Ok, monstrejumo, just because it's you and you're cool...monstrejumo wrote:Was just seriously astonished by the serious posts in this topic. "here is my (1.000.000$) setup". no music, no comments, no soul, no laughs, no smiley... no... nothing. just fierce listings.
don't worry I don't take it over serious, I began reading this topic, because I thought there would be some nice pics, like in the "post your setup and your ugly cat".
I didn't expect those cold and exhaustive boring listings...
8O wrote:MacBook Pro - wonderful workhorse, almost perfect, which make the little niggles even more annoying, still working fine after getting half a pint of beer spilled on it
MOTU Ultralite - no broken knobs, no driver problems, works beautifully, carried it around a lot and still no problems, love having so many inputs and outputs, still working fine after getting the other half pint of beer spilled on it
Genelec 8030 - wonderful, clear, in your face transparent and revealing, only upgrade I'd make to them is to move apartment to give them more room for perfect placement
Waldorf Pulse - my first hardware synth, still my go-to synth for basslines, matrix editing is a pain, but you get used to it, small enough to get into a bag and take to jam sessions, looks ugly, but less ugly than the...
Waldorf Microwave XT - my second synth, a knob for every occasion, getting some wonderful, unearthly sounds out of it and have barely scratched the surface of its capabilities, looks ugly
M-Audio UC-33e - in wood-effect vinyl, what can you say, the classic, trustworthy controller, disadvantage: no endless rotaries or motorised sliders like the Behringer BCR/BCF, advantage: not a Behringer.
M-Audio Keystation 61-ES - purchased out of frustration due to not being able to find a nice compact 25-key controller with a nice key action, but now I'm completely used to 5 octaves
Stylophone - cheap Chinese copy, played live through piles of reverb and delays and resonators, love the clunky lo-tech interface
Hoefner Shorty electric guitar - the travel guitar, complete rubbish, but still less rubbish than my guitar playing, any thing better would really be wasted on me, could take it as hand-luggage on business trips and practise guitar in the evenings instead of wining and dining clients, passengers on the planes look suspiciously at you as the guitar bag looks vaguely rifle-shaped
There you go... Interestingly, all of those items I would definitely buy again...
monstrejumo wrote:8O wrote:MacBook Pro - wonderful workhorse, almost perfect, which make the little niggles even more annoying, still working fine after getting half a pint of beer spilled on it
MOTU Ultralite - no broken knobs, no driver problems, works beautifully, carried it around a lot and still no problems, love having so many inputs and outputs, still working fine after getting the other half pint of beer spilled on it
Genelec 8030 - wonderful, clear, in your face transparent and revealing, only upgrade I'd make to them is to move apartment to give them more room for perfect placement
Waldorf Pulse - my first hardware synth, still my go-to synth for basslines, matrix editing is a pain, but you get used to it, small enough to get into a bag and take to jam sessions, looks ugly, but less ugly than the...
Waldorf Microwave XT - my second synth, a knob for every occasion, getting some wonderful, unearthly sounds out of it and have barely scratched the surface of its capabilities, looks ugly
M-Audio UC-33e - in wood-effect vinyl, what can you say, the classic, trustworthy controller, disadvantage: no endless rotaries or motorised sliders like the Behringer BCR/BCF, advantage: not a Behringer.
M-Audio Keystation 61-ES - purchased out of frustration due to not being able to find a nice compact 25-key controller with a nice key action, but now I'm completely used to 5 octaves
Stylophone - cheap Chinese copy, played live through piles of reverb and delays and resonators, love the clunky lo-tech interface
Hoefner Shorty electric guitar - the travel guitar, complete rubbish, but still less rubbish than my guitar playing, any thing better would really be wasted on me, could take it as hand-luggage on business trips and practise guitar in the evenings instead of wining and dining clients, passengers on the planes look suspiciously at you as the guitar bag looks vaguely rifle-shaped
There you go... Interestingly, all of those items I would definitely buy again...
Gets put away in a bag every night as I have not got studio space at the moment. I work on music in my lunch break at the office too.
How's the Block working out for you?logic_user99 wrote:Macbook (white) 2.1Ghz/4Gb RAM
Ableton Live 7.10
NI Electrik Piano
NI Absynth 4
NI Audio Kontrol 1
Livid Block
Pretty simple, really...
The omnichord is fantastic, my favourite piece of hardware. Mine is a fully analog, pre midi version from 1984. There are more recent digital versions with more sounds and capable of sending midi out but these come at a hefty pricetag. I prefer the analog sound myself but even my basic model goes for quite a sum on ebay these days.8O wrote:@ghostly - that Omnichord sounds ace! How are the presets?
my musicdjsynchro wrote:For a female vocal try companding a mid-side encoded signal with a ratio of around 18:2 at around 2.5k, possibly a lower ratio if the source is very sibilant.
Nicely thanks, chap. It's got a really nice 'hand built' feel to it, and does exactly what it says on the tin. The MIDI feedback is perfect, too - instantaneous LED updates!8O wrote:How's the Block working out for you?logic_user99 wrote:Macbook (white) 2.1Ghz/4Gb RAM
Ableton Live 7.10
NI Electrik Piano
NI Absynth 4
NI Audio Kontrol 1
Livid Block
Pretty simple, really...