

Beyond thatįorums such as this are great places to personal reivews for a specific piece of gear.Īs for specifics to your question. You can tell pretty quickly if a piece of gear has the potential to make you happy. Otherwise go to a local store and spend some quality time with a piece of hardware or program that you are interested in.
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Some people prefer an entire software rig and others are die-hard analog heads and cringe at the thought of making music with a analog modeling synths.īest way to evalutate gear and what is right for you is to get as much sound output samplings from the manufacturere, many have demo cd's that showcase their products or have listening features online. Personally, I like to sequence and record via software, but much of my 'instruments' are hardware as well as outboard effects. How you use them is the biggest factor in the final outcome. Music tools, whether software or harware are ultimately just that: tools. A lot of people's sound really comes in the mixdown process and is determined by many intangebile variables, settings, tweaks, etc. There's absolutely nothing wrong with appreciating tracks taht other people have made, but there's no guarantee that even if you purchased the exact same set-up (equipment-wise) that you could reproduce the sound that they have. “Because the machine seems to have an unlimited amount of uses, I think it would look like something otherworldly.Really it comes down to what you want "your" sound to be. On designing his own Jeff Mills-modified TR-909: I’m aware of a lot of other hardware, but the 909 has helped me so many times that I can always depend on it. “I know the TR-909 so well that it’s really considered a good friend. Sometimes it’s enough to just jam a drum track.” Real in the sense of techno as techno is supposed to sound. “It always sounds so nice and real with these devices.

They work together to create a perfect balance of frequencies and harmonics that can (even without anything else) drive people to dance and move like no other sounds out there.”

“One day I was at the studio with my friend John Acquaviva and he put a TR-909 in front of me and said, “Try this out!” The instant I turned it on I heard all my favorite Detroit records come to life in front of me and I was instantly sucked into the sound of the drum machine.The sounds of the Rolands are very utilitarian and functional. “I don’t always make music by the pool, but when I do, I use Roland.” Roland equalled house and techno sounds.” If you made house or techno or whatever, you had to have Roland gear. “Back then, the Roland gear was all that really mattered in the house music world. That was the core of what we were doing.”

“Our work with the early Human League and early Heaven 17 was pretty much Roland equipment. They create their own sound, and seriously, nothing sounds like them.” There is something really special about Roland synthesizers that are nothing like Moog, Arp, Oberheim. I can live in the machine, the machine can live in I, and that’s it. I believe that the machine can copy you I can copy the machine, the machine can copy me. Spiritual transportation and teleportation. It’s a kind of telepathic communication you have with the machine. You can live in them and they can live in you. You command, and you have to treat them like a kid. “If you are pure in thought, (machines) are like robots. Get some insight into the inspirations the seminal music tech company has provided over the years, and click here for a chance to win a copy of R Is For Roland. To celebrate 909 Day, we’ve gathered some of our favorite quotes by Roland-loving musicians from our 2015 book R Is For Roland. Like every piece of Roland gear, the TR-909 is a legendary piece of music-making equipment.
