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Original Message 1/48 14-Jun-00 @ 05:51 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
sorry guys...
let us talk about this topic:
in my opinion is using computer programs for creating samples (soft synths) not very useful.
1. for making music you need an INSTRUMENT you can rely to personally, appearence, functions vitalise your mind, a flat, shivering screen harms your creatrivity..
2. i don't like monitors! i have got a doepfer schaltwerk for composing in midi, much better than cubase
o.k. i agree: sequencing on a computer is standart, you have got better support and more offers.
i started to make music with my amiga (protracker!), still one of my cherriest machines, i do not doubt wheter it is easier to get a cheerful result on your comp than with your soundmachine, it is!
i am asking myself right now if music isn't in any realtion to machines, probably....
maybe i just this confusing tap is just a reaction on the current developement of the music market.
yet i am sure you cannot reproduce the sound of a music machine with a comp. (hmm..pulsar...letting the hardware in your co). the reason is as simply as hard to believe: hardware-problem, computer simulate, m-machines (of course! analogue babies, i love them) produce!
it could be that i am talking a lot of shit..in your perspective... i know what i am saying is true for me.. so let me have your comments...
Message 2/48 14-Jun-00 @ 07:33 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
couldn't do that just on my pc, and it wasn't for not trying.
you need that power solely used for creating sounds.
Message 3/48 14-Jun-00 @ 01:25 PM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Message 4/48 14-Jun-00 @ 10:05 PM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Message 5/48 15-Jun-00 @ 03:39 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
my fav software app is Zap's LDB, very wicked prog IMO. it's not pretty, not even realtime but it has a top notch user interface, great for creating drumloops. i use it as a kinda scratch pad for getting ideas. when something nice comes up, dump the loops/hits to sampler and mangle from there, mmm yummy.
some software is very creative.
Message 6/48 15-Jun-00 @ 03:41 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Message 8/48 15-Jun-00 @ 06:55 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
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Message 9/48 15-Jun-00 @ 09:50 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Message 10/48 15-Jun-00 @ 10:30 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Message 11/48 15-Jun-00 @ 01:14 PM - RE: computer vs. hardware
this (computer-based timing) is something i've been worrying about, cause i just upgraded my setup to have my pentium (200MMX/64MB) running cubase (w/ MOTU midiexpress) for sequencing (previously it was a w-30 internal sequencer... i just _love_ grids full of numbers...)
anyway it's not up and running yet (i need to look into insurance before moving stuff into my apartment), but i'm starting to dread the first time i use it... is there anything i can do to solve this? i'm not doing digital audio or anything, and i'd have no problem wiping my pc and reserving it solely for cubase (and sample editing) if this is going to help, but i'm afraid there's nothing i can do... will an older ver. of cubase help? or should i pick up an atari? i don't really have tons of cash to put into a sequencer (it's all going into patchbays and snakes), but at the same time anything but rock-solid timing is not going to be acceptible. i'm only using it for midi... if a 386 can handle that, can't my pentium? or does the way windows work fuck everything up (i've got w95)?
anyway, any hints/tips/advice would be greatly appreciated, even if it's only "you're screwed, you can't fix windows"... then at least i'd know for sure.
thanks
Message 12/48 15-Jun-00 @ 02:05 PM - RE: computer vs. hardware
The new Creamware sampler and modular synth cards plus Yamahas PLG cards could be the way to go...hardware making the sounds and software for what its good at - editing and storing.
Message 13/48 16-Jun-00 @ 10:03 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Message 14/48 17-Jun-00 @ 09:53 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Message 15/48 17-Jun-00 @ 09:31 PM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Message 17/48 18-Jun-00 @ 01:35 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
its a huge pain in the ass to use my MPC and have to step back through the pattern to find a beat i want to fall on a different step. and then lets say i want it 2 steps after a hihat, so then i have to find where thats located...etc etc...lots of work on a small screen
whereas with something like any freeware pc sequencer program, you can have a nice grid with all instruments layed out before you. at a glance click or unclick a step. its just so much faster to work
with at least 75% of professional users (lame term i know) using programs such as logic and cubase etc, that has to say something about them.
sometimes hardware makes things harder but lets you come up with different ideas etc. all has its place, but the arguments about timing and not being able to make good tracks....come on now...
Message 18/48 18-Jun-00 @ 07:13 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Message 19/48 08-Jul-00 @ 01:43 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Message 20/48 12-Jul-00 @ 02:48 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Message 21/48 12-Jul-00 @ 10:01 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Message 22/48 13-Jul-00 @ 02:48 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
oh hangon, i guess if u are recording to a computer at the same time as playing the midi stuff (same machine) that could sloppify the timing cause it would be multitasking, makes sense i guess.
how about an atari... or a 486 with Win 3x?
Message 23/48 13-Jul-00 @ 07:20 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
and atari's RUUUULLLLEEE.... i dont think i'd feel confident to do an 8 hour live set with a pc, but i've done that in a feild working off a petrol generator with the trusty old 1040, and hey, it even rained at one point (ok, we WERE under a large tree) -
Message 24/48 02-Aug-00 @ 12:53 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
i've heard good stuff made on casio home keyboards
all equipment has strenths and weaknesses
knowing how to exploit and avoid these is half the
joy
if you love what your doing it doesn't matter
as long as your creating a groove
that really all you should care
not if your going the be the next big thing
okay i'll get off my soapbox now
sorry
Message 26/48 18-Aug-00 @ 11:20 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Aphex Twin uses computer exclusively these days, and I wouldn't say he's not creative, or that he's music is not personal. Great classical composeres often wrote with just a piece of paper, same with contemporary composers. Creativity comes from the inside.
Message 27/48 18-Aug-00 @ 04:15 PM - RE: computer vs. hardware
but, it don't seem my idea of fun.. and that would show in my tracks.. I need that equipment to give me inspiration.. a pc won't do it for me on it's own.
Message 29/48 20-Aug-00 @ 07:40 PM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Message 30/48 24-Aug-00 @ 06:01 PM - RE: computer vs. hardware
sequencer is tight as hell because the ppqn is very low
as with most drum machines... think about it my old
mmt8 is 96 ppqn and my first cubaselite ver. on a
macplus in 1994 was 480 ppqn(have no idea what it is
today)......on the hardware units the notes fall right
in the pockets...there's no serious mutlitasking or
buffering going on... oh and no crashing for the most
part and losing tracks and your mind when it
happens...how many times has your shit freezed after
working on a track for a while and you just walk away
as it reboots and lose the inspirations in
anger....!!!!!!@@@#%!!I too check out tracks on line
and the quants are off alot or the quants are different
in the same sequence I.E. kick-Q16 snr-Q16T hat-Q32
fill-Q32T bass-Q16T you get the pisture that shit will
catch up and to a rythmic ear shit starts falling off
trust me I can HEAR IT......Computers are amazing I'm
convinced BUT this music thing is a hard beast to tame
and the artist or musican is even harder to please...I
do beleive for dance music or similar production style
music has to be spot on and should be spot on...drum
machines and HW sequencers do
Message 31/48 24-Aug-00 @ 06:06 PM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Message 32/48 25-Aug-00 @ 12:02 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
a computer or hardware unit can be dead on it...but
there is more room for error and the untrained ear will
tend to let the quants just fly all over and sections
don't match up tightly...anyway I guess as always it's
up to the user but heed the warning when shit falls off
or doesn't lock up tight even a little bit WE CAN HEAR
IT....this aien't analog vs digital this is on/tight VS
off/sloppy....hey do your thang no matter what...
_______jAswho
Message 33/48 27-Aug-00 @ 05:03 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
That's the reason you need to work in audio to get tight timing. or use internal step sequencers or arpeggiators not based on midi. Or good musicians.
Message 34/48 28-Aug-00 @ 12:11 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
midi is not a perfect protcol and HD step seqs or
arpeggiators as you stated are as tight as it probably
gets......but audio in computer is great when that's
your deal but if you want to make tight sequences, what
does an audio program have to do with it unless your
ready to edit each track one by one to lock it up (a
very tedious lame practice IMHO)... I mean shit the
post was which is easier or better computer or hardware
seq. and why!!!!it's all there forget about doing seq's
then redoing them in an audio program to tighten
up...Unless you've got time and a nice fast
computer...pick up an old cheap drum machine or
sequencer and tell me is easy as hell to create tight
as a drum-based stuff or what????
I rest my mouse go for yours cause it's way cheaper and
easier on the brain/pocket to pick up a cheap under
$100 unit and experiment that's all!!!!!!!
love will k
Message 35/48 08-Sep-00 @ 05:29 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Cubase to make the editing easier and a Roland MC-80 to do live PA.
Transferring MIDI files to the MC-80 can be a pain though... I've not managed to transfer with program change messages intact - I've had to add them back in by hand on the MC-80.
I'm thinking of ditching the MC-80 for live and using the on-board sequencer on my E-mu e5000 Ultra...
Message 36/48 12-Sep-00 @ 03:04 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
that the Midi spec is a piece of crap,
and if you use a computer + VST you don't need
to go through Midi.
Too many CC's and your beats stuff up.
My 2 cents
Message 37/48 12-Sep-00 @ 07:48 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
By the way did you read Amiga are pushing their OS again, for a variety of platforms this time and they have a developemnt kit out etc.
Message 38/48 27-Sep-00 @ 10:38 PM - RE: computer vs. hardware
seems like a little "feel" is a good thing. Just like the analog tunings drifting slightly so its not so cold and clinical
i think when people listen to music we expect slight changes and if its to perfect it sounds odd.
Message 39/48 28-Sep-00 @ 02:40 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Windows is crap for this kind of task, since it has crap multitasking and isn't really made to handle media streams. The new Amiga OS isn't really that exciting, since it's basically a developers kit on top of Linux. Don't expect anything like the old amigas. (Kind of the same thing Viscount does with the OB12...)
Message 40/48 28-Sep-00 @ 08:32 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
it's sounds, but the the interface through which we can
control those sounds. It's great to have synth, soft or
hard, that has amazing effects and so forth, but if the
artist connot control those sounds or arrange notes in
an intuitive and logical manner the instrument will not
see much use or exploitation of it's full abilites.
I have a friend who has an AN1X. He also has Logic, and
he always writes his sequences on the AN1X because he
finds he has more control than through Logic or any
other sequencer.
This is what I think makes most hardware superior:
control and access to it! Lack of these can make an
instrument suck, the DX-7 comes to mind. And ReBirth
only sounds good with a hardware controller (in my
opinion).
Without a hardware controller, software will not beat
hardware. It may someday sound phatter, and better, but
I think the above is true, regardless.
An anyways, I've found that most people who use
computers solely just get distracted and surf the net
or look at porn instead of writing tracks - there's not
much commitment. Or just stealing samples of beats and
such they could never write themselv
Message 41/48 28-Sep-00 @ 10:46 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
I've got around 16 control sliders setup from the hyper to create repetative loops on my microwave2, in my opinion it's the best thing about the whole program.
Message 42/48 28-Sep-00 @ 06:51 PM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Message 43/48 03-Oct-00 @ 07:21 AM - RE: computer vs. hardware
to sound ruff.I started w/ hardware and like the saying
goes You'll have to pry my MPC out of my cold dead
fingers.I mean come on beats aren't supposed to sound
human It's called ELECTRONIC music for a reason.A word
of caution though the MPC3000 uses 480ppq and it
bites!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Message 44/48 06-Oct-00 @ 04:41 PM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Peaceout,
Peter
Message 45/48 06-Oct-00 @ 08:44 PM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Message 46/48 07-Oct-00 @ 05:05 PM - RE: computer vs. hardware
Message 47/48 08-Oct-00 @ 05:48 PM - RE: computer vs. hardware
btw,go check my music over on "a working track by Hank D" thread there and post your impressions there.A good example of the sequencing tightness of the MPC2000XL.
Message 48/48 18-Oct-00 @ 10:19 PM - RE: computer vs. hardware
some time ago i bought the mc-303 to get a portable sequencer to put my ideas into as they came along.But now i have a really hard time working with my pc cos i get totally pissed off by the lack of perfect timing.
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