Crummy Gear Thread

[deadly_habit]

record/nail/taped mouse button crossfading is EPIC.

+1, though my laptop touchpad works as an X-Y midi controller because i googled "using laptop touchpad as midi controller", pretty pleased with that.

Apart from that laptop my setup is a borrowed sound recorder and some headphones.

x/y controllers are easy to setup along with using a hid to midi program
joysticks, game controllers etc
learn some soldering and circuit bending or cheap gear mods guys

[mks]

I've always had the philosophy to make music no matter what and use whatever you have. I started producing and DJ'ing in 1994, long before you had the software options available today. I cobbled together a little ghetto rig which consisted of a Roland Juno-106 (which I still have), a crappy Roland sampler, a drum machine, 1 fx unit and some old '70's 6 channel Tapco mixer which only 5 channels worked. For sequencing I started with an 8 track Alesis MMT-8 but quickly moved to a crappy old mac running Opcode Vision software. This was my setup for 6 years but I learned a lot and I made music. By the time I upgraded my equipment I had already started to develop my own style and kind of knew what I was doing. Consequently, when I finally could afford an Akai S5000 sampler, the first batch of tunes that I made got signed and I had my first vinyl come out that year.

For DJ'ing I started with two mis-matched belt-drive turntables and a shitty radio shack mixer.

Just use what you have and get on with it.

Cheers

[deadly_habit]

I've always had the philosophy to make music no matter what and use whatever you have. I started producing and DJ'ing in 1994, long before you had the software options available today. I cobbled together a little ghetto rig which consisted of a Roland Juno-106 (which I still have), a crappy Roland sampler, a drum machine, 1 fx unit and some old '70's 6 channel Tapco mixer which only 5 channels worked. For sequencing I started with an 8 track Alesis MMT-8 but quickly moved to a crappy old mac running Opcode Vision software. This was my setup for 6 years but I learned a lot and I made music. By the time I upgraded my equipment I had already started to develop my own style and kind of knew what I was doing. Consequently, when I finally could afford an Akai S5000 sampler, the first batch of tunes that I made got signed and I had my first vinyl come out that year.

For DJ'ing I started with two mis-matched belt-drive turntables and a shitty radio shack mixer.

Just use what you have and get on with it.

Cheers

had a similar setup over the years and wish i hadn't sold some of my ghetto gear

[Mad_EP]

Just use what you have and get on with it.

This.