u/Wunjo26

I have a setup consisting of about 8 synths that are all synced up via midi with the Maschine+ acting as the master clock. I have everything going into a Zoom LiveTrak L-12 mixer and each track is being recorded to an SD including the metronome track from the Maschine+.

How we typically work is by spending 5-10 minutes noodling around with sounds and riffs/melodies and roughly converge in a key or tempo. Other times we randomly pick a key/scale and tempo and go explore from there. When we’re ready, we hit record on the tracks and then improvise over that idea for the next 10-15 minutes. We then take the multitracks and import them into Ableton and line them up with the grid/metronome using the recorded clock track so we can edit and splice pieces and continue building the songs.

This process works very well for capturing raw ideas as they emerge between multiple people and being able to line everything up in Ableton is great for finding nuggets of the jams we liked and expanding on them. I then upload each song as its own self-contained ableton project to Google Drive so everyone can work on it in their own time.

My question is: how are you guys going about jamming and collaborating on songs in a dawless setup that is productive, fun, and interesting?

Combination of the phrases: “we’ll cross that bridge when the time comes” and “that’s when the rubber meets the road”.

Combination of the expressions: fading into the background and coming out of the woodwork

With the recent update, the devs got rid of the ability to get consumables from tool/loot boxes and now the only way to get them is to loot hunters or find them randomly at locations. I feel like this makes it less likely for hunters to push compounds or stay engaged in a fight because they run out of consumables for offense and defense particularly when pushing a bounty lair or stronghold. I thought the old way of getting consumables from boxes only when your tools are fully stocked made a lot of sense. The boxes are also kind of glitched now where it shows that you can loot the box but then nothing happens. What are y’all’s thoughts on this change?