Hard or soft.. which are you ?

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Hard or soft.. which are you ?

Post by taffmonster » Sun Mar 25, 2012 4:55 pm

Been trawling the thread of everyones studio. Seeing what everyone is running, I keep seeing the morpho and blofeld in terms of hardware but really when it comes down to it, are you soft or hard?

I have massive, and animoog and all the ableton suite synths, I have maschine and a kaoss pad, and I am very tempted to sneak behind my wifes back and buy myself a nice DSI Mopho. But really, with todays soft synths, is it really worth buying a hardware synth?
Its hard to make do with what you have when the buying bug bites you....

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Re: Hard or soft.. which are you ?

Post by djadonis206 » Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:09 pm

I have a Slim Phatty, Nord Lead 2x, and just picked up a used DSI Mopho desktop. I love the analog sound, but for more modern sounds I use Massive and Sylenth
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Re: Hard or soft.. which are you ?

Post by taffmonster » Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:14 pm

That's a lot of nice hardware. The desktop mopho was what I was thinking of sneak buying but part of my brain is saying " Oi you have so much nice software, use that"

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Re: Hard or soft.. which are you ?

Post by photonal » Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:39 pm

a semi has usually worked just as well for me

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Re: Hard or soft.. which are you ?

Post by Machinesworking » Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:01 pm

Exactly, I use both hard and soft. Analog is great, but if you don't have any real need for the sound in your mixes, working all in the box is easiest. There aren't any rules here.

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Re: Hard or soft.. which are you ?

Post by glitchrock-buddha » Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:57 pm

A lot of people might say it's good to switch it up.

If you're soft all the time you'll have less excitement and certainly be less hands-on.
If you're hard all the time you'll probably get sore.

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Re: Hard or soft.. which are you ?

Post by The Carpet Cleaner » Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:08 pm

I just heard a real ssl. Compressor. Wow it's much better than my waves ssl emulation

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Re: Hard or soft.. which are you ?

Post by Machinesworking » Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:38 am

The Carpet Cleaner wrote:I just heard a real ssl. Compressor. Wow it's much better than my waves ssl emulation
Yeah somethings are really hard to do in software. All tube emulations come to mind, I'll use them, but not a single one sounds like real tube distortion when compared side to side. Sure, certain settings on a tube distortion can be emulated, but the whole device?.. so far no one has got it down.

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Re: Hard or soft.. which are you ?

Post by saxon2000 » Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:54 am

taffmonster wrote:Been trawling the thread of everyones studio. Seeing what everyone is running, I keep seeing the morpho and blofeld in terms of hardware but really when it comes down to it, are you soft or hard?

I have massive, and animoog and all the ableton suite synths, I have maschine and a kaoss pad, and I am very tempted to sneak behind my wifes back and buy myself a nice DSI Mopho. But really, with todays soft synths, is it really worth buying a hardware synth?
Its hard to make do with what you have when the buying bug bites you....
Does anyone really use hardware anymore? I got the Korg soft synths and I am in synth heaven.Especially the Monopoly...
WOW!

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Re: Hard or soft.. which are you ?

Post by taffmonster » Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:06 am

I'm thinking about the mopho, blofeld or venom. But I can't decide if it's worth it. I've owned hardware before, I've had a k station, a korg prophecy and a korg ms2000.

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Re: Hard or soft.. which are you ?

Post by Forge. » Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:09 am

saxon2000 wrote:
taffmonster wrote:Been trawling the thread of everyones studio. Seeing what everyone is running, I keep seeing the morpho and blofeld in terms of hardware but really when it comes down to it, are you soft or hard?

I have massive, and animoog and all the ableton suite synths, I have maschine and a kaoss pad, and I am very tempted to sneak behind my wifes back and buy myself a nice DSI Mopho. But really, with todays soft synths, is it really worth buying a hardware synth?
Its hard to make do with what you have when the buying bug bites you....
Does anyone really use hardware anymore? I got the Korg soft synths and I am in synth heaven.Especially the Monopoly...
WOW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wmdDYUFfMM

I just bought the dap kings 2011 album - I have so much respect for those guys - the only piece of digital gear in their studio is a CD player - play that album to anyone and they probably wouldn't believe you if you said it was released last year. Could have come Straight off the Stax label....

They go to great lengths to make sure every part of their chain is original authentic gear, and that's the sound they get as a result

but in that case, it's a whole combination of many, many bits of individual hardware all combining together to create the sound - no one bit of kit gives them their "sound"

I'd totally love to be able to afford to build a studio like that...

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Re: Hard or soft.. which are you ?

Post by Muzik 4 Machines » Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:21 am

sound generation is hard, sequencing is soft, mostly

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Re: Hard or soft.. which are you ?

Post by Rabalder » Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:33 am

Hardware + midi sequencing.

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Re: Hard or soft.. which are you ?

Post by Piplodocus » Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:02 pm

I'm normally too lazy to end up plugging my hardware in these days, even though I do prefer it quite often. I'd be better off investing in some nice VSTs tbh.

When it comes to guitar though my sound doesn't even travel through a single bit of silicon unless it's in a parallel chain. hardware all the way avoiding anything with ADA conversion.

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Re: Hard or soft.. which are you ?

Post by taffmonster » Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:15 pm

the real toss up is between max for live or a hardware synth. max being the cheaper of the options.

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