ASIO compatible, I'll be able to make a judgement then. Could try ASIO4ALL I suppose, but I really can't be bothered right now.