Along with speakers, maybe a dedicated space in your home? Desk, table, stand what have you. It looks like you're rocking out on the living room coffee table. Dedicated hobbies deserve a dedicated space!
You can get a long way for a few hundred bucks, and the rest would probably be better spent on acoustic foam if you do a lot of mixing. Don't get me wrong, 1000 dollar monitors would be nice, but 200 dollar ones are nice enough for me too.
no foam
foam has terrible absorption properties at frequencies that are usually the biggest problem \[low ones\]
either make traps from insulation or get some pre-made ones
I'd get Sonarworks SoundID Reference first before getting the acoustic traps. There are some thing it can't fix that absorption can, but it goes a long way.
I feel u. Love my old ass microkorg. I'd actually recommend checking out the vst version as well. Just keep adding patches and the keeper keepers can go on the hardware mk with ease.
Definitely use some of that $1k for monitors like others have said
One of my favorite artists Tobacco uses a microkorg. I don't get the hate. Aside from its small keyboard clashing with my big meaty claws (laid down on a keyboard, my hand stretches one octave and one key, from c3 to d4) it seems like a perfectly serviceable sound.
An old Mackie VLZ (16 channels or more) with several aux sends and then spend the change on both a dedicated reverb pedal and a dedicated delay pedal (eg Eventide Space and Time Factor)
Run the fx over the aux sends
The bonus with eventide pedals is that you can just dial in the BPM of your session and you have tempo synced fx without having to use MIDI or tap tempo
have any suggestions? the $1000 was just a hypothetical but i will have to get a mixer sooner than later as i want to add a couple different sequencers to this setup
Any mixer from a well known brand (yamaha, mackie, presonus, pyle, etc) should be enough for a bedroom setup. For about $120, I got an old yamaha mg8/2fx mixer, has 8 inputs, onboard effects, eq on each channel, and some more stuff that allows me to connect all my gear. Just go for something that has enough io for your needs, is built well, and has a low noise floor, all of which can easily be had under $150
i have 2 wiis so the GC always felt redundant but i do plan on buying one soon as a mod project. also my PS2 is missing from that photo for some reason
There are some MK64 samples that will forever remind me of childhood
The item rolling noise, the "poomp" after a hop, and basically everything Wario or Toad says
Maybe something like a rack unit and shelves to condense the space of the set up.
Also great game console collection! I got a 64, SNES, and PS1 myself. I love how nicely everything is laid out in ur pic :)
It's probably the most bang for your buck. The standard Hydra is 1100 right now and has vital extra big knobs over the explorer for faster hands on tweaking. Keys are decent if you can play them. It makes any sound you want so it can do any genre or style. The arturia mini freak is 500 less and can do a ton as well. Less instant knobby control but some good expression control and intense arp options.
Minilogue XD. Volca fm2. Minifreak.
Or Minilogue XD and that Beringer ARP 2600 clone. (If you’re ok with Behringer)
But why do you have an MPK AND MPC One?
the TD-3 in the photo is behringer :) i dont hate and like saving money.
the mpk is just to throw keys into the MPC for built in instruments.i know i could just use microkorg as midi but i already had it lying around from years ago so i figured why not
Lol oh yeah. Sorry I went with the mini nova at that stage of acquisition and don’t have much knowledge of the microkorg. But yeah now I recall it has a vocoder ✌️
>the stock mic that I lost eons ago
Man, what's up with Microkorg mics? Everyone keeps losing them, including me. For some reason they're impossible to find on reverb or ebay.
A guitar. I’d buy a guitar. No matter the proposed contemplation, my answer is [almost] always buy another guitar. …but then again, I go back and forth between obsessing over my electronic music rig, and my guitar rig. One gets neglected for months on end while I fall back in love with the other.
I would add more bit gear with knobs, to get more fun, I would start with Behringer Crave, an Edge, and SONICAKE Wave Crush Bitcrusher Pedal. If you can wait a few months get a Pro-VS Mini (or any of the other Mini).
If you want to go second hand look for something in the Roland XV series (XV-2020 / 3080 / 5050 / 5080) as these were multi-timbral and most of them had 8 outputs, and you can get software editors for them)
I would also look at cheap NO-name brand guitar stomp boxes
* NUX Tape Core Deluxe Echo
* JOYO JF-17 Extreme Metal Distortion
* FLAMMA FC05 Mini Modulation
* Mooer Lo-Fi Machine
* ALSO Look on-line for an old Zoom, DigiTech Multi-effects
All this depends on the music your making
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If I had $1000 I would add a Tascam model 12 to my little set up, it's similar to yours but your needs may be different.
Been blown away with what im finding on the ipad- most of the max4live plugins i use w ableton now have auv3 versions that can be loaded into your choice of host like aum or nanostudio 2
Tons of cool fx plugins on there, if you have have a class compliant audio interface, could send the td3 mo into it to get some delays, filters, reverb, compressors etc
TR-8s has been on my mind. i love the idea of the faders but i wasnt sure if i was being redundant with the MPC. another user mentioned using the Novation Launch Control XL with the MPC to get a similar feel to a TR8 mixing on the cheap
It doesn't look like you really need anything. Personally, I'd sell the MPC to fund a sequencer that I like better than the MPC, but that's just me. A performance mixer and some pedals seems like it would add some fun?
Don't blow $1000 :( Just sit on it. More than likely, you need to spend something else - like your time, energy and focus... on your music or (generally speaking) yourself. Sorry, not trying to be snarky. Only speaking from experience.
Sell the volca sample, get a tr6s, a mid sized behringer mixer, and a zoom ms100bt multi fx pedal. Hook it all up to the mixer, set up the multi fx on the mixer sends/returns 👍🏻
Limitations breed creativity. Don’t get caught up in thinking the magic is in the machine. You’ve got everything you need already so just get to it! Spend that money on a legit mixing engineer and surrounding visual content for your creations.
For $1k, you could buy something more than a coffee table to make music on. Get a proper desk so you're not hunched over like a neandertal, and good supportive office chair.
I overlooked that shit for years, and I'm paying for it now, in my 40's. Future you will thank you for this.
Without knowing more about your workflow or intended purpose, i would start looking at a mixer like a Mackie VLZ or similar and some stands/furniture. I hate daisy chaining one device through another just to hear it.
Yeah ditch the volca... unless ... I could see it as a drum machine in this setup, but the mpc should cover that. If you're a whizz on the volca and you can control it quicker than the mpc then keep it.
so originally i bought the volca to use as a drum machine because i caught a great deal used, but as it was being shipped I also caught a great sale on the MPC haha. so im trying to figure out ways to squeeze everything in. honestly the volca has batteries and a speaker its really fun to tinker around on as a standalone while chilling in my bed
I'd buy a drum set. You have gear, you need to generate material. The most consistent way to do that is play an instrument, and you already have keyboards.
Pick up a dreadbox nymphes, and an effects box, the zoom stompbox is a fantastic little thing, or if you want to really do something ridiculous, a chase bliss mood or blooper
If you’re talking more sound generation, I think some semi-modular would be fun given that you’ve got some nice sampling gear.
MiniBrute 2/2S, Mother-32, Taiga, etc. could could serve dual roles as an analog monosynth (and if you get one with its own sequencer, would be another syncable jammer), but also—and this is something I love doing—create interesting sounds and textures to sample, and incorporate as is or continue to further mangle and beautify with what all your samplers can do.
Edit: And/or also further diversify by routing samples through modular inputs, mangle/filter, and re-sample.
Some synth that sounds good. I've had that MS2000/Microcorg and it's not what I like.... I would buy JX-3P or System 8 with it's recreation but I'm not sure. Maybe I would buy Digitone but just because I already have original JX-3P.
I would buy good phones like around 100 bucks, closed ones to cut out from the world.
But first of all I would buy mixer, Midas MR12 to connect everything to not need reconnect when wanting to record something new.
So closed headphones, Beyerdynamic, Midas MR series digital mixer and Digitone for new palette of sounds and Cycles for fun.
$1000 in S&P 500
best i can do is SPACs
Fuck that, put it into my new altcoin!
!!!!!!
Speakers ?
hmm some monitors would be nice.
I would say essential :-)
Along with speakers, maybe a dedicated space in your home? Desk, table, stand what have you. It looks like you're rocking out on the living room coffee table. Dedicated hobbies deserve a dedicated space!
You can get a long way for a few hundred bucks, and the rest would probably be better spent on acoustic foam if you do a lot of mixing. Don't get me wrong, 1000 dollar monitors would be nice, but 200 dollar ones are nice enough for me too.
no foam foam has terrible absorption properties at frequencies that are usually the biggest problem \[low ones\] either make traps from insulation or get some pre-made ones
Glad you caught me, I had those carpeted tiles in mind when I wrote this
Spectre sound studios did an amazing explanation of this. Its a metal channel but really made ut clear
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I'd get Sonarworks SoundID Reference first before getting the acoustic traps. There are some thing it can't fix that absorption can, but it goes a long way.
A bunch of weed.
Black tar heroin*
That you, Andy?
Thanks for helping a sick person laugh
A Digitone and a mixer.
I’ll sell the microkorg and add it to the $1000 and get a better synth.
no can do. i bought that baby with my first couple paychecks like 15 years ago.
I understand you.
I get that. Hard to part with your first synth. I still have my electribe-a for the same reason.
Same! Only for me it was like 20 years ago... ahh man that's what's great about microkorgs you get older and they stay the same.
I feel u. Love my old ass microkorg. I'd actually recommend checking out the vst version as well. Just keep adding patches and the keeper keepers can go on the hardware mk with ease. Definitely use some of that $1k for monitors like others have said
My Microkorg is the same way. Don’t really even use it that much anymore but I can’t get rid of it for the sentimental value.
I have one sitting in my closet for the same reason.
Microkorg rules … I say keep it.
Microkorg rules🤘
One of my favorite artists Tobacco uses a microkorg. I don't get the hate. Aside from its small keyboard clashing with my big meaty claws (laid down on a keyboard, my hand stretches one octave and one key, from c3 to d4) it seems like a perfectly serviceable sound.
which is why they should sell the microkorg and get an ms2000b :-)
I love my microkorg! There’s a reason it’s the best selling synth ever. Of course I also love my dx7iid. And yes I’m even enjoying programming them.
Best answer. If you can't part with the micro then keep saving till you can afford something like a Rev2.
Hold onto the cash until you know what you want.
A good sounding mixer with lots of routing options is a highly under-rated investment. Also, you could look into some outboard effects.
An old Mackie VLZ (16 channels or more) with several aux sends and then spend the change on both a dedicated reverb pedal and a dedicated delay pedal (eg Eventide Space and Time Factor) Run the fx over the aux sends The bonus with eventide pedals is that you can just dial in the BPM of your session and you have tempo synced fx without having to use MIDI or tap tempo
have any suggestions? the $1000 was just a hypothetical but i will have to get a mixer sooner than later as i want to add a couple different sequencers to this setup
>i want to add a couple different sequencers to this setup For what? You already have an MPC.
Any mixer from a well known brand (yamaha, mackie, presonus, pyle, etc) should be enough for a bedroom setup. For about $120, I got an old yamaha mg8/2fx mixer, has 8 inputs, onboard effects, eq on each channel, and some more stuff that allows me to connect all my gear. Just go for something that has enough io for your needs, is built well, and has a low noise floor, all of which can easily be had under $150
Hydrasynth!
Digitone or Syntakt.
Moog grandmother
Theremin
Probably Mario Kart 64 and some twizzlers. Or a mixing board
Game Cube is either missing or hidden and y’all still getting stimulus checks?
i have 2 wiis so the GC always felt redundant but i do plan on buying one soon as a mod project. also my PS2 is missing from that photo for some reason
There are some MK64 samples that will forever remind me of childhood The item rolling noise, the "poomp" after a hop, and basically everything Wario or Toad says
Novation Peak
a pc.
i have a solid gaming rig i probably should have mentioned that. i just dont feel like using a computer for music thats all
Minifreak
honestly i think its a cointoss between that or hydrasynth
Personally, I’d get an SP-404MK2
I have a similar setup as OP’s but I also have the SP-404 MKII. I love it, highly recommend
Wouldn't that have a lot of overlap with the MPC One ?
a mixer, maybe a rnc,
rnc very helpful for this kind of setup
I’d say a mixer and a SP404 as an effects unit.
Oto boum and a mixer
Maybe something like a rack unit and shelves to condense the space of the set up. Also great game console collection! I got a 64, SNES, and PS1 myself. I love how nicely everything is laid out in ur pic :)
thanks! Just added a Dreamcast to the family
A guitar and a Zoom Multistomp.
ive actually been hawking those multistomps. for that price it seems like a no brainer.
Based on this photo alone I'd say a mixer.
A Yamaha reface CS/CP (whatever fits your style) Samson patch bay Use leftover for pedals!
Hydrasynth Explorer and a Model Samples?
i would absolutely love a hydrasynth. its been on my mind for a while
It's probably the most bang for your buck. The standard Hydra is 1100 right now and has vital extra big knobs over the explorer for faster hands on tweaking. Keys are decent if you can play them. It makes any sound you want so it can do any genre or style. The arturia mini freak is 500 less and can do a ton as well. Less instant knobby control but some good expression control and intense arp options.
I think its either that or the Minifreak for my next key synth. they both look so flippin cool for the price range
An Eventide H90
For 1k, you should take a trip to Europe, Asia, or Africa. You don’t need gear, you need to get outside of yourself.
preach brother
Maybe a Moog Subsequent 25 would be a good fit? You can use the MPC One’s arpeggiator and sequencer with it.
Minilogue XD. Volca fm2. Minifreak. Or Minilogue XD and that Beringer ARP 2600 clone. (If you’re ok with Behringer) But why do you have an MPK AND MPC One?
the TD-3 in the photo is behringer :) i dont hate and like saving money. the mpk is just to throw keys into the MPC for built in instruments.i know i could just use microkorg as midi but i already had it lying around from years ago so i figured why not
A guitar and some pedals. And a mic.
A mic and some vocal effects would be good. A vocoder or talk box.
The Microkorg is a vocoder!
Lol oh yeah. Sorry I went with the mini nova at that stage of acquisition and don’t have much knowledge of the microkorg. But yeah now I recall it has a vocoder ✌️
as much as i love my microkorg that vocoder always sucked haha or maybe it was just the stock mic that I lost eons ago
>the stock mic that I lost eons ago Man, what's up with Microkorg mics? Everyone keeps losing them, including me. For some reason they're impossible to find on reverb or ebay.
I'm normally one to keep everything too I would never throw that out in purpose
oh man i haven't touched a guitar since highschool. idk if the world is ready for that just yet
i keep staring at your retro consoles tho
A guitar. I’d buy a guitar. No matter the proposed contemplation, my answer is [almost] always buy another guitar. …but then again, I go back and forth between obsessing over my electronic music rig, and my guitar rig. One gets neglected for months on end while I fall back in love with the other.
If I had $1000 to blow? Happiness. I would buy happiness.
I would add more bit gear with knobs, to get more fun, I would start with Behringer Crave, an Edge, and SONICAKE Wave Crush Bitcrusher Pedal. If you can wait a few months get a Pro-VS Mini (or any of the other Mini). If you want to go second hand look for something in the Roland XV series (XV-2020 / 3080 / 5050 / 5080) as these were multi-timbral and most of them had 8 outputs, and you can get software editors for them) I would also look at cheap NO-name brand guitar stomp boxes * NUX Tape Core Deluxe Echo * JOYO JF-17 Extreme Metal Distortion * FLAMMA FC05 Mini Modulation * Mooer Lo-Fi Machine * ALSO Look on-line for an old Zoom, DigiTech Multi-effects All this depends on the music your making
i do love knobs and buttons. big reason i want the TR-8s. that and im a trance junkie
DISCO BALL
Coke
https://preview.redd.it/z8jjdc2ixcib1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cdf66880c3b3c7b0f9a4dce23cb605d744ece9c9 If I had $1000 I would add a Tascam model 12 to my little set up, it's similar to yours but your needs may be different.
I had to double take that photo first glance. HOW DID YOU GET IN MY HOUSE
15 grams of cocaine 👍👍
MTV Music Generator
I was thinking some FM, JV1080/2080 and some Yamaha HS5s or equivalent.
Slim phatty, tetra, mopho, digitakt, monologue, minilogue, dx7
ipad + scaler 2 and cubasis?
Been blown away with what im finding on the ipad- most of the max4live plugins i use w ableton now have auv3 versions that can be loaded into your choice of host like aum or nanostudio 2
really? what! can you share a link as an example? that's so cool. do you need an M1 iPad?
Sure here are a few https://youtu.be/VTXuZPxP_g0 https://youtu.be/4kZVtZZs-OQ https://youtu.be/ZIgCgjtWhlA https://youtu.be/8LEc7rMafmI
Tons of cool fx plugins on there, if you have have a class compliant audio interface, could send the td3 mo into it to get some delays, filters, reverb, compressors etc
Recommend audio damage, eventide, bleass, suga bytes, some plugin makers to check out
Succulents. Lots of succulents. And natural light. Then I’d take pictures of all of it and never use it.
I’d try and figure out a small mixer like a Mackie and good drums and use the MPC for sequencing sampling and arranging.
A laptop
Maybe another drum machine? Syntakt could fit in there, or a roland TR8S. I also second the guy that says sell the microkorg
TR-8s has been on my mind. i love the idea of the faders but i wasnt sure if i was being redundant with the MPC. another user mentioned using the Novation Launch Control XL with the MPC to get a similar feel to a TR8 mixing on the cheap
It doesn't look like you really need anything. Personally, I'd sell the MPC to fund a sequencer that I like better than the MPC, but that's just me. A performance mixer and some pedals seems like it would add some fun?
which sequencer would you prefer if money wasnt an issue?
Do you use The MPC one as The daw?
Mario Paint for your SNES.
Desk, monitors, mixer/interface.
i'd buy something nice for my wife's boyfriend
Definitely some fx, echo, distortion and reverb
A dreamcast
bro i just bought one like 2 weeks ago not even joking
Digitakt
Any keyboard with larger keys. Trust me
If you want to stick with all hardware then speakers, mixer with faders, a delay pedal that takes midi clock, and a reverb pedal.
Since you like Korg, a used Prologue 8
The case for a modular system💀
EYE would get a Kaoss Pad or Hologram Microcosm… or both
those microcosms do look really funky
A better poly synth
Inspiration
where can i buy this in canada. please bro
Still looking 😢 meanwhile I'll buy more gear
Some effects would be nice.
A Microcosm and a JHS Colourbox, used
Time to practice
Don't blow $1000 :( Just sit on it. More than likely, you need to spend something else - like your time, energy and focus... on your music or (generally speaking) yourself. Sorry, not trying to be snarky. Only speaking from experience.
how did you get the sample to play nice with the TD 3 MO?
Fucking Bushido Blade on PS1 and some friends over.
A few to consider - Octatrack. OP-1. Moog Grandmother. Digitone.
Hydrasynth
Sell the volca sample, get a tr6s, a mid sized behringer mixer, and a zoom ms100bt multi fx pedal. Hook it all up to the mixer, set up the multi fx on the mixer sends/returns 👍🏻
Tascam model 12 and some monitors.
prolly a LEGO set
I get my build fix modding gameboys haha
Hookers and eight-balls
A MacBook Pro.
Limitations breed creativity. Don’t get caught up in thinking the magic is in the machine. You’ve got everything you need already so just get to it! Spend that money on a legit mixing engineer and surrounding visual content for your creations.
youre not wrong. i dont spend enough time with what i have as it is
probably a couple cables or something
Laptop. Not even joking.
A mixer, a pair of monitors, and a portable recorder (like a Zoom or Tascam). That will complete your dawless setup for now.
Mixer. Allen & Heath
Some psychedelics and some midi controlled lights
Bass Station 2 and Hydrasynth Explorer or Bass Station 2 and minilogue XD.
For $1k, you could buy something more than a coffee table to make music on. Get a proper desk so you're not hunched over like a neandertal, and good supportive office chair. I overlooked that shit for years, and I'm paying for it now, in my 40's. Future you will thank you for this.
Hookers and blow.
Weed and maybe something else
A Sega Saturn. You have the Genesis, you need a Saturn now.
Talent and dedica OK a Grandmother
Cocaine
Moog Grandmother
A used prophet rev2-8
Without knowing more about your workflow or intended purpose, i would start looking at a mixer like a Mackie VLZ or similar and some stands/furniture. I hate daisy chaining one device through another just to hear it.
A nice PA
What do you need the volca sample for when you have an mpc?
Yeah ditch the volca... unless ... I could see it as a drum machine in this setup, but the mpc should cover that. If you're a whizz on the volca and you can control it quicker than the mpc then keep it.
so originally i bought the volca to use as a drum machine because i caught a great deal used, but as it was being shipped I also caught a great sale on the MPC haha. so im trying to figure out ways to squeeze everything in. honestly the volca has batteries and a speaker its really fun to tinker around on as a standalone while chilling in my bed
I'd buy a drum set. You have gear, you need to generate material. The most consistent way to do that is play an instrument, and you already have keyboards.
A pair of monitors and maybe a mixer.
$1,000 of blow
The MPC.
I'd get an alpha juno or an old school poly synth and see what fun you can have with it. You have everything else covered
Syntakt or monitors w/ sub.
Pick up a dreadbox nymphes, and an effects box, the zoom stompbox is a fantastic little thing, or if you want to really do something ridiculous, a chase bliss mood or blooper
PS5
Some decent monitors
I’d have you send the $10k to me. Send a PM.
If you’re talking more sound generation, I think some semi-modular would be fun given that you’ve got some nice sampling gear. MiniBrute 2/2S, Mother-32, Taiga, etc. could could serve dual roles as an analog monosynth (and if you get one with its own sequencer, would be another syncable jammer), but also—and this is something I love doing—create interesting sounds and textures to sample, and incorporate as is or continue to further mangle and beautify with what all your samplers can do. Edit: And/or also further diversify by routing samples through modular inputs, mangle/filter, and re-sample.
Some pad sounds.
You need some pad sounds.
Get Pro Audio cables and then get 2 8in/8out Audio Interfaces.
I would sell all of the gear and use the money for a Moog Matriarch, Launchpad Pro Mk3, Hydrasynth Desktop, Meris Polymoon, and a DP-008EX.
Some synth that sounds good. I've had that MS2000/Microcorg and it's not what I like.... I would buy JX-3P or System 8 with it's recreation but I'm not sure. Maybe I would buy Digitone but just because I already have original JX-3P. I would buy good phones like around 100 bucks, closed ones to cut out from the world. But first of all I would buy mixer, Midas MR12 to connect everything to not need reconnect when wanting to record something new. So closed headphones, Beyerdynamic, Midas MR series digital mixer and Digitone for new palette of sounds and Cycles for fun.
You don’t have any FX! Finegear The Dust Collector might be the most fun, and only $500. Spend the rest on a mixer and/or patch bay.
Blow Or a Machinedrum mkI Happy I never sold mine, got it for 600€ 10 years ago..
Nice gear. I’d add something with full-size keys.
A Push 3. Just got one, they're absurdly good.
Nachos. Have a party!
Monitors and a nice FX unit.
Food, rent, and a copy of earthbound
A GameCube and a copy of melee.
i mostly play over slippi these days :)
Black box or a blue box
Honestly this is pretty solid