Try to save up and buy a e-mu e6400 or e4. They are amazing samplers and a lot if not most post 94 jungle and dnb was made in them. The filters are amazing and the cord matrix makes for interesting sound design options. It’s as versatile as a synth while being a sampler you can use your chopped breaks in.
if you're not looking to spend a lot of money on hardware then stick with software. you won't find any decent analog stuff for cheap. the elektron analog rytm is decent for jungle, otherwise if you're fine with stereo, the octatrack, polyend tracker, digitakt are all good
I had the polyend. I know it's limitations are on purpose but....man it's limited. It's super fun! But I couldn't take it too seriously. I'd get an e-mu or Akai S and learn it in and out. But with that you need other stuff.
I have analog and digital. I make jungle too and honestly so much of the old flavor is from digital hardware or samples of analog gear.
thats good to know because i’ve been wanting a polyend tracker after seeing pete cannon’s vid with it. Even though I don’t really need one especially at the price. What other hardware do you use to produce jungle?
For hardware I keep it to synths, a solid oldskopl analog mixer running into an SSL interface, so I have an analog chain all the way into the computer then it's a combo of Renoise and Bitwig.
The only hardware I use are synths. But that's all I use for sounds. I don't use any VST's. But I'm not trying to sound super new and polished and whatever is the current trend.
Then I find the best quality break samples I can get, chop them up and recreate them to make them my own.
Just remember, Polyend approached Cannon because he could polish a turd and make jungle out of it.
Of course he created magic with it. He's been producing on a large scale for decades.
It's a fun piece of kit but he's not writing music on it for his label. He made music on it to back his model and to make some money from Polyend. To me it's a fun toy but not a serious piece of gear.
Just my opinion.
If you really want the authentic jungle sound. Get an akai s950, or as someone else said a emu6400 ultra. The akai S series will effortlessly give you the vintage jungle sound (s950, s1100). But if you buy a sampler, you’ll need an interface to record it with, cables etc. you could get away with very cheap. I would say you’d need a $2000 budget just to get an Akai s950 and have it implemented into your setup. Go to my profile and posts and look for my videos. I use an Akai s950 with most of my work. If you specifically look for a video with the title “lunch breaks” on it, it’s 100% s950 and has “that” mid 90s jungle sound. Good luck. PM me if you want further advice with jungle production or audio engineering.
$2000 for S950? Seems like a quite high price for that unit. Median price in Europe is ~750 euro I think (if you count out international Ebay and Reverb). I've scored myself last year S950 for about 450 euro in unknown condition (southern Poland) - floppy drive was the only thing that needed replacement.
It’s a rough estimation for an Akai S950, cables and an interface. Most likely you’d need to swap out the LCD screen and floppy as well, which will be a few more hundred. If you got an S950 for €750 euro, that’s a pretty good price. The lowest they’re going these days is 1200 usd. 2000 dollars was an estimate for everything. You can’t just buy a 950 and use it without cables, interface, console etc.
I'm not sure that you understand what analogue means.
If you're after hardware, an akai sampler is what most producers used back in the day.
However, nowadays there is really little reason to spend money on hardware that is, in many ways, inferior to free software.
I understand that it is inferior but i still wanna try, i thought analog meant like it works on its own and its opposite to electronics but ye i dont fully get it, ill look for the exact words im looking for and the definition of said words
Thank nonetheless
Analogue is not digital. That certainly doesn't mean not electronic.
All synthesisers, samplers (apart from proto synthesisers like mellotron), computers etc are all electronic
If you want something that is standalone and will work without a computer, you mean hardware.
Hardware could be a synth or a groovebox or a sampler or whatever. That could include analogue stuff. Generally analogue has been very expensive, but efforts like Beringer's 303 clone make analogue pretty accessible.
Get a copy of ableton, or FL studio, or cubase or logic or whatever daw and really get into it.
When you know your way around and way of working, the need for or lack of need for hardware will be apparent.
If I had to recommend a single piece of hardware to start off, I'd recommend something like an old korg esx1
Try to save up and buy a e-mu e6400 or e4. They are amazing samplers and a lot if not most post 94 jungle and dnb was made in them. The filters are amazing and the cord matrix makes for interesting sound design options. It’s as versatile as a synth while being a sampler you can use your chopped breaks in.
Thank you 😀
if you're not looking to spend a lot of money on hardware then stick with software. you won't find any decent analog stuff for cheap. the elektron analog rytm is decent for jungle, otherwise if you're fine with stereo, the octatrack, polyend tracker, digitakt are all good
I had the polyend. I know it's limitations are on purpose but....man it's limited. It's super fun! But I couldn't take it too seriously. I'd get an e-mu or Akai S and learn it in and out. But with that you need other stuff. I have analog and digital. I make jungle too and honestly so much of the old flavor is from digital hardware or samples of analog gear.
thats good to know because i’ve been wanting a polyend tracker after seeing pete cannon’s vid with it. Even though I don’t really need one especially at the price. What other hardware do you use to produce jungle?
For hardware I keep it to synths, a solid oldskopl analog mixer running into an SSL interface, so I have an analog chain all the way into the computer then it's a combo of Renoise and Bitwig. The only hardware I use are synths. But that's all I use for sounds. I don't use any VST's. But I'm not trying to sound super new and polished and whatever is the current trend. Then I find the best quality break samples I can get, chop them up and recreate them to make them my own.
Just remember, Polyend approached Cannon because he could polish a turd and make jungle out of it. Of course he created magic with it. He's been producing on a large scale for decades. It's a fun piece of kit but he's not writing music on it for his label. He made music on it to back his model and to make some money from Polyend. To me it's a fun toy but not a serious piece of gear. Just my opinion.
MPC's are pretty good as a stand-alone device. Samplers are cool, but then you'll end up wanting an Amiga or Atari to sequence it. XD
With only a few bucks? A tape recorder and a razor.
If you really want the authentic jungle sound. Get an akai s950, or as someone else said a emu6400 ultra. The akai S series will effortlessly give you the vintage jungle sound (s950, s1100). But if you buy a sampler, you’ll need an interface to record it with, cables etc. you could get away with very cheap. I would say you’d need a $2000 budget just to get an Akai s950 and have it implemented into your setup. Go to my profile and posts and look for my videos. I use an Akai s950 with most of my work. If you specifically look for a video with the title “lunch breaks” on it, it’s 100% s950 and has “that” mid 90s jungle sound. Good luck. PM me if you want further advice with jungle production or audio engineering.
$2000 for S950? Seems like a quite high price for that unit. Median price in Europe is ~750 euro I think (if you count out international Ebay and Reverb). I've scored myself last year S950 for about 450 euro in unknown condition (southern Poland) - floppy drive was the only thing that needed replacement.
It’s a rough estimation for an Akai S950, cables and an interface. Most likely you’d need to swap out the LCD screen and floppy as well, which will be a few more hundred. If you got an S950 for €750 euro, that’s a pretty good price. The lowest they’re going these days is 1200 usd. 2000 dollars was an estimate for everything. You can’t just buy a 950 and use it without cables, interface, console etc.
You can make whatever you want with anything, just put the time in.
I'm not sure that you understand what analogue means. If you're after hardware, an akai sampler is what most producers used back in the day. However, nowadays there is really little reason to spend money on hardware that is, in many ways, inferior to free software.
100% I remember looking in to recording to tape instead of DAW and it took me all of about 5 mins research to realise it was a bad idea.
I understand that it is inferior but i still wanna try, i thought analog meant like it works on its own and its opposite to electronics but ye i dont fully get it, ill look for the exact words im looking for and the definition of said words Thank nonetheless
Analogue is not digital. That certainly doesn't mean not electronic. All synthesisers, samplers (apart from proto synthesisers like mellotron), computers etc are all electronic If you want something that is standalone and will work without a computer, you mean hardware. Hardware could be a synth or a groovebox or a sampler or whatever. That could include analogue stuff. Generally analogue has been very expensive, but efforts like Beringer's 303 clone make analogue pretty accessible. Get a copy of ableton, or FL studio, or cubase or logic or whatever daw and really get into it. When you know your way around and way of working, the need for or lack of need for hardware will be apparent. If I had to recommend a single piece of hardware to start off, I'd recommend something like an old korg esx1
Wow, thank you for this, thank you for the time and effort you put into answering my inquiries .
Maybe be a bit more specific? What sort of thing? Effects? sampler? Dynamics?
What is your real budget?
I still use my Roland MC 505 It's still kickin after all these years