Claude VonStroke

in this photo we can see his rack equipment..

in this photo we can see his rack equipment..

In talking about how he made his album Urban Animal, Claude VonStroke talks about how the Native Instruments Maschine Studio improved his workflow. When asked if his setup was the same as on his 2009 album Bird Brain:

"Less Reason than before. I'm trying to record into it more but [as far as] moving things around and such it's still just Ableton [Live] 9. What I did use a lot is Native Instruments Maschine. It's the best scratchpad ever for just whipping up an idea, and then it's terrible for trying to integrate it back into your DAW.

"The Maschine Studio thing is awesome as it has screens on it and you don't even have to look at your computer, but it would be better if they would just add audio to it. Then they would have a Reason-like thing, because it's pretty cool and it's fast. Say you want to put together a beat in Ableton, you can do it in either 40 minutes or five minutes; Maschine is the five minute version and it's fun."

"I'm trying to get faster, so I'm working more on Maschine because I find that the ideas come way faster. I do what I call the scratchpad work in Maschine and then once it gets into skeleton form I then do all the nitpicky stuff in a DAW, like automation and everything. But I also want do a lot of this analogue synth sequencing and just tweak the knobs and record for 20 minutes, and then just pick out the best three minutes."

Original article here.

in this photo we can see his rack equipment..

in this photo we can see his rack equipment..

in this photo we can see his rack equipment..

Pushing this beat together just got a lil easier. Thanks Ableton. Cool device I just started using

Didn't get a great shot of this one but I think live performers will be into this thing it's like a mixer/master clock with step sequencing and fx

This has got to be my fav plugin

Reason is a DAW sequencer for the production of music.

Music production DAW sequencer

Ableton is a DAW for music production and liver performance.