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[The Dead Poet]

Originally Posted by uh-oh

aight. so i decided to blow all my money and finish buying all the equipment i'll ever need lol.

yamaha hs5's
yamaha hs8s sub
yamaha ag03 interface
maschine mk3*
kontrol s49*
audio technica at-lp120-usb turntable*

the asterisks are the recent purchases being shipped

the akai fire, mpc renaissance, normal audio technica turntable, and the m-audio bx8's and interface are getting thrown in storage lol.

should i look into ableton though? alot of the vids and shit with komplete and maschine mention it, but i thought maschine had its own daw?

also im only gonna have komplete select. thinking i shouldve held off on the maschine and turntable and just upgraded it to the regular or ultimate version, but i wanna see if i can't just pirate some shit for now lol.

but yea the main plan is to try and go full original, and have the maschine and sampling to fall back on lol. also with all the software now, between melodyne and serato that can tell my tone deaf retarded self what key shit is in, i should be able to do more when i do sample layering instruments in maybe?

either way i need to justify these purchases by telling someone lol.

Fuck yea man.

Ok. So I'm in the middle ground right now. I'm completely using this time to make the full switch to abelton. You can tell on my beat battle beat it was pretty sloppy. So from what Ive been doing I've been making basic drums and chopping samples and making a couple different sequences in Maschine then just exporting directly to Ableton and arranging it and putting effect in there.

Maschine isn't really a DAW because it's pretty limited on the linear arrangement portion. But you for sure can make beats from start to finish on it. I did it for like 6 years straight. I ran everything through it. All of Komplete ultimate and just rocked with my MPK49, a turntable and my logitec speakers. Whenever I actually felt like mastering a beat I did I'd do it in protools and that was the only time I really used my interface and monitors.

Im still at the beginning stages of this switch...but the more and more i'm doing it....I'm thinking about getting the Push and just quitting the maschine. Im really not liking running maschine as a VST. It's just feels weird to me. So i'm trying to get used to it.

I use Serato sample. It's pretty much my favorite plug in right now. The time stretching algorithm they use is insane. You used to have to pay for it separate for like 600 bucks and it only worked on logic and protools. But it's in the Sample VST and that only cost 80. It does tell you a key and it is pretty close to being right which is cool to play around with other songs. The chop section is underrated becasuse it looks so basic...but I kind of like it.

I know this isn't a ton of help because like I said i'm in the transition phase right now and really don't know which way i'm going. But it feels more and more like i'm going to get the PUSH and just make shit specifically in abelton. I'm also eyeing a yamahaa49 actual keyboard. Not a controller.