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I agree, MIDI is really the only truly affordable option these days. I don't own one but have used the Native Instruments controllers and I recommend them to a lot of folks. The mk1 models should be cheap as chips these days.

Funky and whimsical. Nice beat. So did you visit Victoria recently or?

Oh excellent!

Might have missed the boat on this one. Keeping my eyes peeled for the next one though, hopefully it's dubstep again haha

Never used that but the Native Instruments controllers all seem pretty compact, painless set-up and fairly durable. Put your hands on one in a store if you can. Whatever you end up with

I wish I'd spent more of my clubbing days networking and not turning opportunities down because I didn't think they were 'right'. That been said, my dream from when I started at 16 years old was to operate a record label and I think I'm still on the way there. Some networking would have helped though haha

I'm another one of those 'suck it up and use iTunes' guys cos I love my iPod classic. But when that dies it's fair game because I won't buy an ipod touch.

How do we feel about just bailing on third party services like these and simply hosting it all yourself? I haven't made that plunge as it seems like too much effort and money for 'freedom' but have considered it a few times. Also the networking aspects of these services is appealing, even though my soundcloud feeds are garbage now. I guess that's why we're discussing alternatives... Sent from my C6603 using Forum Fiend v1.3.2.

$100 for ADJF users. Vestax VMC-004FX, http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/melton-s ... 1072214892 Price: $ 150.00 Sent from my C6603 using Forum Fiend v1.3.2.

Offering it to ADJF peeps for $350. Allen & Heath Xone:2D, http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/melton-s ... 1072212815 Sent from my C6603 using Forum Fiend v1.3.2.

Only 4 days left. Some pretty sweet deals though... http://www.native-instruments.com/en/pr ... e/effects/ Sent from my C6603 using Forum Fiend v1.3.2.

Yeah I'm pretty fond of hearthis.at I shared it on this forum a short while ago. There pololicies and pricing is top notch as well a repatively familiar layout. The app is a bit funny on my phone and kind of underfeatured but early days people... Sent from my C6603 using Forum Fiend v1.3.2.

What do you use Maschine with? Currently my flow is making the track start to end and fine tuning. Then export each sound, drop it into FL Studio playlist and mixdown from there. Running Maschine inside FL as a vst results in crazy CPU usage and limits me to 16 channels out. Sent from my C6603 using Forum Fiend v1.3.2.

Upon closer inspection it appears I had a compressor on the group that was adding some frequencies. Totally blanked on that one. I also forgot to mention that I'm running Maschine 2 which has sidechain. Although I normally fix sidechains after exporting into FL. Appreciate the response gentlemen. Sent from my C6603 using Forum Fiend v1.3.2.

I've been watching a lot of vids on the mix down stage of production lately as I feel that's a weak spot at this point. A technique that is always mentioned is the use of a high pass filter on virtually everything besides kick and bass. So tonight I decided to put that into practice. Starting with drums, put a high pass on a snare at about 100hz and notice only the slightest difference on my analyzer with plenty of lows still rumbling about. I tried it lower (around 40), I tried it higher (about 200hz, until there was a tinny audible difference) and still all this muddy low frequency mess. What am I doing wrong? My resonance is at 0 as I don't want to colour the sound and the analyzer is on the master channel but I was soloing the snare at the time. Is it too much to expect that ALL the low stuff is gone? I'm doing this in Maschine so are the EQ and Filter plug ins just shit? Can provide a screenshot if needed. I'm just on my phone atm is all... Sent from my C6603 using Forum Fiend v1.3.2.