There are compressors with waveform displays that let you see the results of your compression. Had a quick look on kvr and could only find this one which looks a bit sh!t. I've definately seen a nicer one where you could set the threshold in the waveform display but I can't remember what it was call...

They want to know how to make drums like gaiser or minilog or deep dub chords like basic channel or what out of the thousands of VSTs is good or where to get appropriate samples. the problem is not that they ask how to make gaiser drums. its more because they expect to get a certain type of answer ...

Im curious why people dont spend some time on the forum contributing to the bank of knowledge before they go asking us our methods that we worked so hard to learn. It could be because they don't have any knowledge to contribute because they don't already know how to produce minimal, otherwise they ...

b. Flood the thread with abuse. Spend several hours making a 'hilarious' satirical mock-up VST and endlessly repost it every time you see another post you don't approve of to the point where pretty much every thread at the top of the page for several days is 4 pages of abuse from people who claim t...

The classic house piano sound is from the Korg M1 which you can now get as a plugin.

b. Flood the thread with abuse. Spend several hours making a 'hilarious' satirical mock-up VST and endlessly repost it every time you see another post you don't approve of to the point where pretty much every thread at the top of the page for several days is 4 pages of abuse from people who claim t...

It never, ever crops up in these discussions but Applied Accoustics UltraAnalog sounds really fucking good. It's just a two-osc two multimode filter VA but it's got a really nice fat analogue sound. Definitely give it a listen. Good for keys as well.

But the really annoying thing is that people will ask these questions and get a slagged off; click the myspace links generously provided by the people doing the slagging off and almost inevitably you'll discover that not only do they know how to make sound X, they have no ethical difficulties using...