What's your setup?

[Sonic Bodhi]

Last year my son got a Moog Grandmother and has been bringing it down and doing some work with it here. I had really almost forgotten the shear joy of knobs, wires, and blinking lights working in the box for the last decade--so I ended up getting a new synth and taking the old ones out of storage. I ended up only really breaking out the DX7 and MC303 due to space and the Ensoniq EPS is going to need professional help--it's not booting properly.

I revised my work area by building a sliding keys stand and turned my BCR2000 into a sequencer . I also added a mioXM MIDI interface which makes routing really simple. Adding all the hardware necessitated some rewiring, so in the process I worked towards eliminating some of the interference from my PC and monitor by locating my interface further away and rerouting and upgrading some of my cabling. I have almost no interference at all now!

With the new set up and being able to work with someone physically at the same location, I decided a quality-of-life upgrade was in order and added smart lighting to enhance creative moods.

I have been loving this new arrangement!

Repairing the DX7
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I had a chance to work with a DX7 back in 1984 that was owned by a keyboardist friend of mine. It opened up my eyes to a whole new world of sonic possibilities. Hope you get the keyboard up and running! Your setup looks pretty nice.

[Aïma Dust]

Love the modifications to the desk--do you do your woodwork?

Thank you very much. Yes, I love to tinker with all kinds of things

[Sonic Bodhi]

Latest edition to my studio:

A portable full HD secondary monitor for my laptop, using a mini HDMI to HDMI cable. The color is astoundingly great for the cheap price point at only $126- and it works great! Why should a dual monitor display be limited to a desktop setup? This also has a magnetic smart cover just like an iPad cover. It’s built solid and has a glass cover on the screen. It also comes with a USB-C to USB-C cable for those with Mac Books that have full-powered USB-C ports.

[Svartmetall]

Here's my overall setup (PC out of shot below the desk, apologies for the terrible panorama stitching):



And a close-up of the Racks Of Doom™ as they were a while back; the ART Multiverb, Marshall 9004 and ART Power Plant have now been replaced in these racks by a TC Electronic M3000 reverb which is now my master reverb, Roland SRV-330 Dimensional Space Reverb, Digitech GSP7 solid state preamp/FX, Digitech GFX1 Twin Tube valve preamp and a Behringer Ultrabass subharmonic synthesiser.

I would like to state for the record that I am not addicted to buying old rack gear in any way, and that I can stop any time I want *twitch twitch*



PC is running Studio One 3 Artist....and I have a stupid number of guitars with 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12 strings, and 4, 5 and 7-string basses.

[synkrotron]

Here's my overall setup

impressive

[synkrotron]

Guest love that space of yours Bill

[synkrotron]

okay, I sold my soul to Imgur because for some reason I am unable to upload images from my own webspace

I have been messing around with my old desk, which was okay when I did all my stuff on a laptop and just wasn't suitable really for the latest desktop setup

I had three separate units consisting of a desk for computer monitor, keyboard and mouse plus some speakers, a separate stand for the computer (I didn't want to put it on the floor) and a rack unit for some bits and pieces

all three units were connected by various cables and when I wanted to clean around them it was an almighty PITA to move them around

so I consolidated all three units into one



and with the MIDI keyboard pulled out,



I have a little pull down bit for a couple of switched power sockets,




then to the left of all that I have my modular and my OB-12 on a couple of IKEA tables,




so, that's me for the time being, and probably till the day I pop me clogs

[Svartmetall]

Ready to roll

Seriously loving that! You've made me realise how vanilla the lighting is in my own studio setup (especially given that two of the walls are completely covered in nebula-print wall hangings from Amazon) so I must now investigate coloured lighting options...

[Svartmetall]

If you have blacklights, then try some of these to cover bare wall areas...I have several of these around the house including two of the four walls of the studio room, and I love them.

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[synkrotron]

Didn't you design and build the main desk? I remember you working with some material a couple years back.

yeah, not sure if I posted about that here... I probably would have done

the old desk has been assimilated into the new... new top and new base, with a new rack sandwiched in between

the new top was designed so that the desktop would have space to sit behind the monitor screens and to the left there is now space for the work laptop... I am working from home at the moment so my studio is also my office

How's the Beatstep Pro working for you?

I am embarrassed to say that I haven't used it much at all for what must be getting on for a year or more

but when it does get used it works well as a performance sequencer and is reasonably well spec'd for the price I think.. there are better, bigger sequencers available... more parts... but I am happy with the two parts, plus a drum sequencer for what I do when I am playing with the modular

[Quaaudioludes]

My "setup" is really less of a setup than a conglomeration of gear acquired over time. Hackintosh, Cubase/Ableton, tons of VSTs (instruments and FX), Push 1st gen, Keystep non-pro which is dedicated to my Eurorack setup (3 rows of, I think, 104hp), NI Komplete Kontrol 49 mk2, Kurzweil K2500XS, Fantom 8, Hydrasynth Deluxe (just added last week; it's a beast!), MS-20 mini, XV-5080, Neutron, Microfreak, TR-8, TB-3, Monotribe, SQ-64, Volca Modular, a handful of those Teenage Engineering Pocket things, MIDIExpress XT, Focusrite Saffire 40, X-air 18, Studiolive 16.4.2, handful of SM57 clones, a Blue Ember, couple of amps (two tube, one solid state, one bass), about a dozen guitars, three basses, various harmonicas, ukulele, accordion. Oh, and a lava lamp. Can't forget that.

I upgraded my old Alesis RA100 to the Avantone CLA-200 and added a Presonus Temblor 10 to fill out the low end. Sounds fantastic.

I have the Temblor 10 mated to a pair of Presonus 8" active monitors. If you haven't, you might consider running REW to flatten out the frequency response in your room. I did that and had to roll off a bunch of bass frequencies. Then, after a couple of years, I rearranged the music room and discovered everything sounded terrible again, so had to re-run it. Changed the EQ setup in the mixer, all was right with the world. Then, after a couple of years, I put everything back where it originally was. Another round of REW and EQ adjustments on the mixer/interface. It's kind of a PITA, but room analysis/adjustment actually works for helping get things to translate well to small speakers/car audio/etc.