For discussion about setting up your studio and advice on the gear and equipment within it.
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By The Grublet Wed May 20, 2009 9:42 pm
404... 3000.... ASR-10.

Loving it.
By séance Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:41 pm
Well.

This isn't exactly three piece but.

1) Two turntables and a mixer (THIS IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL)
2) An MV 8800 or MPC 4000/3000, whatever
3) An Akai DPS 24
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By starcrusher Sat Feb 05, 2011 10:27 pm
i'll roll with my 2000 xl, a cheap mixer, and my kenwood tape deck. all i've really ever used, bar turntables and an alesis wedge for verbs.
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By hydroslanger Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:13 am
1. MPC 1000 JJ OS 2XL:
Sequencing, sampling, this thing is awesome! had one when they first came out, sold it cause iit didn't even have the features of the 2000xl. recently got another one after selling my 5000 (too buggy, great overall though). Now its loaded with features and most important easy to do what you want quickly.

2. Motif XS: I've had this one a while, probably I think every song I have performed has had the motif on there somewhere. Not as user friendly as the Triton, but more powerful and the M-Lan is a bit +

3. Access Virus TI2 Polar:
good presets, but being able to edit every aspect is great. even some of the cheesy sounds can be quickly edited to usable patches.

after reading this it looks like I should go into sales, sorry about that......
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By cyrus Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:23 am
haha! I'm moving to china in 10 days so I had to make this desicion for real.

mpc2500,laptop,headphones

sampled a shit ton of stuff saved on harddrive, downloaded a shit ton of samples. Gonna use jjos built in resampling to bounce tracks to computer for mixing, doing everything on some nice beyer dynamic cans.

may eventually add:

portable turntable
small soundcard
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By Funkydrops Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:20 am
DJ Set (TTs + Mixer)
AKAI 2500
SP 303

That's what I'm actually using.

If I had to really take it to three pieces I'd ditch the DJ Set for my macbook - just to be sure to never ran out of sampling material :-)
By jurrell Mon Feb 07, 2011 1:06 pm
mpc 3k, arp 2600 analogue synth, one 1210. Would really need a cv converter to make it that usable but hey il make the sacrifice. Not too fussy about monitors but would at least need a some big ass speakers and just make beats in a cave so you dont need an fx unit
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By MoreBuck$ Mon Feb 07, 2011 1:32 pm
4000, Turntable and Macbookpro