Your current favourite piece of gear besides an mpc or a daw

Shaptonmalletpig wrote:Probably either my NINTENDO switch or
Hmmmmm the awesome ANBERNIC RG-350m

Peace

Ha nice one. I got me a LDK Horizontal about a year and a half ago and love that. Just preordered the Retroid Pocket 2. Got alot of long communltes by train ahead when the whole lockdown ends so having some games to play is nice.

But studiowise, I gotta say my MicroKorg. Had it for years and didnt use it much, but with the whole lockdown I've started laying down basslines with it. Never had to do it previously, either just filtered or got a friend who played bass guitar to come over. Really happy I started doing it myself after all these years.

i finally got around to setting up my patch and and that's allowed me to use a pultec valve/tube eq that i built a few years ago.
drums sound great sent to the pultec and then sampled into the asr10.

Shaptonmalletpig wrote:

Lampdog wrote:

Nah man THIS is a soulless way to scratch that retro itch

The fun is seeing 8-BIT machines struggle with there limited 3.7 MHz processors!!
Throwing a schit load of sprites around the screen!!
Pc engine MINI all day long RONDO OF BLOOD!!!!
Love some Metroid-Vania’s

MUSICALLY: korg EMX electribe

I may cop the new electron model cycles. It makes FM synthesis very portable & EZ.

LIFESAVER: FIIO X1
for porting around my sketches since I don’t actually take my MPC live with me everywhere . . . . .

https://www.fiio.com/x1ii

RANDOM: linux laptop

LAMP – my ableton windows laptop just crashed. I currently have Ubuntu LTS running on it but was thinking about trying a more exotic distro like netrunner or any suggestions

DokBrown wrote:
I may cop the new electron model cycles. It makes FM synthesis very portable & EZ.

same for goes the elektron digitone. It's so easy and fun to program. comparing to (if you have ever owned) a yamaha DX.. Sounds totally different though.

Monotremata wrote:

Where are the flowers?

Komplete Kontrol S61. I use a lot of NI and NKS VIs. Having control over them without having to reach for a mouse is priceless. And it's integrated with Studio One, also reducing the use of a mouse.

NearTao wrote:Here's my retro setup

Dope, I used to love Samurai Shodown... 3 maybe?!

Current fav gear...
Tascam dr05... Most worthwhile purchase alongside the MPC

Honorable mentions: PO-33 & Landscape HCTT (sold it)

PO-33 is the business.

People complaining they lost their creativity need to get it and do what they can with the mic and 40 seconds of sample time. You can make some serious tracks with less.

bees80 wrote:Where are the flowers?

Probably got smoked ages ago!

I posted the full shot of that over at Mac Rumors before in one of those 'show your Mac mini setup' threads and didn't even realize that was in the open until one of the folks commented on it. Somebody figured me out and straight up asked 'So between the bong and the EMU/MPC, Im gonna guess youre an old 90s DnB guy?' hahaha.

Koala sampler

I think Launchpad X!

It's got the perfect form factor in terms of size & weight, doesn't need separate power and - most importantly - it now works with any DAW (or hardware, like MPC) without dedicated script, allowing to restrict the "keyboard" to key & scale + giving access to 3 user-defined custom pages that can be pianos, CC sliders, drum pads, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXCdxT1nXPg

Considering that I'm a shit keyboard player, it practically replaced the M32 for me.

Koala is pretty dope

My new piece of gear that got me excited is my new 40 inch Monitor. I'll put another couple of pieces toy new setup.