Just thought it would be nice to get to know more about each other.

My name is Jimi. I live in Ireland (South West) but was born and raised in Germany.

I'm 50 years old and work in the IT industry.

I like electronic music, such as Tangerine Dream, Orb, Pete Namlook, also like guitar stuff, Steve Vai. Joe Satriani and other stuff, mostly instrumental, don't like jodling lol

Yamaha AN1x synth
Korg Electribe SX
Korg Kaoss Pad3
SW1000xg sound card
Reason
CooleditPro
Sonar7

Jimi

I'm Matt, I'll be 23 in a few months and I currently live in New York (on the island, not the city )

I'm reattending school to become a secondary English ed. teacher, love literature very much so :]

I listen to quite a bit of post rock and electronic music, minimal stuff, glitchy etc. I guess I more or less write the same haha. I enjoy jazz and hip hop as well.

Was using FL for approximately eight years, recently switched to Reason because I like the work flow much more and building sounds from scratch is quite a bit easier (thanks to the cabling screen)

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My name is J. I am 26 years old. Recently relocated to Arkansas from Tennessee.

I am a minister of music for a church here in town. I play piano and organ (by ear) I also read music and know some theory. I had a music scholarship for playing French Horn in college.

I like music in general no certain genre...if it sounds good, then I'll listen to it. But as far as production, I do gospel, R&B, & Hip-Hop. I like it all.

My setup includes:

Triton Pro X (sequencing using the powerful sequencer built into the Triton)
Roland JW-50 (workstation, but I use it as my MIDI keyboard)
Roland VS-880 Xpanded w/ effects card (use it as a sampler & effects board)
Mac Book Pro 2.16 2 GB 17 inch
Logic 8 Pro Suite
Reason 4.0
Recycle
Audacity

My name is Tom McCune, I also live in Ireland (Dublin, east coast) and was born in Belfast. I listen to a lot of Aphex Twin stuff, as well as Squarepusher. I also like more generic trance and hip-hop/ganster rap, like NWA, Slyder etc.

My setup includes:

Dell 9150 desktop:
1 GB RAM
3.5GHz PD Procesesor
Creative X-Fi Sound Blaster

Midistudio-2 basic midi keyboard
BCR-2000 midi controller

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Hey,

My name is Paul, i'm 25 and I live in Adelaide, South Australia. Been using Reason for the last 4 years and some Fruityloops before that.

Due to some chronic back pain I have been unable to spend any time on my music..................just can't concentrate at the moment.
I have vowed to get my back fixed and then get straight back into it ASAP.
I have been keeping an eye on this forum though

Mostly I listen to alternative rock/indie, so bands like Radiohead, TV on the radio Arcade Fire etc. Also enjoy electronica, as long as it isn't too repetitive and has a bit of feeling and emotion to it.

My kit comprises of my PC which is a bit crappy.
Reason 4
Re-Cycle
Pair of Yamaha HS50M's
and a Korg Micro controller.

It's a pretty basic setup but it's all I need, and i've covered all the wall in my "studio" with blankets. I feel it's very impotant too get my monitoring correct, cus I like to produce and generate sounds rather than compose music ready for someone else to mix and master.

Oh yeah I forgot to mention my very fresh new pair of KRK RP8s. I love em!

My name is Eddie.. Producer name:Eddie Versatile...
Im 22 years old and I live in Atlanta, Georgia, which is where my mom decided to settle down after moving around a lot (about 6 states if i remember correctly) all before i turned 6...
I was born in Germany, my father was in the military, but my mom brought me back to the states when i was around 9 months old...
I've had an interest in music all my life, starting out playing a recorder, moved up to a clarinet, then the trumpet, trombone, cornet, french horn, tuba, oboe, a little saxaphone... and when i wasn't messing with orchestral instruments i was playing around with Acid Pro tryin to piece together loops to form some cool Electronica tracks, All that was before i was about 13 which is when i picked up my first guitar... at which time i just decided to drop everything and persue a RockStar career haha... I had 8 guitars at one time(the Ibanez's were my favs) and 20 something effects pedals pushed through a LOUD peavey amp...Formed a band with some friends.. lasted about 2 years, only got to perform once before the drummer flaked out on us and quit... i decided then that i didn't want to have to rely on others for my success which is when I started playing with fruity loops...
The whole thing that turned me on to producing is that i now had everything at my fingertips to make an entire instrumental by myself... exactly how i wanted it done...
Once a got Reason 3.0 my life changed... and i became obsessed with Producing...This was about 4 years ago i would say.. When i was about 18-19...
Since then i''ve just been on my grind, working my full time jobs and coming home to another job of making music... Once my Full time job started paying more, i was able to buy some nice equipment...
Right now my setup includes.

-E-Machines AMD Athlon 3600 64 bit PC with XP (works just fine for me)
-1 GB ram (soon to be 2)
-350GB HD
-32" LCD TV for my screen
-Reason 4.0
-M-Audio Ozone for midi control and is used as my Audio Interface..
-Pro-Tools M-Powered to record and master tracks with...
-MXL-990 Microphone with shock mount (has a nice warm sound and isnt too expensive...)
-M-Audio Axiom49 midi Controller (for all around use in Reason and Pro-tools)
-2 Yamaha HS80M 8" Bi-Amplified Studio Monitors (AMAZING quality sound!)
- M-Audio Radium49 (was my main keyboard, now its a backup..)

And thats about it.. minus a few lil accesories...
Pretty basic setup thats fairly cheap for a complete solution which is what i've turned it into...
Software is the way to go! haha...

Right now.. I am procuding, Recording, and Engineering for Myself and quite a few other people...

Check out my myspace music site if you guys have a chance and let me know what you think...

www.myspace.com/eddiemarshall

Hey peoples, Today is my first day on the forum, not to long ago I started using Reason 4 but before that I was mainly running Acid Pro 6. I'm a Guitarist that hates bands so reason is perfect for me. I write Industrial music and Vocals and also rock Instrumentals, Steve Vai, John 5 Stuff. I love Metal & Hardcore music, with a touch of
Hip-Hop. I live in New Castle, DE and work in warehouses.

Gear:
Marshall valvestate 2000 Half Stack
ESP EC-1000 Flat Black Guitar
Fender Strat
Line 6 Gear Box & Toneport GX
Zoom 505 pedalboard & EQ
Reason 4
Acid Pro 6
Ableton 7.0.2
13G of Loops & Samples
M-Audio KeyRig 25