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Hey I never questioned your setup, everyone has their own workflow. I actually really like your oldschool setup and wished I had something that cool. Whatever works and maximises your creative juices and workflow is always cool with me.
Yeah, it's oldschool. I'm picking up the pieces, so to say. In this day and age of DAWs and super high-end audio recording, people have forgotten that most of the time, the old stuff (I'm also talking about recording/mixing equipment here) sounds just as good but usually is easier to use, more reliable (less computah crashes, etc.) and also way less expensive. Sure, it does not have all those nifty features of modern software/hardware but it's nothing that can't be solved with creativity. The less you have, the more flexible you gotta be and this gives me lots of inspiration. It's also a great way for a beginner to get into making music, a complete basic oldschool studio setup costs less than a full version of Cubase or Ableton + controller.
I've been part of several projects where the music was recorded and produced entirely on computers and it always felt kinda weird to me. I know about the power of modern-day equipment and really love the stuff some people can do with it but I wouldn't want to center my music making process around a DAW software, it just feels wrong to me, even more as I rarely work with samples or sample loops. Usually, the only samples I use are bassdrums and a few percs, all the other stuff comes straight from my hardware synths.
But hey, I don't want to make a religion out of it. In the end it's all about the music and when a track is good, noone is going to care what equipment you made it on. My label boss Oliver Kapp sold all his hardware over the past 10 years and now only uses a Powerbook to make tracks and they're as cool and funky as in the old days, just with higher bit rates. I wish he had sold me his 808 and 909 but it would have been too expensive for me anyway...
hyper,
I was thinking of buying a TR-8 and possibly VT-3 but then decided to wait for further updates for those boxes. The TR-8 sounds very good, test-drove one at a local music store and it's an excellent drummy with added extras that you won't find on the originals. I'm not very keen on the System 1, though, even though the recently released SH-101 plug-out sounds very close to the real thing. It has this trancey and new-style Electro vibe that I don't really like.