At 21:47 22/09/97 -0400, you wrote:
quoted 2 lines i do not know hardly anything about the equipment electronic
>i do not know hardly anything about the equipment electronic
>musicians use to make their music.
that's ok, neither do i
quoted 1 line what do we need?
>what do we need?
keep it all internal... all you need is the computer. go along the
'couple of digital/analogue synths and a drum machine' path and you'll end
up making crap demos like everyone else...
and as for live shows, why bother?
quoted 2 lines what do some artists that this list is centered around use? ie.
>what do some artists that this list is centered around use? ie.
>autechre...
autechre and aphex twin are using computers almost exclusively now. try
making 'come to daddy' on a conventional setup <laugh>
quoted 1 line i see ads for all kinds of samplers/fx units/synths/sequencers, etc..
>i see ads for all kinds of samplers/fx units/synths/sequencers, etc..
they're over-expensive and out-dated
what i think you should be looking at now is getting a VERY fast computer
(pentium 2 if possible), a very big fast hard drive, a cd rom writer (to
burn demos), about 64 megs of memory and at least 2 sound cards - an AWE64
gold, and one of the new-generation crystal/dream cards like the Terratec
EWS64 or Sound Track 97 PCI (the ST97PCI is PCI and about 1/3 the price, so
go for that)
then you will have a total of 96 voices of sampling power, for less than
the price of an akai ram expansion
then find yourself a copy of reality softsynth ($500, but look around the
newsgroups...) and you will have (if you've got yourself that fast
computer) a quite accurate rendition of a 32-voice 4-oscillator 4-filter
4-LFO 4-envelope analogue synth, and a great deal more, inhabiting the
inside of your CPU - i can't recommend this program enuff..
i recommend cakewalk pro audio 6 (again, look round the newsgroups...) for
your sequencing
all this lot, including the computer, would cost you about the same as one
fairly top-end akai sampler, except you have a complete studio in a box
which is completely expandable later. lo and behold, this is more or less
the same setup i'm buying at the moment..
cue the rebuttal from the expensive studio-owners (suckers...)
cheerio!
np - the sea devils - bbc radiophonic workshop
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