It's still a work in progress.
I do a bit of everything, some better than others. Started out as a rapper, got sick of waiting for beats, got into production, wanted to be able to scratch and started getting into DJing, though admittedly I'm really just performance and am not ready to pop my internet cherry. with such a range of interest, my setup is pretty piecemeal as I've changed focus over and over again. All my relocating made me switch to smaller gear, and I recently stopped using Propellerhead Reason as my main DAW and switched to Ableton 9 Live. Theme is 'red' obviously - no affiliation.
Desk in typical production mode. Customized Ableton Push because the all black was tiring after the first day.
When I fire up reason to rewire or for comfort (been using it for over a decade...like Ableton more already, but something to be said for 'home'. KMI QuNeo & QuNexus.
Been working on various finger drumming routines, but its low on the priority scale. The MIDIFighter series I use in both Reason and Traktor. Never tried them in Ableton. right now my go to setup for them involves two kongs and a thor (sometimes maelstrom), with the knobs allowing me to change settings on thor...which is run to one of the Kongs.
DJ setup. Traktor S2, F1, Twister, MF3D, Numark Orbit for *actual* DJ gigs. I've been apprenticing under a local DJ, and was able to find one of these so cheap I had to jump at the chance at a wireless controller. Not going to drum anything on it, but for things like weddings or moments where you may want to move away from the decks, its like a safety blanket.
I don't know if I can use a Launchpad for a remix deck to show all 64 pads if you will, that's my next interest...possibly replacing the F1 with that. Was also eyeballing the D2, but even on sale I can't justify the cost just for stems when if performing for a wedding or something I'll never get to use stems, and if doing a performance routine, I'll be doing more with the remix decks.
On the side I'm actually working on an art piece to go on the right hand side - a mpc1000 (my first piece of real equipment) wall decoration. I'll update when I finish it.
And yes, I will paint the room red, waiting to sell the eBay stuff that's flooding the rest of the room, and get some money back in the bank (son's almost to kindergarten...counting down)
-Unreall
Bookmarks