Originally posted by DJMikeyP
One thing I do know, is that even when the day comes that teh software companies finally outsmart the hardware companies and both sound the same, I'll still like the feel of hardware.... Theres something so so special about being able to say, "I'm absolutely on my own - I don't have to worry about speed/memory/mouse limitations and hinderences... Just push the buttons and make what I want"... I kind of feel naked when that happens, like I finally lost my excuse as to why the music sounds mediocre... But then again thats a good thing.
Nah, just get a MIDI controller and you can have the best of both worlds: the feel of hardware AND the software excuse for mediocre music!
Personally, if we were to consider that the end result of hardware and software is the same, I would still lean towards software because hardware can be broken. The worst that can happen with your software is that you have to reinstall it. But if you have a broken transistor or transducer or defibrulator in your hardware, then you have to spend a lot of money to have it serviced and/or replaced. Not to mention the hassle.
Aug-16-2003 16:01
josh
Formation Up Rights
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Singapore
i agree with Alccode.
agree with mr mystery and some others..
its so agrumentative. there always right and alwayr wrong.
pple find s/w better. reinstall safe. by using mouse, kinda sensitive.
hardware - the feel of the knob easy to control..
but come to think, compressor can use in s.w there much thing u can use on s/w also. jsut simply get a hardware which u nromally be using.
and ya qtn way out of point of that. u may have good equipment, do u think u spend so much will do? mean nothing of that. wat i trying to say, u are good, u do a good music no matter wat are u using.
dun bother of h/w s/w thingy. if u find u use more on certain thing, get the h/w. seldomly usage, use s/w.
for me a syth, a mixer and a drum machine will do. need not a high end product. koz, its all in ur mind how the music sound like. no point getting hi end but yet u cant produce great tracks. it the creative of how u do.
straight out of the industry standard of audio production, I'm gonna give you one name... Pro-Tools. www.digidesign.com
Spend the cash to get a home version fot eh pro-tools setup. Spend the rest of what you need to on a computer dedicated to running that. Then get a signal digitizer (I think that's what you call it) and run it from your keyboard(s) to your computer. Have about 3 to 5 or as many as you want to get of instrument synths and/or drum-machines, and run that to your keyboard(s). that setup is just enough, while guided mainly and based on the pro-tools system to make pretty much anything that a large hardware or software studio can do. Yes the pro-tools setup is a hardware/software hybrid.... that's the bestway to do it.
Originally posted by SgtFoo
straight out of the industry standard of audio production, I'm gonna give you one name... Pro-Tools. www.digidesign.com
Spend the cash to get a home version fot eh pro-tools setup. Spend the rest of what you need to on a computer dedicated to running that. Then get a signal digitizer (I think that's what you call it) and run it from your keyboard(s) to your computer. Have about 3 to 5 or as many as you want to get of instrument synths and/or drum-machines, and run that to your keyboard(s). that setup is just enough, while guided mainly and based on the pro-tools system to make pretty much anything that a large hardware or software studio can do. Yes the pro-tools setup is a hardware/software hybrid.... that's the bestway to do it.
...Or just follow in the footsteps of Guyver, Gaz West aka Dark By Design, Klassic & Sanders, Ronski speed etc and just use fl
Originally posted by arctic
...Or just follow in the footsteps of Guyver, Gaz West aka Dark By Design, Klassic & Sanders, Ronski speed etc and just use fl
flutlicht, cosmic gate.........................
exactly
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Daniel
Aug-19-2003 13:36
SgtFoo
Ableton & ProTools addict
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Vaughan, Canada
quote:
Originally posted by dbl
flutlicht, cosmic gate.........................
exactly
Oh don't get me wrong!!... I love FL!!!! FL is also great! but it's a lot cheaper than $15000, so I gave him something more within the budget. And besides, you can use FL with the same setup I described, instead of Pro-tools.
It's just that the college I'm going to boasts about industry standards and pro-tools is it.
Originally posted by SgtFoo
straight out of the industry standard of audio production, I'm gonna give you one name... Pro-Tools. www.digidesign.com
Spend the cash to get a home version fot eh pro-tools setup. Spend the rest of what you need to on a computer dedicated to running that. Then get a signal digitizer (I think that's what you call it) and run it from your keyboard(s) to your computer. Have about 3 to 5 or as many as you want to get of instrument synths and/or drum-machines, and run that to your keyboard(s). that setup is just enough, while guided mainly and based on the pro-tools system to make pretty much anything that a large hardware or software studio can do. Yes the pro-tools setup is a hardware/software hybrid.... that's the bestway to do it.
That's excellent advice. You guys have really educated me on this (seemingly) huge issue. The bottom line, I guess, is that everyone has their own style and their own production techniques. Money isn't necessarily an issue here, but I'm glad to hear software has come such a long way.
I think you've got the right idea for what I need toa ccomplish, SgtFoo. I'm definetly gonna look into ProTools. And a new computer is a given (things just don't run quite right on a PIII 450 anymore ) lol
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