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continuumdnb wrote:

yoseph wrote: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

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

mks wrote: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

mks wrote: Just use what you have and get on with it.

This.