question for MX users

va voom · Post by **va voom** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 3:19 pm

hi i have been reading most posts here so i can get info i need for my MX when it comes in 2 weeks and ive noticed some of you have the system a good few years. i was wondering does anyone have any music with any labels or have released anything to sale before or are you just users for hobby reasons?.im intrigued to know,you all seem very tech guys with the systems out there and most are very experienced so would like to see who here is doing music for fun or fame??oh and using the mx too.has anyone tried it before also i mean sent demos to labels etc?? just love to see what you guys do,thanks

reddone · Post by **reddone** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:18 pm

Im working very hard on some projects inside my mx , the tourney allowed me to reach a level close to what i been trying to acheive all these years , so maybe i'll hav something to say soon.
I hav money from my job to start a small label and hav some good contacts ... so i'll be testing myself soon . Feedback from ppl is good so far but im stopping using the net for testing as it robs the nice sound from the machine .

Im confident on a couple of tunes ive written even being of interest to lables like "warp" and "botchit breaks" among other underground imprints.

Like i said im working hard so it wont be any day soon , but as soon as i hav my stuff at that upper level ... its on !!

..... i did once send away some dubstep i made on pc years ago , but it wasnt well recieved i guess so i got an mx cos i heard the tone and knew it was capable of what i wanted to do , so ive been working hard to be as good as i can be . Im not interested in making money , i just love to make cool sounds and let ppl hear em .

va voom · Post by **va voom** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:04 pm

thanks reddone for your post i will be interested in following your progress over the next few months and feed back on your venture.please do post when ready what you have done and will be doing as i think it would be beneifical to learn from you and again you learn from yourself.

harvestein · Post by **harvestein** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:22 pm

Ive played at gigs with my friends in various venues the last few years in glasgow. Since coming home ive met up with my pals from back in the day and weve organised some events. Weve had slam, cagedbaby, maurio picotto. its been a laugh, but ive been playing with music software for years and wanted a good way to jam at the gigs, so the electribe was an obvious option along with decks, maybe a bit of ableton. Im mostly play dance music, but im just as mad about break beat and scratching, which i have some vids of somewhere.

reddone · Post by **reddone** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:28 pm

Cool harv !! ur into scratchin too , so am i u got any links to vids ? im gonna get a camera n do more video stuf soon will post asap .
Great scot's eh ... lol

Setsonics · Post by **Setsonics** » Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:53 pm

harvestein wrote:Ive played at gigs with my friends in various venues the last few years in glasgow. Since coming home ive met up with my pals from back in the day and weve organised some events. Weve had slam, cagedbaby, maurio picotto. its been a laugh, but ive been playing with music software for years and wanted a good way to jam at the gigs, so the electribe was an obvious option along with decks, maybe a bit of ableton. Im mostly play dance music, but im just as mad about break beat and scratching, which i have some vids of somewhere.

Please post!

anselmi · Post by **anselmi** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:11 am

i´m a full-time musician and recording producer
since I´m an old-fart man I love hardware to death because I grow with hardware
I collect lot of s**t from 89 to 99, then computers blind me...so I started to use more software and softsynths

aprox 3 years ago I started to be bored of computers and get the electribes, then elektron stuff and started to play live and use this machines in recordings too

I have to say that this machines made a lot for my sound, inspiration and career...

now I playing my solo livesets of electro/techno/house, I play with my band "amnios" too (electro/pop/rock) and collaborate with guest vocalists for compilation albums, singles, tributes, remixes and the like

livesets = no recordings

collaborations with vocalists = www.myspace.com/danielanselmi

amnios (the band) = www.myspace.com/amniosmusic

subby187 · Post by **subby187** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:06 am

anselmi can i have a copy of ur version of creep? i like it alot

thats the kinda band i wud love to have

harvestein · Post by **harvestein** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:18 pm

Hey reddone did you go to see Qbert in aberdeen? It was immense!

I have one or two vids on youtube i did ages ago. If you type in 'harvestein' in the search field, you should get my vids coz thats my username. Unfotunately youtube is banned in my work, so i cant get the link. keep in mind ive been scratching a further year and a half after the vid where im sitting down. 'scratching' i think its called.
I have some beats i made for practicing and some track recordings on

www.bebo.com/harvesteinmusic

It was a while back and all my new s**t is on my computer, which has moved onto the digital afterlife last year, hence my interest in the electribe.

You got any vids/recordings i can have a listen to at my mates house?

reddone · Post by **reddone** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:47 pm

Please , dont mention this again lol

... im busy between work , making beats and the gym so it wasnt until my friend told me how good it was that i knew about it . i love q's style n rythm .

Unfortunatly i dont hav a mixer just now ( i was dissapointed by the pmc-06 , so got rid ) but soon i'll be back rippin it up ... it never leaves u eh
I reached a really nice level where i am my style , y'now how some ppl imatate n dont innovate or add anything of their own style .

gonna try n check u out now harv

i'll get back to u

reddone · Post by **reddone** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:35 pm

yeah , not bad at all man . Your beat jugglin is pretty good for being drunk .. i find my arms go to s**t when drunk and i cant get technical so much . Boppa-wop-BOp-Bop haha , aye q's was rockin it .

This is makin me need to scratch , im thinkin bout the stanton craze mixer . My friend had it and for crabs flares etc i never used anything that let me do so much so easily .. it really helps keep ur timing consistent and the cuts "choppy" . I find the pmc-06 has a s**t fader , but vestax best i reckon is the samurai which is pretty much as good as the craze mixer .

Do u use a compressor on ur mixing ? i find it helps the sounds a fair bit

P.S. Nice one on the Rab.C thing lol ... somebody had to do it

AmigaHeretic · Post by **AmigaHeretic** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:23 am

That's some pretty good scratchin'.

That always seemed more like magic to me. Don't know how people got their needles lined up to the specific grooves on the record to quick. Amazing!

Anyway, my favorite YouTube scratch video of all time has to be http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dx8Jb-Mubqs, you guys decide.

reddone · Post by **reddone** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:00 am

hey , that girl is pretty good.!! i wouldve preffered if she used more than one sound but her technique was good . the cool thing about "swipes" is that to ppl watching and not understanding em they look like magic right enuf . cool stuff . she got a good set there lol

..

i gotta say tho that i find that those that cut in reverse sound more choppy to my ear , but maybe it was just the sound qaulity actually .

still , she was rollin' ba-baaayyy

harvestein · Post by **harvestein** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:52 am

I dont have a compressor, but my mate whos got the sound system is getting one so ill give it a go. Well that was a while back that vid, ive been practicing everyday for over a year since then, got the flares going (finally) and some other techniques. Much faster tempos as well. I still transform the s**t out of everything though, find it hard not to.

I use the DJM 600, didnt really have a choice. But i was surprised, the fader is brilliant and you also have the delay effects and stuff (good for scratching drum beats).

Yeah most of the beats in just messing about.

want to get the electribe coz its more jam friendly than software on its own.

Im assuming this girl in the vid is the one off the qbert DIY volume two extras.

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