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anyone surrendered to the inevitable GAS recently?? (apart from Raphie obviously )

picked this up a few weeks ago, still need to get it set up properly etc..

I recently bought a Maschine, although at the moment it just sits there baffling me.

I need to get it all set up so that it feeds off my enormous sample collection and becomes my goto beatz maekin' tool.

JD800....niiieece

bought a pair of 121s. Got two used c414 xls (the gold ones) as well. I have a pretty sexy mic collection for someone that doesn't record.

got this sweet RCA cable from radioshack

A new coffee mug, yeah.

Made a leap from a PC to Macbook Pro recently...picked up a shiny APC 40 to go with it, tonnes o' fun.

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Originally posted by meriter got this sweet RCA cable from radioshack

That's where I got my ground-loop-isolator. It's fucking epic, all the choons I'm going to be cranking out with it. Such a bad-ass piece of kit and versatile as hell, too!

I just bought a new laptop for music production (17-in Dell i5/8GB/750GB) and I went shopping for a compact MIDI controller yesterday with the intention of buying an AKAI, Novation, or possibly an M-Audio. Every one of them felt like a flimsy-ass over-priced, Chinese-made plastic POS and the keyboard action on all of them sucked donkey balls. I was getting totally disillusioned, when I noticed that they had the Arturia "The Player" hybrid synth/controllers in stock. I opened one up and was blown away by the construction on this thing! It's built like a tank, has solid wood side panels and aluminum housing and the keyboard action is almost as nice as my Virus'. And, to top it all off, it was far cheaper ($149!) than the other garbage controllers I was looking at. It's also USB powered (no AC or batteries needed), and the included synth player is actually kinda cool, although very limited in this particular model.

All of the buttons and knobs are dual-mode (using the Shift key) and mapping them to my software was a piece of cake. I'm not sure why this keyboard doesn't get honorable mention when people are asking which MIDI controller to buy, but Arturia wins hands-down in the compact controller market IMO. Hell, I might buy the 61-key version now.

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Originally posted by cryophonik All of the buttons and knobs are dual-mode (using the Shift key) and mapping them to my software was a piece of cake. I'm not sure why this keyboard doesn't get honorable mention when people are asking which MIDI controller to buy, but Arturia wins hands-down in the compact controller market IMO. Hell, I might buy the 61-key version now.

Because some people will buy their MIDI keyboad for the sole purpose of sending MIDI signals to their DAW and not buying 100 dollar extra for wood side panels.

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Originally posted by Deillon Because some people will buy their MIDI keyboad for the sole purpose of sending MIDI signals to their DAW and not buying 100 dollar extra for wood side panels.

Did you even bother to read my post, or did you just not comprehend any of it?

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Originally posted by cryophonik Did you even bother to read my post, or did you just not comprehend any of it?

Oh, I see it now, your post was meant sarcastic like EddieZilker's was.

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Originally posted by Deillon Oh, I see it now, your post was meant sarcastic like EddieZilker's was.

No. Mine was definitely sarcastic - really self-deprecation - but cryo's isn't. Honestly, cryophonik's a great guy. Cut him some slack. His first post in this thread definitely doesn't deserve any derision. It's a small piece of his kit complimenting an already formidable studio that he's very capable of using.

@ cryo: I've been wanting to try out the Arturia keyboard and accompanying software, for a while. If you decide to upgrade to the full suite deal, be sure and start a thread about it. And I know you will.

Thanks EZ, but, based on another useless comment he posted, I'm sure he's just a troll/alt. No need to feed him.

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Originally posted by EddieZilker @ cryo: I've been wanting to try out the Arturia keyboard and accompanying software, for a while.

If you're ever in GC, see if they have one in stock and be sure to open the box and check out how beefy the construction is. As I mentioned, I could have paid a lot more for much less controller. I'm sure you know my feelings on quality and playability by now, and I'm pretty stunned that the Arturia stuff has flown under my radar for so long. I guess I just assumed that it was primarily just a dedicated controller for their synth player plugin and probably crap quality like everything else in this price range. I'm glad I opened the box.

I think I missed the point that you were looking for a compact keyboard, because my main argument was that for that price you can get a decent 61 keys controller. Sorry for that.

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and the keyboard action on all of them sucked donkey balls

This however, I can still not believe. All the light-weighted keyboards i've played on are almost the same.

Supernova 2. The filters sound great, excellent user interface, 8 part multitimbral workhorse etc etc. 3 weeks and I'm already disappointed, no sound that couldn't be created with software, the only thing it's good at is reducing CPU load. FML I'm an idiot, could have learned to bounce to audio and spent the cash on hookers.

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Originally posted by Deillon I think I missed the point that you were looking for a compact keyboard, because my main argument was that for that price you can get a decent 61 keys controller. Sorry for that. This however, I can still not believe. All the light-weighted keyboards i've played on are almost the same.

and they all suck donkey dick

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