roland mc-909 ???

[massplanck]

Yeah. Sorry for adhoming you DB.

My main gripe comes from this standard "use abelton & a controller" reply that gets carted out when someone is interested in a bit of hardware or making music. Thats the most conformist answer you could give someone. Funnily enough some (if not all) of the best techno was made before abelton was even a glint in the eye of whoever.

I fully understand you arent going to create everything on one groovebox, but for the most important thing for a newcomer to making techno is not to get bogged down in the billions of VSTs and plugins and other such 'advice' on forums. I think getting hands on straight away is paramount ,then you can decide if its for you. Thats where people are going to be FORCED to twiddle knobs, ADSR, pitch & come up with some of their own sounds the very day they their box. Some of the best techno was born out of the limitations that people had with their equipment.

Like c'mon. We all know what abelton can do but how long would it take a newcomer to set stuff up & figure out how to map (the right) controllers and just jam?. I cant even get abelton doing what I want after years of using it!