Equipment for making music with field recordings?

[jasonw22]

Yeah, that’s not at all what I was trying to draw attention to. The relevant bit is “one of my personal goals with the ER-301 is to support the process of composing with (long) field recordings”. It’s a friendly forum and the OP might enjoy asking some questions over there. Or not. I haven’t read all 42 posts in this thread, just noticed nobody had mentioned ER-301 and, again, its inventor had field recordings top of mind while designing it.

[alanza]

ahhhhhh I understand now, sorry!

[SimonKirby]

Have you thought about an iPad as a way to break free of the keyboard and mouse? There are some pretty inspirational music apps out there (samplr and borderlands would both be interesting with field recordings and are very expressive and hands on for example). I’ve personally gone down the modular route but I’ve been impressed with what people like Perplex On are able to produce with small synths, an iPad, and a controller - worth checking out the perplex_on instagram account (although it’s not field recording based).

[Approaching.horizons]

Yeah, I actually made my first short song using Auxy on an Ipad air, it broke tho, and I don’t really want to buy another. I would rather buy equipment focused on field recording.

[papernoise]

You probably have seen this: http://cdm.link/2018/11/datalooper-ableton-live-foot/

EDIT: I have to say that their comparison chart (on the crowdfunding page) is highly misleading. For example they state that traditional hardware pedals usually have plastic buttons, while in fact most have guitar-pedal style heavy duty metal footswitches. They state 44.1 khz / 16bit being the strandard resolution for hardware loopers, while It’s not uncommon to find 24bit resolutions and sample rates up to 48Khz, etc.
Apart from this the thing does seem pretty nice and the price seems ok. But for completeness sake I just wanted to point out the above, take that chart with a pinch of salt.

[louwrens]

Field recorders are focused on field recordings. The focus of music gear is often on workflow and different types of interaction.

[Approaching.horizons]

Push2 is the ‘obvious’ step, it’ll give you some hands on control that you want - and gives you some interesting options to develop into …

I think, reality is to get what you want, your going to end up investing time and money in this, and your choice is which you do you want to spend more of

I think also it’d be useful to ‘evolve’ your approach slowly

What is your final goal with making music?

@papernoise To combine the instruments I already play and use non musical sounds around me.

For me, process is more important than the outcome. I really just want to enjoy it and have fun

It’s hard to pin it down to one thing, there’s several things I would like to do, but also there are things I probably don’t know I want to do yet. I’m open to ideas

In the future I would also like to perform with other people.

get a decent audio interface and get a mic.

I think also it’d be useful to ‘evolve’ your approach slowly

I would focus on what processes you want to do and just pick some tools that seems to do those things. Then the rest is learning and experimenting.

figure out a technique first.

I appreciate the feedback; I’ve decided I’m going to buy a basic pad controller to use with Live and a handheld recorder, see what happens and go from there!

[fjna]

Most important… Have Fun!!!