saltmcgault wrote:Post pic(s) of your set up in the "your crib" section or whatever its called. I want to see. If you've been doing things since 96' then I'm assuming you don't give a damn what anybody thinks.. so don't start now. It's the internet if they don't like it. They can alt cntrl delete log off.
Maybe I will, I need to find a new hosting place, Amz says they got me, but pics are low priority. More focused on YouTube & Streaming content. As for what people think, it depends on who, I'm immune to most stuff, but I keep it a buck, the more I KNOW someone knows, the more weight their comments have. If someone who knows how to play the keys sees me play the keys
So I feel different based on what I'm posting and where.
CharlesRandolph wrote:post
I'm in a weird spot on the gear front, I
look like a gear whore , but I'm really not. I'd wager the only true gear whore purchase I've made was the Novation Peak, and I'd argue that the FA-06 was unnecessary, even though its not. My gear purchases are usually based around improving workflow - to save time, my most precious resource (full time job, married, 2 young kids, double mortgage as we are paying for my father in law to stay somewhere, so money is too much of a thing to quit). MPC Live was a way for me to work on music whenever/where ever - specifically at work during lunch, I didn't even entertain the X until I started to really get into the Live a few months back. Before that was the Digitakt, similar idea. The Force was tied to my work with live looping, I was looking at an APC 40mk2 before the Force to help with my live looping setup, the Force was just a better solution. Even the Akai Fires I have "were" part of that setup, as they were a possible solution to controlling all my drum machines (they worked, but the setup was too much work - I was running FL Studio as a plugin to Ableton, releasing MIDI control of the drummachines, so that FL could be in control, but then I had to setup EACH PAD for EACH machine). Now I use one with a laptop as I started using FL Studio instead of the MPC Live - during lunch. Fl Studio does such a better job of getting to a song state for me than the MPC, though my drums are soy sauce in FL Studio.
My harsh fight is happiness. Keeping it a buck I rapped first, and only got into making beats because my boy couldn't keep up, but musically I am
old now, so as I position myself to escape the corporate world and make a living as a creative, I have build up my baskets to make money, spending time crafting a hip-hop album would be fun to me, but a waste of time financially, something I do not have. That's my fight, WHO am I making music for. Hip-hop is my foundation, but as rap has gone down the drain and I got kids, I started getting into electronic music (its clean!). The same way I learned to freestyle, I learned to live loop, I can make performance money of live looping. I can make content quicker via live looping, than sitting down to pen (3) 16s or whatever format, and making a beat, then recording vocals, and going through that whole process Even less than that, selling beats - I've done that several times under a fake name to try it out, but its painful as a rapper/emcee to hear that. And (to quote Tonedeff) Just to pour listerine in the wound, I don't have support structure for music. The only one in my squad who understands ANYTHING not associated with DJing is making money doing Audio Video work (Alex Minor on YT) instead, so I'm a one man show really struggling for the appropriate ears to just talk to. Its not even worth bouncing music off anyone I know personally, and my area (outside of Raleigh, NC) is pretty dead.
So for me its about trying to find the right balance of improving while generating quality content.
- Unreall
