What did you start out with? whats your story

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Very first?

Siel Mono, later followed by my fondly remembered Pro One.
oh wow blast from the past

funnily enough i was far more productive in fasttracker2 with no sound than i am now Hahaha
started making tracks 4 years ago with Reason

now run cubase with akai s3000, yamaha fsr1 synth, old casio synth, maudio audiophile souncard, uad plugins, a bunch of vsts, dynaudio monitors

not glamourous Smile
Fushara
I was like 22..... And i got a mc 505 Teef
Annastay Wrote:I was like 22..... And i got a mc 505 Teef

Hehe I used to be really jealous of a friend that had one of those Grin

Awesome for Neema-nomma sounds.
started on the amiga + acorn using tracker programs
then ignored music production whilst studying analogue electronics (doh!)

Started Djing after being introduced to dance music when I moved to London
Then was after a CDJ but the guy in the shop persuaded me to buy Ableton Live.. and an M-audio audiofile sound card...

then after many years of messing around

IMac - Ableton live 8.1 / Audiofile engineering Wave editor
Art tubefire 8 - mic preamps + sound card
ESI 04 and Blue Sky SUB 8 - Monitoring
HD650s - Headphones
Small Soundcraft mixer which is pretty much a volume control for my headphones and monitors.
SL1210s

plugins that I use all the time

Limiter
Voxengo - Elephant

Compressors
Sonalksis SV315
Psp old timer
Voxengo Crunchessor

Filters

Sonalksis TBK
FabFilter Simplon
Quad fromage

EQ

Sonalksis - SV-517
Eiosis - Air eq
Voxengo - GlissEq (xmas pressie)

Reverb

Audio damage - EOS - reverb
Sir 2 - Convolution reverb
Arts Acoustic - reverb

Delay

Audio damage - Ricochet
Ohm Force - OhmBoyz

Distortion

D16 group - Redopter
Voxengo - Varisaturator
Guitar rig 4
Trash (not using it so much any more though)

Synths

Operator (Ableton)
Predator
CS-80V
Prophet V
ACE (xmas pressie)
Ashtonron Wrote:Audio damage - EOS - reverb

That any good? I love the AD stuff, but the demos dont sound too hot, and you cant demo them Baffled I have the UAD Plate already.
The very first software what Ive used to make "music", was Turbo Pascal...
Ive just programmed a melody, by bleeping the internal speaker of my old 286 IBM...I remember how shit was calculating the notes to frequencies...

Then use FT2 for a while, but after around a year just switched to Impulse Tracker, I just loved it...

Then tried almost every software, Cubase (the old vst version), FL studio, Ableton the 3rd, Reason for a year, then Logic 5...

In 2006 just installed a hacked version of Tiger to my PC...just blowed my mind...

Then bought a mac, and my first sampler, and Akai S2000...

Ive tried a lot of different hardwares, but the current config is enough for me. An E6400 Ultra and an S1100 HD, with some outboards, and a big Ukraine 20ch mixing desk...
started out recording with a $5 radio shack mic and processing/layering into ambient stuff in sound forge 6.0. lost all of those recordings as far as i know... not that i knew what i was doing at the time :P
Roo Stercogburn Wrote:
Annastay Wrote:I was like 22..... And i got a mc 505 Teef

Hehe I used to be really jealous of a friend that had one of those Grin

Awesome for Neema-nomma sounds.


I miss the handson expiernce. I used it tell it totally glitched out and would change the sounds i saved in banks and the settings (and espically for cut off knob, ect) it was like it got haunted. Eek
Ok i guess if your down with randomness, but i like a bit more control over my sound..Hahaha
Paradigm X Wrote:
Ashtonron Wrote:Audio damage - EOS - reverb

That any good? I love the AD stuff, but the demos dont sound too hot, and you cant demo them Baffled I have the UAD Plate already.

never heard the uad plate, but i imagine it sounds better...

I am able to find a reverb sound that I want pretty quickly with EOS, I was always a bit unsure about the hi end on the Arts Acoustic one..

But having said that the new update to Arts Acoustic reverb came with some really good new presets for room sounds...

You can buy it and get a refund if you dont like it... (thats their strange demo policy)

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