Who has the simplest setup? You gear freaks... ;o)

Incy · Post by **Incy** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:36 pm

The magazine phase is important, you have to know what's out there and how to do things... internet forums dedicated to software and gear... when I found they didn't teach me much anymore, i let them go. I don't think it was a waste of time or money at all, just a rite of passage most of us go through.

I love my Access Virus Classic. But I reach for the Nord2 more often cause I can shape a sound so much faster. Maybe I should sell it for a better Nord.

ajmedway · Post by **ajmedway** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:47 pm

globalgoon wrote:ableton live - FM7 - arturia minimoog

back catalogue: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Global+Goon

Big ups to the Global Goon!!!

Reeeeeephlex!!!

logic_user99 · Post by **logic_user99** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:51 pm

Patch wrote:2 spoons.

1 tea spoon. I just hit the audience with it...

ttaralli · Post by **ttaralli** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:22 pm

Mac Book Pro
Live 7
Korg Pad Kontrol
M-Audio Firewire solo
m-audio O2 (need to change this to an oxygen

I've sold
Motif 6
MPC 200XL
RS 7000
Two of my electribes
Logic
I still need to sell my Pro Tools M-Powered (I just don't use it)
Juno-1

I also have Recycle and battery but I've discontinued use since drum racks

NEVER BEEN MORE PRODUCTIVE (just works for me)

dcease · Post by **dcease** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:28 pm

the sound of my gat goes rat-a-tat-tat.

leedsquietman · Post by **leedsquietman** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:48 pm

Are there are more 3 year old threads we can revive and pimp up ?

I'm a gear junkie. I'm a DAW junkie. I'm in counselling for it but am not making much progress.

One thing I will say - Since I got the Live 7 Suite, I am using it MOST of the time for EVERYTHING, including the new synths.

However, there are some tracks and projects where I need to do less with Live (which is my go to compositional tool for 100% of my work) and use other DAWS and plugins to finish the task. It would take me too long to list the plugins and stuff and I would feel too decadent in writing such a list. As for the DAW situation, it's only because of Live being too CPU intensive on my ageing computer which I cannot afford to upgrade right now, or because I needed some extra MIDI or audio editing functionality which is better served in another DAW. This is still the exception though, rather than the rule.

jbone1313 · Post by **jbone1313** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:51 pm

Incy wrote:The magazine phase is important, you have to know what's out there and how to do things... internet forums dedicated to software and gear... when I found they didn't teach me much anymore, i let them go. I don't think it was a waste of time or money at all, just a rite of passage most of us go through.

I totally agree.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:55 pm

If they would just address the interfaces of their synths (lose the TV window), I think I'd be happy using just the Live 7 Suite. As it stands now, I have Logic 8 too, plus a Machinedrum and Korg EMX-1. That's pretty much it. Oh, and Zebra2, though I seem to use it less and less lately for no real reason.

forge · Post by **forge** » Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:36 pm

Tarekith wrote:If they would just address the interfaces of their synths (lose the TV window), I think I'd be happy using just the Live 7 Suite.

+1...well almost - I really like the NI stuff

DJ VAKIS · Post by **DJ VAKIS** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:49 am

dysanfel wrote:
DJ VAKIS wrote:
Is that a 15" or a 17" MBP?

A 15"

UKRuss · Post by **UKRuss** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 9:19 am

Lo-Fi Massahkah wrote:Live 7.0.10 (Suite)
NM1
MEK
Faderfoxes
RM1x

Pretty slim.

.m

What about the glock man!

brightonalex · Post by **brightonalex** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 9:19 am

aizo · Post by **aizo** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:12 am

this thread makes me sad. I've had this huge writers block lately and it makes me think oif when I just had a g4 desktop reason 2.0 and Digital Performer 4 something.I wrote the most creative shit ever. it didn't sound good because subtractor sucks balls...or at least i didnt know how to get a good sound out of it. but i did some of my best stuff with it. working on structure more then try to get a cool synth sound. now i have 3 pieces of hardware i force myself to use. a Mc909, korg EMX 1, and a jp8000. i would use the mc90 more if for some reason it didn't lag behind the rest of my gear. i can't firgure out the timing issue.

but the most creative stuff I write is during lunch at work when i just have my laptop.

I think I could write a great album with just my drums. a guitar, reason, and reaktor.
the rest of the stuff is just distracting. but i refuse to give it up. or put it away. damn im stubborn....

UKRuss · Post by **UKRuss** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:24 am

aizo wrote: but the most creative stuff I write is during lunch at work when i just have my laptop.

+11

formatk · Post by **formatk** » Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:42 am

My first music was done simply with an Akai S20, Korg Prophecy and Korg Pandora, I sold the prophecy and then made music only in reason on an old clamshell iBook for years and most of the stuff was done just using that. I've since just use Ableton Live on a macbook pro with an MPD-24 and a pair of headphones and that's it, no plug ins, very rarely hook up an audio interface and I produce most of my sounds from sampling through the built in mic and creating micro harmonics and layering with simpler. I extract some hits and grooves from mp3's but that's about it.
I think gear is good if you've got a deadline, I've done some work for TV quite a bit, and I miss the luxury of having something like Logic or reason with loads of instruments and presets to quickly get going and draught an idea out, but i like making things difficult for myself

Who has the simplest setup? You gear freaks... ;o)

Anyone stopped buying advert-laden music magazines so that they can concentrate on making music with the gear they have already got?