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Roland xv-5050
micro korg
cheep dj set up
shure 57 mic
I also have a d2 groovebox but i wont sell it because i love it! |
airbase's setup: pc, sylenth1, Gladiator, midi kbd, speakers, small Yamaha mixer
Roger shah/ sunlounger: mac, omnisphere, several other plugins, jp-8080 (as he claims for sentimental reasons)
Liam howlett of prodigy on making AONO album in remixmag interview:
http://remixmag.com/artists/remix_behind_curtain/
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COMPLETELY REASONABLE
Freeing himself up from the restriction of using lead vocalists was an important step in the creation of this album. However, perhaps more significant was the decision to write entirely using Propellerhead Reason on his G4. The move followed a near fruitless year of working in his home studio with long-time cohort Neil McLellan. It was slow going, and Howlett sank into the depths of creative depression. Ironically, one of the things holding him back was the huge amount of equipment he had amassed.
“It was everywhere,” Howlett says. “The studio floor was just covered in kit, three rooms of my house. I couldn't think straight. It got to the point where I'd be doing anything to avoid working on something.”
Almost at the breaking point, he installed 10 years of sounds onto his G4 and started messing around with Reason. It was a revelation to him. “I was feeling very stale in my studio, and the more equipment I bought, the less I seemed to be feeling the vibe,” Howlett reveals. “I just found myself going back to the same equipment; it was always the reliable old stuff. More and more, I had this whole thing about just not wanting to be in the studio, and I just started doing more on the laptop. This whole thing about wanting to write on the laptop was that it was pure, you know? No one else could fuck with it. And the mobile way of writing was just so refreshing that I took the kit I needed and locked the door. The rest of the shit is still in there.”
And it looks set to remain locked away for a while yet. “When we were going to take the photos for Remix in the studio, we couldn't get the door open,” Howlett says. “It's fucking jammed shut. And I think that kind of represents the fucking story of this album; it's quite ironic. The fact is, I didn't write the album in the studio; I wrote it in the bedroom or in the garden on the computer. The album feels more natural for it.”
Howlett's introduction to Reason allowed him to work in a much more direct and immediate way. Gone were the hours cutting up on Akais. Instead, he was able to deliver ideas almost instantaneously. It was, he says, “like a guitarist jamming a tune.” For Howlett, the impact was immediate: “I just started to rock the beats again.”
Of course, Reason has its dissenters among the programming community. Despite the fact that it emulates vintage-synthesizer technology for one of the most versatile integrated production packages available today, many have suggested that the soft synths lack the power of true analog sound. Furthermore, the inability to control external MIDI synths can make its use beyond the notepad stage a little restrictive.
“I don't really use any of the soft-synth sounds in Reason,” Howlett says. “I program and manipulate my own sounds. This makes it sound like I didn't use it that much, but it was the most important piece of kit. What it did was take the tune to the stage where we could just concentrate on tweaking.” |
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