KVR Audio

deps · Post by **deps** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:02 am

I read an interview the other day (I think it was in future music or something) with Liam Howlett - he of prodigy fame.

In the interview he said he had written many of the songs on his latest album using reason, and then thrown the audio outputs into different tracks of pro tools. Finally the tracks were mastered in New York using pro tools.

Similarly, I saw in a recent samplitude thread that it could be used as "a rock solid dedicated mastering processor", to quote carmen.

Is this a common method of working, ie: do you compose the music using one sequencer or music workstation, and then move all that data into something to complete the job?

If so, which sequencers are best at what? Without getting into a "logic's better than cubase" type of thread, is for example nuendo particularly good at mastering whereas, orion platinum very good as a sketchpad etc?

(Also, I appreciate that each of us have different ways of working so may be better suited to a particular product due to workflow. I am simply trying to understand if, say, pro tools is the be all and end all when it comes to mixing).

deps

CypherOne · Post by **CypherOne** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:04 am

hey, nice sig, couldn't agree more

Well I use Cubarse to sketch stuff out and record .wav files and then I use Acid to build the track up, it gives me more flexibility in terms of the track's structure.

CypherOne · Post by **CypherOne** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 11:05 am

dunno much about horses tho...

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 1:35 am

I use ORION to do everything that's largely musical - composition, sound design, etc. I also use it for day-to-day mixing and mastering. If I had to master my own album I would mix/render into a few sub-groups and take it into Cool Edit where I can play with the audio better. Mind you, I'm working on using a BandFX container in ORION to set up multi-band mastering compression to see if I can do a better job so maybe one day I will want to do everything in ORION but it would still be a two-step process - render separate channels once EQ and FX are right and process Audio tracks for mastering.

Caleb · Post by **Caleb** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 1:51 am

My workflow tends to change from time to time.

However, one of them is to do all my composition and mixing in my sequencer and then load up the stereo wave into Cool Edit for mastering.

The other is to do everything from the sequencer.

My mastering tools are all on my soundcard so it doesn't actually matter which program I master from. It's quite often about the deadline, the size of the composition and my current level of care-factor at the time.

Caleb

DHR53 · Post by **DHR53** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 1:58 am

I really like Reason... probably because I have developed a great workflow in it... and I have some great starting templates which I think are the key to really using it efficiently... beyond that, exporting the separate track as waves, and mixing and mastering outside of Reason definately helps space out the mix (stereo spread) and helps with adjusting the volume and compression... which probably is Reason's weak point... but I don't find the instruments inadequate at all... as a matter of fact, the more I use other stuff, (AUs and VSTs) the more I think sounds are derived from creative fx and LFOs, than the actual instrument itself! You're probably more creative when your comfortable with your tools, so it doesn't matter if someone famous uses the software if it's making you insane trying to figure it out!

Horses for courses ...