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Well as far as being on a tight budget I think the best thing to do would be to get a sampler and an effects processor and then expand on that setup as money allows. Samplers are coming down in price and there are several older ones that you can get many miles out of. The older ones i'd recomend are the EmaxII and Casio FZ series. I'd then recomend getting a synth of some sorts. I've heard Autechre use a juno106 quite often. But your best bet is to talk to many people to find out what they did when they were starting and do plenty of research and thinking about what you want to do, and how you plan on getting there.

quoted 17 lines well like many of you I too would like to make music but I'm intimidated

>well like many of you I too would like to make music but I'm intimidated >because of concerns about cost. >How much do I have to spend to get equipment to produce an Autechre-like >sound. I don't want to spend a lot (I guess thats the backbone of DIY) but >I would like to be able to have room for experimentation and not be limited >to a few dinky sounds. Does anyone know what type of stuff I need and how >much it might cost? > > >BTW >does anyone else see a similarity between warp and the early incarnation of >Factory records? > >thanks >Adesh Deosaran >NYC >

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quoted 2 lines that's what I meant.. :) using a computer with a soundcard is a lot easier

>that's what I meant.. :) using a computer with a soundcard is a lot easier >than paying big bucks for a skampler :)

big bucks ?! you can buy skampler for less than 20USD and there is your Ae style stuff you wanted so badly... off to bed rob

On Thursday, 18-Jun-98, -- wrote [about (idm) cheap equipment/Ae]:

quoted 7 lines well like many of you I too would like to make music but I'm intimidated

>well like many of you I too would like to make music but I'm intimidated >because of concerns about cost. >How much do I have to spend to get equipment to produce an Autechre-like >sound. I don't want to spend a lot (I guess thats the backbone of DIY) but >I would like to be able to have room for experimentation and not be limited >to a few dinky sounds. Does anyone know what type of stuff I need and how >much it might cost?

here's a low-end setup (some electronics knowledge required) buy some cheap casio keyboard, that has a line-out port =) MIDI is nice, but not necassary.. then you can buy one of those toys (this I think would really be wicked, but mine broke..dammit.. kids toys for ya :D) anyway, one of those toys that you speak into and it distorts your voice.. I can make my sound sound come-to-daddy'ish.. anyhow, someone who is electronics-minded should be able to patch that into a box with 1/4" inputs and outputs (some conversion may be needed?) and then plug it into your thing.. the one I had also turns whaever you feed into a robotic monotone with the push of a button.. maybe patch some buttons.. the thing has a slider on the slide for frequency of the distortion, somewhat like a filter.. it's damn cool :) i always thought it would be cool, but anyway that's a cheap distortion box, the toy only costs like $5. anyhow, you can use whatever sounds from there and load into CoolEdit or SoundForge to edit them, and then use FastTracker as a sequencer to put everything together.. also, there's this thing called buzz that's got it's own internal synth or something? I hear it kicks ass.. but anyway, that's the cheapest setup, but I've heard some quite awesome things done with casio sounds. synthpads and beeps, etc. but that's the cheapest (?) way to go. Buzz probably has a better sound arsenal, also you can check out Reality (a software synth).. as for cost, I'm not sure, but if you're into the warez kind of thing I reckon you can get it for free. __ __\ \ / /_\ \ 1cQ<->uIN \_____/ 1.3777993 "..in whatever you do, if you can't break new ground, what's the point?" - James Cameron

On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, -- wrote:

quoted 8 lines well like many of you I too would like to make music but I'm intimidated

> well like many of you I too would like to make music but I'm intimidated > because of concerns about cost. > How much do I have to spend to get equipment to produce an Autechre-like > sound. I don't want to spend a lot (I guess thats the backbone of DIY) but > I would like to be able to have room for experimentation and not be limited > to a few dinky sounds. Does anyone know what type of stuff I need and how > much it might cost? >

If you have a computer, you can do autechre style stuff. Their music is heavily sample based these days, and you could put together creditable tracks with a computer, a sound card, and a CD burner. IDM isn't the best venue for it, so if you want to discuss this further, let's take it off line.

On Thursday, 18-Jun-98, Chaircrusher wrote [about Re: (idm) cheap equipment/Ae]:

quoted 3 lines If you have a computer, you can do autechre style stuff. Their music

>If you have a computer, you can do autechre style stuff. Their music >is heavily sample based these days, and you could put together creditable >tracks with a computer, a sound card, and a CD burner.

that's what I meant.. :) using a computer with a soundcard is a lot easier than paying big bucks for a sampler :) __ __\ \ / /_\ \ 1cQ<->uIN \_____/ 1.3777993 "..in whatever you do, if you can't break new ground, what's the point?" - James Cameron