This'll be funny to watch.
Or maybe not so much depending on who's watching the list and planning on replying.
People tend to either love or hate software instruments vice hardware. Those that love real synths (analog mostly) are going to tell you that the software just doesn't cut it in the sound department. Software people will cite ease of portability (try to gig with your modular synth), flexibility and stuff like that.
Personally, I love both.
There's a lot of stuff in software that would be really hard to replicate in hardware synths (I'm thinking Absynth for starters, also the automation like in Reason). Also, your bang for your buck is generally going to be better with software (try replicating what you get with Reason and a decent MIDI controller spending the same amount of money on hardware)...when you're broke, that's huge.
Most of what I love about hardware is qualitative. I love twisting a knob and have it change the sound instead of twisting a knob which twists a picture of a know which changes the sound. With hardware instruments, you (usually) have all the knobs and buttons to control it. Sometimes in software, your instrument might have more controls than your controller has so you end up having to be more creative with how you make it work.
When it comes down to it though, maybe my opinion doesn't matter much. UI'm not producing much music. I got started, then decided that learning how to play a keyboard was too hard without knowing any theory first, so I switched to guitar and I'm learning theory that way. Now that I own a copy of Reason though, I have a good excuse to start playing around with the keyboard again and see if I can apply what I'm learning on the guitar.
On Friday, December 14, 2007, at 04:07PM, "Junior Sanchez" <rendrd_tchocky@msn.com> wrote:
quoted 6 lines *oops and other hard gadgets sorry.
>*oops and other hard gadgets sorry.
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>> From: rendrd_tchocky@msn.com> To: idm@hyperreal.org> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:06:08 -0800> Subject: [idm] About Software and music making hardware> > > Hello folks,> > I am in need of y'allz assistance and expertise.> > I have given into making music using a Laptop. I dunno, its been too much of an inconvenience with using hardware, carry it around, hooking it all up, setting everything up has just been a pain. > > So yeah, what would you all recommend as far as Software and getting controllers and over hard gadgets? > > let me know, yr assistance would be greatly appreciated. > > thank you in advance,> june. > > > _________________________________________________________________> i?m is proud to present Cause Effect, a series about real people making a difference.> http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=text_Cause_Effect
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