Exactly what it says. I live off seeing other people's workspaces. Did you already post a picture but got some new stuff? Post again. Share your pictures below. I want see two channel interfaces attached to inexpensive PCs in a bedroom and I want to see recording studios and everything in between. Let's see em.
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Tired of bad news and debating. Share your workspace thread
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Gerran
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Well, this is my bedroom... As per your request as untidy and raw as it ever is...
Please, share yours as well @ianaeillo !
Please, share yours as well @ianaeillo !
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Jemusic
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Here is my setup. I have had a studio since 1980 so this is my 46th setup. A few details.
Going anti clockwise. Master control on the right with the Mac Studio as the main computer. Yamahah 01V is my final mixer. Monitors are there as well as Faderport 8 and monitor controller.
I have 5 computers. The other 4 are are virtual synths. On the left table is the screen for the Win7 machine in a cabinet below with the drive enclosure also for the main computer. The rack has synths and interfaces and midi interfaces etc. Two mixers on the top mix all the hardware synths and the 4 computers.
Yamaha H&7's as aux monitors. Under that is a monitor and keyboard/mouse which can be switched between the two computers in front of the chair. One is Win 98 machine and the other Win XP. They have older synths on them like Logic ESX24 and all the Sonar synths from Producer 8.5 are on the XP machine. I like the sounds of these older synths/samplers from that era long ago.
Keyboards are Moog Voyager, VSynth, Prophet 12, Odyssey, Korg MS20, Yamaha CS01 (with breath controller) plus tabletop DR Synth. (general Midi synth) Rack has Korg 03R/W, Roland JV2080 maxed out, Yamaha Motif Rack ES, Kurzweil K2000R fully optioned and EMU E5000. The iMac has a lot of virtual synths on it also. All the computers can be sequenced from Studio One. I have 12 hardware synths, 4 computers (treated as hardware synths) and well over 300 soft synths now. (Too many, really all you need is Omnisphere, Unify and Soundpaint! Those three are are 3 computers)
Cupboard has doors removed and hold effects pedals and other things. Including a 1975 Teac mixer which sounds amazing patched over more digital sounds. Up top is ADAT and HiFi amp plus test gear for fault finding etc.. That large aluminium case down the bottom has 1000 CD ROMS for Kurzweil, Roland, AKAI and EMU libraries. The Kurzweil and EMU read AKAI and Roland libraries as well as their own. Very clever. Both EMU and Kurzweil have CD ROM drives attached.
There is a PA in the room driven from a 12 channel Mackie mixer, poweramp plus Turbosound speakers. PA is good for jams etc. The PA sounds as good as my main monitors. There is a sub underneath the main table also. Room treatment does work well and everything sounds great in that room. I have got a large music room as well where I can set up 6 or 7 players. There is an upright in there and room for drums etc. I run a multicore out to that room to record live players etc..
Going anti clockwise. Master control on the right with the Mac Studio as the main computer. Yamahah 01V is my final mixer. Monitors are there as well as Faderport 8 and monitor controller.
I have 5 computers. The other 4 are are virtual synths. On the left table is the screen for the Win7 machine in a cabinet below with the drive enclosure also for the main computer. The rack has synths and interfaces and midi interfaces etc. Two mixers on the top mix all the hardware synths and the 4 computers.
Yamaha H&7's as aux monitors. Under that is a monitor and keyboard/mouse which can be switched between the two computers in front of the chair. One is Win 98 machine and the other Win XP. They have older synths on them like Logic ESX24 and all the Sonar synths from Producer 8.5 are on the XP machine. I like the sounds of these older synths/samplers from that era long ago.
Keyboards are Moog Voyager, VSynth, Prophet 12, Odyssey, Korg MS20, Yamaha CS01 (with breath controller) plus tabletop DR Synth. (general Midi synth) Rack has Korg 03R/W, Roland JV2080 maxed out, Yamaha Motif Rack ES, Kurzweil K2000R fully optioned and EMU E5000. The iMac has a lot of virtual synths on it also. All the computers can be sequenced from Studio One. I have 12 hardware synths, 4 computers (treated as hardware synths) and well over 300 soft synths now. (Too many, really all you need is Omnisphere, Unify and Soundpaint! Those three are are 3 computers)
Cupboard has doors removed and hold effects pedals and other things. Including a 1975 Teac mixer which sounds amazing patched over more digital sounds. Up top is ADAT and HiFi amp plus test gear for fault finding etc.. That large aluminium case down the bottom has 1000 CD ROMS for Kurzweil, Roland, AKAI and EMU libraries. The Kurzweil and EMU read AKAI and Roland libraries as well as their own. Very clever. Both EMU and Kurzweil have CD ROM drives attached.
There is a PA in the room driven from a 12 channel Mackie mixer, poweramp plus Turbosound speakers. PA is good for jams etc. The PA sounds as good as my main monitors. There is a sub underneath the main table also. Room treatment does work well and everything sounds great in that room. I have got a large music room as well where I can set up 6 or 7 players. There is an upright in there and room for drums etc. I run a multicore out to that room to record live players etc..
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Gerran
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Awesome! I guess finding the 'right' synth sound can take a while...
Is that a Liquid Saffire I see in there? I always felt like they could have done more with the Liquid line of stuff. Like the idea sounded amazing...I just never got around to trying them. Do you use the MOTU or the Focusrite for day-to-day stuff or are they both running?
DAMN. My main production synths are a Yamaha TX81z and a Korg M2r and I feel like I haven't scratched the surface of them. Your collection is seriously impressive! How are you networking your soft synths from various computers? I have an 05 MacBook and a 12 Mac Pro that I refuse to throw away because of the samples / synths / authorizations I have on them and I network them using the built-in Apple MIDI network utility. However, on my older Mac Pro occasionally I get laggy notes with Kontakt, but only Kontakt.
Anyway, that's a seriously cool setup.
Gerran
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I have the MOTU over 20 years now and it's my rock solid go to device. I've run several theatre tours with that thing and recorded full bands with it, 8 tracks at a time.
Since FireWire support is dwindling, I got the Liquid Sapphire just recently for dirt cheap (the guy didn't know what he was selling, he said all outputs were faulty, but they were just misconfigured). I haven't had the opportunity to really play with it yet, but it's now properly set up as an ADAT extension for the MOTU. Problem is they don't play nice together when both connected over FireWire. I'm a little bit anxious to fiddle with that too much. I have a working setup now, if I somehow break the FireWire, I'm afraid it's gone forever.
Since FireWire support is dwindling, I got the Liquid Sapphire just recently for dirt cheap (the guy didn't know what he was selling, he said all outputs were faulty, but they were just misconfigured). I haven't had the opportunity to really play with it yet, but it's now properly set up as an ADAT extension for the MOTU. Problem is they don't play nice together when both connected over FireWire. I'm a little bit anxious to fiddle with that too much. I have a working setup now, if I somehow break the FireWire, I'm afraid it's gone forever.
I love how long the MOTU interfaces are officially supported. I recently got a MOTU Express XT with a manufacture date of 2001 on it...and the drivers loaded up and recognized it with no problem. I was honestly stunned.
Focusrite drivers don't like to aggregate with other devices. There was always a way to get them to play nice, but it always just felt a little janky and held together with some string and glue when I was doing it with my old Quantum. I just sorta gave up. Running in standalone is probably the way to go to avoid blowing up a firewire bus for sure.
Focusrite drivers don't like to aggregate with other devices. There was always a way to get them to play nice, but it always just felt a little janky and held together with some string and glue when I was doing it with my old Quantum. I just sorta gave up. Running in standalone is probably the way to go to avoid blowing up a firewire bus for sure.
Jemusic
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All the computers have got really nice audio interfaces in them and midi interfaces attached. So I just send midi to them from the tracks in Studio One. from my main midi interface. The audio comes into the mixers etc and finally to my main mix. The latency is fast in most of them too. I can send the synths audio directly to tracks also for printing. I don't use them all the time but its nice to have the old computers around though. I did not want to thrown them away either and they are not worth anything much. But they all have older rare synths/samplers and large libraries as well. Might as well sequence them. Things like IRIS 2, Absynth, FM7, Sonar Dimension Pro, Rapture, Wusik Station, Alchemy etc They still sound fat and amazing today. Not many will have these sounds around either.