Is this the trend off the the hardware samplers?

crossings wrote:people have been sequencing/sampling with software for over a dozen years now and MPCs are still being used just as much as they ever were [if not even more]

i've used software for 10 years and more, but now i prefer hardware samplers because the feeling of "putting the hands on the machines" is far more exciting

The only thing I use software for is to mix. So I guess I am 95% software free!

i just bought an asr x pro. i sequence it with my mpc 2000xl... it´s **** great! so much more fun than only clicking around in a software program!

hardware for beginners is the shit!!!


invest 500€ and you can get an mpc and a synthesizer or whatever... its much better than 450€ for only a software program!

truth!

thx wrote:i prefer hardware samplers because the feeling of "putting the hands on the machines" is far more exciting

+1

I got Logic Pro 9 and use it rarely. I prefer MIDIing up my gear and tweaking knobs and pressing buttons and playing the synth/sampler keys and schit.

oh another software vs hardware tread...
come on it doesn t matter what you use nowdays...
software goes really fast and if you got something like the emulator x you can get some great sounds...
but i also love the 'limitation' of the simple mpc.
okay 192 mb is not really a limitation...
i just like to work offline...
you should ask your self this question why should i buy an mpc if a have motu bpm or something similar?
i want the luxury to have an mpc but i also gonna ad a maschine one day!!
and there is still a hardwaresampler marked if you looked @ roland with 300000 + sp 404 sold...or korg bring in out the microsampler..

Recently got rid of my s6000 (about a year ago) and went totally software (Ableton Sampler) - Not one regret at all.

So my days of hardware sampling are behind me - although that may change.

I'm keeping an eye on the soon to be released Octatrack - will probably pick one up if reports are good.

pull-over wrote:you should ask your self this question why should i buy an mpc if a have motu bpm or something similar?

Because I'm rich and got money to burn.

And I want to incorporate hardware and software together when I want to for my style of music. What a concept!!!

I don't mind using software in conjunction with hardware but forr some reason I can't fully get into just working on software alone... Hardware is a different story. I'd have a way better time working with the 1k and a stack of records over a laptop and a mouse

thx wrote:i've used software for 10 years and more, but now i prefer hardware samplers because the feeling of "putting the hands on the machines" is far more exciting

Native Instruments Maschine makes the whole hardware/software debate moot as far as the "hands-on" workflow because it feels just like using standalone hardware since you can do pretty much everything from the dedicated hardware controller without having to use the mouse. And no, just using a midi pad controller like MPD with software doesn't count because you will still be using a mouse a lot.

emptysea wrote:

thx wrote:i've used software for 10 years and more, but now i prefer hardware samplers because the feeling of "putting the hands on the machines" is far more exciting

Native Instruments Maschine makes the whole hardware/software debate moot as far as the "hands-on" workflow because it feels just like using standalone hardware since you can do pretty much everything from the dedicated hardware controller without having to use the mouse. And no, just using a midi pad controller like MPD with software doesn't count because you will still be using a mouse a lot.

Would you please Fu*k Off, no one gives a s*it...why do you feel the need to shove Maschine down every one's throat at EVERY opportunity...please take your marketing BS and stick it up your own fat ass i.e. the whole Maschine thread on this board.

I'm fed up of people who work for Brand X coming on this board and hyping their own product like it's the be all end all every one needs to use and get down with! Burger Kangz got what they deserved...

Good to see they finally dropped the price on the MV8800. I hope used prices reflect the change soon. I've always had trouble with software, but I've come to enjoy using ableton. Simply being able to produce without having to record to a hard disk is nice.

emptysea wrote:Native Instruments Maschine makes the whole hardware/software debate moot as far as the "hands-on" workflow because it feels just like using standalone hardware since you can do pretty much everything from the dedicated hardware controller without having to use the mouse. And no, just using a midi pad controller like MPD with software doesn't count because you will still be using a mouse a lot.

that's really interesting - please tell me more. why have I never heard of this Maschine thing?

you know what would be really cool? you should post about it in lots of different threads on this forum, because just having one or two dedicated threads for discussing it would be too easy for people to miss the Good News about our Lord, Jesus Christ and ... whoops I mean miss the good news about the NI Maschine.

I believe that all the MPC users on this site are just waiting for the day they can switch to something else, but that they're not brave enough to go to other websites to learn about other tools, so it's really usefu that you keep telling people about it here. It would be a real shame if people had to go to, ya know, the NI forums, to learn about NI products.

Dick.

Pastor-of-Muppets wrote:

emptysea wrote:Native Instruments Maschine makes the whole hardware/software debate moot as far as the "hands-on" workflow because it feels just like using standalone hardware since you can do pretty much everything from the dedicated hardware controller without having to use the mouse. And no, just using a midi pad controller like MPD with software doesn't count because you will still be using a mouse a lot.

that's really interesting - please tell me more. why have I never heard of this Maschine thing?

you know what would be really cool? you should post about it in lots of different threads on this forum, because just having one or two dedicated threads for discussing it would be too easy for people to miss the Good News about our Lord, Jesus Christ and ... whoops I mean miss the good news about the NI Maschine.

I believe that all the MPC users on this site are just waiting for the day they can switch to something else, but that they're not brave enough to go to other websites to learn about other tools, so it's really usefu that you keep telling people about it here. It would be a real shame if people had to go to, ya know, the NI forums, to learn about NI products.

Dick.

+1 i mean... i bought an mpc just to learn about the ease of software

j rhodes wrote:

Pastor-of-Muppets wrote:

emptysea wrote:Native Instruments Maschine makes the whole hardware/software debate moot as far as the "hands-on" workflow because it feels just like using standalone hardware since you can do pretty much everything from the dedicated hardware controller without having to use the mouse. And no, just using a midi pad controller like MPD with software doesn't count because you will still be using a mouse a lot.

that's really interesting - please tell me more. why have I never heard of this Maschine thing?

you know what would be really cool? you should post about it in lots of different threads on this forum, because just having one or two dedicated threads for discussing it would be too easy for people to miss the Good News about our Lord, Jesus Christ and ... whoops I mean miss the good news about the NI Maschine.

I believe that all the MPC users on this site are just waiting for the day they can switch to something else, but that they're not brave enough to go to other websites to learn about other tools, so it's really usefu that you keep telling people about it here. It would be a real shame if people had to go to, ya know, the NI forums, to learn about NI products.

Dick.

+1 i mean... i bought an mpc just to learn about the ease of software

I agree, this is going too far. top it off he is trying to ram it down the throat of a software veteran as if he doesn't know the deal with one of the biggest audio software companies.

this guy is afraid that his music product choice is not the most known or popular one or the one with history so he tries to discredit a legendary product just because he couldn't make heat on his... dud doesn't know that 95% of us around here can make fire on any music product from the 0.75MB sample time of the 60 to the 16 gigs of sample time of the apple computer.

... I guess, maybe I could be wrong and he actually makes a commission on each maschine sold.

I have no problem believing that a monkey with Maschine could make better music than me with my MPC, because I'm still learning to use it and hoping I'll get some inspiration to make something that doesn't suck.

But I bought an MPC because I want an MPC, and I use this site because I want to learn about my MPC. So I'm sick of reading how much better something else is. I go to other sites to learn about other gear.