Limitations: Analog / Poly 800

As the name says it is about limiting yourself in your production. Until early 2010 I made my beats strictly with Propellerheads Reason and an Midi Keyboard. I did it that way since around 2004. I surely sampled old records of my mom and grandmom sometimes, but never made an effort in going to digg for fresh samples. Too bad - I am an lazy bastard!

In 2010 while beeing an intern in Calgary, Canada, I still was doing some beats once in a while, but super annoyed by all this dragging and dropping and without an Midi Keyboard it just sucked. So I decided to buy an Akai MPK49. It´s Akai´s Midi Keyboard with those Pads. 
Finally I had some Keys in Canada and I started to use those Pads as well. - It was great! Much more fun to push those Pads!

When I returned to Berlin I bought myself an MPC. Much more fun! And I found my ASR X Pro (the Ensoniq sampler K-OS http://www.k-osmusic.com/ is holding on his YES Album cover) for 150€ on ebay. Cheaper than an Microkorg, so I got it. The ASR X Pro is packed with cool effects and really easy to use as well.
I got hooked on gear so I searched the web for an nice and affordable Synthesizer. Of course the MicroKorg... but - everybody uses it and I wanted something different. So I found this video on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6bG8PpSDPk and I just loved those old trashy scifi kinda sounds. So I knew that you could do somehting with it. Well, you have to know how to programm it, right. In the end my programmed sounds dont really sound like the ones in the vid, but i am not eager to get exactly those sounds anyways... blabla...
So within 2 weeks I got one of kijiji.de for 120€ in a flightcase and circuit bended. Filter Res and Cutoff are accesable by 2 potis. Nice.

Ok. End of the story.

On this little project I wanted to limitate myself.
All sounds from only one synthesizer*. The Korg Poly 800 MK2.
The Korg Poly 800 MK2 sounds and Vocal Samples sampled into the ASR X Pro and Sequenced with the MPC 2000 XL. Drums programmed in the MPC 2000 XL. Some compression and equing in Logic Express.

*Except Drums
*Except "Got Skills?" - Bass stock sound ASR X Pro

GotSkills

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Another beat i did not finished... I did not put on the "Limitations: Analog / Poly800" EP. 
As well only one synthesizer. In this track I chopped some of my Synthi playing up.

"Limitations Analog / Poly800" Leftover 2

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Another beat i did not finished... I did not put on the "Limitations: Analog / Poly800" EP. 
As well only one synthesizer. 

"Limitations Analog / Poly800" Leftover 3

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