Comments on: Sweetwater’s Top 10 for 2011 http://www.wiretotheear.com/2011/12/18/sweetwaters-top-10-for-2011/ Sun, 19 May 2013 17:03:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Lee Faulkner http://www.wiretotheear.com/2011/12/18/sweetwaters-top-10-for-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-45977 Lee Faulkner Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:44:26 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=8574#comment-45977 For me ... iPad 2 Power boost over the V1 was significant and mine gets used for just about every musical purpose imaginable. From storing manuals and reference books, as chord/scale lookup, filing my own archives of songs/lyrics, as a tuner, metronome, and light (on occasion!) ... not to mention as a controller and Instrument. My favorite musical tool ... Thumbjam 2 by a mile. Though Animoog sounds very very nice. And for $5 hell, GarageBand blows my mind. And that's just the beginning... For me … iPad 2

Power boost over the V1 was significant and mine gets used for just about every musical purpose imaginable. From storing manuals and reference books, as chord/scale lookup, filing my own archives of songs/lyrics, as a tuner, metronome, and light (on occasion!) … not to mention as a controller and Instrument.

My favorite musical tool … Thumbjam 2 by a mile. Though Animoog sounds very very nice.

And for $5 hell, GarageBand blows my mind.

And that’s just the beginning…

]]> By: Oliver Chesler http://www.wiretotheear.com/2011/12/18/sweetwaters-top-10-for-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-45968 Oliver Chesler Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:29:57 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=8574#comment-45968 Oh yeah I forgot to mention I was in Sam Ash yesterday and was pretty surprised at the Jupiter-80... it seemed really strange and kinda cheap to me. Oh yeah I forgot to mention I was in Sam Ash yesterday and was pretty surprised at the Jupiter-80… it seemed really strange and kinda cheap to me.

]]> By: redvoid http://www.wiretotheear.com/2011/12/18/sweetwaters-top-10-for-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-45960 redvoid Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:33:46 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=8574#comment-45960 Agree on Tempest, Eventide Space, iOS & Reason-6 though I don't need the DAW features in Reason, I just use it as an instrument rack. STRONG DISAGREE on Jupiter-80. Its an overbloated workstation that misses what Jupiter users liked about the series, and just tries to rebrand a V-Synth as something its not, and doesn't deserve its name. The rest is a whole lot of meh for me. I'm sure plenty of people will benefit from a new version of ProTools and what not, and I have nearly no opinion on guitars, but I didn't see much groundbreaking other than the 4 items I listed as likes. Agree on Tempest, Eventide Space, iOS & Reason-6 though I don’t need the DAW features in Reason, I just use it as an instrument rack. STRONG DISAGREE on Jupiter-80. Its an overbloated workstation that misses what Jupiter users liked about the series, and just tries to rebrand a V-Synth as something its not, and doesn’t deserve its name. The rest is a whole lot of meh for me. I’m sure plenty of people will benefit from a new version of ProTools and what not, and I have nearly no opinion on guitars, but I didn’t see much groundbreaking other than the 4 items I listed as likes.

]]> By: Oliver Chesler http://www.wiretotheear.com/2011/12/18/sweetwaters-top-10-for-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-45955 Oliver Chesler Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:14:30 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=8574#comment-45955 Interesting... I noticed the German Musotalk didn't like the Tempest either. I've yet to play with one in person. Ah yes Microtonic is quite good and the Patternarium too.... Interesting… I noticed the German Musotalk didn’t like the Tempest either. I’ve yet to play with one in person. Ah yes Microtonic is quite good and the Patternarium too….

]]> By: pulsn http://www.wiretotheear.com/2011/12/18/sweetwaters-top-10-for-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-45954 pulsn Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:45:38 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=8574#comment-45954 that´s what i meant: http://soniccharge.com/patternarium that´s what i meant: http://soniccharge.com/patternarium

]]> By: pulsn http://www.wiretotheear.com/2011/12/18/sweetwaters-top-10-for-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-45953 pulsn Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:43:31 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=8574#comment-45953 The Perfourmer MK2 is definitely among the best for '11 IMHO. But that´s my personal reference. The Tempests sound is still the same old busted Evolver Synth Engine. Plus the envelopes are way too slow for punchy sounds. That´s why they had to put a couple of ROMples into that thing, to even get close to a drum synth. IMHO the thing is not worth the money. Better investment is definitely an Elektron Machinedrum UW...or without a sequencer but analog the Vermona DRM-1, which you have. Or get an Elektron Octatrack and sample some softdrumsynths like the SonicCharge Microtonic (Check out their Patternarium...awesome!) and mangle the crap out of these samples then with the OT. Or sample that Jomox MBase1/11. The Perfourmer MK2 is definitely among the best for ’11 IMHO. But that´s my personal reference. The Tempests sound is still the same old busted Evolver Synth Engine. Plus the envelopes are way too slow for punchy sounds. That´s why they had to put a couple of ROMples into that thing, to even get close to a drum synth. IMHO the thing is not worth the money. Better investment is definitely an Elektron Machinedrum UW…or without a sequencer but analog the Vermona DRM-1, which you have. Or get an Elektron Octatrack and sample some softdrumsynths like the SonicCharge Microtonic (Check out their Patternarium…awesome!) and mangle the crap out of these samples then with the OT. Or sample that Jomox MBase1/11.

]]> By: Oliver Chesler http://www.wiretotheear.com/2011/12/18/sweetwaters-top-10-for-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-45950 Oliver Chesler Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:31:41 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=8574#comment-45950 Songsmith, Jammer Pro? Songsmith, Jammer Pro?

]]> By: Oliver Chesler http://www.wiretotheear.com/2011/12/18/sweetwaters-top-10-for-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-45949 Oliver Chesler Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:31:27 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=8574#comment-45949 You don't like the Tempest? Even if it's a Tetra + Sequencer (it's more than that) it's still a drum machine?! The Vermona's are very wonderful but aren't they more V2 versions... you think they deserve full on best of for 11'? You don’t like the Tempest? Even if it’s a Tetra + Sequencer (it’s more than that) it’s still a drum machine?! The Vermona’s are very wonderful but aren’t they more V2 versions… you think they deserve full on best of for 11′?

]]> By: pulsn http://www.wiretotheear.com/2011/12/18/sweetwaters-top-10-for-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-45948 pulsn Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:27:22 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=8574#comment-45948 Probably loaded Win7 and OSX via Bootcamp. Probably loaded Win7 and OSX via Bootcamp.

]]> By: Rob Terhaar http://www.wiretotheear.com/2011/12/18/sweetwaters-top-10-for-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-45947 Rob Terhaar Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:24:52 +0000 http://www.wiretotheear.com/?p=8574#comment-45947 The last item on their list was macbooks loaded with Windows? I don't get why anyone would want to do that. The last item on their list was macbooks loaded with Windows? I don’t get why anyone would want to do that.

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