steevio wrote:Hades wrote:
nowadays there's still stuff software won't do, but you'd be a fool in my opinion to be a hardware-only guy.
well then that makes me a fool bro.
i dont feel like a fool.
i feel like i made the exact right choices for me all along the line (apart from when i first started out)
hardware works for me, i hate working on a screen. i need a knob or a slider for every job in my studio, so that i can just reach out in an instant and get what i want in realtime.
maybe its not what everyone wants, but for some people its the only way.
we arent fools, we just do things in a different way.
i do think that you can learn alot with just software and if you wish, go on to hardware later. what i was saying was if you do go on to hardware or want to start with it, do the research and get the good sh!t.
btw bro how long have you had your Andromeda ?
i thought it was the holy grail before i bought one, then after 3 years of frustration got rid of it, and it wasnt because i couldnt handle it. i totally understood it, but it was the most unintuitive, fiddly un-userfriendly synth ive ever had, and didnt sound all that hot either.
I should have known I overstated that
blame too much coffee in long nightshifts....
of course you're not a fool.
but you made a deliberate choice.
I presume you've well researched both options, and took what worked best for you...
what I mean is, sometimes I meet people that are still like "hardware sounds better", "you've got more control",...
but you can tell right away that they're repeating a line that they've picked up from one of the "cool" guys, they simply base themselves on some prejudice that they've picked up somewhere.
those people are just plain fools to me.
cause in my opinion, software beats hardware for sequencing and sampling. and there are softsynths out there that offer synthesis methods that are simply impossible to have in hardware, or are painstaking to program if you do find them.
(for example, I have a K5000 additive synth, fucking great thing, I'll never sell it, but you can have over 1500 parameters for one patch, and that's insane to do with just a small screen. if you take a softsynth like Alchemy, it offers you additive, granular, spectral, VA,... and is a LOT more easy to program)
but in my own opinion one should simply combine the best of both worlds to achieve the best results.
you know there are many producers that switched to software mostly over the years.
I actually bought a crumar a few years ago from one of the founders of the Kompakt label. Back then I hardly knew what minimal was, so the name didn't ring a bell yet, but the thing was jammed with insane bass patches. Unfortunately I sold it a few years later to get other gear.
I still kick myself sometimes for doing that, but well...
anyway, I asked the guy back then why he was selling, and he said "like many producers today, I'm switching to software"
anyway, it's a long discussion, and I don't want to get into it.
to each his own, honestly.
if hardware only works for you. great !
me, I had tons of hardware, then got quite some software, noticed what the benefits of both were for
me personally, and now I'm back into buying the more expensive hardware stuff and controllers and using both.
and btw : I'm big on having a knob or slider for everything too, that's why I got an access programmer for my matrix, a macro control box for my K5000r, and a PG800 for my JX10
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