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Originally posted by emc^2 ^^^^ classic, definitely sig-worthy material. Hence, added! Now, to settle this debate between ya all mofos, Let your ears be your guide. 'till then!

lmfao

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Originally posted by emc^2 ^^^^ classic, definitely sig-worthy material. Hence, added! Now, to settle this debate between ya all mofos, I'll set up a thread and post some samples. We'll have a "VSTi vs Hardware whore-off contest" Let your ears be your guide. 'till then!

Can you send me a message when you've posted this thread?

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Originally posted by emc^2 some of the producers that are mostly software-based: 1. Yahel 2. Prodigy (new album is 98% made in Reason) 3. Plasticman 4. Alphazone 5. Bobina 6. Vadim Zhukov ...and many more. Hardware is great for live musician or if you require instant hands-on control, however, with advent of MIDI controllers and apps that can take advantage of that, hardware is becomming obsolete. Why do you think Novation and Nord are moving more towards software? I'm actually in the process of trimming down my studio to only "essential" gear and get rid of all the "fat". I'm waiting for Access Virus TI to come out, so I can get even more control in smaller footprint and more manageable setup. It's all a matter of what you're comfortable with. Quite honestly, I hate certain NI instruments because they don't offer re-size capability and spend too much time making instrument appear "real" instead of making it more practical. I think more thought should go into making soft synth more logical, easier to use and more stable, instead of wasting cpu cycles on rich graphics, retarded rotary knobs that never work the way you want them to. so, my vote - software is the key. hardware is on its way out. considering the raw power of Live, FL Studio, Reason, Buzz, Absynth, Kontakt, and others - the hardware manufacturers will have to come up with some serious goods to compete. Besides, take a rompler like Korg Triton - what do you think is the shelf life of something like that? How dated will these sounds be 2-3 years from now? well, with software romplers like Atmosphere you can expect a long long life. So, that's my thought for the day.

Don't even dare to compare Korg Triton's series, If I had the chance of getting a Triton Xtreme, I would rather get it instead of Atmosphere 1000 times.
The problem with Hardware, is that the good ones, the ones that are really worth it, are too expensive, just compare Korg Triton Xtreme with Atmosphere, Xtreme's triples the price.

Lets say that combining software with hardware would be the best deal.

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I just installed fedora core 3 on my laptop, today I found this thing on the internet called planet CCRMA, which is a set of programs and a tweaked kernal that changes my linux into a decent audio OS, I get lower latency on it than I do with windows software, but I have a 1600 mhz laptop with a low end sound card. It also works fine with my midi controller(after changing some config files, but it was really easy)

I see alot of people complain about pirating software, I think I have found a way to circumvent this issue. This linux audio software stuff is actually quite decent, check out this article:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7342

But it is all free to download, and modify, I haven't made a complete tune yet, but I have made alot of fun sounds and really enjoy playing with the programs. I think I might have finally found something I can really get comfortable with and be anle to sit down and make a tune. Spiral synth modular is wickedly awesome, it is so much fun to wire up a noise, then JACK it to the other tools. Instead of having a big program that does alot of different things, now I have a bunch of small specialized programs that can be made to work together, its just so much fun to fire a bunch of things up and connect them together in new and exciting ways.

Anyway, I just thought I would remind you guys that not all decent software is over priced, I understand that not many people take the linux sound tools seriously, here is an SoS article about the subject:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Feb.../linuxaudio.asp

anyway, it might not be the greatest most advanced stuff around, but for me it is a really fun way to make music.

I'll leave you with a couple more linux sound bookmarks of mine

planet ccrma:http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccr...lanetccrma.html
spiralsynthmodular:http://www.pawfal.org/Software/SSM/

Hmmm, I don't really get why some of the people here defend Software so much. If you download illegally software you cannot use it for commercial purposes and thus it kills the entire purpose of producing music professionaly anyways. Unless you want it to be a learning process..

However the majority of buyers of professional software products are usually the ones that try to make a living out of music one or another way. To make a buck. And they will -have- to buy it to show their liscense for the programs/effects they used. I don't think these Software companies miss too much of the money.

A friend of mine works as a graphics artist for a gamecompany. Before he started he was asked to study 3DsMax within a week. He then could perform the work onsite, using 3DsMax program installed on the office-computers of the company.
He simply downloaded a version and spent 7 days 24/7 totally studying this editor, untill he mastered it. And he got hired.

Right now I'm trying out several audio programs and I'm trying to decide which one I will afford for use of my own musicproduction, which is only 10% Dancemusic. I use 80% hardware devices, and the only thing that really needs replacement is rhythm tracks as this is quite hard to make with hardware synthesizers. I believe the remaining 20% can be filled up by Fruityloops. Paying for this piece of software seems to be a huge advantage, and I believe in combination with the correct hardware synthesizers and usage a setup like this can be very well enough for good musicproductions in trance-style.