Presonus Firefox, definitely...
Worst drivers and software I ever used, at least on Mac.
Terrible, noisy pre-amps. Beurk.
Ah ! My MOTU Traveler is great !
What was the worst gear that you ever owned?
Yep, dead right pause. For me that Korg range was excellent. Loved the EM1 speshly. I would have been well up for the 2nd generation EM1X and ES1X but by that time Live and Reason were in my face and nothing (not even flashing rubber buttons) could turn my head. Great wee boxes though.noisetonepause wrote:You are joking right? That's top of my list of gear I wish I'd never sold.skiptracer wrote:korg es-1
MacBook Pro Retina, Live 9.5, Reason, UC33, KRK RP5s, Teenage Engineering OP1, Korg ESX2, Korg Prophecy, Clavia Nord Lead, Bass, Guitars.
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iain.morland
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Logic 5. ON THE PC.
Complete with all the expensive proprietary emagic synths.
Special features include:
*CRIPPLE YOUR PC!* Logic doesn't recognise more than 1Gb RAM, indeed it gets upset if you have more, so you have to configure Windows to ignore the additional RAM!
*VIDEO NON-SYNC!* Watch with horror and excitement as your careful audio-to-picture drifts mysteriously in and out of sync!
*HANGING NOTES!* Create compelling modernist music with endless jarring notes using any Native Instruments-based sampler!
*FREE GERMAN LESSONS!* Tremble with delight as Logic occasionally produces help messages in German, before shutting down!
Complete with all the expensive proprietary emagic synths.
Special features include:
*CRIPPLE YOUR PC!* Logic doesn't recognise more than 1Gb RAM, indeed it gets upset if you have more, so you have to configure Windows to ignore the additional RAM!
*VIDEO NON-SYNC!* Watch with horror and excitement as your careful audio-to-picture drifts mysteriously in and out of sync!
*HANGING NOTES!* Create compelling modernist music with endless jarring notes using any Native Instruments-based sampler!
*FREE GERMAN LESSONS!* Tremble with delight as Logic occasionally produces help messages in German, before shutting down!
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djadonis206
- Posts: 6490
- Joined: Thu Jun 17, 2004 4:23 pm
- Location: Seattle, WA.
Re: DIE DIGIDESIGN DIE
Oh no you did int!!!peex wrote:MBOX! CRAP!
syke
I like my MBOX though - easy to use...I can set the buffer waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy up there to like 2k and something
It's chill
One mans treasure is another mans garbage I guess
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Alex Baldwin
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First off, especialy to you guys with es1's you hate, man, you should all try circuit bending them and any old gear (that can run on batteries!!!!!!!!!!!!!) And dont bend tv's without knowing what your doing, they can kill you while unplugged. Anyway, I say this because I've seen 2 or 3 truly awesome circuit bend es1's. Circuit bending is fun, you only need to know how to solder and use like, a screwdriver to start out. Here are some links if you have no clue what I'm talking about. Old delay effects/stompboxes are fun to bend too... realy, everything is fun to bend, some things respond better to it, but there is only one way to find out.
http://www.getlofi.com/
http://www.anti-theory.com/soundart/cir ... /cb01.html
http://www.intelligentmachinery.net/res ... itbend.php
And as far as the worst piece of gear i've ever had? Besides buying a averetec laptop, which is not the brand to go with :/ even though I love it because its a part of my gear family now. But the worst for me, hands down, is my roland sp808 phrase sampler. The roland rep stood there and lied to me as I was buying it. Like, was just like 'yeah it can link all the effects together at once, its like a modular synth' what he meant was 'you can only use one effect at a time and they are all pretty beat'. The thing crashed on stage 2 out of 3 times i used it, and about half of those times it ate the zip disk. The sequencer _sucked_, and i had (which also sucked) an mc505, so I was expecting its sequencer would be like that, I used to rock microscope mode or whatever. But no. And like, why have 16 sample pads and only 4 note polyphony? Not just 4 note, there were 4 pads in a band kinda, and you can only play one sample per bank at a time. And I found getting more than 3 sounds playing at the same time would make the sound stop and it would just say 'disk busy'. So I swapped in a 250meg zip drive, same problems. Pulled it out, same drive worked perfect in my pc. The headphone output was of higher quality than the acual outputs. The inputs were bad, it would geek out constantly. Man, octamed had so many cooler features, in fact, running a pc booted into amithalon running octamed worked better live even running on a computer with no case (things were screwed to a piece of plywood and there was an office fan duct taped to the corner) was more stable. It is the reason that I will never ever buy another piece of roland gear from like 1990 on up. My juno 60 still rocks though, and yeah, I think I might have to bend the sp808, its worth possible death by electricution. Would I sell it? Naw, its like, if someone killed your mom, would you let the cops take them, or would they be living in your basement for the next 5 years?
thats how i feel about the sp808
http://www.getlofi.com/
http://www.anti-theory.com/soundart/cir ... /cb01.html
http://www.intelligentmachinery.net/res ... itbend.php
And as far as the worst piece of gear i've ever had? Besides buying a averetec laptop, which is not the brand to go with :/ even though I love it because its a part of my gear family now. But the worst for me, hands down, is my roland sp808 phrase sampler. The roland rep stood there and lied to me as I was buying it. Like, was just like 'yeah it can link all the effects together at once, its like a modular synth' what he meant was 'you can only use one effect at a time and they are all pretty beat'. The thing crashed on stage 2 out of 3 times i used it, and about half of those times it ate the zip disk. The sequencer _sucked_, and i had (which also sucked) an mc505, so I was expecting its sequencer would be like that, I used to rock microscope mode or whatever. But no. And like, why have 16 sample pads and only 4 note polyphony? Not just 4 note, there were 4 pads in a band kinda, and you can only play one sample per bank at a time. And I found getting more than 3 sounds playing at the same time would make the sound stop and it would just say 'disk busy'. So I swapped in a 250meg zip drive, same problems. Pulled it out, same drive worked perfect in my pc. The headphone output was of higher quality than the acual outputs. The inputs were bad, it would geek out constantly. Man, octamed had so many cooler features, in fact, running a pc booted into amithalon running octamed worked better live even running on a computer with no case (things were screwed to a piece of plywood and there was an office fan duct taped to the corner) was more stable. It is the reason that I will never ever buy another piece of roland gear from like 1990 on up. My juno 60 still rocks though, and yeah, I think I might have to bend the sp808, its worth possible death by electricution. Would I sell it? Naw, its like, if someone killed your mom, would you let the cops take them, or would they be living in your basement for the next 5 years?
thats how i feel about the sp808
Inductive - Horrible Music : http://buzzmusic.wipe-records.org/index ... userid=143
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Keyser Soze
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Surely you can't be serious!!!?? Logic 5.5.1 works perfectly for me on my PC, which by the way has 1 Gb of RAM. Nor have I experienced hanging notes, for that matter any of the problems you mention. I haven't tried the video though as I use a different program for that.iain.morland wrote:Logic 5. ON THE PC.
Complete with all the expensive proprietary emagic synths.
Special features include:
*CRIPPLE YOUR PC!* Logic doesn't recognise more than 1Gb RAM, indeed it gets upset if you have more, so you have to configure Windows to ignore the additional RAM!
*VIDEO NON-SYNC!* Watch with horror and excitement as your careful audio-to-picture drifts mysteriously in and out of sync!
*HANGING NOTES!* Create compelling modernist music with endless jarring notes using any Native Instruments-based sampler!
*FREE GERMAN LESSONS!* Tremble with delight as Logic occasionally produces help messages in German, before shutting down!
Keaton always said, "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him." Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze.
iain.morland wrote:Logic 5. ON THE PC.
Complete with all the expensive proprietary emagic synths.
Special features include:
*CRIPPLE YOUR PC!* Logic doesn't recognise more than 1Gb RAM, indeed it gets upset if you have more, so you have to configure Windows to ignore the additional RAM!
*VIDEO NON-SYNC!* Watch with horror and excitement as your careful audio-to-picture drifts mysteriously in and out of sync!
*HANGING NOTES!* Create compelling modernist music with endless jarring notes using any Native Instruments-based sampler!
*FREE GERMAN LESSONS!* Tremble with delight as Logic occasionally produces help messages in German, before shutting down!
I have no idea if that is the case, but those remarks are CLASSIC!
....a real gas man...............
btw I almost spent 4000usd on logic 7.2/imac 20" with 2gigsram and a motu 828mkII..............I think I'll save about 3250 and get the motu and see what happens with software updates for core duo.........