For discussion about setting up your studio and advice on the gear and equipment within it.

By mwalker Thu Oct 28, 2004 10:06 pm
agreed.
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By skalawa Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:17 am
you know what mr m walker.
you know what youre like

youre like the method they use to create the survey, for mp3 compression!!!!

every on e is different, and you have to remember that music is suppose to come from the soul, not the lappy, hardy. oh sh.i.t.

tht sounds like the poodle dawg tht sucks p.u.s.s.y, and the joe grind who is taking away lappys girl with hard d.yck, by sexing her proper , instead of eating her.!!!!!

anyway. what ever medium you use, it should give you inspiration.
i use both. in the manifestation stages, there is no computer in sight or even on. actually its being placed across the room. 1 module, and the mpc.
no doubt alot of soft synths kicking hardware. so i just swap over the midi tracks from the midi and replace them with soft if i think it needs replacing.

is wht youre comfortable. with

the problem a lot of cats not making music from the soul anymore,
its all been replaced with convenience.

for stage use, well i personally wont use a laptop, waaay too delicate,
a 3 u rack mount pc, in a sponged rack with a flat panel.

but there some ppl who like to lump around with gear, cause it helps them manifest thier creations.
they look smell, of a rack of gear, flashing lights, backlight vu meters, cables, man tht is the chit for me. unlike a screen tht is mouse driven

think of it as looking at a sexy girl. if she aint hot, you aint gonna get a "hardy" so u might have to well go with "softie" an do the lappy
thing. :roll:

its what makes you feel good. thts important. sometimes you gotta let go all convenience, and strike a balance.
this is the very same reason y my studio is currently down, i strikng the balance, i went all soft first time round, and regreteed it dearly :roll:

By kvisko Mon Nov 01, 2004 6:09 pm
digital_bastard wrote:I've played laptop gigs, and while it was ok, I wouldn't want to tour with something as sensitive as a laptop.


ive done world tours.... laptop and mpc. mpc has bonus points for being able to sweat on it and jump around, but the laptop is as valid an instrument to this day.

and for the "you need a mac" morons... i had a basic XP setup and it never crashed once. ever. the MPC did crash a few times but thats why you have different instruments...


embrace the best of all technology in live performance. id guess that half the replies on here are by kids (literally) who have never played a gig let alone toured extensively.

laptop, x-station, mpc, microphones, fx unit... and a dope gig night after night. whats the problem?

By arctec Wed Nov 03, 2004 4:05 pm
i carry around a laptop instead of a work station all the time, but I find it difficult to type with those black and white buttons - much easier with the typewriter interface. :D

By Lord Toranaga Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:40 pm
First off. NO ID uses powerbook & logic, with an external drive with 15000 albums on it.

Mark the 45 king also uses powerbook with logic.

chad muska laptop, and I don't know what software

Often times I think of just using a computer. It is nice to only have one thing to pug into the wall. It is nice to be able to save a project, and have everything load up perfectly when you come back.


next. I think you guys are being unduely hard on mwalker, he did not even start the thread, and you guys just jumped in and starting attacking him because he offered his opinion to some one who asked for it.

It is not right to hi-jack a thread and start attacking a member for helping out a fellow member.

I know that I can be a duhnkey butt sometimes. But, does everone need to be up in mwalkers assssss everytime he posts.

and mwalker, can you please be the bigger man here, and ignore it when these younger cats call you out.

This in not a competition, we are here to help each other.
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By Boogie Man Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:15 pm
whoever said this

I really don't care how much years of your life you wasted to find out that software is the ONLY way to go.


is the ultimate moron.......

By kvisko Fri Nov 05, 2004 6:20 pm
Boogie Man wrote:whoever said this

I really don't care how much years of your life you wasted to find out that software is the ONLY way to go.


is the ultimate moron.......



Oh but theres so many morons on here to contend for the title of the ULTIMATE moron! :P


This is just one of those stupid threads where silly people argue over something pointless... it becomes a childish thing in the end because what do they hope to do... to convince everyone to write music their way?

While you guys have been arguing, i have been selling records.


ps, im writing this on a Triton! I figured seeing as if i have to use a laptop to write music, i can use a Triton to log onto the internet. :P
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By cyrus Sat Nov 06, 2004 6:19 am
mwalker wrote:yo binger, i am consistant, which in the hiphop world means "keeping it real". when i talk you do not have to check the wind, i am coming straight. i am proud of my setup and there are someday where i just look it and say damn "that sh!t came out of there".

no flames but the truth (as allways). about the broken record, check your posts here and on other forums, there are times when you have to check the wind. i hope you know what i mean ...

plus binger, would you like to have a lappy setup? keep it real, would you?

lappy, trilogy, atmosphere, stylus, stylus rmx, battery, battery 2, lounge lizard, fm7, b4, reaktor, absynth, kompakt, komtakt, intakt, model e, ppg wave, sampletank 2xl, hypersonic and reason. host - cubase sl2 or live4 soundcards - tascam 428, echo indigo i/o, moblepre and ozone. shure sm57 mic. wave plat. bundle vst effect and about 100 gig of samples/loops.


just for a day? keep it real.

:D :D


It takes you all that to make a beat?
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By Blue Haze Sat Nov 06, 2004 7:37 pm
To me it seems easy make your shit at home on the MPC, Daw whatever and if you don`t have a dj setup and your shit press up on records or cds. Get a Apple laptop, midi controller, hard disk, firewire soundcard with live and jam you ass off. Check dj gear and Remix magazines on what shit djs are using for live sets and jam. Or get flight cases and work out to carry all of the heavy shit. mwalker is alright gets alot of flax as the man that people love to hate but at the end of the day one should just check out shit for oneself anybody can tell ya anything. (Hey should I buy this record, no man it sucks you should buy the one I`m buying.) Listen to the shit yourself and decide.

do you :D
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By binger0 Sat Nov 06, 2004 8:00 pm
i think mwalker has good points. to me he just comes off preachy sometimes when he is trying to express himself. A laptop is a very powerful musical insturment. but to some cats its not a all in one solution cause they want knobs and controllers. Its really just a matter of what ur needs are. I try to mess with everything at least once so if something new comes along and is a good addtion to the rig i will adapt it into my shit. If not i will move on. Ive tried all the software out there and alot of the hardware and i have now really narrowed it down to a few pieces. This for me is the best way to work. I dotn have a laptop though i wish i did. I would love to take that and my radium when i travel. but for now i have a good hware sampler,mpc to seq, use wavelab and recycle, and waves diamond plugins for editing and mastering. and when i do a show all i need is the mpc and the sampler and my tables.

By dennison Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:00 am
I look around my home studio and there is just so much stuff and I feel like what I need is a streamlined setup with less components.sometimes a powerbook, reason, recycle, korg microkontrol and an mbox in a backpack seems like a nice alternative to my bulky setup. I can't remember who made this quote but it went something like this.

"you shouldn't own anymore then you can carry on your back while running at full sprint."

well this isn't very realistic since I am an upright bass player but sometimes having so much gear feels cluttered. I mean I need a whole room for all this stuff which nearly all of it is replaceable with software except for my actual instruments like guitar bass and i hesitate to say rhodes since I have heard some great rhodes sounds that are vstis. Has anyone made the leap to all software and love it?

By dennison Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:10 am
Sometimes I feel like it would be nice to be able to take your setup with you and get creative and be inspired by what is going on around you. I feel anchored to this room for nearly all of my musical creativity. The only time I make music outside of this room is when I jam with other musicians
and I notice that different surroundings are nice. Even if I just take my bass from my practice room to the living room or the back porch it feels different.