In mid 80's I studied on the conservatorium in Hilversum, with gigs and giving music lessons I could finance my study at that time.Įvery year on music fairs in the Netherlands I got enthusiastic about new synths and bought them. In the 80's I started my first gigs with an organ and a Solina strings.Īfter a while with other musicians with a base player, so I didn't need my base-pedals and therefore my keyboard rig started changing. Reading all your experiences, I share mine. And it has all crashed on me more than once." It takes a bit of nerve to be standing in front of a few thousand people relying completely on computer software and a couple of USB connections. some of the software instruments, and even MainStage itself, are still a bit glitchy at times. I can do everything I need to do with that setup. My entire rig consists of two VAX77 keyboards and two Mac laptops running MainStage plus a bunch of controller pedals. It took me months to rebuild all of those sounds in software. The recent UK reunion tours really pushed the software to its limits having to replicate all of the CS80, Minimoog, Prophet, VCS3, Triadex Muse, and Hammond sounds from the ’70s, all on two laptops. "In recent years, Apple’s MainStage software stacked with hundreds of AU software instruments is the system I have been milking to its fullest capacity. No less than Eddie Jobson (UK, Zappa) has been using Mainstage for his keyboard rig. In general it seems unnecessary to collect DAW’s, they’re all decent and they all are useless until you put in the time to get fluid with the commands. I think if I was doing a live thing with lots of loops I would get into Ableton, but it seemed unnecessary to learn a 2nd DAW for regular recording. I started learning Ableton, but all of the things I’d come to rely on in Logic that were missing drove me crazy. I really like the classic EXS24 sampler, and how the daw works with it to make your own sample instruments. The instruments are good, the drum kits are great, the library is huge. I like the elastic audio stuff (usually just the “slicing” algorithm, it’s like Recycle), the elastic pitch is ok, Melodyne sounds better to my ear, but they are close. The only 3rd party plugs I end up using are the Ozone modules, like the multiband compressor, and exciter. Love the “Pedalboard” plugin, and the convolution reverb. I use Logic (15 years!) because the editing is full featured, and I love the stock plugins, especially the EQ with spectrum analyzer and the compressor, with the different character/models.
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