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Well, I just had a hell of a spending spree - went out and bought a pair of Yamaha HS80M reference monitors, got a 21 gigabyte sample pack, right now I'm breaking in the speakers with a Dinn Warde set (something that won't fry my parent's nerves) as they need about 40 hours worth of play to break in and work at their best. I can tell from the sound of these that I better start saving up for a mortgage because these things in an apartment...mmm...no.

So far though I have three programs that I've almost never touched and its truly sad: ProTools, Massive, and Absynth 4. Before I was using nothing but Reason 4 to make all my tunes, have some good tutorials on Protools, I know the basics but still can't really get around comfortably yet.

One thing I want to suggest though, if you guys do buy monitors I've been hearing praises of the Adam 7's as well, Genelecs are supposed to be excellent but I've heard that the amount of depth they offer can be a little deceptive and you have to watch out for it.

Hehe, hope this thread isn't too esoteric to get any replies (well, yeah, I'm betting it is now that I look at it) but hey - I needed to brag about my new toys a little - big step forward and I'm really thrilled with myself on the purchase .

Sweet, have fun!What sample pack did you get?

I get paranoid doing audio in an apartment/house with other people around. I need the sound to work, but I hate drawing attention to myself... much less annoying others with repeating the same chunk of audio over and over again trying to get it just right.

What do Massive and Absynth do? I'm still learning how to work more complex synths... I just started to get a handle of the basics by playing around with the Korg DS-10...

I picked up KONTAKT 3 a year ago, and I've barely even scratched the surface of what I can do with it. I just use the library that it came with and tweak it here and there...

It's fun getting new production tools.

Congrats on the new Yahama monitors! I listened to them in Guitar Center a few months ago and they sounded great. They're on my short list for new monitors (but I need new money first...) I've been using Tapco S5s for about 4 years now. I love them, but I've never owned another pair, so I'm excited to get a second hopefully sometime soon.

Talking about Native Instruments stuff reminds me that I need to purchase Kontakt since I have EWQL Symphonic Orchestra Gold, Silver, Stormdrum and QL RA just sitting around unusable because of Intel processor issues...

VI ONE, the guy at the checkout was going on about it too about - apparently he's tried the strings in some of his stuff and said their excellent.



Real good software synths. If you want an etherial edge to your stuff especially they're well worth it.

Ugh, samples. Can't stand them. Impossible to EQ them when you can do it with ease on synthesisers.

Anywho, haven't gotten anything new. I love free VSTis, they haven't limited me so far.

Yeah, they can be a little shady - I try to keep them as clean as possible or like Fogman would suggest, just cut frequencies rather than boost. I also think in techno though you have to do a lot more glitch work, twisting, etc. with the sounds you'd be sampling - d&b its more often pianos, strings, horns, things you won't need to wild out too much beyond some basic reverb, delay, or filtering - the real gnarly stuff still comes from the synth.