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SOFTWARE vs. HARDWARE (Strength's & Weakness - Your opinion is welcome!) (pg. 12)
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| 9Vibes |
I dont own any hardware , but
The good thing about Software is that you know who uses Nexus or not.
But one really bad thing i find about software is that it gives me that '2d' feel , i would actually prefer tweaking knobs in a black rectangular box then to tweak knobs in a computer screen.
Btw , is Omnisphere a synthesizer , or is it a rompler?
Or why not all of us just try to get a sound from a trance song(A hard one) , and try to recreate it using softwares and hardwares , then see which one sounds the closest?
Try to recreate that saw bass from Cosmic Gate - Not Enough Time. |
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| Ry Thomas |
Do products outside of Yamaha/Steinberg work with total recall? |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by cronodevir
Trance did die in 2000. Not to say music labeled trance after 2000 isn't good...but it certainly isn't trance, its pop music at most.
Proggressive killed it. |
No, Trance died in 1999, and the Dutch killed it. |
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| palm |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
No, Trance died in 1999, and the Dutch killed it. |
not another one of these threads, it never died it just got overflooded by like all popular genres will. it'll be back soon enough, everything goes in circles. Btw trance was good all the way to like 2003/2004 imo, then ASOT got out of hand and ruined everything with guitars and bells like stuff. |
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| alanzo |
| quote: | Originally posted by palm
then ASOT got out of hand and ruined everything with guitars and bells like stuff. |
And ty vocals with poorly conceived chords. |
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| mysticalninja |
| quote: | Originally posted by Subtle
Hardware
Pro: Sound, Fun
Software:
Pro: Workflow, Recall |
that really is it right there. |
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| Eric J |
Look, this is all purely a matter of tenure in this music. Trance didn't die, it just changed, drastically.
Those of us who have been listening to EDM since the early 90's remember a time when "trance" was nothing like what it is considered today. The "trance" of the 90's is more like the progressive house of today. If you go back and listen to the big "trance" labels of the era (Hooj Choons, VC, Jackpot, Perfecto, etc.) the music is nothing like the trance of today.
The Supersaw-type trance really didn't make it's appearance until around 2000, which by then, the musical landscape had changed quite a bit. Hooj Choons changed to just Hooj and started releasing more house-influenced stuff. Sasha and Digweed lead the way by going "back to basics" and playing more progressive house stuff (see GU09, GU13 & GU19). I was heavily influenced by the S&D sound, and changed my tastes around the same time by starting to play a LOT more progressive house.
So if you have been listening for that long, as I have, then I can see how you may have thought that trance has "died". However, for those who got into this stuff in the last 10 years or so, then the "supersaw" trance of today what you think of as "trance". Most of the big trance artists today were influenced by the same records I was. We all grew up with S&D, GU, the Renaissance series and many more, which defined the sound for a generation. Now that same sound has migrated into progressive house, and even tech house.
Hell, even Sasha has changed his sound to be a LOT more tech house, but if you listen to the stuff he is playing now, its still has a but if a "trance" edge, but its definitely techno/tech-house at it's core.
If you are looking for some great older "trance", check out S&D - Northern Exposure 2 (both discs), or Renaissance, The Mix Collection Vol. 1 or even some of the older GU CD's. There is a certain magic in those CD's that I don't find in modern "trance". If you want to get REALLY old school, I can hook you up with a copy of the Dub House Disco CD's. :)
The point is that there is a certain nostalgia with the sound of yesteryear that a lot of us remember. I've been going through all my old records lately and there are SO many good tracks that still stand up today. That sound lives on in Progressive House, so if that is what you are looking for, you know where to find it. |
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| thecYrus |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ry Thomas
Do products outside of Yamaha/Steinberg work with total recall? |
yes, i've integrated all my synths into it. from moog, access, clavia, korg, ... all works fine for me. |
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| david.michael |
| I can't simply "clone" a whole bunch of Virus synths if I want to hear them all play simultaneously. Software wins in this respect. I'm not buying 5 or 6 of the same hardware synth (yes, I know, just record and mix down the stems, but still. We're talking pros and cons here.) |
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| alanzo |
| quote: | Originally posted by david.michael
I can't simply "clone" a whole bunch of Virus synths if I want to hear them all play simultaneously. |
Sure you can. Just get two Powercore PCI cards and a Virus|Powercore plugin /w Multi-DSP |
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| david.michael |
| quote: | Originally posted by alanzo
Sure you can. Just get two Powercore PCI cards and a Virus|Powercore plugin /w Multi-DSP |
Well, fair enough, but you get my drift anyway. :) |
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