Posted: 03 Sep 2008, 11:56
Question: how do you integrate midi composing within usine? Where are your beat and melody sequences coming from?
do you:
1- don’t use midi at all or only secondary for making songs? (no option for me, I do almost nothing with audio loops..)
2- use usine’s midi modules + sequencer?
3- import midi files made with cubase, logic, etc.?
4- use usine as vst within cubase+co.?
5- use a midi sequencer vst within usine, like energy, fruityLoops, phrazor, stepchild?
6- use midi sequencer hardware, like akai mpc, doepfer stuff, sequentix P3, genoqs octopus/nemo?
7- something else?
personally:
really love usine's spirit and originality. but what have I done so far with it?
experimenting a lot, did some stuff I have never done so far. it is like rediscovering the original excitement of making music with the computer when I started with orion many years ago. before and until a few years I did live gigs hardware based (many hardware sequencers, synths, later mostly plugins instead of synths).
my current live setup is now bidule and phrazor, and a few hardware fx, and a synth. Works quite well. Only bummer is that phrazor has its instabilities, had some evil shut downs and even worse nasty bugs (like a vst presets in phrazor format get corrupted and u don’t notice it immediately). therefore I lost trust in phrazor (bidule is very stable), a trust that will not be regained coz phrazor is abandoned. Bidule on the other hand hasnt been developed much in the last 12 months.
do you:
1- don’t use midi at all or only secondary for making songs? (no option for me, I do almost nothing with audio loops..)
2- use usine’s midi modules + sequencer?
3- import midi files made with cubase, logic, etc.?
4- use usine as vst within cubase+co.?
5- use a midi sequencer vst within usine, like energy, fruityLoops, phrazor, stepchild?
6- use midi sequencer hardware, like akai mpc, doepfer stuff, sequentix P3, genoqs octopus/nemo?
7- something else?
personally:
really love usine's spirit and originality. but what have I done so far with it?
experimenting a lot, did some stuff I have never done so far. it is like rediscovering the original excitement of making music with the computer when I started with orion many years ago. before and until a few years I did live gigs hardware based (many hardware sequencers, synths, later mostly plugins instead of synths).
my current live setup is now bidule and phrazor, and a few hardware fx, and a synth. Works quite well. Only bummer is that phrazor has its instabilities, had some evil shut downs and even worse nasty bugs (like a vst presets in phrazor format get corrupted and u don’t notice it immediately). therefore I lost trust in phrazor (bidule is very stable), a trust that will not be regained coz phrazor is abandoned. Bidule on the other hand hasnt been developed much in the last 12 months.
