you've got it mate !alexis bowles wrote:Really nice thread, has IM going also Hardware for the last year or so Ive been having a lot of fun and dancing in my studio since I have those machines. And you know what I really like the fact that my Sh-101 is doing one thing only one thing, but a bad ass one!, same for my 909, 777, etc.. they all have there personality
theres just something intangible that you can't explain to someone whose only ever used software. i record my tunes live down to 2 tracks, and if i'm not dancing all over the place when i record them, then i know the people on the dancefloor wont be dancing either. whenever i've tried to make tunes in software alone, my focus is purely on the screen, and i become static.
the machines do have personality !
someone in this thread mentioned that he thought he couldnt get the same grooves easily from software as he could from drum machines. Roland drum machines are famous for that. if you record a 909 pattern into a sequencer, the notes are never in the same place twice, the quanitising is really loose. you could program slight randomness into a software drum pattern of course, but for some reason its different, its more natural sounding with analogue.
will i ever shut up !
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