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[Gear] New musical setup
 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2009-08-03 16:20 [#02312099]
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So, I am moving over to the dark side... sort of. I am
going to be investing in a 24' imac as my new computer music
workstation. Secondly, I am going to be getting a semi
affordable pc laptop to do auxiliary dsp, run the windows
programs I am going to miss, and to carry with me to jam
sessions & live stuff (if I ever end up doing that). Going
to be looking at a new audio interface, so if anyone has any
suggestions feel free to post them. I plan on using volta
for a small eurorack modular I want to put together as my
next hobbyist project, so its got to have good i/o.

Sold off half my gear, and upgraded a few things. I no
longer have a DX7, Waldorf Microwave, Patchbay, Vestafire
spring reverb, Multimix firewire mixer and xbox360. I know
the xbox isn't music related, but I sold it to fund my new
computer as I don't play videogames any longer.

The only synths I have left are my little phatty, mopho, and
Ion. I would sell the Ion, but it kind of is the most
substantial looking part of my studio right now. As much as
my studio looking good isn't as important as it functioning
well, it kind of hurts to see so many fun things going out
the door in such a small period of time. Plus, its nice to
have a 4 oct keyboard.

And finally; maxmsp. Going to go about learning this
thing... a friend showed me a bit of code written in java
that you can use to make an oscillator for max. It made a
lot of sense, so I figure I might try my hand in it.

Thats all I got to say. I will post some pics when its put
together. What are you other musicians doing with your
setups?


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-08-03 16:24 [#02312100]
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All i've been using lately for everything is a macbook,
yamaha analog mixer, guitar effects pedal, vinyl deck,
amplfier, minidisc recorder.


 

offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2009-08-03 17:30 [#02312106]
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If your mixing with hardware, then i suggest the edirol
fa-101 it's a good solid interface at a good price, or the
MOTU 828-mkIII if you can afford a little more. these both
work really well with the mac. you get 10 in 10 out with
both i think, well 2 of those outputs are digital, so it's
like 8 analogue outputs

I'm using the edirol and it's a great little box, but the
only thing i hate is having to turn it off and on each time
i change the sample rate.

I did the same thing with my xbox 360, shame isnt it? i
think we will get back into gaming at some point

You will find it strange using your mac and it will be a
frustrating few days as you make the transition, but you
will thank yourself later. which sequencer are you going to
use? I suggest looking into logic pro 8


larn


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2009-08-03 18:33 [#02312148]
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If I go motu, I am going to get the ultralite mk3... its
less than an 828 and has all the i/o I need.

Had bad experience with motu on my pc, so I am not sold on
them. Going to try out the midi interface I have on the mac.
If it works as well as I would hope, then I can pair them up
and use them in a single rackspace (I have a microlite).


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2009-08-13 14:17 [#02314959]
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I got the mac and an ultralite mk3.

It was pretty frustrating... still getting used to the
inferior file structuring. But I haven't had my drivers mess
up on me yet, which always happened with my pc. Its kind of
nice.



 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2009-08-13 14:21 [#02314962]
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Anyone got a suggestion for a program that deals with zip
and rar files well? Stuffit is awful.


 

offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2009-08-13 14:35 [#02314963]
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congrats! i hope you enjoy your new mac

you can try using this

but did you know that your mac can zip and unzip files by
default ? perhaps not all compressed formats mind you. if
you right click on a file /folder you can archive it


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2009-08-13 14:49 [#02314965]
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winrar is pretty much the best compression utility ever.
I've only used it on windows, but I hear the osx version
works fine.

winrar homepage

version 3.90 beta 3 for OS X (this is the version I use in windows)

v.3.8 full (if the beta doesn't work)


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-08-13 14:51 [#02314966]
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right click? whats that!


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-08-13 14:52 [#02314967]
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^^^ mac mouse joke


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2009-08-13 14:54 [#02314969]
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Yeah, its not nearly as easy as what you can do on windows
tho.



 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2009-08-13 14:55 [#02314970]
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Cheers. I didn't know they made it for osx as well (Thats
what I use on my pc too). :)



 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2009-08-13 15:22 [#02314982]
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Glad to be of help. You know, I've been using winrar for
years and myself only noticed there were mac versions a
couple months ago.



 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2009-08-13 15:22 [#02314983]
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there's almost no grammar in that post.


 


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