hehe, this is your chance to geek it out - post pics of your set up, post wants and dreams and yearn for your favourite synth...



someone requested some pics of my studio a couple of moths back, and ive finally got round to getting some:



















i am much loving it at the moment, although ive had a frustrating day, pissing about for hours and not getting anything good :(



i am very much after one of these:







pref with the eurpoa midi upgrade - mmm polyphonic roland lovelyness... come on!!



tomorrow i am gettinbg one of these:







we are getting the pasuebuttonaudio live set sorted, and hope to debut it at kingpin in september - decks, fx and laptop ableton action 8)

Oooo i'll post some pics of my limited gear in the week :D

Yes, the mighty and ancient yamaha psr-300! (the only peice of hardware i own :( )

Don't have a digital camera, but here some pics of what i have, and try to use with few good results!

mippio Escribi�:

we are getting the pasuebuttonaudio live set sorted, and hope to debut it at kingpin in september - decks, fx and laptop ableton action 8)

sounds good, sounds like my cuppa tea!!! i would love to get into ableton live. i kinda sussed the basics of it but i think i need to get a book to descover more in depth fun. as a live tool i dont know how good it is (unless you got sasha's maven controller!!) but i defenately love to create a mix cd on this software!!



as for my studio i think i finally got my set up perfect, although i really would love a third cd deck, but i dont think i can really justify it!!







Kit List



2 x Technichs SL-1210

Pioneer CDJ 1000

Pioneer CDJ 800

Vestax PMC-37 Pro Mixer

Pioneer EFX-500 effects unit

Stanton DJF-1 Proffesional Filter

ableton live is wicked man - i wouldnt use it as my main sequencer but for ldoing live work its superb - everything runs in loops and when you hit the button it starts certain loops, you can effect them, change the orders round, all sorts of shit.



the main problem we are having is intergrating it with the decks - unless u get a midi clock signal from the decks ableton isnt in time and u have to kind of 'mix' ableton using tap tempo or jogging it slighl;ty. its not ideal, but u can get the redsound midi sync which converts audio to midi clock.



if u need a copy of ableton let me know ;)



ooo - whats the efx unit like? its a toss up between one of them or a kaoss pad for me at the mo - i think the kaoss pad is cheaper but it looks like the efx wil be better suited to live work - what do u make of it?

dont even waste your money on a kaoss pad. i got one (the first one) and it lives in its box. i keep meaning to put it up for sale on ebay but never get round to it. its a good toy, but not a good tool. its a bit of fun but not for serious execution. the biggest problem i had with it was none of the effects are tempo synced. if you position your finger in the wrong place you can greatly increase or decrease the volume of a track. the unit itself does not sound great. it totally lives up to its name, its chaotic.







the efx 500 on the other hand is a total joy to use. i have had mine for about 15 month. when i first got it i thought the unit was quite simple, but the more i play with it there is a lot of depth of scope with what can be achived with it. i mainly use the effects on the left hand side of the machine, the beat effects. i mainly use echo and delays its amazing what can be done to a tune with these effects. i can create an infinate loop with the delay and chop beats up live, or fuck up vocals. its all good. the transform is cool. a nice effect to use when your in the mix. the pan would be good if you got a large sound system to play on and want to mess with peoples heads!! flange is pretty poo, it like a chav effect imho!! the right hand side of the unit, the jog effects are.... well i don't use them much. zip, ring and fuzz effects i have no use for but jet and wah are okay.



i definately recomend you go down to a dj shop and try the efx out. it costs more than most of the effect units on the market, but you should be able to pick on up on ebay for �200



oh and check this video out, shows the depth of this creature off quite well.



http://www.pioneerpr...edback_loop.wmv

the way ableton is going i'm sure someone will make a controller that will bridge the gap between computer and turntable freedom. sasha has his own custom made controller and his sets on it are meant to be the muts nuts. every professional dj seems to be raving about ableton. its only a matter of time before someone else sees there is a markrt to produce a controller. i think this technology is great. you hear about people saying that djing with a laptop is not the real deal, cheating blah blah blah. but i think any real good dj uses what ever tools are available to him to shape there set. its exciting and its a new way forward!!



oh and as for ableton. i do already have a copy cheers. i just need to get more proficient with it!! oh and i wish it would import mp3s. i buy a lot of mp3, its just a pain in the arse to convert them to wav just to use in ableton!!!

Brilliant thread idea!



Hardware

Roland EG-101: It's an MC-303 with a keyboard + speakers attached. I sample the shite out of it and use it for midi.

Korg Electribe EA-1: "Analog" synth. Used for samples and midi.

Behringer MX602A: 6 channel mixer.

Pioneer SE-255 headphones: Vintage!

PC: Very basic setup. The audio is on the motherboard ffs.



Software

Jeskola Buzz: Tracker/Sequencer without all the snazzy gui's that Reason has.

Cooledit Pro 2.1.

Arturia ARP2600.

Arturia Minimoog.

Korg Legacy: Includes - Korg MS-20, Korg Polysix, Korg Wavestation.

Reason.

Rebirth.



As for gear I wish I had. I wish I had a decent Mac!

My techy gear is horribly embarrassing, and I don't have anything set up anymore because of space issues - setting up requires me to get out my old Yamaha PSR500 keyboard from the closet and crawl on the floor and plug it into the back of my trusty computer... every single time I get the urge to actually write songs.



I do have some musical instruments and other gear. I have an upright piano, a folk harp, some bagpipes, an old crappy guitar with a fucked up fret board, a didjeridoo, an old set of congas, and an old harmonica I keep misplacing. I've got two mics and a reel to reel. Now all I need are some people to jam with.

i dont make music, i just dance to music.....this is all the equipment i need

Have this aswell, my first piece of kit.







I allways thought about buying a kaoss pad, but built into a mixer, numark did some good lookintg ones, but now im after.......







But the low price makes me question how good it is?

Behringer as thieves!!! they cant make there own products cos they are not strong enough, they have to make cheap imitations of other manufactures products.



i believe you get what you pay for and for �125 its not going to be the most durable mixer on the market. its gonna be made from very cheap components. but on the otherhand if you get a years worth of fun out of it then it might be money worth spent.



i read in i-dj mag that sound quality was not the greatest on this mixer. anyway like everything go down the shops play with it, find out if its any good.



i found some users review on the 700 here http://www.decks.co....ehringer/DJX700

Well for the moment I only use FruityLoops (I didn't bought it, I just downloaded it...) but when I have money I hope i'll be able to buy some hardware.

I've been using my mans version of reason and I'm totally addicted...he used to have fuirty loops but reason is heaps kooler and the samples are better...but don't listen to me 'cos I have no idea about studio equipment!

Reason is so much fun to play with! That program gave me the little nudge I needed to write the kind of music I've always been wanting to write. And for me it's quite versatile and fairly intuitive.



I'd like to learn other music programs but I don't have enough hours these days to get to know all their ins and outs. I suppose these things will come with time. For now Reason works for me and I want to see how far I can push that program using just my simple old keyboard and my computer.



As for my wishlist - of course there's a lot I want in the hardware department. The first thing I'd get if I had the money is a new keyboard. A couple years ago I went to the NAMM show and drooled all over tons of lovely keyboards from Korg and Yamaha and synthesizers and saw a few demonstrations - it's so amazing to me some of the things you can do with the compact studios.



But I have to set my sights a bit lower and I think the best keyboard for me, and for the money, is the Yamaha p80. It's a simple full sized keyboard, doesn't have all the bells and whistles as the higher end models but that's not something I really need. The big selling points is the natural piano sound that comes from it and the weight and feel of the hammered keys, it's lightweight and easily portable.

My gear is pretty much limited to software after i sold most of my equipment, heres what i got now.

Guitars



Synth



64 bit Athlon 3.2 gig with 1 gig of ram



and of course software



I also have lots of samples and more software that's not in the picture above as some of my download only software is still on my zip disks at the moment :)

I can't be bothered to take photos, but I'll give you guys a list:

Hardware

E-mu PK-6

Korg EA-1

Yamaha DX-200

Roland SH32

Alesis NanoBass

Behringer Composer

Behringer Dualfex

Lexicon MPX110

Line6 Filter Pro

JoeMeek C2

FMR RNC

TL Audio Fat 1

Alesis Bitrman & Faze

Crappy CD decks + mixer + amp + monitors



(haven't listed that for a while - seems a lot!)



Software

ACID 2.0

Reason

Audacity

A few free stand-alone softsynths (SimSynth, Orangator, SubSynth, Hammerhead drum machine)



I also recently acquired ;-) Cubase SX, so I'm learning that at the moment. I think I've got my head round a few VSTi's that I got from cover CDs, but it's so much easier & fun to hook up to my hardware synths, even if I do only use Cubase to record a single track at a time.



Anyone from the South that wants to jam - let me know!!! X-D

Forgot to post the pic of my amp wish we could edit posts