your gear lists

[bergertron]

Laptop
novation - launchpad s, launch control +control XL, launch mini key, audiohub 2x4

Ableton 9

Old stuff -1210s, djm 600, roland 303 groovebox, kaos pad 1.

all stuff for mixing and producing

[Devant]

Software:
Pro Tools 10 and 11
Ableton live 9 Suite
NI Massive
NI Traktor Scratch Pro 2
NI Kontakt
Fabfilter Pro Q,L,C,Saturn
Sylenth1
Izotope Ozone 6
Waves Gold Bundle

Hardware:
Roland Sh-101
Roland TR-909
Willyzyx x0xb0x kit (built myself)
Eurorack modular
Korg Volca Keys
Mackie Onyx 1620i
Akai MPK49
2x Stanton ST-150 turntables
Allen & Heath xone 23
Traktor S4 (mk1)
Focusrite Scarlett 2i4

[UN!T B]

yeah I've seen and felt how plasticy the novation is when I've come across one in other people's studio's.
seeing the parameter value on screen is great though.

I can guarantee the access controllers look and feel wonderful, their build quality is superb.
but I bought mine when they were still affordable. I think I paid 200€ for mine, but that must have been more than 12 years ago.

No,no, no... I've heard they are shit. The pots feel like 30 grit sandpaper is lining them and the build quality leaves a lot to be desired. Paint flaking off, screw holes misaligned and the calibration is for shit. Nobody really wants them at all. Basically as good as a doorstop. Paint it red and you could call it a brick...

[Hades]

yeah I've seen and felt how plasticy the novation is when I've come across one in other people's studio's.
seeing the parameter value on screen is great though.

I can guarantee the access controllers look and feel wonderful, their build quality is superb.
but I bought mine when they were still affordable. I think I paid 200€ for mine, but that must have been more than 12 years ago.

No,no, no... I've heard they are shit. The pots feel like 30 grit sandpaper is lining them and the build quality leaves a lot to be desired. Paint flaking off, screw holes misaligned and the calibration is for shit. Nobody really wants them at all. Basically as good as a doorstop. Paint it red and you could call it a brick...

no prob, I'll just happily twiddle away on my piece of brick.
did I mention they did the black-with-small-blue-lines paintjob perfectly like you have it on all old Oberheims ?

[priamm]

Ableton live 8. ( In 4 years old lenovo laptop )

Traktor s2 For the mixtapes.

Volca beats ( Love to jam live with it )

8 bit synthesiser powered with batteries.

[willemb]

Ableton live 8. ( In 4 years old lenovo laptop )

Traktor s2 For the mixtapes.

Volca beats ( Love to jam live with it )

8 bit synthesiser powered with batteries.

sounds like an effective setup!

[helloitsmeagain]

I didn't post this for the longest while cause i think this topic is a bit shit. But i'm bored and wanted to scare myself, so i put this list together.

Eurorack

4ms Company Pingable Envelope Generator PEG: Dual envelope generator whose envelope lengths are set by incoming clocks or "pings"
4ms Company ROW POWER 40 40W of power, +12V@1.5A/-12V@1.25A/+5V@1.5A
Blue Lantern Modules CMOS Party 4hp Logic module 4hp cd4000 series based logic
Cwejman QMMF-4 Quad Resonator
Cwejman VCO-2RM Dual Oscillator
Dave Jones Design Jones O'Tool Oscilloscope color LCD oscilloscope and audio measurement tools
Doepfer A-199 Spring Reverb
Happy Nerding FM AID FM AID is a module designed to perform through-zero linear Frequency Modulation (FM) in the analog modular world.
Innerclock Systems Sync-Gen IILS precision tempo-grid and sample-accurate modular synthesizer to daw synchronisation system
Intellijel Buff Mult buffered multiple
Intellijel Cylonix Shapeshifter Dual Complex Wavetable VCO
Intellijel Dual ADSR Dual ADSR
Intellijel LINIX Linear VCA
Intellijel Quadra Quad Envelope / Function Generator
Intellijel Quadra Expander Expander for the Quadra Module adds VC of AD, EOC and Analog OR
Intellijel Triatt Triple attenuator, inverter, attenuverter and DC voltage source
Make Noise Function Function generator
Make Noise MMG Single Channel Multi Mode Gate
Mutable instruments Ripples Liquid filter
Snazzy FX WOW AND FLUTTER WOW AND FLUTTER
Steady State Fate Positronic Transient Gate The PTG is a dual, Vactrol cored, Envelope Generator, Universal "Pass" Gate, Envelope Follower, VCA and Voltage Processor.
Steady State Fate Quantum Rainbow SSF Quantum Rainbow. White, Pink, Red, Blue, and Purple noise source. Two outputs per noise.
Synovatron CV Tools Voltage Processor
Synthesis Technology E560 Deflector Shield Frequency Shifter / Ring Modulator / Phase Shifter with wavetable modulation
Toppobrillo Triple Wave Folder Triple Wave Folder
hexinverter.net batteryACID Analogue Distortion/Compression

^^^^
That looks like a lot, it's probably better to think of it as one big synth.



Other

Midas F24 Desk
2x Alesis 3630 Compressor RMS/Peak Dual Channel
MFB Tanzbar Drum Machine
Eventide Space
Eventide Timefactor
BugBrand PT Delay
Yamaha Motif Rack XS
Akai MPC4000
Waldorf Blofeld (Which I'm considering selling now I got the Motif)
Doepfer Dark Energy II (Which I'm looking to sell)
Alesis Q25 25-Note USB/MIDI Keyboard Controller
Macbook Pro
Sequentix Cirklon Sequencer with Breakout Box
Beyerdynamic DT 880 PRO

And software... Ableton Live

plus a BCR2000 which is in the cupboard now but I'm planning to put it back into use.

[Barfunkel]

I


Midas F24 Desk

How do you like it? I've been toying around with the idea of getting a proper mixer, like one of those.

[helloitsmeagain]

It depends on your style. If you jamming live and wanna get a single mixed down channel, go for it. The eq is awesome and it over drives beautifully. But beyond that, it's frustrating. The audio sent by channel is all pre-fader and pre-panning. So you can set up a gorgeous mix but it won't arrive in your DAw. Only that master channel has it.

[AxeD]

^^^^
That looks like a lot, it's probably better to think of it as one big synth.

A €7000 synth though

[helloitsmeagain]

^^^^
That looks like a lot, it's probably better to think of it as one big synth.

A €7000 synth though

fuck dude, don't say shit like that out aloud. anyway, it was closer to 5.5K, i don't suffer UK tax.

It's easy to do that when you're buying it one small pice at a time. you don't even realise what's happening... but, yeah, the cwejman pieces were a hit, even by themselves.

in my defence, i don't drink or do drugs, drive a car or spend money on new clothes. I need something to spend my cash on.

[Hades]

It depends on your style. If you jamming live and wanna get a single mixed down channel, go for it. The eq is awesome and it over drives beautifully. But beyond that, it's frustrating. The audio sent by channel is all pre-fader and pre-panning. So you can set up a gorgeous mix but it won't arrive in your DAw. Only that master channel has it.

barfunkel doesn't use a DAW, right ?
so he would never have any of the trouble you describe.

I've been in love with my Midas since day one, I honestly couldn't miss it any more.
But I always record my clips one by one in Live, plus I don't use the FW part, so I never have any of the issues you describe.

if you got the cash barfunkel, I'd definitely go for the 24 version.
I have a lot of HW, so I bought the 32 one, but looking back, I would have been perfectly ok with the 24 version.

[msl]

It depends on your style. If you jamming live and wanna get a single mixed down channel, go for it. The eq is awesome and it over drives beautifully. But beyond that, it's frustrating. The audio sent by channel is all pre-fader and pre-panning. So you can set up a gorgeous mix but it won't arrive in your DAw. Only that master channel has it.

wow that seems like a massive omission on their part, why couldn't they have the option pre or post fader its not hard or cost much.... ???

I love Midas desks have used the older pre firewire models, great pre's and eq. I want one of the new ones too but lack the cash.



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[AxeD]

I'd say leaving out the pre/post function on a desk like that saves quite a bit of money actually.

[1200]

Im using live 9 suite, a regular keyboard and mouse to draw everything. I have a apc40 and a couple other controllers but I hardly use them. I used the apc for mostly mixdown and transport to literally just start and stop the arrangement lol! I use a small collection of recorded drum machine samples to play with... I mostly just modulate the hell outta everything and mostly using stock sounds.

[gabe DM]

Lots of cheap and old instruments:

Korg Poly 800
Roland MC-303
Roland TR 505
mfb 522
Yamaha tg77
Eko ritmo 20
E-mu Orbit
Akay MPC1000
Doepfer Dark Time
yamaha A3000
zoom h4n
some Boss pedals and one Electro Harmonix Memory Boy
Allen and Heat mixer but a shitty and crancky one


hope to get an Elektron or Jomox drum machine in the future but first I am going to get me a Novation Drumstation.

[quest]

These threads always have everyone listing everything they have, but really for it to be a great thread it'd be just limited to what people get a lot of use out of. I'll try to do that:

Drums: I build kits for a Roland MV-8000 and build my own loops with it, recording them over to my DAW computer either in a single stereo file or a bunch of separate tracks that go together. I think it really helps me to be able to just concentrate on good loops and not worry about an entire track

Synths and Bass: Lots of action from my Alesis Andromeda but I am still afraid to let it run live in a sequence, as it can go a little haywire sometimes (it got banged pretty hard when it was being moved a few thousand kilometres...). I'll record it direct, or make a submix using the voice outputs and a submixer. Tends to sound better controlling itself (internal arpeggiator and sequencer) rather than being MIDI controlled from the DAW anyways.

I get some use out of a Korg Triton but I really had to go out of my way to get good patches and make my own.

For VSTs I don't tend to use them much but get some good sounds out of Sylenth, Massive and Omnisphere. About to try Serum and a pretty interesting new VST called Signal ( http://outputsounds.com/products/signal/ ) Again I think it'll be pretty bad for techno OOB but could be tweaked to get good arps a lot quicker than anything except maybe the Andy.

I use Ableton for DAW for techno since it's definitely the quickest workflow for the genre. Mixing through a Soundcraft Ghost, some hardware gets used a lot at this stage like some DBX 166 compressors, TC Electronic M-300 for reverb and delay, Digitech TSR-24 when I want some more unusual FX. I generally EQ on the board or with plugins (or both..).

Monitor on Adam A7 and Mackie HR-824s, check mix transfers (still poorly for techno..) on some KRK V4's. Headphones are Audio-Technica ATH-M40 which are good workhorse phones.

Attempting to master with Ozone but I think I will leave it to proper mastering engineers once I save up the $ to do a run..

[OHADOHAD]

Synths:
Waldorf Pulse
DSI Evolver
Jomox Mbrane
Jomox Mbase 11

Hardware FX:
Ensoniq DP/2
Yamaha D1500
Deltalab Effectron JR 1500
Roland DEP-5

Monitors:
Adam P11
Monacor MKA-40 (shit boxes to compare)

Audio interface:
Motu 828 MK3
Behringer ADA8000

Desk:
Mackie 1604

Control:
Doepfer Dark Time
Arturia Beatstep

DAW:
Ableton Live - for production
Logic Pro X - for mixing

VST:
mostly free

[quest]

Hey, I'm curious why you switch to Logic for mixing? I have Logic as well but mainly use it for rock

[SFBM]

My gear list isn't super impressive, but I'm slowly building it up to glory. Once I get 1 or 2 more things I'll be in full on synth collecting mode (Moog Sub Phatty, Novation Bass Station 2 and MS20 Mini or MS20 rack kit is first on my 'real' synth list):

Event 20/20BAS V3 Monitors

Macbook Pro 2011 15" core i7 model

Korg Volca Beats
Korg Volca Keys
Korg Volca Bass
Korg Monotribe
Korg Monotron
Korg Monotron Delay
Aira TB-3

Boss DS-1
Boss DD-3
Boss/Roland RE-20 Space Echo Pedal
EHX Big Muff Pi

Akai S3000XL Sampler
Samson Patchbay
Behringer UB1622FX studio mixer

Native Instruments X1 Mk1
Native Instruments Z1
Native Instruments Maschine Mikro Mk2
A&H Xone K2
Behringer BCR2000
Arturia Beatstep
Novation Launchpad
M-Audio Oxygen 49 Midi Keyboard

CDJ1000Mk3's
DJM400 Mixer

Vestax PDX3000Mk2
Vestax PDX2000Mk2
Vestax PMC-05 Pro III

Korg mini KP2
Korg Kaossillator 2

Getting in the near future:
Aira TR-8
Eventide Space
Samson patchbay (2nd one)
Behringer DR-600 Reverb Pedal
Proco Rat 2
Focusrite Scarlett 18i20