Starting a new studio.

[WernaH]

Hello everyone I am a new member to this forum and am excited to be apart of this community.

I currently using serato scratch and have been mostly mixing my friends productions. We have a good collaboration going but, some good things must end.

To make a long story short my long time dj/production partner is moving to a new city for grad school. I have been needing to work on starting my own home studio. I have extensive experience with ableton. but, I am basically starting from scratch I am looking in to midi controllers and ran into Maschine I was wondering if anyone has this and likes it. I would like to used this for beat production and would like to clean things up in Ableton.

Please let me know any good or bad experiences with Maschine or if you have any better ideas on things I could use for simple beat production and or just ideas on starting up a studio.

thanks

[Bang the DJ]

Well if you've got some experience of Ableton, then I'd certainly recommend starting with that.

Just with Ableton alone you can produce an almost infinite world of music. As for Maschine, I myself haven't used it, but I have some producer friends that love it.

Those two things will take you a long way on your production career for sure. Though of course it wont be long before you start getting excited about getting some new toys...

[Def_Finger]

Hello I also new here, I have been gettin down on 1200s from 1988 bro. 8 months ago I purchased Maschine, Akai MPK 49, NI AK1, two Numark V7s, Vestax PMC 08 PRO. I can honestly say that I have endless options in creation of fat beats. Abelton was a little rough at first because I was new to the whole DAW aspect of laying tracks. I used to get down with a Ensoniq EPS 16+. If you ever come across a EPS or a ASR 10 GRAB IT!!! But I would say Abelton or PRO TOOLS 9. Good Luck!

[jasonj]

I am using Ableton + Maschine in my home studio and absolutely love the combination. Once you get used to the initial workflow its amazing how fast and with ease you can get an idea out.

I also have an M-Audio Trigger Finger that I use on Ableton's instrument and effects racks and a Behringer UMX-25 midi keyboard for my soft synths. all running through either an iMac or MacbookPro to a Stanton FS-Open soundcard and out a set of Behringer truth monitors. All have been pretty cost effective and work wonders. The only part I would like is a sub that can hit between 30-50hz.

[tekki]

First give a shot on producing with Ableton.

After a while start thinking if you really need a MIDI controller, if yes, think about the controller you'd ideally need and follow up on that.

Don't just go for the Maschine because everybody tells you it is awesome.

[kilobytekaushik]

what i think, you can get a pad kontrol initially.

[deviantdigi]

First give a shot on producing with Ableton.

After a while start thinking if you really need a MIDI controller, if yes, think about the controller you'd ideally need and follow up on that.

Don't just go for the Maschine because everybody tells you it is awesome.

+1, know your needs.

But for a MPC like device. Mashine is like the Charlie Sheen of MPC type controls. It just wins.

[tekki]

Winninnnnnnng!

[looneygeorge]

The thing i'm lacking in my home studio is not buttons, its faders and knobs. So you should think about getting a cheap controller to handle these things as well so you can mimic a traditional studio mixer.

Ohh and depending on the type of music you are creating, a Monome is a must.. Ohh my god the tunes you can create with a Monome.

[paulyoung4]

hey man,

im pretty new to the production side as well as ableton. I have had the maschine for about a couple of months and i love putting my drums together in maschine. Then its super easy to drag what i made into ableton. the only problem is that when i drag the audio into ableton the audio doesnt line up correctly but a quick warping usually has it right where i wanted it. Good luck hoped this helped somewhat hah.

py