Sure, ill check it out. I get what you mean. Thanks man!
Yeah it’s pretty much everytime i record something. I can suppress the resonances with EQ like Patch77 mentioned above no problem. The weird thing is the resonances always seem to be from around 80hz to 1k? And theres only so many bands you can sculpt these out with. It is very weird the more I think about it actually…
Cool, cheers man, yeah ive been doing this for a couple a months now after finding it out. I find it works well on my sequences from modular but as soon as I get involved with doing it with the p6 the resonances are all in the same area from around 80hz to 1k? Im actually not sure how the eq on my desk works? Its assymetric and has a sweepable mid but all ive found is when I sweep the mid it sort of creates mud… maybe im doing something wrong… IVE GOT ALOT TO LEARN!
Wait so you’ve got a p12 and a p6?!
Lucky bugger
No worries mate hope it works out with the p6, Id love to have one! Just to tick off a box: seems odd to me that it should be your room - but one thing that really has tripped me up a couple of times is if i design a sound while monitoring is on in the daw - i tweak the sound, record it, only to discover that the sound is quite different when played back (i assume due to «doubling» of signal, phase/latency and so on…).
Have you been calibrating the synth regularly? Do you live somewhere that the temperature and humidity changes pretty drastically?
Oh no no, just a p6. Did i say p12? Woooops! Yeah well im from Scotland so its either cold or cold and wet… I have calibrated the unit every day from the past week now and done it once when I first got it. I dunno, it’s either something im doing wrong ( i feel like ive tried everything)
or the machine is just not doing what I thought it would…
Wow… so glad you said this… I thought I was the only crazy one… My sounds are so much fuller and sound exactly how I want them (give or take) un till I record it in then bammmm something disappears. Have you found a solution without selling a kidney?
He, well if thats the thing then simply turn off daw monitoring, then you will hear the sound as is and the recording should correspond!
Well maybe ive understood you wrong then, im not even sure what DAW monitoring is. i just use Ableton as a recording platform? Make my sounds and record them in and only to find they’re not what I just heard a few seconds ago… Are we on the same platform here or just me? lol.
The p12/p6 confusion is because the OP was asking in regards to his/hers p12 and were just carrying on…
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Another thing you can try when recording is go into preferences and turn off “create fades on clip edges”
As you may be losing the transient on the sound and the tail…
Cool, ive just set that up. Thanks. Just out of curiosity, why is your bit depth set to 24?
I dont know ableton but these things are often same across daws - when you set a track to record sometimes it will also be set to monitor - meaning that you will hear the sound being played back through the daw - without being sure of exact technicalities/terminology - for me it results in a kind of doubling - i hear the direct signal and also the monitored signal which will be delayed with regards to the direct signal depending on your system/settings/latency. Therefore im not referencing the true signal when soundmaking which off course can create all sorts of issues…
That’s not mine it was a post in another forum…
But 24 bit is what most engineers will ask for when you send fir mastering.
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Ah yeah, i think I understand that. Im sure the same thing happened to me when I had no external FX and wanted to use FX from Ableton on my hardware synths. I would set up an ‘external instrument’ track and it would double the sound…
You should see «monitoring» on the track in the mixer - try setting it to off an see what happens!
Thanks bro.
The external effect device is for using external effects as in guitar pedals, physical effects racks etc… you don’t need to use this to use Ableton’s effects on an external synth.
Use Ableton externals instrument device and then just drop effects in after that… or in one of the return channels.
The “doubling up” do you mean like a sort of slight echo? This is probably hardware latency. The audio coming in to Ableton from your synth has to be processed by your computer before being played. This latency is listed in preferences/audio.
Use this number as a guide and use track delay to compensate.
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Yes the doubling im refering to is hardware latency!