How the f*ck do you afford your gear?

[nethiros Profile]

now that i'll buy my launchpad im thinking of getting more essential stuff like monitors, studio headphones, a mixer and 2 cd-decks and all that stuff before buying additional midi-gear or gadgets like kaoss pads...

but then i realized that it would be about 1000 euros if i'd get the shittiest basic stuff out there, WHAT THE!?

i mean i'll get a job but since i can only work after school and plan to continue having a social life now that i've moved to another city... that won't be much cash.


so how do you do it, and how long did it take til you had everything you think you need?

[Lunargoose Profile]

>>Do everything virtually on your laptop

>>Make money somehow (?????)

>>Buy Hardware

[nethiros Profile]

well i'm not gonna buy synths or software or other stuff that i can get for free (legally or not, who cares?), but who am i supposed to properly mix or perform only with a keyboard and touchpad?


or i'll build 2 keytars, take a laptop and a microphone and will have a 4-piece breakcore-band. one for the beats, one for basslines, one for samples and an MC. not THAT'S rock'n'roll 21st century-style


by the way, anyone willing to spend [insert amount of money here] for a legal copy of reason 3.0 ? (no, this is actually not a joke )

[Lunargoose Profile]

right right, I forgot you can't download headphones and monitors off the internet

I say go with the 1 man breakcore band idea

[fap* Profile Website]

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heh, i got a launchpad last week and still have not really played with it.

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[nethiros Profile]

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heh, i got a launchpad last week and still have not really played with it.

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WHA-?

please dont say it sucks >_<

[Lunargoose Profile]

Can you use the launchpad as a normal midi controller?

[nethiros Profile]

its only for ableton, at least the way it was built. maybe you can somehow "crack" it, but then you'd just have a lot of buttons without knobs and sliders. so you could use a keymapped keyboard instead... less expensive!

[MarkyPoo Profile Website]

I play in real bands and we get payed and I save my money forever.

[djtheblade Profile Website]

I work full time!

[Lunargoose Profile]

I'm a 16 year old male but that doesn't stop me from going after 28 year old rich women. Feels good man.

[nethiros Profile]

I'm a 16 year old male but that doesn't stop me from going after 28 year old rich women. Feels good man.

pics or never happened, mah boi!

by the way, i was wrong: there should be a huge pile of open source shit for launchpad, i've read that they published the sourcecode or whatevo (im not into programming at all) for free so people can build software for it.

[MarkyPoo Profile Website]

I'm 17!
young breakcorers unite!

[nethiros Profile]

17 here! let's do a compilation of U20 producers, yay maybe some labels will start believing we are talented, or some of the great breakcore producers burst from the sky to teach us teh holy way of teh beakcoar

[Lunargoose Profile]

I'm a 16 year old male but that doesn't stop me from going after 28 year old rich women. Feels good man.

pics or never happened, mah boi!

by the way, i was wrong: there should be a huge pile of open source shit for launchpad, i've read that they published the sourcecode or whatevo (im not into programming at all) for free so people can build software for it.

ah you got me, that seems rather uncomfortable anyway, the whole MILF thing


And since I don't own ableton yet and I'm assuming not to many user created patches for the launchpad exist, I think I'll pass... for now

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