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Author: bleen on June 17 2006 Viewed 3405 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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07/19/06
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bleen
yeah, about $4k per Accel card. a bit scary...
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Artsigreg
but sonic heaven, for the ears!
07/19/06
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bleen
not necessarily any more sonic heaven than a well-spec'd native system.
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Artsigreg
native only to the virgin user-
09/02/06
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Artsigreg
So whats teh big deal about hd then, whats teh diffrence from a producers standpoint?
09/02/06
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Artsigreg
freaking Pro Tools, i tell ya,.
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