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Do you have any occasional hardware treats?
Having migrated from the world of hardware my music production is now done almost totally on my iPad. I do however like to keep a couple of small hardware items- just to provide a different angle/ inspiration or a general change of environment when needed. What I have at the moment is a Roland TB-3 (truly a top piece of gear), a Korg Mini KP 2 and a Korg Kaoss Pad 3+
I was wondering if anyone else was in the same sort of boat and what instruments you may keep to bring out to help with your production on an intermittent basis.
I was also thinking about getting a Korg Volca Sample to add to this- but then I'm not entirely sure that it would offer me much of a difference than I can already get on the iPad- anybody using one of these?
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I bought a new electric guitar last month
and a new bass this week.
Yes, despite my app addiction, I still have a serious hardware jones.
I plan to on my next influx of cash. Really struggling with what direction to go. At the moment it's between:
Some modular.
A guitar and amp.
Some Aira hardware.
A piano weighted keyboard.
Another iPad and an iConnect.
A Mac.
Had plenty of hardware over the years. But I think next time around it will be an iPad Pro!
Beat me to the truth right there...
I like my modeled output from amps or the effects sends.
soon will be adding a waldorf streichfett, a cheap 6 string bass, and an ehx superego... then saving for a linnstrument and a box of nails to seal the door shut
I have a ukulele. A pretty good one. It doesn’t overlap at all with what I do electronically. I’m trying to learn it remaining strung right-handed as it was bought, but played correctly the left handed way around. There’s certain chords that are near impossible to play that way (but apparently, some other certain chords are difficult for those right-handed people to play too, which are probably easier for me). I can never remember any of the chord names if I’m not looking at the documentation. Practice doesn’t seem to help there at all. It does help in changing from one chord to another (and if I ever learn a third…).
Those chords can't be designed properly if you have to look them up.
Sadly had to sell all my hardware a few years ago, started collecting again last year....got as far as an Octatrack, Mackie & Soundcraft desks, MicroKorg, Blofeld, TR8, JU-06 before getting an iPad mini 4 as a present. I'd previously ignore iOS as a serious platform, having investigated the options around 2009 and finding it lacking. Currently, the hardware is collecting dust, although I fully intend to integrate it with the iPad & iPhone asap. Fugue Machine's multi-MIDI out to 4 different synths is so much fun.
I'll still go for the occasional hardware: I recently bought a cheap WaveStation SR, simply because I was hoping Korg would release an iOS version but am impatient. And there's really no other app that sounds like it.
I got a Novation Circuit a couple months ago (so fun!) and mostly use my ipad now just to record it in cubasis with the ocassional IAA app overdub. There is some big anouncement from novation on the 15th, no idea what it is but if it is a Circuit sampler I will pounce on it. Really considering a Volca FM too as I have always loved FM synths. Never thought I would get back back into hardware when i got a couple years into iOS but this era of budget hardware really is cool. I also have a minikp2 and Tenori On which I use occasionally.
Interesting, what do you make of the Tenori apps?
I still have a few bits and bobs, want to travel and collect different percussion instruments, however I'm fighting really hard not to give into them evil doer 500 series racks and fill them with mini compressors and other delights.
So far, so good, being poor helps also not having any offshore bank accounts, but I feel the frenzy building deep within, so I fear I'll succumb to a few years of prostitution, (which morally at least will be a step up from djing), then investing all my money in reno to reduce my tax burden, sh1t, did I just type that last part out aloud,--delete--delete--.
The TNR-i app is a great recreation of the hardware but doesnt support any virtual midi which is a shame, only core midi. It has somewhat weak IAA hosting which can be fun but is kind of useless except maybe for recording to another ipad or desktop. there are no ccs or automation, just notes. Also, the sounds are not very appealing these days I think. Well maybe some fx could spice it up, plus you can load your samples, which i have yet to do.
However, like I said it does support core midi and in that way can be quite cool. I use it on my ipad mini to sync/send midi to my ipad air, novation circuit, or pc daw which works great. Sequencing up to 16 channels of midi in one super simple interface can be quite cool, particulalrly in that you can vary pattern lengths and the 'random mode' and 'bounce mode' can be hypnotic. Great potential for polyrhythms. The way you can quickly change speed, transpose, change note length per channel etc and all on the fly makes it rather flexible and fun for jamming and sketching. Kind of Fugue Machine like in a way. I think ios people could enjoy it as a core midi note sender. If it had virtual midi and supported IAA sync, it could have been really great, but for me is pretty much core midi only in its uses.
I think limiting yourself consciously is a mistake. You never know where you'll find the inspiration or what kind of things might provide the inspiration. If you just can't afford it, that's another story.
As for me, I've got a number of hardware pieces, all serve a specific purpose. Rhodes piano, Wurlitzer 200a, Sub37, Alpha Juno 2, MS-20 Mini, Yamaha TG-77, a number of pedals, (couple moogerfoogers) TR-8 and Machinedrum UW. I've also got a boatload of very good VSTs in my computer DAW. And now a number of options on the iPad.
In truth, I have too many options, but it's tough to resist the prices for the iPad apps.
Thanks for the good input. I spent a fair amount (for me) time with it a couple of years ago, but can't say I got out what I put in. It just felt as though it should be able to do what was in my head. I'm guessing at the end of the day it was very likely the sounds, very few of which got my motor running. Pity.
A new backlight for my S3200XL would be a nice treat.
@robosardine Yes on the Volca Sample. It's quite a magical unit. From an iOS-user perspective it offers a tactile experience that differs greatly from touchscreens (or computers for that matter) and I've never had a not-fun session with it over the course of a year.
The Volca Sample is so great in fact that I assumed that the other Volcas might be essential too but this turned out not to be the case for me. Meanwhile I connect with the Sample so fully that I'm debating getting a second one. Love the way it sounds / love the way it feels.
EMU-Sp1200, AKAI MPC 60, AKAI S950 sampler
Korg Es1, KP3, monotron, a crappy farfisa, atmegatron, Roland spd20, a couple of Ibanez basses, a broken electric guitar, a classic guitar, a shaker, a dog
Me too! Too fun.
Woa. Talk about earning a username.
@lieslavish pushed me over the edge to finally get a second hand BeatStep. It's purdy
Thanks!
So many pros and cons for all options. Nice to have options though
I used to own a lot of hardware. I currently still own an MPC2000 which I modded for internal SCSI, an SP-404SX, and a x0xb0x that I built in 2007.
I keep pecking on hardware but let it go after a few minutes with it.
I got volca bass, didn't like it, sold it. Then 4 months later I got volca keys, didn't like all the setting up/sync fuff = sold it. I had a mental trip of a volca sitting amongst my controller with its shiny, flashy lights providing looped analog blips but that fantasy just hasn't materialised. Probably just not enough patience on my part but more likely no time for fuffing around.
I bought korg wavedrum v2 (on impaktor developer's recommendation) for a ridiculously low price but because of the lack of control/midi I let it go and happily use impaktor instead. Very disappointed.
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I do indulge in buying second hand acoustic gear (ukes, kimbalas, guitars, banjos, accordions) but I have a feeling the OP didn't mean those.
For me the major factor is portability and accessibility. My mission is to recreate with iPad the experience one would have with a guitar. Turn on the amp, plug your lead in, turn the volume up and off you go. I don't wanna fuff with endless cables, settings etc. Also integration of IOS with other non-electronic musical means is high on the agenda. So yeah, I'm definitely not a tweaker in that sense of the word.
I find that hardware, rather than aiding my inspiration, it totally kills it. Emulations of this or other gear in the AppStore are enough to get me excited. Albeit i do understand THAT feeling one gets when getting a new piece of electronic gear, it's just it doesn't tickle me as much anymore.
I occasionally pick up old rack gear. Just picked up a Roland s330 sampler and a couple of weeks ago got a JV1080.
For the Volca Sample- this is exactly the answer I was hoping for (wow a whole year- that would easily be a record for me.... for any groovebox)- I too have previously had all the Volcas and sold them again.... I think I have been persuaded to have a dabble!
I'm pretty sure a moog sub phatty is in my near future, just waiting for a bass to sell.
I'm hoping in the next year or so to have enough money saved to buy a Mahogany electric Gibson Les Paul like in my pic. To match my Martin Mahogany acoustic. That will be a real treat fer me.
Volca sample, bass and keys for me. Superb bits of kit! I too am thinking about a second v/sample, you can get some crazy stuff going with the motion sequencer. I recently dug out my Yamaha rm1x to sequence the Volcas, but the keys have become unresponsive so it needs a service.
I still have an old Akai s700 sampler in the loft, an emu proteus 2000 and some rack fx, but they don't all fit on my lap