Logic is used on the PC with Nucleus and with Seba we use Cubase SX3. On the Commodore we use a £1 sequencer called M.E.D.
M.E.D. has it's limitations but is the best of the three.
Hardware wise I use an analogue 32 track desk, Alesis compressors and fx units, Roland, Aphex, TC Electronic fx and Outboard, Yamaha, GEM, Korg Z1, Nordlead and CAT Synths, Tascam mastering and AKAI S3000XL and S900 Samplers
I just love the sound from the Akai's. Some people find it too crusty but I just love it.
I’m an old skooler and I’ve used midi sequencers from day one since 1989. Back in the earlier years we also used old Alesis sequencers with Hyper On Experience and Flytronix that didn’t use Monitors. That was sooooo good because you didn’t ‘watch’ what you we’re programming like a robot but had to listen carefully to what you just created in real-time with total concentration. That really helped I think in the beginning for me. But in the studio Nucleus and I use Logik on the PC and MED on the battered Amiga.
Getting the drums so tight? Basically all the hard work is done on the outboard Sampler. I’ve got ‘Akai wrist syndrome’ where my wrist clicks every time because of turning the sampler jog wheel over the years… It’s hard to explain how to get them 'so tight' as you put it. I boil it down to knowing where the shuffles are to be placed even if I have to interpretate an exact copy of a drummers loop that I would only hear once back into my computer. Does that make any sense? hmm... probably not.
The Amiga is also used for his live shows.
Would be interesting to hear what software/hardware Aperture, Outrage, etc. use as their tunes are fucking tight.
Good to hear what peeps use but imo those who bag certain software are generally the ones who don't have any fucking tunes out.
if it is true... what a pain in the ass that would be!
