you mean I would have to choose? Ack!.
Hmm.
I would put a stop to selling my MPC60 and upgrade
it to the latest roger linn O.S. (which makes it an MPC3000 as far as seqencing)
and use that.
But I my decision to keep just hardware over just a
computer was more weighted on what joy and use I get out of hardware synths and
grooveboxes and the like for instant playing and for going live. Playing
live is always a treat no matter how horrified I am of it
sometimes.
If my sole focus were on recording tunes, then I
probably would settle with just a computer because, as you say you can master
right in there and burn cds, etc.
However, (there is always a however) back to
hardware, I have advise many true newcomers--not to music, but to computers--to
go the route of hardware recorders like the fancy Akais, Yamaha and
Rolands--because again there, you do not have the computer issues, but can
record multitrack and burn demo cds. In the end you probably need to go to a
mastering house, but frankly, even if you have a computer with every mastering
tool on it, chances are, unless you have 5 years to become a golden ears pro,
you are better off going to a mastering house if it is a project that you want
to sell for real.
So, in a hardware only environment, I would have
all my synths and boxes (XL-7) and the mpc60/3000 as the center of all things
midi and record to a fancy hardware multitrack harddisk recorder-with an add-on
vga screen. Plus I would have the XL7 and mc505 for use for any particular extra
sequencing, arpeggiation needed. I wouldn't worry about bandwidth or timing, but
just have a nice mixer as well. It sure would be more costly than a computer
only (maybe not considering all the software I would feel compelled in my
emptiness to purchase).
In a computer only environment, I would have to
always upgrade constantly in order to get over my gear-lust grief at having
given up all my hardware (my moog aahahahah). Would I get to only use a crap
midiman midi controller? :)
Ravi
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Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 10:38
AM
Subject: [xl7] sequencers
Out of personal curiousity, if
you ditched the computer, what would you use as your main sequencer (and not
for live use)? I know you have a few on hand, just curious which you
would reach for first...
rEalm
its a personal
subjective decision, computer vs. hardware. IMO at this time there is not
enought to make one shine so much over the other in particular aspects to be
able to predict or tell someone what is better in that regard. I have both,
but if pushed to choose, would ditch the computer. But if forced to keep only
a computer, would do fine . . . .
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