whats your number 1 piece of kit?

[el salvador]

whats your number 1 piece of kit? your fave hardware or software. the plug ins you cant live without, or the battle torn 909.......

[FIK]

A B L E T O N

[messyfuture]

i love all my children the same :lol:

[rhythmtech]

my alesis monitors... they have made such a HUGE differance to my productions (b4 them i was using dodgy hi-fi speakers)

or possibly izotope ozone?

[stjohn]

id be pretty bollixed without all the Waves plugins, top quality stuff IMO. well worth the money i paid for i!!!! :shhh:

[rhythmtech]

tu tut :roll:

[dirty_bass]

My ears.

[dan the acid man]

My ears.

often overlooked, but without them we'd be stuck, although im sure judging by some releases, people dont always use them :lol:

[MARKEG]

no 1? jesus, it all goes together to make what it is. but i have to say my mackie 824's.

i really can't believe how my ears just dont get tired with these. speakers are the most overlooked part of the studio when you first get into it.

[Stodgy]

speakers are the most overlooked part of the studio when you first get into it.

Definitely true. A mistake I made was to by cheap(ish) monitors. Spent the rest of the money on my sherman filterbank though which is definitely my fave bit of gear :love:

[Basil Rush]

Today I am mostly digging the coffee.

Can't mix without my monitors. Can't sit for ages without a quality display for the computer either.

Such boring choices though.

I'll say Waves Metaflanger, which has got to be the most entertaing piece of kit. Try processing individual 1/8ths of a loop with it differently or something.

Maybe I'll upload this track I'm working on so you can see what I mean, it rocks!

[Craig McW]

Ableton.

Closely followed by my G4 laptop.

[Electrictribe]

hardware : Has to be my G5, followed by my dbx compressor. Software: Cubase SX 3. But plug would have to be reaktor 5.

[machina]

mpc4000 closely followed by radikal spectralis closely followed by machinedrum

machina

[audioinjection]

my motu 828mkII

[auditory hallucinations]

For me it is the trusty, crusty old tr909...love the sound of it and sequence nearly all my other sounds in external instrument mode. the quantise is fantastic, it just has innate groove

Also worth a mention is the Sherman filter...what a beast

[loopdon]

mpc4000 closely followed by radikal spectralis closely followed by machinedrum

machina

that is some nice stuff you have got there, mate :love:

[machina]

mpc4000 closely followed by radikal spectralis closely followed by machinedrum

machina

that is some nice stuff you have got there, mate :love:

yeah - i've got a strict policy of only buying the best stuff - had too much gear be reduced to being doorstops over the years... is worth spending the extra $ i reckon...

machina

[auditory hallucinations]

Machina,

What's the Spectralis like in use? Just been checking it out based on your post and sheeet it looks nice!

What sorta stuff do you use it for - what is it good at and not so good at etc?

Thx man

[vadarfone]

Cubase SX3. Its awesome!

The only thing it doesn't have which I really want it decent automation curves. The ones in Logic 5 on the pc were ****ing AMAZING! I am guessing they are even better on the mac now (not had a look). I loved how you could control th ecurve. It was so sexy and refined.

So, yeah. Cubase SX3 (apart from the automation curves)

[machina]

Machina,

What's the Spectralis like in use? Just been checking it out based on your post and sheeet it looks nice!

What sorta stuff do you use it for - what is it good at and not so good at etc?

Thx man

It's ****ing brilliant. The sequencer is unbelievable - better and more versatile even than the machinedrum, but it has a similar feel to it - i'm actually thinking i may not need the machinedrum anymore.

The synth side of things is pretty nice, but i haven't really played with it much yet - it sounds very nice though - i'm thinking it's more suited to lead sort of stuff rather than basslines - but i really haven't played with it enough yet to know. I've really just been using it for drum sounds, percussion and stabs etc (but i use the terms drum and percussion loosely). You can add your own wav or aif sounds as well - for the percussion and digital synth parts.

The fixed filterbank is probably it's standout feature for me at the moment - i've never seen anything quite like it - 8 parallel bandpasses fed thru amps so you can limit or emphasize whatever frequencies you want to all controllable via the sequencer. And EVERYTHING is controllable real time and individually - you can switch the patterns/sounds/riffs however and whenever you want - anything that you've got in the machine be it a pattern, a sound, a riff can be used and any time and in any combination. i.e. you can decide you want the kick pattern from your 5th song with the hihat sound from your 10th song and play it in the middle of your 3rd song on a whim and do it live while everything is going.

The most encouraging thing is that radikal really know what they are doing - they designed the hardware so the possibilities are really open ended and they are releasing new firmware upgrades with drastic new features every month or two according to what users request on the spectralis forum...

all pretty exciting really...

machina

[auditory hallucinations]

F*ck me, that sounds a bit special! Thanks for the info...sounds like i'll need to start saving now! It's got an analog filter in there too, and i read you can put wav files through that...sounds really endless.

[RDR]

Yamaha O1x+Ableton+G4 1.5 powerbook (they work in harmony as one)

[fresh_an_funky_design]

other than the obvious stuff like mixer and monitors definetly my focusrite compressors and eq. they sound so good.

[sash]

arturia's moog modular v runnin through psp's vintage warmer. Surprises me just how well plug ins can sound :)

[danielmarshall]

22 inch CRT. Bit of a bitch moving that bastard around though.

[RDR]

LMAO @DM... :lol:

[Komplex]

It's ****ing brilliant. The sequencer is unbelievable - better and more versatile even than the machinedrum, but it has a similar feel to it - i'm actually thinking i may not need the machinedrum anymore.


Can I have it then? ;)

[machina]

It's ****ing brilliant. The sequencer is unbelievable - better and more versatile even than the machinedrum, but it has a similar feel to it - i'm actually thinking i may not need the machinedrum anymore.


Can I have it then? ;)

no. because you are ghey.

machina

[Komplex]

tightarse.

[FILTERZ]

my desk

even though the piece of mackie pooh is falling to bits

[djshiva]

ableton.

and my event project studio 8s. borrowed at first while my mate went to japan, but then he decided to sell them. best thing that ever happened to me (besides me girl). flat response that doesn't make my ears sore. i can listen to them for hours and they are still nice to listen to music on!

[duncandisorderly]

logic 5 ;)

[module]

my creativity

[judas_beast]

First post:

hmm, well my Waldorf Pulse, or my dbx compressor. tough call.

[christian wagner]

my microkorg, mess with itenough and it pays off!!!!!

[The Teknoist]

Reaktor 5