not sure what im really looking to gain from this, apart from more useless hardware knowledge
I was just wondering, you always hear old jungle producers going on about their favourite bits of hardware from days gone by, Akai S-series samplers, Emu samplers with morphing z-plane filters etc... I was just wondering, anyone know much about what hardware was predominantly used to make early garage and 2-step?
I'm guessing as garage is predominantly a sample based genre, with strings and vocal snips chopped from all over the place, the setup would have been similar and primarily based around a sampler, and as far as i know Akai and Emu would have still been the favourites, but seeing as this was a few years later than jungle, was there any other boxes around that people were using a lot to make this style of music? also being a few years after jungle, would the production in this era have started to head "inside the box" and be based more around a computer as the centre of a studio?
I know it shouldnt be important and its not what you use its how you use it etc etc but i just find it interesting to know really, and to some degree the sound of the music is influenced by the capabilities and specific sound of certain bits of gear.
anyone who could shed a bit of light or point me in the right direction for further research?
thanks in advance
