What are you using right now?

[RobMoran]

Trying to simplify their lives, to get it down to 6.5 causes composer, mixing and mastering. To get a MPK61, to replace my axiom and a Macbook, and call it a day.

 

[StressWon]

spoons and mouth guitar

 

[Cleverwon]

Users are losers and losers are users, so dont use drugs, DONT USE DRUGS!
80s style BONG!

 

[North Anchor]

Mac Book Pro, Logic 9, Arturia Vintage Synth Plugins, Mini 32 Key M Audio, AT M50 Headphones

https://soundcloud.com/northanchorproductions

 

[frankx]

Fl studio & MPK Mini.

 

[OriginalNoGuru]

Maschine & S1 with a Korg Microkey, Korg NonoKontrol & iPad (V-Control - Korg Gadget - And some other stuff)

 

[Step Soprano]

coke, molly, weed, and patron. oh yea, that machine shit and logic too. I throw some protools in once and a while.

 

[DJ Excellence]

Sony acid + accoustica beatcraft since ... 2000 and 2005 respectively

 

[thedreampolice]

Man I didn't know you rocked acid. How's it treating you these days?

 

[DJ Excellence]

Haven't made beats in like 2 years, but started again this weekend. It s like a bicycle : you never forget.

Man I didn't know you rocked acid. How's it treating you these days?

 

[OriginalNoGuru]

maschine it is. although building tracks with that thing is like eating cookies without hands

I hear this a lot but I do all my arrangement within Maschine (still on 1.8) and then bounce the audio to mix in S1... To be honest I dont have a clue how to arrange in S1 as I've never needed to...
Find arranging in Maschine totally intuitive... Bring in a sample - chop it up - flip it - move to another scene - flip it again - bit of copy and paste - some stripping down and then chuck it into S1 for mixdown and vocals

What do you find problematic?

 

[mono]

I hear this a lot but I do all my arrangement within Maschine (still on 1.8) and then bounce the audio to mix in S1... To be honest I dont have a clue how to arrange in S1 as I've never needed to...
Find arranging in Maschine totally intuitive... Bring in a sample - chop it up - flip it - move to another scene - flip it again - bit of copy and paste - some stripping down and then chuck it into S1 for mixdown and vocals

What do you find problematic?

i mean, if you build a simple beat grid and take it out of the box for mixdown, then it's quite similar to working with an mpc. but that's the problem. it's 2014, and I want to record track mutes, automate track parameters and fx across scenes, and apply finishing touches to individual scenes in a final arrangemment run without changing those referenced scenes in another part of the beat. and there's a whole lot of other headaches maschine gives me (zero transparency of pattern length, no plug-in latency compensation etc etc). while some of these problems were addressed in 2.0, they also managed to destroy some good concepts, and it's still not what it ought to be. whereas an mpc compensates you with other qualities for its limitations. right now it's all ableton for me. but I'm curious about what maschine 2.5 will bring. a fully-blown song mode, where everything you do on the controller is recorded to your arrangement in real-time is what this thing should have. add a bounce button for batch exporting track waves, boom.

 

[mister-nebula]

FL Studio with an M-Audio Oxygen 49. I use that for everything that isn't drums. I use a (newly acquired) Maschine Mikro for performing live and programming drums.