“I’m so used to Ableton right now, I don’t think I’ll ever change to another DAW.”

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What DAW does Bingo Players use?
Bingo Players' Maarten Hoogstraten has said Ableton Live is his DAW and a Korg M3 is his main keyboard. He has named a Yamaha DX7 IID, Roland JV-2080, Ensoniq DP/4+ phaser, DigiTech Talker and Bricasti M7 reverb, plus plugins like Xfer Serum, Spire, Omnisphere and Massive.
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Studio
“I’m so used to Ableton right now, I don’t think I’ll ever change to another DAW.”
“The weighted keys and pads always feel good to work on, and it has some great-sounding presets.”
“I’m a sucker for everything 80s and can get lost playing around with my DX7.”
“I love going through the patches of the JV2080 and its expansions.”
“the Access Virus TI, the one that every trance producer uses!”
“I love to use my DP/4+ phaser whenever I’m working on a funky disco loop.”
“The most expensive piece of gear was my Bricasti M7M with the Model 10 remote.”
“Software can do most things, but I've never heard a plugin vocoder that sounds as good as the real thing.”
Plugins
“It's still a bit buggy, but that thing sounds so fat.”
“there are some very cool sounds on there and it's super-tweakable.”
“Basslines mostly come from Spectrasonics' Omnisphere”
“with occasional help from Massive, of course.”
“But if I'm going down the disco road, I get my slap bass from Trilian.”
“That's always been my problem with Nexus2 - I need to tweak!”
Mixing and mastering
“The rest is handled by Ozone 6, but I try not to go too crazy on the mastering chain.”
Records that shaped me
“I heard these crazy drums and the speeded up vocals, and I was hooked.”
“There was a video game called STREETS OF RAGE that had electronic music in it and that’s when I heard dance music for the first time”
About Bingo Players's gear.
What DAW does Bingo Players use?
Maarten Hoogstraten has said he has worked in Ableton Live for over 10 years, after starting on trackers and moving through Reason, Cubase and Logic. He told MusicTech in 2021 he does not think he will ever change DAW.
What plugins does Bingo Players use?
He has said his synth plugins include Xfer Serum and Reveal Sound Spire, Spectrasonics Omnisphere for most basslines with Native Instruments Massive, Spectrasonics Trilian for slap bass, reFX Nexus2, and iZotope Ozone for mastering.
What synth does Bingo Players use?
In the studio he has said he plays a Korg M3 and a Yamaha DX7 IID, pulls sounds from a Roland JV-2080 with expansion boards, and has named a Roland Juno-2 and an Access Virus TI as hardware synths.
What MIDI keyboard does Bingo Players use?
He has said he plays his software synths from a weighted Korg M3 keyboard because he likes a real piano feel.
Bingo Players is the Dutch dance project of Maarten Hoogstraten, behind Cry (Just A Little) and Get Up (Rattle). This guide covers the DAW, synths, plugins and outboard he has named in studio interviews, plus records that got him into dance music.
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