Studio Pics

I'd love to use an Atari but I don't have a monitor.

  On 8/11/2021 at 12:43 AM, sheatheman said:

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All geared up to start pumping out electroacoustic eurotrance bangers, I see?

  On 8/11/2021 at 12:30 AM, Wunderbar said:

What made u go for an atari instead of a tracker like renoise?

I still haven't got around to properly trying out Renoise, in my mind trackers are sequencer+sampler combos...  As for the Atari ST, I'd like to occasionally try composing without any modern DAWs as it seems like the change might be somewhat inspiring; I thought it'd be fun to try out the combination everyone was using back in the day (ST + S1000); I have this theory that the tech you use, especially the sequencer, affects the style of music you make, so I wanted to try out various now-free old MIDI sequencers (Tiger Cub, anyone?); and given that I often tend to make one or two sections and essentially mute/unmute their tracks in buildups to make whole pieces of music, I wanted to try out Creator, which seemed to be designed from that viewpoint.  Creator in particular seems to bridge the ideas between MIDI sequencers (a single long list of MIDI events, grouped into tracks) and earlier digital sequencers (patterns chained together into songs), with muting being automatable.

I mean, it was good enough for Fatboy Slim, the Future Sound of London, and Orbital...

Curiously, my first track with Creator sounds (to my ears, at least) just like my teenage Impulse Tracker music, only now I'm adding delay and reverb in the mix.  Which is nice.

also has the benefit of zero distractions

  On 8/11/2021 at 11:09 AM, ZoeB said:

I'd like to occasionally try composing without any modern DAWs as it seems like the change might be somewhat inspiring; I thought it'd be fun to try out the combination everyone was using back in the day (ST + S1000)

From about 2009 to 2016 I did that (MPC2000xl as the studio hub, with a rack of 90s digital gear and a couple keyboards), it was a lot faster and I usually had better ideas. The only reason I'm using a DAW as more than a stereo recorder again is that I got sick of not having a proper mixer (everything was going through a little 1u line mixer with no EQ and one aux) and I don't have the space or money for one, so I started multitracking again out of necessity and my mixing has improved but I hardly finish anything and most of it is a lot less interesting than what I did when I didn't use any gear made after 2002 or so.

Since I'm using that Presonus Studiolive as an interface now, what I should probably do is get a cheap Wal Mart tablet hook it up to my router so I can use it as a standalone mixer and record direct to stereo on its internal recorder, that seems like a good compromise between having some control of the mix but still committing to recording everything in a single pass.

  On 8/11/2021 at 11:09 AM, ZoeB said:

I still haven't got around to properly trying out Renoise, in my mind trackers are sequencer+sampler combos...  As for the Atari ST, I'd like to occasionally try composing without any modern DAWs as it seems like the change might be somewhat inspiring; I thought it'd be fun to try out the combination everyone was using back in the day (ST + S1000); I have this theory that the tech you use, especially the sequencer, affects the style of music you make, so I wanted to try out various now-free old MIDI sequencers (Tiger Cub, anyone?); and given that I often tend to make one or two sections and essentially mute/unmute their tracks in buildups to make whole pieces of music, I wanted to try out Creator, which seemed to be designed from that viewpoint.  Creator in particular seems to bridge the ideas between MIDI sequencers (a single long list of MIDI events, grouped into tracks) and earlier digital sequencers (patterns chained together into songs), with muting being automatable.

I mean, it was good enough for Fatboy Slim, the Future Sound of London, and Orbital...

Curiously, my first track with Creator sounds (to my ears, at least) just like my teenage Impulse Tracker music, only now I'm adding delay and reverb in the mix.  Which is nice.

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I still love the Atari st cubase for midi over all other midi sequencers. I have kept mine, but recently considered selling it. I agree that it’s awesome to use that stuff over modern sequencing- most of the albums done with either Atari st, mpc, or alesis mmt8 are my favorites.

  On 8/11/2021 at 12:08 PM, pizza said:

also has the benefit of zero distractions

Totally!  Even my main setup has helps with this, using a separate computer to record on.  If I get bored while recording a part, I don't check social media sites, I start messing with the oscillator's footing or the filter's cutoff point, adding little flourishes that make the track idiosyncratic and mine.

your post inspired me to download Steem yesterday (Atari ST emulator) and mess around with Cubase 2. got it working via midi etc. kinda funny how little piano rolls (and sequencers in general) have changed since then. totally useable still to this day.

  On 7/29/2021 at 11:30 PM, Rubin Farr said:

https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/24357/the-beast-my-rig-possibly-of-interest-to-you-guys

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How do you even reach that MC-303? This studio makes sense in zero gravity I guess

also that mc303 is the size of a small desk

  On 8/10/2021 at 9:56 PM, ZoeB said:

Getting there with Atari corner...

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Very cool!

looks like Flylo has got lots of cool shit in his studio

but those speakers look like he's wanting to go deaf

via: https://twitter.com/WarpRecords/status/1426925145189351430?s=20

Imagine being rich.

Does anyone know what carpet that is ?

looks like he browsed the Thomann's "most popular" synth list and just bought all of them

  On 8/15/2021 at 5:55 PM, Wunderbar said:

Imagine being rich.

Does anyone know what carpet that is ?

Why I reckon that's a red Persian.

everything on wheels: +1

plant: +1

no shoes: +1

decent view: +1

Xbox box: +0

no cat/dog: -1

  On 8/15/2021 at 7:50 PM, auxien said:

everything on wheels: +1

plant: +1

no shoes: +1

decent view: +1

Xbox box: +0

no cat/dog: -1

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no chair either? he sits in a lotus position and flies round the room

The lighting in that photo is so weird that it looks like a bad Photoshop job.

Posting this pic before the stand breaks and crashes, destroying everything I have ever loved in life.

looks like nice wood on that desk and a solid lamp. the left placement of the lights on each speaker would fucking kill me tho...which monitors are those?

  On 9/6/2021 at 10:59 PM, auxien said:

looks like nice wood on that desk and a solid lamp. the left placement of the lights on each speaker would fucking kill me tho...which monitors are those?

It's a pair of Neumann KH120A. I really don't mind the lights at all. I think you can turn them off completely by some pin placement on the back anyway.

nice, heard plenty of good about Neumann's but don't think i've ever tried any in person.