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Author: bleen on June 17 2006 Viewed 3270 times. 11 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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i'm scaling back. i've always been a "more is more" kind of person, but now it's time to trim the fat, loose the extra crap piled in the proverbial corners, and....
s i m p l i f y
my music-making hardware has been reduced to a nord lead2x, my drum kit(s), an electric guitar that i can't play and some exotic percussion.
the big issue is with software. i have too much! for applications, i currently own pro tools (HD & LE), logic pro 7, live 5, dp4.6, and nuendo3; some of these i have because it's my job to have compatibility with what i get from clients or use in studios, but others are legacy things that i have and continue to upgrade just because.
softsynths are even worse. ni komplete2 plus separate licenses of reaktor, absynth and kontakt, cameleon5000, zebra1 & 2, GPO, microtonic, etc, etc....
i'm thinking of paring down to one soft sampler, the nord and pick an app that's going to be where i write music. see, all this is going to be in service of actually trying to write some music and not feel more overwhelmed by "option overload and anxiety". i tend to want to write and then lose focus and not know in what direction to start because of the number of choices, so i wind up moving on to something else or giving up entirely.
that's my plan. now i just have to stick to it! | |
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06/17/06
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LogicFray
sounds like a plan! ive been trying to do the same thing.
06/18/06
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jdg
software is soooo easy to bulk up on.. since it takes no physical space.. and is so easy to use.
expand, contract, expand, contract, expand, contract, expand, contract, expand, contract, exponents, logrhythmics
06/18/06
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kidko
i'll take some of those licences off your hands 
06/18/06
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Taxis
If you were to stick to one softsynth, my choice would be absynth. Hardware sequencers are pretty great too. Leaves you a straight path. Nothing to waste time deciding upon.
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06/18/06
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lunatinker
someone tell me what's up with the new corporate office picture theme that is infecting em411?
I'm still sitting on a pile of cables the size of a bath-tub...gotta get rid of this cat's yarn pile...erf...
06/18/06
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Taxis
Maybe excessivism isn't in style this season.
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06/18/06
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filarion
simple is the new minimal!
switching to a macbook pro actually forced me to simplify (like back in the early OSX days actually!) - now I'm down to three or four plugins (zebra2, soundhack shapers, audio damage dubdelay), external stuff, logic and live. and except for some sorely missed decent dynamics plugins and eqs I'm happy this way. also, no pluggo, which means no more cheating when making smapples
06/19/06
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astroid
i can't imagine trying to work with more than one of those daws which really overlap in a lot of ways. all the hotkey issues would sap my resolve.
now, softsynths are a whole other beast.
06/19/06
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astroid
i only wish i could afford reaktor, max/msp, a kyma, a nord g2, a buchla 200e, a cs80, an arp2600, a giant modular, and 50,000$ worth of samples for gigastudio. if i had the time and the cash... i would learn them all!
06/19/06
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bleen
astroid said: "i can't imagine trying to work with more than one of those daws which really overlap in a lot of ways. all the hotkey issues would sap my resolve."
yeah, that nearly does me head in sometimes! i go to reach for the key commands i use in PT when i'm working in logic, and vice versa.
astroid said: "if i had the time and the cash... i would learn them all!"
see, that's really it. i don't have the time, but i've accumulated all this STUFF because somewhere in the back of my brain i told myself that i would have the time, or i would make the time to write with all of it. no dice...real life calls and i have lots of work, so the play time gets pushed to the back burner. 
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Artsigreg
Do you run Pro Tools HD? Way better than LE? What sources
run Pro Tools HD? I know for example the mbox, and 001 rack ru nPro Tools
LE, so what high tech device runs HD?
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bleen
Artsigreg said: "Do you run Pro Tools HD? Way better than LE? What sources
run Pro Tools HD? I know for example the mbox, and 001 rack ru nPro Tools
LE, so what high tech device runs HD?"
HD runs on the Digi Core and Accel systems - these are PCI/PCIe cards that contain all the DSP chips for the plug-ins so the host computer (G5 in my case) isn't doing a whole lot more than drawing the screen. Until you run RTAS plug-ins, then they are running natively on the computer.
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Artsigreg
ahh, always wondered if i shoudl save teh money and pony up to run HD someday!
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Artsigreg
i see, sux bad those PCi card are so damn expensive!
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