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Re: [xl7] Re: europa

2011-03-30 by James Ulibarri

with all the junk i have had over the years.. i am convinced that there is no perfect box for "everything". it doesn't exist. if it has sick analog filters, it sucks ass in the LFO department or has crappy waveshapes, or the effects are really weak. if it has a cool sequencer than the voices sound horrible. or if the drum voices are big and round and thumpy than the you find out that midi is lazy and lethargic. and you find out that some pieces just don't play well with other pieces of kit and hate each other. but there is no perfect box out there. it's doesn't exist. so i think the best way to approach all this is to think as all your machines as one big machine or each machine as small components to a bigger machine. because messing with all this stuff for years... i come to the conclusion that sometimes machines can do something really really well over other boxes that that no other machine can touch in ease of use and execution (and actually being fun). and then it's lousy in other aspects that another box totally picks up the slack. take for instance the resampling feature in the ASR-X. i totally love it. it's just taken the best feature out of each box and then scrapping the rest of the worthless features as fluff. it is what it is sometimes with these machines.

but the PX-7 for "me" is an amazing pad sequencer. i absolutely love the realtime recorder and the ease of use to lay layers of swirling pads down from sampled hardware into ableton and then be able to hit record while it's playing and have it capture the vibe and keep adding more and more. i can build amazing fuzzy walls of sound this way. then it's so easy to sample to the ASR-X hooked up Emu 0204 soundcard and juggle these textures back and forth without too much hassle. i've tried doing this kind of thing for years and it was always a pain and left me pissed off and disappointed. there is a physical satisfying flow there that i really like when using the CS for this..



On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Matt <somatt@...> wrote:

Lol I knew u would keep it. Px7 with blue screen? its too badass to nuke. I've been sending notes to my sp-808ex. Killer combo.

On Mar 29, 2011 2:08 PM, "James Ulibarri" <jamesulibarri@...> wrote:

Thanks for the emails. I decided to keep it after all.
It makes a nice Ableton controller.




On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:11 PM, James Ulibarri <jamesulibarri@...> wrote:
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> I have a new...


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