Actually, quite a lot has happened in the last month--for one thing, I decided to get hip to stuff people use in the music biz. So, after a mind-numbing amount of research, I decided to invest in some STuFF.
The goal, you ask--beyond just spending tons of money on things that can make noise? Although one can never have *too* many choices of instruments or sounds--for me the big deal was trying to invest in a coherent system to make my music go; and to get the best damn samples that I could afford that would give the most 'bang for the buck'.
Up until now, I've had fun using:
- Propellerhead's Reason 4.0 for my beats & synths
- Motu's Symphonic Instruments for my orchestral stuff
- Motu's Ethno Instruments for snazzy ethnic goodness
- a selection of killer drum samples from EastWest
- and Cubase for my DAW (Digital Audio Workstation).
Reason is pretty well written; they bundle a decent set of general midi instruments, grooves & loops to get someone going to make music--but the *real* magic is in the refills that you get (free or paid for) to plug-into Reason. So, Reason is great as a self-contained system--it has a built-in sequencer which means if you Stick with Reason primarily, there's no need for a DAW.
---but Reason is limited. It's sequencer is limited & I often need to combine Reason with other orchestral stuff. And, even though it's synth-capabilities just expanded with Thor (it's new Pulse Width Modulation synth)
there's a much wider array of sonic possibilities to explore beyond Reason's universe.
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