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Unless your electrical circuit is very old or faulty, the breaker will switch off by itself when you draw too much current (that's the whole point of breakers actually). So as long as it works then it's very probably ok. This is very bad advice. The breaker is designed to prevent drawing currents h...

You can buy a cheap current measuring device in most stores with electrical stuff. Most household wiring should be ok with up to 10A, probably 16A, just check your fusebox to see. However, if you've a bunch of branching extension cables, these are likely not rated as high, so put the highest rated o...

I have both an e6400 ultra and an akai s950 (I have two actually). The akai requires 8 channels out to a mixer unless you are just using it to color samples one at a time. The emu can get away with mixing down to the stereo out in a pinch, but you definitely need 8 mixer channels to get anywhere wit...

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Look at a BlackArts Pharoah,

That is one awesome pedal, but completely and utterly wrong for all the types of music the OP mentioned.

No mention of the 8-bus? Arguably better than the 1604. My 32-8 cost less than a guitar pedal, but sadly its absolutely huge and the power supply so noisy I had to put it in another room. Good job the designers included a really long cable jush for this purpose :) I also own an emu ultra and akai s9...

Recommend me some modern techno which has that Chris Liberator, Dave The Drummer type of fast, bouncy acidy vibe? I think its got the perfect amounts of sweaty stompy dancing energy, without being just screechy or unpleasant. Do any labels still publish this kind of thing?

IMHO, a load of weird sound is totally boring. I can make my own weird sounds, I've no need for yours. What I do find hard, is putting together a coherent, well processed, and well mixed drum kit preset, so it all sounds nicely glued together regardless of what way I adjust levels or what beat I use...

I like turtles.

Anyone thinking about (or already have) the roland tr-8s? I'm very curious, and as a big fan of jamming 90s techno styles, this seems very interesting. Unfortunately pretty much all of the youtube vids are really awful. Maybe cos it's so new? I did find this, which was nice, but I guess most of the ...

There have been several good threads written here about setting up patch bays. Do some searching. In summary, be prepared to get it wrong a few times. Don't underestimate how good normalization is. Label all the sockets on the front side, AND the cables coming up to the back side.. you'll be rewirin...

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I've a 32:8 (and an emu and an s950) which I use quite a lot for techstep and dnb. It's a kind of shitty mixer, really noisy and the eq's are nasty. Loads of great routing options though, and it works great together with a multitrack recorder. I use mine as a live mixer though since my multitracking...

I like my snare a fifth above the kick. IMHO this works really well for DnB, which I do a lot of, and general purpose too as it gives a kind of call-response to the kick and snare. Maybe not so much if both hit at the same time, which is more common in techno, but it isn't gonna sound wrong either. ...

kartan wrote: I come in peace as a humble non condescending techno producer who just wants to share hints and ideas.

There's your problem right there.

well, if they do work, get ready for a massive wave of tube warmth at namm

Just remember that this is from Korg, who lit up the tubes in the EMX and ESX with orange LEDs

I can only really comment on the EMX. I sold my ESX because it was too noisy. If I remember right, this noise is not due to the tubes, it's noisy on the other outputs too and they are on a separate path than the one through the tubes. On the EMX, I swapped my EHX for a couple different types, and se...

The buttons feel very nice for step sequencing, and the midi mangling fx are really very creative, a huge plus for the machines. Remixing midi clips reminds a lot of abletons session view, but fuck me, its worse than the typical yamaha awkwardness trying to manage the patterns. you basically need a ...

You forgot to mention the big deal-breaker of a dnifference: in xox mode the rm1x only can play the instrument you are editing. So if you're working on step sequencing the kick, all you hear is the kick. When you switch to the snare, all you can hear is the snare. It's absolutely retarded, and the k...

Hi Guys, Just wondering if the mpc1000 can do stuff like this.. twisting up midi patterns on the fly? Similar to the Yamaha RS7000? qGPATvP5ylw No. Despite it's excellent sequencer and editing abilities, it is kinda sucky as a live performance tool, (apart from jamming on the pads). It has an arp, ...