I myself am a lover of reggae music in all of its styles, forms and from all ages. Producing music for me is a hobby I have had since the late 90's making use of Cubase mainly as my preferred sequencer. I am not a studio professional by any means, neither a new coming rookie, I'd sit myself firmly in-between the two
Production-wise at the moment I am particularly interested in the 80's era electronic jump-up dancehall style of riddims, to get a taste of the style I mean tracks such as Frankie Paul's - Get Ready, that get ready to jump up on the dance floor style riddim.
I am writing this post just to see if there are any like minded electronic producers in the house. The likes of the late, great Steely and his life long sidekick Clevie, I hold dearly most of the pairs' version catalogue solely for their drum patterns, the electronic bass lines and that unmistakable classic gritty piano sound that came from Steelys' beloved Yamaha DX-100.
It has now become that much more accessible to be able to use the kind of sounds that made those dancehall classics! Such as the fairly new software recreation of Clevies' goto drum machine the DX. Geforce has recreated the Oberheim DMX and so no longer do you need to use sketchy sounding wav files sampled from the old hardware, you can now have an authentic sounding, high quality DMX at your finger tips which I find so exciting, being able to lay down some drum patterns just as Clevie did way back when.
This post is becoming much longer than I initially intended so I shall say bye for now folks. Please do comment, I'd really like to hear from some like-minded souls in the world.
I realize that responses can be slow here, sometimes years but I don't mind that at all.