Great video! Super helpful info here. I always dive into the settings whenever I'm reinstalling or working on a fresh piece of software. Ive noticed that everyone has their own way of setting things up, so it's good to understand everything under the hood. A couple of notes for Ableton users - Managing your files and "Collect All and Save" are session specific, so make sure you do this for each project. You can also access "Collect All and Save directly from the File menu. Second, if you are producing in Ableton, be careful with having "Fade Clip edges" on - sometimes this can cut the tansients off of the tops of some samples causing a lack of punch and attack. Since those fades are so small, they can be easy to miss!
Amazing; thanks for the clarifications on this! I haven't used Ableton since 2014!! I just figured it was worth sharing more of my advice across platforms so people don't feel in the lurch because I'm in ProTools; Great clarifications;
In Ableton, you can set default audio channels, so it loads with whatever plugs you want on it anytime you populate a new channel. Same for midi channels.
@@panorama_mastering you'll need to right-click on the track and then choose the lowest menu item "save as default audio track". same one goes for midi as well, I have the stock rhodes sound as my default midi track, so I can hear what's going on. it even works with third party plugins, if you're keen on using a certain plugin all the time. pretty useful with controllers such as komplete kontrol by native instruments, that requires you to open their kontrol plugin for each track.
In Bitwig it makes a huge difference to set CTRL+S not to save but to collect-and-save instead, because then it always makes sure that copying the project works fine, which could become useful if you need to spontanously transfer a project to another machine, or just for making backups
Smart move! I haven't used bit-wig; but I can't count the amount of times producers who haven't collected all and saved their projects whilst they've been scrapping together samples from their downloads folders have lost project data of clients ahead of sending it to me for mixing... **Facepalm**
Dude this is an amazing vid, would love more of these as they relate to workflow efficiency. Wild how everyone’s looking thru UA-cam for that new wacky sidechain technique when I get way more value out of simple workflow tips 😂
Love your videos! Always something useful to take away that’s not been rehashed 500 times. Would love to see your take on “restaurant” some of the dynamics and transients during mastering.
@Panorama Mixing & Mastering lmao I meant "restoring", it's dinner time and my auto-correct is hungry Essentially bringing back some life to overcompressed mixed and production which might have been using over processed samples with barely any transients left.
To all Studio One users I would recommend assigning your favorite I-use-it-every-mix plugins to keyboard shortcuts with macros. This, honestly, made me consider switching to this DAW from Pro Tools
Cubase (or nuendo) is not to be sniffed at for things like keyboard shortcuts. It also has a logical editor, where you can program complex processes at the click of a button. For example, you want to take all the midi within the selected area, and change the key then pitch it down an octave, you can program logical editor to do that at the click of a button. Or to take every audio sample in the project and normalise it to -10dbfs and remove any silence from each end leaving just 1 second or whatever, you could program that too. It's basically any combination of functions you could do manually, you can make essentially a macro for it in logical editor, and if you find yourself doing the same tasks over and over, have it at the click of a keyboard shortcut. It can really save some time if utilised to it's fullest. Pro tools and Cubase both have similar normal workflows too, so I couldn't see the transition being too difficult either.
In logic: Love i:o labels, helps alot naming the buses/auxes so i always know where I'm sending to. It also keeps my sessions looking pretty much the same. Both helps alot when I'm producing in sessions.
In Logic I always group my plugins by type/category, using the default Plug-in Manager. Save massive amounts of time when choosing a particular effect, synth etc and also lets you see how many of the same type of plugin you own to probably consider culling some
you have to be careful though with "fades on clip edges" in Ableton. If you use any audio clips with a transient it will sound dull. I usually leave it off because if i forget drum sounds can really sound like they lose life.. If you select multiple clips and then CMD+OPTION+F it will create crossfaces between clips too
Certainly; but if I had $1 for every-time I've had to in mastering RX_DeClick vocals from ableton sessions because they haven't done this i'd probably have $100!
@@panorama_mastering I feel attacked! But yeah honestly this is very true, but I find 'Fade on Clip Edges is better than not; as most the time you're not letting it fade is with percussion. SO, basically don't be lazy I guess. 👀
Hey mate, thanks for the video - useful. Have you done a video on your mix template yet? Looks interesting with these 'printer' stems, and you using input monitoring on them. Cheers, Robert
At 4:41 -> in Ableton, the Save As Default Configuration seems to be doing something else for me, because when I insert the plugin again in another track, the parameter values are not set as the way I saved as default. Any ideas?
That's odd; even Ableton's help file; details this is as the method? help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209073089-Saving-plug-in-parameter-configurations#:~:text=Right%2Dclick%20on%20the%20plug,default%20for%20the%20plug%2Din.
@@panorama_mastering I think it only saves the parameters layout/arrangement, so it saves the parameters you set as visible and also their order, but not their values… Btw I really wish that that option would really save the plugin parameter values as default :)
Crossfading in Logic is clunky indeed. You need to go to the right top corner of the main window and find the setting for file Overlaps. Set it to Crossfade and it's done. However, I find any editing and recording in Logic much worse than in Pro Tools for that reason, it's unnecessary complicated compared to PT. You get used to it though
@@panorama_mastering i have a form of Stockholm syndrome with reaper, I'm like why wouldn't anyone use it?!? conveniently forgetting the months of encountering and dealing with random settings
For the first tip, in FL you can export as looped package. It'll save all audio files in a zip with the project data. FL also has automatic fades, or native delick modes. If you need more screen space, set the library/files panel to auto-hide on the left. There are now session folders for projects now since FL 21. Also you can customize fonts & themes in settings. Cheers!
Great video! Super helpful info here. I always dive into the settings whenever I'm reinstalling or working on a fresh piece of software. Ive noticed that everyone has their own way of setting things up, so it's good to understand everything under the hood.
A couple of notes for Ableton users - Managing your files and "Collect All and Save" are session specific, so make sure you do this for each project. You can also access "Collect All and Save directly from the File menu.
Second, if you are producing in Ableton, be careful with having "Fade Clip edges" on - sometimes this can cut the tansients off of the tops of some samples causing a lack of punch and attack. Since those fades are so small, they can be easy to miss!
Amazing; thanks for the clarifications on this! I haven't used Ableton since 2014!! I just figured it was worth sharing more of my advice across platforms so people don't feel in the lurch because I'm in ProTools;
Great clarifications;
In Ableton, you can set default audio channels, so it loads with whatever plugs you want on it anytime you populate a new channel. Same for midi channels.
Nice; how so? Can you detail that in the comments for others to see?
@@panorama_mastering you'll need to right-click on the track and then choose the lowest menu item "save as default audio track". same one goes for midi as well, I have the stock rhodes sound as my default midi track, so I can hear what's going on. it even works with third party plugins, if you're keen on using a certain plugin all the time. pretty useful with controllers such as komplete kontrol by native instruments, that requires you to open their kontrol plugin for each track.
In Bitwig it makes a huge difference to set CTRL+S not to save but to collect-and-save instead, because then it always makes sure that copying the project works fine, which could become useful if you need to spontanously transfer a project to another machine, or just for making backups
Smart move! I haven't used bit-wig; but I can't count the amount of times producers who haven't collected all and saved their projects whilst they've been scrapping together samples from their downloads folders have lost project data of clients ahead of sending it to me for mixing... **Facepalm**
Dude this is an amazing vid, would love more of these as they relate to workflow efficiency. Wild how everyone’s looking thru UA-cam for that new wacky sidechain technique when I get way more value out of simple workflow tips 😂
Nice; that's good to know; will certainly consider how to moving forward!
Love your videos! Always something useful to take away that’s not been rehashed 500 times. Would love to see your take on “restaurant” some of the dynamics and transients during mastering.
Thanks mate; appreciate the love; could you expand on what "restaurant" refers to?
@Panorama Mixing & Mastering lmao I meant "restoring", it's dinner time and my auto-correct is hungry
Essentially bringing back some life to overcompressed mixed and production which might have been using over processed samples with barely any transients left.
To all Studio One users I would recommend assigning your favorite I-use-it-every-mix plugins to keyboard shortcuts with macros. This, honestly, made me consider switching to this DAW from Pro Tools
Great tip! I'm planning to look into stream deck and setting up a workflow with it too!
@@panorama_mastering I'd love to see how that goes with pro tools
I do this on reaper and it's a huge time and flow saver. Shift + E for pro q, shift+S for saturn, etc etc
Cubase (or nuendo) is not to be sniffed at for things like keyboard shortcuts. It also has a logical editor, where you can program complex processes at the click of a button. For example, you want to take all the midi within the selected area, and change the key then pitch it down an octave, you can program logical editor to do that at the click of a button. Or to take every audio sample in the project and normalise it to -10dbfs and remove any silence from each end leaving just 1 second or whatever, you could program that too. It's basically any combination of functions you could do manually, you can make essentially a macro for it in logical editor, and if you find yourself doing the same tasks over and over, have it at the click of a keyboard shortcut. It can really save some time if utilised to it's fullest.
Pro tools and Cubase both have similar normal workflows too, so I couldn't see the transition being too difficult either.
In logic: Love i:o labels, helps alot naming the buses/auxes so i always know where I'm sending to. It also keeps my sessions looking pretty much the same. Both helps alot when I'm producing in sessions.
Thanks for sharing!
In Logic I always group my plugins by type/category, using the default Plug-in Manager. Save massive amounts of time when choosing a particular effect, synth etc and also lets you see how many of the same type of plugin you own to probably consider culling some
I have both type and manufacturer laid out; so two menus cascaded against eachother;
Are you doing this by creating new categories, then manually dragging each plugin to their appropriate category?
@@clintyoung9902 yep
you have to be careful though with "fades on clip edges" in Ableton. If you use any audio clips with a transient it will sound dull. I usually leave it off because if i forget drum sounds can really sound like they lose life.. If you select multiple clips and then CMD+OPTION+F it will create crossfaces between clips too
Certainly; but if I had $1 for every-time I've had to in mastering RX_DeClick vocals from ableton sessions because they haven't done this i'd probably have $100!
@@panorama_mastering I feel attacked! But yeah honestly this is very true, but I find 'Fade on Clip Edges is better than not; as most the time you're not letting it fade is with percussion. SO, basically don't be lazy I guess. 👀
Hey mate, thanks for the video - useful.
Have you done a video on your mix template yet?
Looks interesting with these 'printer' stems, and you using input monitoring on them.
Cheers, Robert
Yeap! Here you are - Mixing Template Design TUTORIAL - Pro Tools Template
ua-cam.com/video/0yt7u-uXwJU/v-deo.html
Good man, thanks again bud. Appreciate your stuff 👍🏾
Great video man 🤘
I wish there was an option to increase the font size.
Screen resolution on your OS's system wide settings?
@@panorama_mastering oh yes, i'm going to try that. Thanks.
Cubase 12 pro is the best daw when it come to production,mixing and mastering 😎😎
possibly so!
At 4:41 -> in Ableton, the Save As Default Configuration seems to be doing something else for me, because when I insert the plugin again in another track, the parameter values are not set as the way I saved as default. Any ideas?
That's odd; even Ableton's help file; details this is as the method?
help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209073089-Saving-plug-in-parameter-configurations#:~:text=Right%2Dclick%20on%20the%20plug,default%20for%20the%20plug%2Din.
@@panorama_mastering I think it only saves the parameters layout/arrangement, so it saves the parameters you set as visible and also their order, but not their values…
Btw I really wish that that option would really save the plugin parameter values as default :)
Crossfading in Logic is clunky indeed. You need to go to the right top corner of the main window and find the setting for file Overlaps. Set it to Crossfade and it's done. However, I find any editing and recording in Logic much worse than in Pro Tools for that reason, it's unnecessary complicated compared to PT. You get used to it though
could you do a short for all the settings to change in reaper? haha just kidding
Haha you got 10 hours? Reaper is its own beast
@@panorama_mastering i have a form of Stockholm syndrome with reaper, I'm like why wouldn't anyone use it?!? conveniently forgetting the months of encountering and dealing with random settings
👍👍👍
Where FL studio 😢
For the first tip, in FL you can export as looped package. It'll save all audio files in a zip with the project data. FL also has automatic fades, or native delick modes. If you need more screen space, set the library/files panel to auto-hide on the left.
There are now session folders for projects now since FL 21. Also you can customize fonts & themes in settings.
Cheers!
@@AVDRE thanks my man😸
Sorry Mate! I need to get FL studio;
@@panorama_mastering whatever thanks 😊👍
Auto fade edges is bad advice in Live imo, ruins your drums transients. If you need to fade edges just highlight the clip and hit option+command+F.
Nice alt!
who uses pro tools? lol
Many people; so many of my peers and colleagues do;
@@panorama_mastering but for how much longer? it's dying in the arse because it sucks.