I have had way more machines. I still have a tr-505 because I want to get it pro bent with 8 faders and 8 outs and sequencer glitch patchbay by exfade one day, but I sold off a lot of stuff that I don't really use.
I find they all sound a bit different, but more important the music I make sound different because of the different user interfaces. I tend to keep the gear I seem to have fun with that sounds the best. The esi is less fun to deal with samples but sounds fat as hell and is to run in multi. Most of my gear works as controllers too. But maybe the vsts and abletons have different interfaces as well. Haven't really played with ableton much except to see it fail at midi sequencing on a white macbook and also on a dell netbook clone. Would love to get a non demo version that might work better on a nice mac and not a netbook mac clone.
I also have reason as a sound module on my macbook pro which is fun sometime and I have a game boy with korg ds-10 analogue synth video game which I jam out on too. these all sound thin compared to my emu gear.
I got the mpc for a great deal $100 plus gas to san jose. I never had a mpc before but 500 is kind of meh. I like electribe esx a lot better as far as interface sound and it lights up like a mofo. Other mpc might sound better but still interface seems the same. Never touched a jjos or a mpc3000 or mpc60.
But yea the main thing I like about different gear synced is their swings and sequencers will be different and their interfaces will be different.
I used to like a ton of gear synced but it becomes unmanageable with only two hands and the midi latency can get bad. If you have two people syncing their gear or gear and a computer it can be very cool like a vs set.
I tend to stay away from the computer because the internets are distracting to me and it looks silly on stage... but maybe I should get over that.
I hear killer stuff coming out of computers
But then I like my stuff too and it just sounds different. And since its not solely bounced down clips it seems easier to modify live it seems to keep things fresh.
The reason I liked eps16+ is I don't need a desktop box really because I have the cs and I like to stack it on a rack unit like. But it seems to have everything else the asr-x has except stomper and lots of ram? And it let's you load samples while playing sequences because of dual processer? Esi stops playing to load. I hate this.
Dunno, these three box seems fabled, eps16, emax and asr. The only asr I ever saw in person I purchased from ebay and it didn't work so I returned it.
Maybe I am gassy... this means bloated right?
On Feb 25, 2011 9:15 PM, "James Ulibarri" <jamesulibarri@gmail.com> wrote:
i have no idea about wu tang. yeah the ensoniq kit sounds good. i have an ESQ-M running into the ASR-X for chords and stabs and I am really set in that dept.
Matt you really don't need all that gear. all you need is the CS and Ableton or an ASR-X.
You can do everything that emu sampler and roland phrase sampler and mpc can do easy.
you have too much stuff if you ask me. i used to think having 26 boxes all synced together was the most tits thing in the world with the lights off and watching all these blinking lights. until a few years back watching all these Youtube videos with all these rich asses having every box in the world making the most wackest sh*t ever. You simply do not need all that stuff to make albums. It's better to have just a couple machines or the "right" machines and get the most out of them than keep on buying stuff. GAS sucks!
speaking of GAS, i want that Europa sequencer so bad. It's on my list for 2011
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Matt <;somatt@...> wrote:
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