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Hello everyone!

I've been a TAXI member for almost a year, but I'm just now getting started on the forum. My wife & I quit our corporate jobs in January to hit the road full-time in a truck and travel trailer, so that we could spend more time with our new daughter and travel around the country. With COVID, you can imagine it's been a mixed success.

That said, I don't have a lot of physical space, budget, or time for music gear.

The 3,000+ sq ft house we used to own in Savage, MN had a large basement room that I had turned into my studio, which included both acoustic & electric drum recording setups. I still have most of that gear in a tiny storage unit in MN.

But here's what I'm using now. Almost 100% of the music I've had forwarded by TAXI in the past year was produced exclusively with this setup:
- 13-inch MacBook Pro (2019) w/ 1.4 GHz Intel Core i5 and 8GB RAM
- KORG microKEY Air 37-key MIDI controller
- Logic Pro
- A handful of Native Instruments plugins
- Sennheiser HD 280 Pro headphones

It's completely battery-powered and wireless, so I can work on music outdoors when the weather is nice and I have access to a table.

Here's a quick link to my public profile: https://www.taxi.com/members/jamusix

I'm definitely interested in collaborating, particularly with lyricist/vocalist types.

Wow, that is really cool! Gives a whole new meaning to studio tan

Hope you and your family are staying healthy and safe!

I wonder how you manage to create something useful with the small notebook screen. I normally use a 24" and was thinking about getting one of these super-extra-wider Samsung screens, because I am so tired of having to scroll all the time for sliders and tracks. It's so costly (in time). Was also thinking about getting a wide keyboard with at least 88 keys, better one octave more, because its also time ineffecient to having to switch octaves in the software. But on a notebook screen - I think I could not do that.

maryshaw wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 09, 2020 7:13 am

Wow, that is really cool! Gives a whole new meaning to studio tan

Hope you and your family are staying healthy and safe!

Thank you! Same to you!

PDebik wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 09, 2020 7:27 am

I wonder how you manage to create something useful with the small notebook screen. I normally use a 24" and was thinking about getting one of these super-extra-wider Samsung screens, because I am so tired of having to scroll all the time for sliders and tracks. It's so costly (in time). Was also thinking about getting a wide keyboard with at least 88 keys, better one octave more, because its also time ineffecient to having to switch octaves in the software. But on a notebook screen - I think I could not do that.

Yes, I got annoyed by it for a while. Honestly, though, I've been making music on laptop screens for years because having the DAW be portable has come in handy so many times. I had an 88-key controller for a long time; that was probably the hardest part of my previous setup to give up. But it was just too big to be practical in a small space that requires tearing down every time I stop making music for the day.

Very cool !

I think I might also struggle with a smaller screen than the 2 x 24" I have !

Just goes to show it's the talent not the gear. Well done!

BuzzReed wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 08, 2021 7:24 pm

Just goes to show it's the talent not the gear. Well done!

Thank you. I hope you're right!

Update for anyone who is interested, since this thread is now 6 months old:

After about a year working roughly 2 hrs per day with this setup, 40 of my submissions have been forwarded and I'm now signed to 2 different music libraries. Don't know if this is normal progress or not, but thought I'd throw that out there.

Thanks everyone for the comments!

That's excellent! 40 forwards is great, how many submissions have you done? You are certainly on the right track!