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#46
Equipment / Re: prodigy inspired Musicians
March 12, 2003, 01:47:58 AM
Ha - hu? Someone knocked!?

Actually, I don't know much more than the stuff frum JuGes list, I spotted some machines and samples here and there, but - as far as this sample-spotting goes, better ask LiamB, he sort of disappeared from the board, but he definitely is THE man for sample-questions concerning Prodge.
There's still loads of stuff in the sample-section that's very interesting to know about, but I'm sure you already checked it inside out, besides, that wasn't your question, was it.

As Stuff wrote, the JD can be found in pretty much any
Jilted-era track. I own one and you can clearly sort it out in tracks, it has the most incredible remarkable sound a digital based synth can have.
I think it was the last funky Roland-thing to come out. It's a
gem man, a gem.
Things I noticed which aren't mentioned on JuGes Equipment-section:

Intro: The background noise is some saw-wavetable thingie from the JD-990

B&E: Strings from the U-220 (w/t, or from the JUpiter), altered, not the original Jupiter-strings factory settings.
(Some overtone processing, they sound more crisp, and longer attack times)

The sine-noises surely come from one of his monosynth, probaply the SH-101.

Their Law: TR 909, that's for sure

there's more stuff, listen for yourself, I'm tired of writing right now (wrote all the day, bah)

By the way, I can recommend the BassStation, it is very cool.
It can NOT simulate the 303, the closest thing to that is still ReBirth, but it can sound very much LIKE it.
PLus, you can do so much more with it than the pretty much overused squelching stuff of the 303.
Mine broke down a couple of month ago, since I putted some mV too much into it (sounded INCREDIBLE! But wrecked it after a certain time. Still a good midi-controller... :-/ )
Really, if you have enough money to buy one, get over it and use ReBirth, it sounds absolutely similar, spend your money on a good pair of monitors or a much more versatile synth with which you could midi-process ReBIrth. Which would totally replace the 303 now.

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yeah, i would like to own a 303, i heard they are a bitch to program....

What? You've only got a handful of knobs, and nearly everyone gives this baby the scream... ;-)
It's very easy to 'program', no matrix, no midi (unless you midify it) and the pattern-mode is very easy to figure out.

I still don't recommend it, not if you plan to build up basic stuff for recording.

It's the thing you can show your friends after a couple of years ("Hooo, he's got the TB-303, wow!") until then, use ReBirth and tell everyone you actually own one. Just don't invite them to play with it. Or say it broke down.
Or you've grown up and want to play with 'real' synthesizers...
;-)


Cheers mates
#47
Equipment / Re: prodigy inspired Musicians
March 08, 2003, 01:06:53 PM
Hey ho!

I'd say: Stuff said everything necessarily.
So bye then...!


Naaa,
to the Virus:
It's totally worth it's money (~ 500 - 600
#48
Equipment / Re: What software do you use?
October 10, 2002, 09:07:56 PM
Quotei recently switched to Logic 5 Platinum from Cubase SX (Logic is much better, trust me. at least for me
#49
Equipment / Re: What software do you use?
August 09, 2002, 01:24:17 AM

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I use (here it comes)
Steinberg Cubase SX
Steinberg Wavelab 3.0
Steinberg Halion
NI Reaktor 3.05
NI Absynth
NI FM7
NI B4
Waldorf Attack
Steinberg Model E
Propellerhead RB-338 Rebirth v2.0
Waves Renaissance Collection Native (to keep my Software warm!!)
NI 4 Control
Roland A33 Master Keyboard
Alesis RA 150 Amplifier
Yamaha NS-10m Studio Monitors ;D

Alright, it's show off time, isn't it...? :-P

Here goes mine
Outboard:
Access Virus A 2.8
Novation BassStation Kb modified
Roland JD-990 with Asia expansion board
Moog Rogue
Boss SE-70
MOTU Micro Express
Midiman Delta 66
Yamaha PSS-51
Behringer Ultrapatch
Mackie CR-1604
Tannoy Reveal Active

Software:
Cubase SX on Win XP HE
WaveLab 3.0
Halion
Some Ohmboyz plugins
Most of the Waves stuff
Fruity Loops 3.0
Reaktor
Absynth
FM7
B4
Battery
Transformator
Traktor
SF. Noise Reduction
some Vocoders
ah, I don't know, I think I have all the important stuff you need to make music with way too much noise in it.
I try to scrap the software and get some good outboard stuff.
#50
Equipment / Re: What software do you use?
December 17, 2001, 07:51:14 PM

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- Do you always use the drum edit to make your beats cos' I find it fuckin' uneasy to use.
- Ya know where I can find an online manual for cubase v.5?


That depends on the instrument, if you use your MC505, you surely want to get some beats out of it, so you'd have to deal with the drumeditor.
I do it this way, I use Fruity Loops for drumloops (editing and adding percussion or whatever it might need) and save as wave-file to later use it in Cubase.
Then I might add a single drumhit from my outboard-equipment
with the drumeditor (you're right, it's a bit uncomfy, but you'll get over it, since it offers you the best editing possibilitys. You can quantize for example, no can do in Fruity... (It's a damn, damn pity!)).
That's how it works best for me.
If you have a keyboard or synthie with a clavier, you can play
in the drums you want to sequence manually.
You can get a simple midi-kb for a hand full of bucks... really cheap, but you won't have any good functions. (You don't need most of them if you have Cubase.)
This way you can work like a drummer (okay, not really...),
it even gives your drumtracks "The Groove".
And if not...: Quantize. Humanize. Do whatever. There's plenty of stuff to brighten your drums or whatever you play in.

Your second question:
Dunno, I use a REGISTERED version. Ahem.
Maybe www.steinberg.net or ~.de
or try Morpheus / Kazaa / Google, I bet you're not the only one looking for it.
Or you d/l the programm completely new from Moorpheus / K.
but adding an "and manual" to the search-phrase or something like that.

Greets,
Ekko
#51
Equipment / Re: What software do you use?
December 04, 2001, 07:34:57 PM
Oh, interesting, you made them by yourself?
How do you do that?
I wanted to buy some soon.
Seeya
#52
Equipment / Re: What software do you use?
December 03, 2001, 03:46:22 PM
Lucky me, I don't have to deal with 8 Bit shit (although especially this stuff is very charming... But it's getting very modern again, so many artists use this Lofi sounds again, I'm getting sick of that).
While we're stuck at that theme, I have probs with the resolution, but as said, I think it's something to do with the A/D-shit. It's on card and the Power-supply seems to spread in unwished frequencies (electronicwise) and buggs the card. I hear that quite often, but the only thing you can do about that would be a cardchange or an extern power-supply.
Crap.
It's like wipe outs, you know? Where the samples in the curve wipe each other when you transform from a certain samplerate to a lower one and back. For transporting signals to the PC I've bought a real good A/D Converter, but ...grrrr.. it's conflicting with that p-supply.
I hate it, really hate it.
I just wanna make music. No more. If it weren't for all those cool plugins and stuff, I'd be a total hardware guy...
#53
Equipment / Re: What software do you use?
December 01, 2001, 09:04:16 PM
Really?
I use to interpolate Fruity L-waves with the common hermit curve, I tried to hear a difference between that and linear and sinc 64 / 256, but couldn't hear much. Well, I'm not doing too much with Fruity atm.
I try to make up a 'perfect' way mastering and mixing, you know, somekind of a sureshot...
Yeah, of course there is no thing like a "perfect way to mix and master", but anyway, it's a constant progress to indoctrinate your ear.
#54
Equipment / Re: What software do you use?
December 01, 2001, 06:03:45 PM
Hoho, yeah, I can imagine that...

Well, that's really high end, but I guess you never record in 96khz or? I seldomly even record in 48khz, I'm fine with 41 by now.
Plus, it comes to 41 after A/D Modifier again. But it's okay anyway.

#55
Equipment / Re: What software do you use?
November 30, 2001, 09:51:18 PM
Yeh, I used Ultratracker, my first music-software, I was so astonished by 'ALL THE POSSIBILITYS ULTRA TRACKER OFFERS THE CUSTOMER", but a couple of years later I discovered vertical scrolling sequencers and what should I say guys? I fell in love...

Trackers are often seen as childtoys, but only because every high-end studio is normally recording with Vert Sequencers and nobody's talking about them.
Most people don't know that some of the best musicians / producers (Squarepusher for example) are using trackers.
I see them as a kind of a secret weapon, if you know what I mean...

Seeya
#56
Equipment / Re: What software do you use?
November 28, 2001, 06:57:14 PM
Best for beginners would be CubaSIS Audio (2.0?)
It's tight, small and understandable.
Or get Logic, it's good as well, but the war between Logic & Cubase users is a sort of a religious war. Both are good.

For mixing I recommend CD players nowadays, buy them, a CD writer and a mixer and you're set, vinyl is much too expensive and it's not worth using them to DJ and / or scratch, they'll sound muffy very soon. Plus, burning your own CD's is more easy than making your own dubplates... ;-)
#57
Equipment / Re: What software do you use?
November 26, 2001, 05:29:23 PM
Oh Arie, if you still welcome links, I'd recommend you

http://www.samplenet.co.uk/CategoryDefault.asp?Category=Tutorials

(It's not really about getting software, but still very interesting. Good for figuring out what you need and which direction you wanna go, musically. After that, I'd suggest
a longer visit at Morpheus to get hold on the stuff.)

http://www.futuremusic.co.uk/hl_mmusic.asp

(see above)

And still the best sound-search-engine on the web:
www.findsounds.com


I76Funk:
How is Atomix?
Did you make your mix with that program?
I used to try something with Native Instruments Traktor, but it didn't pay off for me, don't like this fiddeling around with the mouse.
I can understand that people like that prog, but it's not very intuitive and it doesn't have that shine.

Btw., do you know Final Scratch?
Check out Finalscratch.com if you're interested
(and A DJ and rich).
Very strange, you get a little box, two Finalscratch-vinyls and software for your PC. You position your PC somewhere next to your turntables and connect that box to the mixer.
The cable-setup looks like following:
You get out of the turntables into the mixer, from there into the box, from there into the PC.
On the PC you have that software which can play mp3, wav, ogg, aiff - well, it plays nearly everything.
Place one or both red FS-vinyls on the turntable and the rest'll be MAGIC!
You can now DJ with your mp3's and everything that lies on your HD.
You can mix real vinyls into your own mp3-songs, you can add CD players to the setup, so you can mix with everything that's digital or analog.
Imagine that man! A human dream has come true.
The trick is, that this FS-vinyls are musically empty, but contain a signal that say the box behind the mixer what the needle is doing. So is the movement and speed of the needle copied to the PC and layered of the stuff you're playing there.
Amazing shit.
But I'm not goint to get that. I don't know what it is, but there's something I don't like about it.
I think it's too digital and new and commercial.
Better stay limited.
#58
Equipment / Re: What software do you use?
November 26, 2001, 04:35:05 PM
Advantages in relation to what?
Fruity Loops?

Mhm, difficult to say I find, both have their own purpose, but I prefer Cubase because of the more tidy screen and because it's a sequencer, not a stepsequencer.
It's important to leave the rhythmic pattern from time to time, that's not possible with Fruity. (Okay, it IS possible, but you won't need to remain on the envelopes, you have to deal with them if you want to get out of the stepmeasure.)
Beside, you have VST(2)-instruments. There are plenty of great instruments out there, for Fruity you just have plugins and in-build synthies (which are all a tad to simple and dull, I think...).
Cubase offers good audio-editing tools from the start, although I think Logic is more clever when it comes to standard audio-processing things. But Logic isn't my type, to be honest, it still is a tad to strange for my taste (the saving-structure for songs & plugins & co is VERY silly.)
Also, Cubase' Mastering-section is top notch, plus you have build in dynamic-editing tools and an EQ, although the compressor is a bit simple. But it hits.

Man, you better check it out yourself, there's too much to tell you about it.
You'll need some time, make yourself a huge bottle of Citrustea (you know, this instant-type, mhhhm!), lock the door and sit down with a nice spliff while playing with the prog.
That's the ULTIMATE way of learning how to write music.
It always worx.
#59
Equipment / Re: What software do you use?
November 19, 2001, 05:49:17 PM
Ahem.

There were rumors about a certain search engine, it was called the "Hell!-Get-me-a-load-of-fucking-illegal-music-shit!-engine-of-doom", but unfortunately it never saw the daylight.
So I'd recommend Morpheus / Kazaa (the same), you can get all the 'big' progs there.
Most of the stuff mentioned here is avaible there.
Good luck.

Oh, sorry, I just have to do it
AHAHAHAHAAAA, WAVE STUDIO! Mwuhahahahahahahaa......
#60
Equipment / Re: What software do you use?
November 18, 2001, 03:37:23 PM
I use Cubase for arranging and Fruity L.3 for beats and short noises to be stretched and stuff.
Sample processing and recording usually goes in Wavelab,
Fruity L is really tight and neat, but I couldn't do a complete track with it. But for the drums it's the very best stuff, it never ever get's wrecked (like Cubase) and does everything I want and need.
How is Cooledit? I had a demo once, but it was old and crashed a lot.

Greets, Ekko

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