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McAngry Dude!! HE SNAPPED!! HE FINALLY SNAPPED!!!!

I'm completely surprised a guy who works in a gear show is completely naive about drum machines. you really don't know what you're talking about, wow.

Boss DR880
http://www.zzounds.com/item--BOSDR880
check the demo sounds, completely reasonable for backing for a live band.

you do this for a living? there are thousands of rockers out there who use these things because they could give a shit about computer recording. totally viable solution that would sound perfectly reasonable over a big ol' PA.

BRING IT MCBOOB!!! GRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

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c'mon.
I was totally being a douchebag by suggesting there are other options besides Live worth looking into. And did I point out Live's strengths? yes, but that is just further tricksy douchebaggery.

Obviously, when a guy named "Sales Dood" tells you you should spend $5000, and to just forget about the $300 option, he has your best interests at heart.
Is this not obvious to you?

seminole1221 wrote:If you could have the best, name it.

hence the McResponse.

Sales Dude McBoob wrote:Angryboob is right. I'm fucking sick of all the anti-Live shit around here.

I still don't get this.

Tone Deft wrote:computer - 2GHz or better, dual core, at least 1Gb RAM, 7200 rpm hard drive

Are you sure that'll handle what this guy's doing?

Sales Dude McBoob wrote:

laird wrote:Oddly enough, a lot of good electronic music has been made with drum machines. Hard to believe, I know.

Be a smarmy cunt. You're good at it.

hey, this is for a church gosh damn it!

but nah, screw the drum machine, i would say screw reason also, but that other thread today really has me thinking about ditching live...


live would be good though.. they have all there background tracks set in session, key map scenes, and what ever the choir feels like singing, they can simply trigger the appropreate scene.

and the guy did ask for a dream setup, so who would avoid rme in that situation,

perhaps the best bet is to get live and a 909?

well, from how I read the OP, they don't need to use a laptop Live at all.
I assume all the beats they make on their computer will be played through a CD player in the church.

So they just need something that'll make some drumbeats... not perform them. In which case, a multi-input/output soundcard is going to be majorly overkill. But, hey, what else would a church spend its money on?

laird wrote:what else would a church spend its money on?

law suits??



maybe he should check out Reaper and some sample CDs with drum loops?

heck, he should put an ad out in the church, surely there's a drummer in the congregation, lots more fun to play with a real drummer.

that's messed up. y'all scared him off, prob scarred for life, tellin folk about the heathens at the ableton forums.=)

he needs a mac pro, ensemble, a couple of u87's, and logic. seems right to me...


and drum machines rule...

How ever this thread gets resolved, i think its important that some one should point out the ability that live has to be able to play audio backwards,,
You need to be very careful with this feature as you can never know what kinds of messages might pop out

have you heard the messages IN church music, played FOWARD? pretty crazy stuff there=)

Way to go everyone, all your talk of bitches and douche bags, anyone stop to ask "where did our OP go?"

That was probably his first and last post ever here. he probably read through this then stumbled across the lesbian movies thread, or the new deep throat thread.....

He's a church guy for christs sakes!


Now pipe down you bunch of bitch ass douche bags.

Look, the guy did some research, discovered a program called Live which has a great reputation for live usage on stage, he/she comes here and you guys tell him to buy an Alesis.

I have nothing against drum machines. I've heard lots and lots of them.

I've also worked with a lot of houses of worship. They want good sounding stuff. They have serious services every week. They have to work to keep their sounds fresh and lively and if you buy a limited piece of gear like the Alesis SR-18, you're not going to get what you need.

But go ahead. Sit there at your computer all day and fire bullets into the knees of potential new Live customers. The world is a better place.

smutek wrote:Way to go everyone, all your talk of bitches and douche bags, anyone stop to ask "where did our OP go?"

That was probably his first and last post ever here. he probably read through this then stumbled across the lesbian movies thread, or the new deep throat thread.....

He's a church guy for christs sakes!


Now pipe down you bunch of bitch ass douche bags.

I have walked amongst the unclean heathens here and have never lost my path to God. I'm proof it's possible to ignore the evil on the internet, if I can do it, so can OP.

McDude - wait, so in your opinion NONE of the drum machines out there should be played over a PA?? I'm not talking the TR series stuff. recently a coworker wanted to fire his drummer and I started talking about Live, the dude's a rocker, he has ZERO interest in DAWs and won't acknowledge electronic music at all. we shopped around a bit and decided on the Boss stuff, he used to use that stuff and they do not sound bad. there's completely a market for that type of device.

This Thread is Funny! One of the very few which made me laugh loud.

If the man from the church is still listening and not scared of you:

Live is, in my opinion, the ideal software for your needs. You can create backing tracks, and you have very good options to play it for your audience.
But - you will have to spend some time to get into it.

as for gear - essentially, you need Live and an pc from the last two years. That would be enough i guess.
For a nice Setup, you want an up to date Laptop with core 2 duo Processor and at least 2 GB of ram and a firewire soundcard like the Presonus Firebox, for example.

For a GREAT setup, you want Live, a macbook(pro) and a soundcard from motu or RME (there is much other good gear, but you can t hardly go wrong with this)

My Advice would be to start simple and buy better Gear when you know exactly what you want.

Sales Dude McBoob wrote:Look, the guy did some research, discovered a program called Live which has a great reputation for live usage on stage, he/she comes here and you guys tell him to buy an Alesis.

lol.... that is kind of ironic eh? Comical as well though.