production equipment

[Jay Pace]

^ some great advice there

Plenty of cheap and cheerful midi controllers out there, start with the cheapest you can, upgrade when (and if) you start outperforming it.

Spend as much as you can afford on monitors and a decent set of production headphones. Nothing will make as much difference to your productions as hearing whats actually happening. Especially when your are starting out, as you have to train your ears to learn how to balance mixes properly. This is very difficult to do with hifi speakers and ipod headphones.

Hold off buying any hardware until you find that you need it. There is so much great free software out there, the only thing that can't be modelled are your sound outputs.

[doc12inch]

thanks for all the feedback


im still going to get a midi keyboard I feel it will be easier to produce music instead of clicking the mouse all the time to hear each note


let me know what you think of the below

http://www.dv247.com/invt/32482/ - this one i really like



http://www.dv247.com/invt/31117/ this one maybe



http://www.dv247.com/invt/32487/ -
this one I really really like but may be a tad out of my price range but it has got sliders, its kinda like an all in one drum machine midi controller and keyboard





let me know what you think

[Electrictribe]

thanks for all the feedback


im still going to get a midi keyboard I feel it will be easier to produce music instead of clicking the mouse all the time to hear each note


let me know what you think of the below

http://www.dv247.com/invt/32482/ - this one i really like



http://www.dv247.com/invt/31117/ this one maybe



http://www.dv247.com/invt/32487/ -
this one I really really like but may be a tad out of my price range but it has got sliders, its kinda like an all in one drum machine midi controller and keyboard





let me know what you think

http://www.dv247.com/invt/32482/ - looks ok.

The oxygen 8 are cheap and feel a bit cheap to use. However, my one I have owned for about 7 years and still going strong.

Alternatively the CME range are very good (I use an older model CM6 nowadays)

http://www.dv247.com/invt/38322/

Thing with hardware is the same as computers buy the best you can afford then hopefully you won't need to update as often.

Also get yourself a decent set of headphones. Speakers are also a studio essential but you can make do on hifi speaker sand decent headphones until you decide if you want to invest more of you money and time into producing.

[doc12inch]

http://www.dv247.com/invt/32482/ - looks ok.

The oxygen 8 are cheap and feel a bit cheap to use. However, my one I have owned for about 7 years and still going strong.

Alternatively the CME range are very good (I use an older model CM6 nowadays)

http://www.dv247.com/invt/38322/

Thing with hardware is the same as computers buy the best you can afford then hopefully you won't need to update as often.

Also get yourself a decent set of headphones. Speakers are also a studio essential but you can make do on hifi speaker sand decent headphones until you decide if you want to invest more of you money and time into producing.

the cme one you have listed looks like a beast haha, ill deff going and have a look at that, looks like a good all in one unit