Gear lust

[nowaysj]

Wow, a little expensive for behringer. Shocking actually.

[bassbum]

Wow, a little expensive for behringer. Shocking actually.

£600 is only £360

It's the controller I have been dreaming of for the last 2 years. I only hope it has more than 3 banks of fader like most controllers of a similar kind. It's like designer think that having more than 32 tracks in a project is out of this world :/.

[Jizz]

£600 is only £360

I could watch Lando sitting there for hours lol, he seems... sagely

[SunkLo]

The cameraman on that Behringer video is utterly retarded.

In other news, I finally got my Schiit stack.





On the order form comments I put "Send me one of the good ones with the dragons and unicorns inside"...

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They did.

[wub]

Your soul is worth less than a Behringer? Sure, seems reasonable.

[nowaysj]

Of all the gear to trade for.

[bassbum]

Your soul is worth less than a Behringer? Sure, seems reasonable.

Why dose Behringer have such a bad rep?

[wub]

Your soul is worth less than a Behringer? Sure, seems reasonable.

Why dose Behringer have such a bad rep?

Shoddy build quality, mainly.

[nowaysj]

Dude. Understatement. It really cannot be stated strongly enough.

[wub]

Arturia Announces Beatstep Controller

There's been a lot of excitement for this week's announcements surrounding the annual NAMM conference, and French instrument and software company Arturia has now shared their own, unveiling a new pad controller and step sequencer called Beatstep. With 16 velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads, 16 encoders, 16 MIDI controller and sequencer presets, and a very reasonable price of $129, the Beatstep packs a lot of features into an affordable package. Arturia has also included CV outputs, USB input/output, MIDI output, and iPad compatibility (with the ubiquitous camera kit connection), allowing the controller to be used in conjunction with a range of synthesizers and drum machines, including their recently released Microbrute. The full specifications for Arturia's Beatstep can be found here, while an introductory video is available to watch below.

Bargain at that price.

[darkmatter]

Your soul is worth less than a Behringer? Sure, seems reasonable.

Why dose Behringer have such a bad rep?

Shoddy build quality, mainly.

Depends really. For PA - Behringer Europower amps deliver for the price, as do the the Ultradrive crossovers.

For monitoring, the Truths are great for the money.

For controllers, the BCF2000s get good reviews and the new range looks interesting.

Wouldn't write them off to quickly, being a huge company gives them certain advantages in terms of being able to have a big R&D department and lower prices due to mass production.

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Arturia Announces Beatstep Controller

There's been a lot of excitement for this week's announcements surrounding the annual NAMM conference, and French instrument and software company Arturia has now shared their own, unveiling a new pad controller and step sequencer called Beatstep. With 16 velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads, 16 encoders, 16 MIDI controller and sequencer presets, and a very reasonable price of $129, the Beatstep packs a lot of features into an affordable package. Arturia has also included CV outputs, USB input/output, MIDI output, and iPad compatibility (with the ubiquitous camera kit connection), allowing the controller to be used in conjunction with a range of synthesizers and drum machines, including their recently released Microbrute. The full specifications for Arturia's Beatstep can be found here, while an introductory video is available to watch below.

Bargain at that price.

Seriously. Want. For that price I want it just to step sequence my rack filter.

[wub]

Seriously. Want. For that price I want it just to step sequence my rack filter.

The video was pretty jokes, not least because the guy looks like Will Wheaton.


Oh I'll just use it to play my drums...

Oh I'll just use it to sequence my Minibrute

Oh I'll just CONNECT IT TO MY FUCKING MODULAR SYNTH


Jokers

[rockonin]

Arturia Announces Beatstep Controller

There's been a lot of excitement for this week's announcements surrounding the annual NAMM conference, and French instrument and software company Arturia has now shared their own, unveiling a new pad controller and step sequencer called Beatstep. With 16 velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads, 16 encoders, 16 MIDI controller and sequencer presets, and a very reasonable price of $129, the Beatstep packs a lot of features into an affordable package. Arturia has also included CV outputs, USB input/output, MIDI output, and iPad compatibility (with the ubiquitous camera kit connection), allowing the controller to be used in conjunction with a range of synthesizers and drum machines, including their recently released Microbrute. The full specifications for Arturia's Beatstep can be found here, while an introductory video is available to watch below.

Bargain at that price.

This looks a premium version of the Korg Nano Pad

[wub]

But with rotaries and a transport section. It looks fucking lush is what is looks, and that price

[fragments]

But with rotaries and a transport section. It looks fucking lush is what is looks, and that price

Hell. Sweetwater has them for 99USD. Dont really feel like spending 100 dollars on something I wont have for 2.5 months though...besides...Ill let all the rich as fuck jokers buy the first batch and see what goes wrong with them...lol...Arturia has some MIDI controller lemons that seem cool...like the miniLab...I guess its basically a huge piece of poo that they pretty much dont update or support but continue to sell, lol.

[nowaysj]

I preordered the minitbrute in January, bought it while it was still at Namm, if I'm not mistaken, and then waited... I think 6 months, or more? Hahah, cheeky fuckers.

Watch that video, and you will see that thing flexing in the middle as he strikes the pads, like the whole thing flexes. That is potentially a bad thing.

But that thing loooooks dope. I don't even want to get out my whipper snapper routine, but you kids have it SO easy these days. There was a time not long ago when something like this would be four figures, and now it is being sold two figures

[wub]

That's a really nice sound. Always thought of the 707 as a poor mans 909 but from what I've seen it seems to be quite useful in terms of MIDI syncability and a good workhorse to add to an analogue setup.

Can't stop watching this video...got that proper itch under my skin...

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But that thing loooooks dope. I don't even want to get out my whipper snapper routine, but you kids have it SO easy these days. There was a time not long ago when something like this would be four figures, and now it is being sold two figures

Fully recognize this man.

I think weve learned that computers are great, but for inspiration hardware still has it beat. I really feel like people who bitch about being unispired or not feeling creative and all that crywank really out do something besides enter values and click things with a mouse.

Shit. You dont even have to know a damn thing about music theory to play the Beatstep correctly! Just set it to one of the scale modes and get to knob twisting!

[nowaysj]

Really is true. Gotta find a way of working that is fun, AND produces usable results. I have way more fun in hardware/controller, but then bring that ultimately into the box, where I can get usable results.