Your top 5 game changing music tech hardware that you personally used.

Fruitbat1919

@senhorlampada said:

@Fruitbat1919 said:

@tyslothrop1 said:
4. A cheap ukulele bass, sounds so smooth, is a joy to play and served me nicely in many jam sessions.

I’ve always wanted to get a bass guitar, but just never got around to it - think I would get a short scale too if I ever get around to it.

Wow... I tried one and it was lovely. Such an amazing fat sound (plugged. didn't try unplugged lol)
Now i'm craving one again. Only con I recall is it was more for soft playing, so no slapping. But I may be wrong

Then again, if I got a beautiful fretless, It would look great on my wall when I failed to play it lol

Fruitbat1919

@CRAKROX said:
EMU SP1200 : Nothing else makes your drums sound like “that”.

Teenage Engineering OP-1 : To me the most user friendly synth I’ve ever used and the colour coding of the knobs to what they alter on screen was in my mind a simple but brilliant idea.

Roland MS-1 : one of the first “affordable” samplers and the Grandfather of the Boss/Roland SP line.

Yep, another Emu classic. Have you seen the second hand prices! Surely they don’t sell at £4000+ lol

tyslothrop1

@Fruitbat1919 said:

@tyslothrop1 said:
1. An epiphone eb-1 short scale bass. I used to play a 5 string long scale and liked having some extra low notes, but with my relatively small hands my playing got a lot better on the short scale and with only 4 strings I could more easily get a little bit into music theory.

2. A gaming pc that could run a daw properly in combination with Ableton 10, which clicked a lot better with me than Logic 4, cubase and FL Studio.

3. A Push 1 that, coming from guitar and bass, opened up synths in a far more intuitive way, than a keyboard ever could (I'd still like to be a better keyboard player, though).

4. A cheap ukulele bass, sounds so smooth, is a joy to play and served me nicely in many jam sessions.

5. An iPad with all the nice MPE controllers and synths and especially Drambo, which I find even more fun to build midi-patches in than Ableton with max for live (not actually coding in m4l, but building racks with Ableton and max midi-plugins).

I’ve always wanted to get a bass guitar, but just never got around to it - think I would get a short scale too if I ever get around to it.

I love my short scale, I guess it's not very flexible sound wise, but it doesn't need to be for me. I've also got a fretless short scale a Höfner Paul McCartney ripoff. It's fun too and makes great wall decoration, but if it's your first bass and you might want to play it, I guess fretted is probably less frustrating;)

tyslothrop1

@senhorlampada said:

@Fruitbat1919 said:

@tyslothrop1 said:
4. A cheap ukulele bass, sounds so smooth, is a joy to play and served me nicely in many jam sessions.

I’ve always wanted to get a bass guitar, but just never got around to it - think I would get a short scale too if I ever get around to it.

Wow... I tried one and it was lovely. Such an amazing fat sound (plugged. didn't try unplugged lol)
Now i'm craving one again. Only con I recall is it was more for soft playing, so no slapping. But I may be wrong

Yes, slapping is kind of weird on it, and using a pick doesn't work that well either. But if you take it for what it is, it can do a lot:)

Unplugged you can't really compete against much volume wise, but I like playing unplugged for 5 minutes in between things or while watching something.

Danny_Mammy

first time in ten years i haven't bought any new/secondhand gear. Just too poor this year plus I'm at a stage where what i have is already optimised and I want to keep. meaning i can't sell to buy.

seonnthaproducer

My iPad 6th Gen (currently using a 9th Gen, previously an M1). It unlocked a world of music production that I'd never explored.

Yamaha UD-BT01: Showed me the potential of wireless communication and music production. Also makes it a lot easier to sample MIDI from other controllers. I also have the 5-pin one as well.

Apogee guitar interface - Made it easy to access sounds from all over the world, by simply hooking a mini cable.

Koala Sampler, TONALY, and Garageband : Okay, not a hardware. But combined with my iPhone and iPad, it made music a lot more mobile and accessible for me. Sure, there are a ton of other apps, but these apps have served as a constant staple in my workflow.

Denver Acoustic Guitar, and my Arturia Keylab 49 - Honestly, my ultimate combo. I can pretty much play bass, acoustic, fills with my guitar, and anything else, I just use the Keylab. I haven't needed to bring any extra setup since I've carried this combo with its wires and gadgets.

yellow_eyez

Since my op-z is now broken and gone I thought I’d just update my info here I would today I just got this Fender mustang Micro plus: it’s a MODELER AND INTERFACE (and BT audio stream) for your guitar for $100-130…..

@Fruitbat1919 said:

@yellow_eyez said:
Teenage Engineering OP-1f
TE op-z
tE KO II
Korg Volca drum
Roland s-1 synth

Nice compact gear

Thank you I’m kind of a minimalist and TE is not only minimalist in nature workflow wise but also compact in design … its the only brand im interested in and the only brand I probably will stick with, but I truly don’t think I’ll buy any more gear [tho does a mini interface for $130 I need count?] it’s not realllllly gear , but it also kind of is… just cause it’s small doesn’t mean it doesn’t count (JIMMMMMMMMMMM that’s your cue)

drconfusion

This is a fun question, thanks for asking.

1) my Yamaha MT4X cassette 4 track - opened the doors for all sorts of home grown music
2) The Yamaha portasound PSS 460 (that I never shoulda sold.) - I didn’t realize at the time how flexible it is to program your own FM patches
3) This new Zoom H5 I just got - I plan on using this as a front end to the iPad to capture all sorts of stuff, even electric guitar
4) The M2 iPad Air -this is where I include the mind expanding apps like Scaler 2 and Chordmaps 2
5) The fishman Triple Play Connect - this showed me how a guitar can be used to be a front end for other orchestral sounds & synths like a keyboard can be. {especially when you pair it with a midi floor pedal that has an expression pedal}

yellow_eyez

@drconfusion said:
This is a fun question, thanks for asking.

1) my Yamaha MT4X cassette 4 track - opened the doors for all sorts of home grown music
2) The Yamaha portasound PSS 460 (that I never shoulda sold.) - I didn’t realize at the time how flexible it is to program your own FM patches
3) This new Zoom H5 I just got - I plan on using this as a front end to the iPad to capture all sorts of stuff, even electric guitar
4) The M2 iPad Air -this is where I include the mind expanding apps like Scaler 2 and Chordmaps 2
5) The fishman Triple Play Connect - this showed me how a guitar can be used to be a front end for other orchestral sounds & synths like a keyboard can be. {especially when you pair it with a midi floor pedal that has an expression pedal}

So the tracking is good for you on the connect ? Does it get every note and bend?

jacou

First playing guitar through my iPad Air 1 with Positive Grids JamUp and the Line 6 Sonic Port.
It was a magical first time after dreaming of using an iPad as an amp modeller for about 5-6 years (since I had the iPad 2).

Later then using the same iPad Air 1 (now iPad Pro M1) with AUM, a ton of very capable AUv3 plugins (recently adding Gigfast with NAMs and IRs) and the Harley Benton MP-500 unleashed the full potential of an iPad as an amp modeller.

It feels like I arrived on my journey.
No more need for other hardware
(famous last words)

yellow_eyez

It’s true - iPad IS an amp modeler now too

Wow - the world changed in 5 yrs

jacou

Right?!

The first time I got the idea of an iPad as an amp sim in my head was in 2012 when Alesis announced that red Amp Dock at NAMM.
It looked so sleek and I wanted it real bad
But it never got released. It was heartbreaking for me back then.

Anybody else waited for it?

I had a gig coming up in the summer of 2012 and was hoping to get this before.
Instead I ended up using guitar rig on a crappy old laptop of a friend which crackled and crashed during the gig. Boy that was terrible

Edit: So shame on Alesis for never releasing this red beauty and letting a young man going through real trauma with his Ibanez RGT in black pearl haha

dblonde

Ipad mini 2 - first step into ipads.
Roland JP8000- had to sell it though tmem.
Yamaha QY70- after watching a Bjork documentary.
Iconnect.

CRAKROX

@Fruitbat1919 said:

@CRAKROX said:
EMU SP1200 : Nothing else makes your drums sound like “that”.

Teenage Engineering OP-1 : To me the most user friendly synth I’ve ever used and the colour coding of the knobs to what they alter on screen was in my mind a simple but brilliant idea.

Roland MS-1 : one of the first “affordable” samplers and the Grandfather of the Boss/Roland SP line.

Yep, another Emu classic. Have you seen the second hand prices! Surely they don’t sell at £4000+ lol

Ha ha I I know, it’s insane how much they now cost, it’s the only piece of gear I regret selling.

drconfusion

@yellow_eyez said:

@drconfusion said:
This is a fun question, thanks for asking.

1) my Yamaha MT4X cassette 4 track - opened the doors for all sorts of home grown music
2) The Yamaha portasound PSS 460 (that I never shoulda sold.) - I didn’t realize at the time how flexible it is to program your own FM patches
3) This new Zoom H5 I just got - I plan on using this as a front end to the iPad to capture all sorts of stuff, even electric guitar
4) The M2 iPad Air -this is where I include the mind expanding apps like Scaler 2 and Chordmaps 2
5) The fishman Triple Play Connect - this showed me how a guitar can be used to be a front end for other orchestral sounds & synths like a keyboard can be. {especially when you pair it with a midi floor pedal that has an expression pedal}

So the tracking is good for you on the connect ? Does it get every note and bend?

It’s not perfect perfect & I have to do a little cleanup in the piano roll on takes, but I found it to be much more effective than any other solution, including midi guitar 2.

& I will say, I might not have to do any clean up if I paid attention to adjusting my technique to the preferences of the connect in the slightest.
The main issue is that sometimes I want a high note to sustain longer than the tracking can hold on to.

reasOne

Sp 404, The OG was my first and the most crucial piece ever for me. Now i use the 404 MK2.

MicroKorg. First synth. Had a lot of fun with that fella.

iPad! Kicked out the daw and made iPad the hub.

Sp303… best compressor in a sampler ever.

Op1. I had the first op1 and learned a lot with that classic

Philandering_Bastard

1. Korg M1 w/ Atari Mega 2 + Cubase 1
2. EMS Synthi E
3. Doepfer Trautonium System
4. Roland V-Synth GT
5. iPads since 2016