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to mimikoctopus- well the virus tabletop version is going to cost you about a grand and the keyboard version about 2 grand. while i think we'd all like to be able to splash out on something like that (or a moog voyager - again in the 2 grand region) the reality is that most of us simply cannot justify spending that kind of money. for a grand you can have komplete 6, fxpansion synth squad and still have some money left over.
in regards to spending a lot of money on a computer. well my laptop is basically a piece of crap and i can comfortably run reason+record (they are after all very CPU friendly..), renoise and a host of plugins.
re: xabiton. yeah i think a lot of people who started on hardware learned a lot that i think people who started with software miss or simply take for granted. i learn so much about working within limitations. i learned how important it was to pick good sounds and to make different elements work together. but i'm different to you in that i didn't get into synthesis until after i got into software. i only had 2 synths in hardware form. microkorg (now sold) and alesis micron (horrible to program). when i moved to software i was able to experiment with extremely powerful forms of synthesis at a fraction of what it would have cost me in the hardware realm.
finally to damayor... i know what you mean and it can be annoying. when somebody asks for advice on what hardware to get the last thing they probably want to see is a load of people telling them NOT to get hardware. but i think it's really just people giving their honest advice. a lot of people here started on hardware and are now using software. therefore they know the advantages and disadvantages of both. if a friend approached me and said he wanted to get into beatmaking and he was wondering which MPC should he get i feel i would be doing him a disservice if i didn't mentioned the benefits of software over hardware.
in regards to spending a lot of money on a computer. well my laptop is basically a piece of crap and i can comfortably run reason+record (they are after all very CPU friendly..), renoise and a host of plugins.
re: xabiton. yeah i think a lot of people who started on hardware learned a lot that i think people who started with software miss or simply take for granted. i learn so much about working within limitations. i learned how important it was to pick good sounds and to make different elements work together. but i'm different to you in that i didn't get into synthesis until after i got into software. i only had 2 synths in hardware form. microkorg (now sold) and alesis micron (horrible to program). when i moved to software i was able to experiment with extremely powerful forms of synthesis at a fraction of what it would have cost me in the hardware realm.
finally to damayor... i know what you mean and it can be annoying. when somebody asks for advice on what hardware to get the last thing they probably want to see is a load of people telling them NOT to get hardware. but i think it's really just people giving their honest advice. a lot of people here started on hardware and are now using software. therefore they know the advantages and disadvantages of both. if a friend approached me and said he wanted to get into beatmaking and he was wondering which MPC should he get i feel i would be doing him a disservice if i didn't mentioned the benefits of software over hardware.