YA Mastering Template

Thetwiddler wrote:I didnt do a lot of mixing on the mpc so far so maybe that question is a lil bit basic. Is it possible to make groups or busses in standalone? U want to have all drums in a bus with some multiband compression and saturation. Would be awesome if there was a conp or saturation that works like the oxford inflator or ableton stock saturation. (In sine mode it van work just like the inflator) for drums i really like to combine upward compression with normal conpression and when needed some transientdesigner. Its so easy to do in a daw but for livesituations some mixing would be great.

Thetwiddler wrote:I didnt do a lot of mixing on the mpc so far so maybe that question is a lil bit basic. Is it possible to make groups or busses in standalone? U want to have all drums in a bus with some multiband compression and saturation. Would be awesome if there was a conp or saturation that works like the oxford inflator or ableton stock saturation. (In sine mode it van work just like the inflator) for drums i really like to combine upward compression with normal conpression and when needed some transientdesigner. Its so easy to do in a daw but for livesituations some mixing would be great.

83dude wrote:You can route pads or programs to submixes. Try those.

Thetwiddler wrote:i guess routing the miditracks instead of the programs will help?

D!ddle wrote:This template is so underrated for jamming, and for final mastering. I use the Akai Force and it takes some manual setup to get the template set up since the project files provided weren't functional with the Force, but it's pretty easy and it helps you understand all the routing and what's going on under the hood.

Here is a track I been working on in FL Studio. Heavily samples All I Want To Know by Imagination https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRi1a3C_W84.

Before the mastering template


After the mastering template


YA let me know if you want me to send you Akai Force formatted templates or test any future updates on the Force.

stepcorrect wrote:Yorgos! Just grabbed this.
I’m a huge standalone nerd and used to imagine one day when tech would get to the point in which something as thorough as the Force would exist. Using the tools available and hacking together a chain that puts out near passable masters is such a cool move. It’s hopefully going to be mad convenient in terms of quickly bouncing stuff out to test at a festival or club without the added exporting .. etc. We really are living in the future.
I have a few questions for you:

I was sent downloads to both a 1.0.3 and a 2.0.2 version. Both of the mastering preset folders in my 2.0.2 dl are empty? Am I missing something

I pulled up some tunes I’d all but finished and did the hard way around, immediately was impressed. I did end up using submixes for drums, bass, pads, fx.. with the sends up.. with a couple effects in some to automate some stuff. That’s okay right? Like it’s all still summing into the multiband and having multiple signals going in there doesn’t change anything?

So far, everything I’ve exported is cartoonishly brickwalled, some just came out like a solid rectangle lolz. I know some people shoot for that but with DnB it’s better to have some dynamics obviously. Even with my mixdowns pulling down to the -15 db territory things were still coming out slammed if only now with some headroom. Is there something obvious that I’m overlooking that would help with this?
I’m admittedly no mastering scholar and usually outsource it, my mixing are usually okay though.

That being said what are some of the key parameters in the chain that I should be messing with or that you had in mind as a means of adjusting and what would you suggest be left alone?

On a couple songs, some channels (usually audio trax) would be distorting quite a bit but with the output level still being low (-10 / -15)
One I tried for about an hour to isolate and it escaped me still lol.

Thanks for any input you may have

Yorgos Arabatzis wrote:Hi,