Roland Music

I said I had the opportunity to use the minikorg and kaoss pad, right? That's a super old picture from like over a year ago. We've long since sold the mini-korg.

To answer your question, it's not me but my partner. He's the korg head, not me. I'm the angry, pasty white boy sticking my tongue out. BLAH!
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I guess if you ran another controller or other shit into the minikorg it could be something better, I just don't see it equaling that price. There is just so much more out there you can get. Hell, even holding out would be better than settling for that.

I'm not talking about a studio owner with all sorts of equipment at their disposal to interconnect, I'm talking about someone just starting out. Like the gentleman who started this topic. It simply aint that versatile for the price. Even getting something like, Propellerhead's Reason, would be better off as a start.

reason would be a terrible first buy. No VST support = no synth options. But I suppose. I'm giving a biased opinion seeing as though I work in a nice recording studio ;) Cubase SX would be a good first buy, but if that is too expensive (I hate to say this but) FruityLoops Producer edition is getting to be an OK piece of software. But, eww, I'd stay away from that and go for Cubase.

I didn't buy it, but got a pirated copy. I think Reason sucks, as well. However, I was trying to show that if I had only 500$ to spend and couldn't hold out for better I would rather get that then the microkorg I hate them that bad. LOL

I use Logic 7 Pro, personally. worth every penny.

either one is a waste of money, really.

Some of the guys in the studio use logic, but our big projects stay on cubase.

you got any sample work brotha?

Why do you hate Reason Solskye? I've heard some nice sounds from it.

Personally, it sounds too midi to me and takes too much editing to get beats sounding crisp.

Just not my cup of tea.

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Here's some pics of the new and improved setup with additions...
-Access Virus TI Polar Desktop
-Akai MPC 2500
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Personally, it sounds too midi to me and takes too much editing to get beats sounding crisp.

Just not my cup of tea.
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what? MIDI DOES NOT HAVE A SOUND!
I'm assuming you meant crappy soundcard midi fonts, amirite? Reason doesn't really sound anything like that. The only real problem with reason is that most people try to use it as a DAW. MISTAKE! It only has two synthesizers, some sample players, a REX player, the combinator, and some shitty built in software effects. No VSTi or DXi support. HOWEVER, these synthesizers, samplers, and combinator are very powerful instruments. Reason along with another powerful DAW (I prefer Cubase SX) is very useful. You can use Reason with Cubase via ReWire. Google this if you are really interested.

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Here's some pics of the new and improved setup with additions...
-Access Virus TI Polar Desktop
-Akai MPC 2500
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Nice! Tell me please, what is it like to use one of those mod-wheels (in synth, bottom pic)? They look narrow and tiny, do they feel good?

And what do you like about that keyboard, particularily? What are those little box/racks? Are they drum machines or something?

The easy edit-ability of sound, and action on the Virus knobs are amazing! Not to mention, it works in conjunction with almost any studio software that you may use. For example, I use Logic so it opens up as a virtual instrument in Logic and uses the quantized midi data you enter into logic and plays it on the Virus as a sound hub for the sounds you create, so it doesn't record as .wav but rather .mid and accesses the Virus each time you hit play or strike the midi controller. You can edit all the functions through the easy to use virtual instrument menu, or on the old-school analog knobs, whichever you like best. Also, you can save an unlimited amount of edited sounds as patches on your hard drive which save as simple small midi files. Hence the need for that thick ass USB cable on the right of the computer which it uses to communicate in realtime with the Virus. The virtual instrument of the Virus holds about 16 tracks that can all be played and manipulated at once! I have no idea how it's able to handle all those sounds playing at once but it does. Definitely worth every penny I paid! I would recommend a Virus TI Polar rack for any studio or serious musician. No need to pay more for the Virus keyboard when the rack is the same and about 1000$ cheaper.

About the drum machines, I still have yet to get the optional CD player installed on the Akai MPC 2500 but once I do I have about 6 huge sample CD's waiting that I will load on to it (and two more on the way that I won in some Sony Music composition contest :? ). Basically the MPC 2500 is a workstation/drum machine/sample editor and pretty much anything you can think of as far as sound manipulation and music production. You could take a fart or a shit and make a song out of it if you wanted to. I wanted one mainly because of it's expansive ability to literally take any sound you want and easily put it on there and do whatever you want with it. Also, as you can see the drum pads are alot bigger and more sensitive than the MC-808 so I can make more fine tuned drum beats that were limiting me on those small MC-808 pads before. Basically, now I can take all the MC-808 sounds (and whatever other sounds strike my fancy) and put them on the MPC-2500 and do it from there with more finesse and realism. It's what DJ Shadow among many other famous artists use for their tracks. Do I necessarily NEED the MPC-2500 per say? Probably not. It's most likely overkill since I already have a drum machine. But hey, I got everything on loan so whats one more thing added on, right?

Like I always say, 'If you're gonna go in, go ALL in'. hehe. :chuckle: