::.:martinb said:Hypocrite?! I'll have you eat those words!
No seriously, if there is people interested in the geeky side of electronic melody making I'll be glad to help out.
Before Haven I got me a Roland XP30. It was the only keyboard I used on that album. I think it is a competent allround keyboard. It does a lot of different stuff well but isn't exactly excellent on anything.
For Damage Done I wanted a more electronic sound so I shopped around mongst the new "digital-analog" synthesizers. I know it sounds contradictory but it is digitally simulated analog sounds (The geeks will know). I ended up with the Yamaha CS6X. This keyboard is crap at most stuff but has an allright analog vibe to it. I guess it does its job but I'm not overly impressed.
Now characacter was a completely different ordeal. 1. The compose program I use Cubase SX had by this time become a real powerhouse due the overall progression in the world of software and cpus. It had been possible to simulate various keyboards in the computer before but this time around they had started to sound great. Not one note on character is from a hardware keyboard. Everything is done with "soft synths". 2. After Damage done I bought myself a studio (Rogue Music). It's not a studio per se that I rent out and record bands in. It is a control room in a bigger studio complex that meet my own specific needs. A place for me to go to work. That played a big part on how the keyboards on character sounds.
The old XP30 and CS6X is still around but only in live situations.
I would recomend anyone interested in creating electronic music to use Cubase SX with "soft synths". If you still have your heart set on a hardware keyboard I would check out Korg's various models. They are the best out there.
Good Luck!
Martin Brändström/ ensign in the geek fleet
::.:martinb said:It had been possible to simulate various keyboards in the computer before but this time around they had started to sound great. Not one note on character is from a hardware keyboard. Everything is done with "soft synths".
::.:martinb said:Hypocrite?! I'll have you eat those words!
No seriously, if there is people interested in the geeky side of electronic melody making I'll be glad to help out.
Before Haven I got me a Roland XP30. It was the only keyboard I used on that album. I think it is a competent allround keyboard. It does a lot of different stuff well but isn't exactly excellent on anything.
For Damage Done I wanted a more electronic sound so I shopped around mongst the new "digital-analog" synthesizers. I know it sounds contradictory but it is digitally simulated analog sounds (The geeks will know). I ended up with the Yamaha CS6X. This keyboard is crap at most stuff but has an allright analog vibe to it. I guess it does its job but I'm not overly impressed.
Now characacter was a completely different ordeal. 1. The compose program I use Cubase SX had by this time become a real powerhouse due the overall progression in the world of software and cpus. It had been possible to simulate various keyboards in the computer before but this time around they had started to sound great. Not one note on character is from a hardware keyboard. Everything is done with "soft synths". 2. After Damage done I bought myself a studio (Rogue Music). It's not a studio per se that I rent out and record bands in. It is a control room in a bigger studio complex that meet my own specific needs. A place for me to go to work. That played a big part on how the keyboards on character sounds.
The old XP30 and CS6X is still around but only in live situations.
I would recomend anyone interested in creating electronic music to use Cubase SX with "soft synths". If you still have your heart set on a hardware keyboard I would check out Korg's various models. They are the best out there.
Good Luck!
Martin Brändström/ ensign in the geek fleet
Hypocrite?! I'll have you eat those words!
No seriously, if there is people interested in the geeky side of electronic melody making I'll be glad to help out.
Before Haven I got me a Roland XP30. It was the only keyboard I used on that album. I think it is a competent allround keyboard. It does a lot of different stuff well but isn't exactly excellent on anything.
For Damage Done I wanted a more electronic sound so I shopped around mongst the new "digital-analog" synthesizers. I know it sounds contradictory but it is digitally simulated analog sounds (The geeks will know). I ended up with the Yamaha CS6X. This keyboard is crap at most stuff but has an allright analog vibe to it. I guess it does its job but I'm not overly impressed.
Now characacter was a completely different ordeal. 1. The compose program I use Cubase SX had by this time become a real powerhouse due the overall progression in the world of software and cpus. It had been possible to simulate various keyboards in the computer before but this time around they had started to sound great. Not one note on character is from a hardware keyboard. Everything is done with "soft synths". 2. After Damage done I bought myself a studio (Rogue Music). It's not a studio per se that I rent out and record bands in. It is a control room in a bigger studio complex that meet my own specific needs. A place for me to go to work. That played a big part on how the keyboards on character sounds.
The old XP30 and CS6X is still around but only in live situations.
I would recomend anyone interested in creating electronic music to use Cubase SX with "soft synths". If you still have your heart set on a hardware keyboard I would check out Korg's various models. They are the best out there.
Good Luck!
Martin Brändström/ ensign in the geek fleet