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i use both.

certain hardware can just sound better as can certain software...

hardware is cool to play with, and its more fun being hands on with a tune, but sometimes (alot of the time) software is just more practicle and less expencive.

Definately Hardware...especially live on the improvised tip...




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I use a novation X-station for my hardware synth, it's lourvely

I also use an hr-16 drum machine to get that old skool snare snap

and to top it off I have a kat pad to play my beats with drum sticks

I midi that into the BFD (virtual drum-studio *I know that's software and this is teh hardware thread....I digress)

I think everyone should have a synth with multiple oscillators.

and if you have a hardware sampler you are in business too!

cheers

festa

At one point I had a huge studio of hardware, and sold it all off as software became more feasible as a replacement, but have started buying some hardware again...microKORG, MS-20, circuit bent TR-505 & SK-1, etc. What can I say, I love toys.

Misk wrote:if sound design was part of being a producer. a LARGE majority of people would have to stop being producers.

that is the dream.

Sound Design is for sound designers.

A Producers job is to have VISION & sharp ears,

A muso s job, to be musical.

You can master one, or, be a jack of all trades & master of none.

No single path is better than any other one, no matter how far up ur own arse you dissappear

on that note, my latest bit of kit - which nicely rounds out my rack



Gold star for the person that can tell me what it does

Mudfoot))) wrote:When it comes down to it, good music is good music - if it kicks ass, nobody cares how you made it.

This is 100% true. It all comes down to the producer, and doesn't much matter what tools he used. A good tune is a good tune.

I personally use both hardware and software because I've had my studio set up in one form or another for years now, and when I started, it was mostly all hardware. And even though I have a lot of gear, I find myself making tunes outside of the studio while sitting at my kitchen table with nothing but a Macbook, Novation ReMOTE SL and a pair of headphones. And then once I get the basic idea down, I then move it over to my studio computer and run it through the analog mixing desk and so forth. Of course, there is just something about the hardware that I can't get away from. I just know my gear, and there are certain sounds that I hear in my head that are just easier for me to get out of my hardware because I know it very well. But if I were just starting out, I would most likely be mostly digital, but would get a quality multi-channel audio interface and do my final mixes on a real analog mixer.

plk wrote:At one point I had a huge studio of hardware, and sold it all off as software became more feasible as a replacement, but have started buying some hardware again...microKORG, MS-20, circuit bent TR-505 & SK-1, etc. What can I say, I love toys.

I'm totally with you on that. I've sold a good amount of my hardware, but have just recently been picking up some odds and ends. I just got a circuit bent speak and spell, and some other stuff. I love toys as well.

doomstep wrote: on that note, my latest bit of kit - which nicely rounds out my rack



Gold star for the person that can tell me what it does

hot damn, is that one of the telefunken di boxes? talk about a good path.

TeReKeTe wrote:

doomstep wrote: on that note, my latest bit of kit - which nicely rounds out my rack



Gold star for the person that can tell me what it does

hot damn, is that one of the telefunken di boxes? talk about a good path.

my guess as well.

DI is looooovely.

TeReKeTe wrote:

doomstep wrote: on that note, my latest bit of kit - which nicely rounds out my rack



Gold star for the person that can tell me what it does

hot damn, is that one of the telefunken di boxes? talk about a good path.

close man, siemens not telefunken, but that era German modules look similar & telefunken did a version of these as well.

Not DIs, but they do have haufe trannies on the output - they are V275/0 summing amps, recapped & orig ICs replaced with new versions, the 'broadcast' hi-pass filter bypassed making them flat to a stupidlly hi freq. and +/6db gain pots on the front. Racked up with 4 mono x 4 stereo inputs & stereo out.

A very slutty way of doin parallel compression

analogue gear sounds better no matter what, but most of us are probably to poor to have a fully analogue studio, so most people end up using computers. A software synth can never test against analogue for fatness, but unless you've got £6000 a/d converters, it's not going to matter once you put it in your soundcard.

yeah hardware...
hardware sounds dope!

I use an MPC1000 on every other track or so... and I also have this old Boss SP-505 that I still use for it's grungy sound. I also play most of my bass with a bass guitar through a Bass Pod Pro, filtered to get as much lows out of it as I can.

im gettin more n more about sampling vinyl, getting into the art of cratedigging...
still use sample packs as well as vsts too tho. have some analogue kit, sold some of what i used to have tho cos i could easily make do without it! its all about creative use of source material. obviously the deeper you go into sound creation the more unique yr sound is gonna be tho...
does make me laugh when you hear overly bait samples on tho - ive heard too many un-messed with sounds from that reggaeton pack that was posted on here n doa. in tracks thatve been released as well!!
worth remembering that some of the biggest producers in dubstep work with rlly minimal setups...
so doomstep, what does that thing actually do? yr description doesnt rly shed any more light on the matter for me hehe...

Grizzle wrote:I like hardware. I like software. I like things that are good.