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Your hardware and software progression (pg. 3)
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| Andy28 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Richard Butler
I've only known cubase. I've read comments that you cannot get depth of sound out of it.
One French guy told me any kicks comming out of cubase lack depth and density.
Any thoughts? Sorry to hijack thread. |
Bollocks!!
Loads of top producers use it. I A/B it with ableton using a few samples and synths and I couldn't tell any difference.. For a while I wanted to get into it but got frustrated not knowing how to do things instantly with it and just stuck with live because I know it pretty well.
Here's mine
Playstation music 2000 :p -> Pc Reason 2.5 -> Reason 3 + live -> live
soundcard soundblaster audigy 2 platium.. still got it, I know it sucks bad but in that time I got married had kids and went back to college (still there now) so aint really had money to upgrade yet |
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| Mad for Brad |
| It is just one of many examples where he tries to justify his lack of progress by blaming or rationalizing his tools and workflow. He tries to point his lack of goal reaching by pointing the finger at all the wrong places. He means well tho. |
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| Andy28 |
| Well for me, I do have goals but Im in no hurry to achieve them, making music is a hobby, I enjoy it but Im not "chasing labels" if you like. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Kysora
Haha how many 19 year olds can say they have a progression of studio equipment? |
19 is when I started out with Reason.
Progression of equipment is overrated anyway. Progression of skill is way more important. If I had started out with everything I have right now, I doubt my stuff would have been much better than it was back then. Maybe less, because I would have been going from synth to synth all the time rather than concentrating on a single program. |
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| Andy28 |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Progression of equipment is overrated anyway. |
I'd like to find that out for myself :)
I wouldn't mind a synth or two, but honestly, a good sound card and monitors is all the gear am wishing for right now. A pc upgrade would be nice too, but not essential at all. |
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| Mad for Brad |
| When I started, I spent about 20 000 in one month then a few more over the year. Been streamlining everything. I do have a nice computer set up , 2 mac pros,one with an apogee ensemble and the other with a duet, Genelecs, a nice controller but thats it. |
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| DJ RANN |
1, Atari 400 (music Composer)
2, Commodore 64 (Music Maker)
3, Amiga 500 (with 512 upgrade!) (forget what the name was?
4, mate's Atari 2400 - Zenith Laptop (166mhz - Yeah baby) Acid 3.0 and soundforge - then Cubase 4
5, Home Built AMD finally have a soundcard MAudio 2496 (soundforge, then Cubase 5, then Cubase SX and Logic 5 and Reason 1.0, then Cubase SX2, then Cubase SX3, (dropped logic as no more development) bit of ableton.
6, then got a job at Studio (Logic 8, Cuabase (SX)4, protools HD 7.1, then PTHD 8).
7, Currently (not including work - for home us) got Imac plus Echo AF4 and JBL monitors, Logic 8 and Bias Peak, then Logic Pro 9 and bit of PTs 8 for working from home.
that makes me feel old.
Musical Hardware: Casio Synth, got rid of it then nothing else for 8 years, got Soundlab DLP1 belt drive decks and mixer, then Technics SL1210 MK2's and Gemini PS626 Mixer, then Innovation Don II mixer, then Technics SL1201M3D and Vestax PMC15 Mk2, Then Technics SL1200 (silver) and Vestac PVC270A.
Currently, Technics 1210MK5G's, Vestax PMC 55 Mixer (x2, one as a spare). Korg Kaoss pad, Korg Electribe ES1 Drum Machine. |
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| Kysora |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
19 is when I started out with Reason.
Progression of equipment is overrated anyway. |
I've tried Reason, not a fan
I think skill is obviously a better thing to progress with than equipment but kind of like M4B, when I started playing guitar I immediately bought a nice amp and a Boss GT10 multi-effects processor, then not long after that a Gretsch Electromatic, before I even knew how to play a song from beginning to end. It helped immensely, having that effects processor to toy around and experiment with as I was learning. I kind of wonder if that's something that would have applied to my music too.
Not that I care, my workflow is probably unusable to 90% of producers but it works well enough for me, at least for now until I actually start improving on it |
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| kevin shawn |
Reason -> FL -> Cubase -> Ableton -> Logic (now)
Started on a ty PC with onboard sound then built a hackintosh to run OSX and logic. Currently using a Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1 as my sound card, zero issues with this little box.
Midi controller was an Oxygen 8 in the beginning and now I'm on a cheap m-audio keystudio 49 with a pair of Mackie MR8s. Highly efficient setup for me the only thing I think I need is a second if not third LCD monitor. Dual LCD screens are a must I hate only having one right now. |
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| Dj_Kile |
Software:
pcdj producer or something when i was 16
Sony Acid
Ableton Live + many vst's and banks
Hardware :
Samson 8" monitors
Behringer truth 8"
Lexicon Alpha Audio Interface
Akai APC40
M-Audio Oxygen 49
planing to get NI Audio Kontrol 1 + behringer condenser for vocals
as far as computers goes , i always upgrade , right now i have
1. I7 870 + 16GB Memory + Win7 64
2. Q6600 + 8GB Memory + Win7 64 |
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| Prototrance |
Good thread:
Dance ejay
Dance ejay 2
Music 2000 (PC)
FL3 & Midiman Oxygen 8
Logic 5 (I think - the one before it went Mac only)
Cubase SX2, Absynth 3 & Audiophile 2496 - did nothing for years on it really
FL8
FL9, Virus B, Nord Rack, Sylenth, Atmosphere, Gladiator, Vanguard blah blah a few more softsynths that we all have. Alesis M1 520 monitors |
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| Osmodiar |
hah, I started with ejay aswell, pretty limited but fundamental in realising there was fun to be had in creating music!
From ejay -> reason -> cubase SX3 -> Cubase 5.
Evolution MK49C midi keyboard -> Virus TI KB
Sound blaster -> Audiophile 2496 -> Motu 828mk3
Hi-Fi amp & spkrs -> Mackie MR8's
Old school 21" crt's -> two Dell u2410's |
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