anigbrowl wrote:So - desert island scenario: - OT with empty card... standalone...
No way! If I have a cable to speakers or headphones, I can plug into the inputs and get some sound source - by touching the other end of the cable I have some electrical noise that is not silence. That is enough to store as a sample, from that I can make waveforms, use the comb filters, resample etc. Or even begin with silence and use the LFO designer trick to create waveforms.
When I started to make sounds I made my very early tracks by putting effects on sine waves and then doing a lot of cutting and pasting over and over in a 2 track audio editor. Of course this is tedious and difficult, but you can work from nothing. Give me a microphone and things will go a lot faster, though And headphone out to input and/or cue out to input.
Resampling and sampling my own playing and sequencing as phrases and loops is such an important part of my process (even before OT) I'd have to go with that, if I was forced to choose 1.
They're all great audio processors though. (Yet to try MnM, but I have no doubt)
With the MachineDrum it's fun just to build up kits and if I wasn't planning on playing live or could wait to finish a song, that would be my choice. By waitI mean run it into a mixer (or Octatrack!). I have to be able to move those levels live and control effect blends.