if the kick drum is weak and doesnt cut through the track at the right frequencies it may well sound wank on a big system when played in a club. . I understand you but the focus on engineering over musicality is a big part of why there's so much bland, meaningless dance music Not really music - mor...

Kicks don't matter, stop obsessing, its just a rhythmic pulse

nobody cares

work on some decent melodies/harmonies/timbres instead

probably mate, it's probably impossible to categorise broadly.

For me, I make the distinction on tonality. If most elements are atonal / dissonant / enharmonic, i call that techno. If a track is fundamentally tonal / harmonic, it's more likely to be house. (If anyone can find a track that is built on atonal or dissonant sounds that they consider to be house, I'...

tone-def wrote:i don't have the patience for it.
i couldn't enjoy it so i'll stick to making music.

+1

tone-def wrote:battery has some nice bongos and congas.

best I've heard, in terms of clarity/tone/natural ambience.

actually the same goes for the entire contents of the bundled Battery kits and both the synthetic drums packs. awesome.

Maiyal wrote:And as usual, after asking a stupid question, the person leaves and never comes back.

He was asking for some pointers towards the "good stuff", not just the "stuff". Not sure how that is "stupid".

resample much. Loads of EQ to take off the air on the sounds. let the headroom you leave become the "air" to your tracks. big verbs chained to soft bitcrushing then sent to other clean verbs. delay, delay, and delay again. Minimal sound source, much fx. This can all be done in ableton ver...