Which pro artists don't use hardware?

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Pro artist tho…

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you are correct, I’ve re-watched that part and he says that for himself he’s not using any hardware and he gave it all to Rob, he also said that Rob uses old computers for all kinds of things but he doesn’t really know what Rob does…
well at least Sean is itb only :slight_smile:

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are we saying pro is when its your sole source of income and you’re know for it versus hobby passion blackhole of finance and emotion?

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I thought it just meant you’ve got enough synths to fill a three tier Jaspers rack.

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only learned about these this year

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Yes :slight_smile:
When you live off music playing/production

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Stage one of pro-music club.

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Some of my favorites don’t:

Mark Fell
Tim Hecker
Dj N**** Fox
Frank Bretschneider
Ryoji Ikeda
Alva Noto
Grischa Lichtenberger
Ahnnu
Giuseppe Lelasi
Huerco S.
Nicola Ratti
Oval

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how could I forget about Carsten!

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stage two i suppose is owning jaspers stand

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Not true. He uses guitars, guitar pedals, Eventide H3000, his old albums like Harmony In Ultraviolet are like 80% guitar. His most used synth is Nord Modular 2. He even already bought a back-up just for when his current one eventually dies.
He does do a lot inside MAX MSP, specifically PPOOLL, but yea…

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Wouldn’t be a thread about “pro artists who do use hardware” much shorter and more to the point? :wink:

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dunno, i thought maybe dawless was how the whole thing started so itb would be a minority but who knows?

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Mike Paradinas aka µ-Ziq:

As the owner of the label Planet Mu, Mike Paradinas has overseen over 400 releases, from the 1990s to the present day. His own work has been abundant too, and many of his albums, whether as label head or musician, have been crucial in the history of electronic music. (https://thequietus.com/interviews/strange-world-of/mike-paradinas-interview-best-songs/)

Influential and prolific he does everything on a laptop with Logic and minimal plugins: Mike Paradinas: "I experimented with Ableton but it did my head in, so I'm still using Logic" | MusicRadar

(Off to shake my head and raise an eyebrow at my expensive gear and lack of finished music…)

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Plaid, already mentioned above, not only don’t use hardware (moving it after sampling all their synths towards the end of the 90s, natch), they’re also quite militant about it.

Elektron got them to do an EP using nothing but an Analog Rytm and even in the interview for that EP they felt compelled to state they couldn’t understand why anyone would choose to use such a device instead of a computer. :roll_eyes:

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I posted a few before but I assume pretty much the majority of people on beatport charts are soft synth people. Just preview the tracks, sounds are shared/similar.

Here is an older and probably more prominent artist (he coined EDM):

I prefer to use soft synths mostly because staying in-the-box enables me to work on planes and pick up where I left off months and years later.

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What if it’s your sole source of income but you’re not known for it though? :thinking:

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I loathe the term EDM.

But no one person coined EDM. Whatever ‘coined’ means.

Apologies… I’ll take my grumpy, old-man hat off now :grimacing:

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Autechre

Curtis Roads

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Majority of itb made electronic music sound lifeless, flat and plain to my ears (good enough speakers needed to distinguish this, Ive realized that quite late). Exai deff sounds hw and in a large part analog but it was completely made with maxmsp. Music made itb can sound alive fo sure!