You can dip in with the essentials package for €80 though (perhaps even this is the type of thing they bundle with stuff so you might find a free licence key for it somewhere). They might also offer a crossgrade price if you contact them. I got a great crossgrade offer from Presonus when I decided to start using Studio One. I just had to prove my ownership of another DAW (I sent them a Reason 10 receipt I think).

It seems like snap is a bit of a disaster. I have a VM running Ubuntu for testing some things and ended up completely removing snap it was taking up so much space.

This week I’ve been focused on mixing my next EP. Will probably spend next week doing the same 😁

I print and bind the manual for any hardware I buy. Whilst undoubtedly I can discover a lot of the functionality just from experience, there’s usually some stuff that you discover from the manual that just isn’t the sort of thing you find out by chance 😊

Never tried the MPC stuff though (beyond a day with the Force before it had disk streaming), so can’t give any specific recommendations…

Probably my single most used plugin in FabFilter ProQ 3. I can’t think of a mixdown I haven’t used it on. Outside of that I have a lot of love for the Softube Chandler Zener-Bender and Replika XT by Native Instruments

Ah cool, yeah the wireless thing probably wouldn’t be so important as it would probably sit in the same spot all the time 😁

https://waveform.social/c/autechre 🎉

Guess we should go ahead and start an Autechre community here so 😁

Hehe, that was me 😁

I can definitely see the appeal. Perhaps when I have some cash to spare I’ll look at it again 😊👍

Whilst I did learn piano for a few years, I’ve been so used to programming/sequencing/generating notes that keys feel like too much of a space sacrifice 😁 There are some times I do wish to have a two or three octaves mini keyboard for sketching out ideas, but that desire is so infrequent I never get around to buying something 😂

Elektron Analog Four/Digitone/Digitakt Soma Pulsar 23 Nord Drum 3p 1010music Lemondrop ASM Hydrasynth Desktop Squarp Pyramid Fx: Bastl Thyme / Hologram Microcosm / Mooer Ocean Machine

https://www.tourboxtech.com/en/TourBoxElite-product.html

This?

Oh cool. I had heard about Ghost years back. Completely forgot about it 😁

I’ll check it out thanks 🙏

What about artist specific communities? My most visited subreddit was always the Autechre one. You happy to see that sort of thing pop up here too?

I’ve been impressed to see the amount of development they’ve put into the Force. I bought one and returned it way back in 2019 when I realised it didn’t do disk streaming, but I see they’ve added that and a lot more since. They definitely seem committed to expanding its functionality at least.