3 is the Magic number

if you could only ever use 3 pieces of (music) hardware for... x amount of time,.. not forever but a long time, then what would you choose?

you have a computer, a mixer/ing desk/audio interface already, but no sampler.

i'm interested because i've been trying to whittle down my (hardware) setup over the last couple of years to just 3 things.

like, a polysynth, a drum machine and an analog monosynth. - just trying to find the perfect 3-combo, cos it's interesting and cos i can :)

let me know your thoughts, please, if you like...

cheers

like a the most expensive mac (over $40,000 dollars), a yamaha disklaver or whatever and like a room full of subwoofers woofers etc

  On 7/9/2011 at 10:10 PM, logakght said:

like a the most expensive mac (over $40,000 dollars), a yamaha disklaver or whatever and like a room full of subwoofers woofers etc

no no no! :) assume you have a computer already, with your sequencer of choice and all your FX 'n all that, that's a given!

but what (only) 3 bits of gear would you use? - eg. Juno-60, TR-808, SH-101. or CS-40M, DMX, monomachine.

and btw, money is an object! you're not allowed to spend more than a grand on each bit of kit, and no samplers. ;)

3 bits of gear.

go.....

why no samplers?

1. Elektron Machinedrum SPS-1UW MKII

2. Fully customized modular synth

3. ZOOM H4n

(I'm counting an Akai APC40 as part of the previously existing software setup. If that's not allowed then I would rank that number 1 of all my gear I could ever need.)

Blofeld

Monomachine

Voyager

Korg Electribe-R

Prophet 8

and a Roland Jupiter 8

if I had unlimited time I'd probably get different gear, though. I picked based on simplicity with versatility.

i'm putting my sampler in there.

maschine (there it is)

alpha juno

basic midi keyboard (m-audio 49e)

grand total = something like $600-700... (mine was closer to $600 cuz the m-audio was 2nd-hand and free)

this combo has been good to me so far!

assuming that things like monitors, microphones, comfy chair etc are covered in the basics.

Money no object:

1, Monstrous eurorack modular.

2, Korg Ps 3300.

3, Grand Piano.

within budget:

1, As much eurorack as I could get 2nd off eBay.

2, DSI poly evolver

3, Decent upright piano

it depends what is covered in the basics, as much as I'd love a shed load of hardware, Id get really irritated without certain things. NEED a comfy chair, decent monitors and headphones, room treatment, stuff that helps me get into the right frame of mind. If that wasn't included in the basic setup it'd be the first things I'd get.

Off topic, but I've had the thought a bunch of times about what Id get if I won the lottery. a farm house in the middle of nowhere, around the Wye valley area. Lush studio setup with a view over the countryside, and a side room lined on every wall with modular madness blinking away :) But for now I have to settle for a dying laptop, and a view over the A23 :(

mpc, sh101, cs80

I would maybe go for something like this:

• Lexicon PCM81
  
• Sherman Filterbank 2
  
• DSI Tempest
  

  On 7/11/2011 at 3:52 AM, TechDiff said:

Off topic, but I've had the thought a bunch of times about what Id get if I won the lottery. a farm house in the middle of nowhere, around the Wye valley area. Lush studio setup with a view over the countryside, and a side room lined on every wall with modular madness blinking away :) But for now I have to settle for a dying laptop, and a view over the A23 :(

I lived in a farm house for a year.. right next to the A44. Cars screaming by from 5 till late in the evening. At least I could turn up the volume to drown out the noise.

If I was cutting down to three bits of hardware then it would be Monomachine, FS1r and Nord Micromodular. If we're talking fantasy-land then I suppose the only thing I would change would be the Micromodular for G2 Keyboard.