Music Gear Discussion

[Fe 26]

I want to sex most of josh's gear

[Josh]

I can understand that.

[Jason]

Anybody ever use these items:

MOTU: Electric Keys
MOTU: MX4
MOTU: Ethno Instrument

thinking about buying them... definitely the first two.

[Josh]

I am a fan of the Arturia virtual synths. You ever checked any of those out? I LOVE their cs-80 vst.

Look into the Analog Factory Experience.

[Jason]

I like the little controller that comes along with it... the demos I heard sound pretty good. I checked out some reviews and found these negatives...

"It would be fantastic if you could change the filter envelopes too. But you can't.
So I dont like it"

"Wow, audible stepping? That's ridiculous, I get smooth sweeps from tiny Gui knobs with my touch pad on freeware soft synths. I thought much more highly of Arturia about 5 minutes ago."

"I refuse to buy any software that has this sort of intrusive copy protection. Whenever you re-install it you have to get "permission". In ten years time when you go back to get an old project it's most likely not going to work, unlike my hardware synths."

Did you share the same issue with what these people are saying? or is the product that awesome that you just look past it?

[Josh]

I have a cracked version, so I've never had a copy protection issue, I've not had any filter envelope issues with any Arutria stuff I've used.

If you want to hear a song composed with 90% stolen Arturia synths (mainly the cs-80) check out The Salesman over at the plus one mores myspace.

I HIGHLY recommend you get the cracked version and do the "try before buy" thing. If you love the sounds then you should buy it.

[Jason]

Sounds good... I'll try it out (good idea), thanks. What was used for Robot Army? sounds like the same sounds used for Nintendo games.

[Josh]

The Salesman

[Jason]

Yeah I heard the Salesman... but after I was through listening I checked out "Robot Army" and was wondering what did you use to obtain those sounds. Same program? if not... which one?

[Josh]

The Steinberg A1.

I don't use presets. All those sounds are mine.