Virus TI for me?

[Timo]

Originally Posted by willit

At this point I should mention that I'm interested in producing Ambient/Chillout music and eventually Trance music when I feel confident enough, so I'm looking for airy and rich pads, deep bass, appregio type monosynths and of course, electronic percussion. The pads are the absolute most important to me though, which is what programs like Reason and Reaktor seem to lack.

A Virus will give you all that by the bucket load.

I'm thinking an ideal setup/investment over time for me would be a 4ch mixer, a virus TI desktop hooked up to my mac, an m-audio oxygen to my mac, and some sort of drum machine thats good for dance music... does that sound about right?

I'd hold the drum machine. Samplers are a much better choice, imho, as they will let you upload your own drum & percussions sounds instead of being stuck to a drum machine's own synth.

If you are adamant about going hardware-only, then a sampling groovebox type machine may be good for integrating any of your sampled drums and other stuff. Otherwise a software sampler (inside a PC/Mac) would be great, and very flexible, and you could trigger it from hardware via MIDI if you wish.

[plaid_emu]

I've been changing my whole live setup around lately. Sold off all the bulky heavy stuff for an Eventide Eclipse to use in the studio. Lugging around big rack cases and tables just sucked. The setup and tear down was a bitch too.

My goal was to fit everything I need into one or two lightweight gig bags:

I bought a little MPC-500 to pair with my Waldorf Blofeld and I also plan on buying a TC Helicon Create for vocals. Mixing it all on one of those little Mackie 402-VLZ3 mixers.

I'm thinking it might be fun to go without a keyboard for a while. Sculpt sounds on the Blofeld and bang out beats on the 500 while some sequences are running.

[AlexHall74]

Hell yeah Bro, go light if you can, and with that setup above you can. Playing without a synth might be kind of fun, it actually adds to the mysteriousness of it all from the perspective of the crowd because they see no tactile cue of yiour hands on keys when a riff starts, they just hear it happen. Cool!

I'm all about going light. I do mobile DJ gigs with (1) my Dell laptop, (2) Onyx Satllite pod, and (3) two Carvin PM15A active loudspeakers atop stands. The whole rig takes a maximum of 20 minutes to setup good and proper. For a 3 hour restaurant/bar gig its perfect.