Tools
My studio is built around a MacPro 8 core tower, MOTU 828Mk2, and Behringer B2030As.
- I use Digital Performer, Live, Reason and sometimes Logic. (I used to switch between Logic and DP alot…Logic and Live seem to be more “sympatico” with each other. The workflow in DP is less convoluted to me however.)
- I primarily use LOGIC CUBASE5 and LIVE8 now. I also own REASON+RECORD and RENOISE.
- I design sounds with softsynths. I’m not all software based — on the hardware side my main synths are a Roland V-Synth XT, JV2080, and a Kawaii K5000. I also have a couple of modules from Waldorf and a Fizmo.
- My main keyboard controller is a M-Audio Keystation Pro88. I also use the Novation ReMOTE SL37 and struggle with AutoMap3 everyday…
- On the visual end I use a couple of animation programs that are great for generating abstract 3D imagery: Groboto and Bryce. I have not done anything visual in a year.
- For video editing I use iMovie or, very rarely, FinalCut Pro.
- Lastly, I have a Tascam 644 that I can use to pull tracks from OLD tapes I made “back in the day” when cutting edge was a Portastudio 144, some Fostex 4-track, or the erstwhile Tascam.
This is an amazing array of capabilities that I could barely dream of a decade ago. It is at once liberating and at the same time overwhelming. As Eno said: “It’s not the number of options; it’s having 2 or 3 really good ones that matters…”
Yep.
Cheers.
nk:e