Me myself & him
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What do you prefer?
Software based sequencers or hardware(keyboards and pads)?
Software based sequencers or hardware(keyboards and pads)?
mshea
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half and half
I'm pretty simple when making my beats i use my Alesis QS7.1 and Cakewalk. It's time consuming and tedious, but gives me the flexibility to make EXACTLY what i want. If their is a sound i don't have in my user banks, i may find a sample, clean it up with Cool Edit Pro, and then paste it in as needed.
Although, lately i've been TOTALLY cheating and using a Loop and Sample CD i picked up, all royalty free stuff, and glomming everything together for the 'body' of the song, then going back to the good 'ol alesis for breaks and fills, etc.
That's my story and i'm stickin' to it!
I'm pretty simple when making my beats i use my Alesis QS7.1 and Cakewalk. It's time consuming and tedious, but gives me the flexibility to make EXACTLY what i want. If their is a sound i don't have in my user banks, i may find a sample, clean it up with Cool Edit Pro, and then paste it in as needed.
Although, lately i've been TOTALLY cheating and using a Loop and Sample CD i picked up, all royalty free stuff, and glomming everything together for the 'body' of the song, then going back to the good 'ol alesis for breaks and fills, etc.
That's my story and i'm stickin' to it!
SPINSTERWUN
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Re: half and half
Are you sampling the beat from the body for the breaks n' fill-ins?mshea said:
mshea
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Only during periods of EXTREME laziness...i'll just play the fill beats out ya know?
SPINSTERWUN
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I meant the actual kick, snare, etc. Just to make sure that there is a sort of sonic harmony. 
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beetjunccy
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Akai MPC4000 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mshea
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I used to glom them all together on one track, until gentle urging from you caused me to separate them and KEEP them that way until i am happy with the levels. 
Me myself & him
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I don't think I have patience for programming one note by one note, I would lose my mind. I guess growing up in a family band, I would rather play out my beats.
ASR 10, Roland MC-50
I have soundforge and Nuendo, but I never use them, I should probably start now.
I think DJ'ing is one of the most creative ways to make a beat... I can't do it though.
ASR 10, Roland MC-50
I have soundforge and Nuendo, but I never use them, I should probably start now.
I think DJ'ing is one of the most creative ways to make a beat... I can't do it though.
mshea
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I agree MM&H...and i can't do it either. Fascinating though.
Beathoven
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Don't have much money to buy hardware things so I went with Reason. All I need now is a midi controller and I'll be all setted up (Probably the Oxygen 8)
Actually, Reason as a great sonic quality. You just need to know how to tweak it.
Peace,
Beathoven
http://www.nowhereradio.com/beathoven/singles
Actually, Reason as a great sonic quality. You just need to know how to tweak it.
Peace,
Beathoven
http://www.nowhereradio.com/beathoven/singles
crosstudio
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i record them in midi (sonar) by tapping on the pads of my asr-x pro. the pads have a good feel to them so i don't really have to quantize tooo much.
alternately, i record using a fatar sl880, but the keys on the keyboard (being hammer weighted) don't do well when trying to record more percussive pieces (congas, timbales, etc...)
once i get an idea for how i want to drums to sound i record the hat, then kick, then snare. if necessary i groove quantize (it's a sonar thing) all of the other tracks to the timing of the hat track but only at 75% or so. that way the beat isn't too rigid.
alternately, i record using a fatar sl880, but the keys on the keyboard (being hammer weighted) don't do well when trying to record more percussive pieces (congas, timbales, etc...)
once i get an idea for how i want to drums to sound i record the hat, then kick, then snare. if necessary i groove quantize (it's a sonar thing) all of the other tracks to the timing of the hat track but only at 75% or so. that way the beat isn't too rigid.
Chriss
Jitens Half Brother
Beathoven said:
nooooo!!! not the oxygen... go with an evolution controller instead... some of the knobs on the oxygen only run 6 bit!!
Beathoven
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Evolution controller yoiu say? I'm gonna look for it...
Thanks,
Beathoven
http://www.nowhereradio.com/beathoven/singles
Thanks,
Beathoven
http://www.nowhereradio.com/beathoven/singles
LAZI
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I use the RM1X. More onboard tricks and options than anything i've ever seen hardware or software. The thing is like hardware with all the software options. I sequence a long list of hardware with it. My opion is nothing can compare to it. You get physical programable knobs, 16 mute buttons, butt loads of phrase options, tricks out the ying yang, keys to play ( they will go bad though), and edit options that to me beat most software. It's also got some onboard sounds. Learning it was simple.
It took me to backtrack some in my thinking to start tinkering with my MPC2000. It's good and better if you need to sequence a 50 piece midi studio and along with some chopped up loops and phat drums sample. Editing options are way less than RM1X and Sonar.
Learning Sonar has been like pulling my own teeth. Latency crap. Acting funny with my DXi software. Just trying to map midi out to my other instruments takes way to long to me. Been trying for weeks and i'd rather tranfer midi files from the mpc or the rmix to it.
I know about a few more both software and hardware, I chose to try and stick these out.
It took me to backtrack some in my thinking to start tinkering with my MPC2000. It's good and better if you need to sequence a 50 piece midi studio and along with some chopped up loops and phat drums sample. Editing options are way less than RM1X and Sonar.
Learning Sonar has been like pulling my own teeth. Latency crap. Acting funny with my DXi software. Just trying to map midi out to my other instruments takes way to long to me. Been trying for weeks and i'd rather tranfer midi files from the mpc or the rmix to it.
I know about a few more both software and hardware, I chose to try and stick these out.
T
TYRRANY
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Call me olskool (or obsolete), but I use Fruity Loops, an old Korg X3 I'm holding hostage from one of my boyz (has six phukked up keys in the last octave so I end up using the next to last octave then tuning it up an octave) and a casio CTK-518 I got for 20 bucks, a cordless mouse (and a dub). Not much, but it's a start.
any other "Cereal Killaz" out there?
any other "Cereal Killaz" out there?