J.D.O. is dead

With white knuckles, I have been holding onto my MPC-2000, turntable, MIDI interface and Pro-Tools 6 setup.  I’ve been offered free copies of FL Studio, Reason and Ableton.  To all of them, my “purist” nose went up.  I considered it cheating to click and drag drums over to pads.  It was sacrilegious to chop a sample with automatic 1/2 note marks and send them directly to keys. but…..but……but……now, I have as little time as I do room to house said equipment.  So I checked out Ableton and grabbed a cheap MIDI controller.  Akai is my joint so I went with the MPK-Mini. Keys and pads. Word.  After a weekend of trial and error and a few trips to YouTube University, I would just like to say: I STAND CORRECTED.  I WAS WRONG. THIS IS AWESOME AND FAST AND NOW I CAN SPEND MORE TIME ON THE ACTUAL MUSIC-MAKING INSTEAD OF HARVESTING SOUNDS. 

Plus it fits in my backpack……..I’ll be makin beats on a plane suckaz!

later my friends