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| quote: | Originally posted by mysticalninja
Yes, you need to. |
Assinine answer, IMHO, WADR... edit: oh wait. I geddit. you were making funny! Oh, in that case LOL! 
As someone who at one point had about $33K worth of equipment, I must admit to being COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY OVERWHELMED by sheer complexity of the set up. I spent most of the time running cables, wiring midi, figuring out set up issues, diagraming configuration, planning next synth hook up, figuring out how to controll all this mess.
nah. I'm reducing my footprint as we speak. My latest philosophy - master your instrument. most of modern synths have AN IMMENSE and nearly INFINITE number of sonic possibilities. You need to feel using it as comfortable as you are using your hands.
Spending thousands on gear will not make you a better musician. It will make you frustrated, unhappy, and eventually may even force you to give up doing music all together. It's nice to have bunch of shiny toys but in the end it comes down to:
1. Can you play the instruments you got to their fullest extent?
2. Can you translate your ideas into music by using the tools you have?
3. Do you spend time making music or tinkering around with gear?
my choices were sooo over-abundant, it made something I enjoyed in the beginning very unenjoyable. I've tried and tested just about 90% of synths available today. In the end I have come to realization that none of that would make you a star and none of that will help you get your ideas across.
As a matter of fact, limiting your choices is what resulted in some of the greatest music - by having limits, you overcome them with creativity, not with tinker bells and toys.
So, get software, MASTER IT. Then you'll see what else you need to fill the gap. Having thousands of dollars of gear sitting around doing nothing, while you figure out how to program one synth is a waste and will lead to nothing but frustration and eventual surrender.
from interview with Liam Howlett of Prodigy:
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A six year hiatus, why?
- Well it wasn't a conscious decision or a plan, really; it just happened. We knew there would be downtime after The Fat of the Land - we felt we had reached the pinnacle of what Prodigy was, and I myself had my mind set on taking a couple of years off. And then time just flew by, know what I mean?
About 2 years ago I started working again, but soon realized I needed to shift myself out of the formula I'd gotten into from working in the same environment all the time. I'd written everything in Cubase from 1993 onwards, with a bunch of hardware synths and Akai samplers as my main setup. I sat down and I thought, "well... this is just so boring. How can I ever get inspired doing the same old thing? How am I gonna write a fresh, inspired album? I'm not enjoying it, it's not going anywhere, I hate my studio, I hate all the equipment in it."
For a man with a hardware gear list the size of a small town phone directory, that's a lot of equipment to hate. Liam's winding road through the world of music making is one which many of his generation can relate to; he started out with a simple 4-track portastudio and turntables in the 1980's, soon got into synthesizers, and eventually found himself using a Roland W-30 workstation with a whopping 16 seconds worth of sampling time. The entire first album, The Prodigy Experience, was created on just this one keyboard. As the royalties started rolling in, so did the gear - and soon enough Liam found himself immersed in a machine park with enough electronics to fill a space cruiser. But, as anyone who's been-there-done-that will know, that can be more of a curse than a blessing.
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source:
http://www.propellerheads.se/news/a...article=prodigy
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