Thought I'd tell you why I have been experimenting 'outside the computer' at the moment with hardware, but ultimately hardware will get inside the DAW. Although have a separate pretty massive DAW PC build that's dedicated only to music and some video work am learning, and am indeed learning Reaper as I really love that it's customizable in every way to what I personally think to be 'intuitive', as it were, and not CPU-hungry as many of others are, as I am working with audio, and slowly wrapping my head around the importance of having 'sister midi track' for automation, of which to this been-away-from-music-tech for few decades because of military obligations; let's just say I am glad I have no 'deadlines' other than my own personal motivation because as crazy as this world can be, am a bit full of trepidation in whom would possibly trust to tutor at my home, synth-based man-cave studio, without fear of getting ripped off by zombie crack head types. (I moved 2 1/2 yrs ago to this considered to be safest, quaint, semi-upscale village for safety and before even starting home studio once the Veteran Admn. finally got my pension sorted rightly) So perhaps my inherent military training has made me a bit overprotective! Purchased some Reaper professional tutorial dvd's from
http://www.groove3.com/str/ , which wanted to share because they have a lot of other daw and vsti tutorials at a great price and purely helpful learning without bunch of 'fluff'.
So to my orig. point here: I love the Virus KC (using the Virus KB as both controller for waldorf Q and XT and effects), but was really hitting the proverbial wall with Multi-mode, so when an excellent deal came my way on first version of elektron's monomachine, has opened some mental doors in the hardware synths communicating, while realizing the more one learns, the more one realizes how much more there is to learn! (this is not a complaint as tend to roll that way in loving to learn knew things)
The idea has struck me that the Virus Ti2 total integration is incredibly tempting and if Virus Control was such that it worked without a snag 100% in all settings, would surely sell the KC for Ti2 61 Keyboard. However, from what I read on this and other great forums in a lot of issues with VC in-use; would it be pragmatic to just wait and see what Access may release next incarnation while I properly learn all that's on my learning plate? I definitely have the wavetable stuff covered as well as diverse synths until I may weed out a few possible redundancies. Would Virus Control 'play nice' with other hardware like Monomachine and other midi synths at same time?
This post is prime example of how electron monomachine has facilitated looking creatively 'outside the box'.