Studio Pics

[Aefx]

 

photo

 

where is your asr10?

 

 

Sold it as I hadn't found a proper SCSI interface and to dive into it with floppys was kinda hard. Looking to buy ensoniq dp2/4 as effects were quite nice.

[DerWaschbar]

Should have picked up an HxC emulator. I just got one for my Emax and it's amazing.

[Squee]

 

 

I'm pleased with this setup. Just enough for gigs and jamming.

Nice! I was thinking about buying the Volca Keys as well, but I wasn't 100% sure about it. But playing with the Volca Bass has convinced me that these are excellent machines!

[Guest]

The Keys is great! Sounds great with verb. The Beats works best with a compressor though (which is what that pedal is - Line 6 Constrictor). And the Bass is killer. The three VCOs gives a lot of freedom in changing between basslines and leads.

[sheatheman]

guess i should get the bass too.

[ryancolecreate]

nice setup. I'm also about to switch up to a small desktop setup for a while. Just ordered a Shruthi-1 with the polivoks filter board. :D

 

So it'll that, the Preen FM, electribe ESX all being run by numerology. I know I could sequence it all from the tribe, but numerology is just way more fun w/ the launchpad. The electribe's sequencer makes me feel really restricted. Can't switch patterns in the middle, can't mute midi outs, can't do polyrhythm stuff.

 

I might sell it someday and put it towards some electron kit, but for now I'll keep it.

[ZoeB]

ZoeB!

 

LimpyLoo! :D

 

One thing I do know from hanging out at SP-Forums is that the Dr. Groove seems to make for a good companion for a sampler (especially the similar-looking SP-202). I think it'd be rad to grab little phrases and cobble them together on a sampler, rather than sequencing an entire tune inside the Dr. Groove.

 

 

Dr. Groove.

 

Much like missingsense, the DR-202 was the first semi-professional music making hardware I got. It was kinda fun to sample it into Impulse Tracker. I made a song a looong time ago called IF YOU PEEK ME, I'LL POKE YOU, which used the DR-202 for the sine wave sub-bass and breakbeat (sampled as single hits), plus an Amiga for the vocals. It was also quite fun noodling around with a rhythm on the DR-202 through a guitar pedal, recording a few minutes' worth of that to MiniDisc (no lossless DAT for me!), then feeding that into Cool Edit '95, making a few loops, and building tracks around them in Impulse Tracker. I made a track called Increase the Cutoff that way which I was quite proud of at the time.

 

Then I somehow managed to get an SH-101 second hand from the same shop, dirt cheap, which was much better for sampling single notes into Impulse Tracker. :D That was a great way to make music, right there. I mean, if your main tool is a sampler and sequencer all in one, sampling romplers is a bit pointless compared to sampling a monosynth and household objects. I'm not really sure what I was thinking with the DR-202, considering my setup.

[SmackSmash]

 

ZoeB!

 

LimpyLoo! :D

 

One thing I do know from hanging out at SP-Forums is that the Dr. Groove seems to make for a good companion for a sampler (especially the similar-looking SP-202). I think it'd be rad to grab little phrases and cobble them together on a sampler, rather than sequencing an entire tune inside the Dr. Groove.

 

 

Dr. Groove.

 

Much like missingsense, the DR-202 was the first semi-professional music making hardware I got. It was kinda fun to sample it into Impulse Tracker. I made a song a looong time ago called IF YOU PEEK ME, I'LL POKE YOU, which used the DR-202 for the sine wave sub-bass and breakbeat (sampled as single hits), plus an Amiga for the vocals. It was also quite fun noodling around with a rhythm on the DR-202 through a guitar pedal, recording a few minutes' worth of that to MiniDisc (no lossless DAT for me!), then feeding that into Cool Edit '95, making a few loops, and building tracks around them in Impulse Tracker. I made a track called Increase the Cutoff that way which I was quite proud of at the time.

 

Then I somehow managed to get an SH-101 second hand from the same shop, dirt cheap, which was much better for sampling single notes into Impulse Tracker. :D That was a great way to make music, right there. I mean, if your main tool is a sampler and sequencer all in one, sampling romplers is a bit pointless compared to sampling a monosynth and household objects. I'm not really sure what I was thinking with the DR-202, considering my setup.

 

 

On my 4th cup of coffee at work, writing some code for google analytics and I must say I'm loving that funky little tune.

[ZoeB]

On my 4th cup of coffee at work, writing some code for google analytics and I must say I'm loving that funky little tune.

 

Heh, thanks! I think I wrote it back when I was 20, if my filesystem's to be believed. I was kinda naïve and full of energy back then! :D It ended up on a compilation, which was nice. I wrote strange stuff back then, anyway.

 

Oh, yeah, studio pictures... I've got some more modules coming today, if anyone's interested in that sort of thing... Including a Wasp style filter, yum. :) But I really need to spend less time taking pictures of that synth and more time actually using it!

[LimpyLoo]

Zoe, you should plaster this thread with all your goodies old and new.

 

(You know, as penance to the synth gods for selling your 101 back in the day )

[ZoeB]

Maybe tonight, when the latest G6 case and modules have arrived...

[ZoeB]

Zoe, you should plaster this thread with all your goodies old and new.

 

(You know, as penance to the synth gods for selling your 101 back in the day )

 

It was only to pay rent! I regretted selling the SH-101. The Doepfer A-100 is the only thing I've had that surpassed it.

 

Old:

 

 

New:

 

 

This is my half of the studio. (The Concussor modules are still missing as I need to remind myself which way to plug them in first so I don't blow them up!) To the left is Nina's workbench, where she's working on Stepper Acid, but she won't let me show you that for some reason, even though I think the latest prototype looks really cool, held up by its own wires. So here's a video we made of it a short while ago instead. We've only improved it a little bit since then.

 

 

Hey, you quote Leonardo da Vinci in your .sig! Have you seen The Life of Leonardo da Vinci? It's a great documentary series, I think.

[LimpyLoo]

I'll check it out.

 

'That guy is wicked smaht' as they say here in New England.

[TRiP]

it gives me great pleasure to finally post in this thread

large sized: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img812/4342/skzf.jpg

medium sized pic:

[Audioblysk]

 

Zoe, you should plaster this thread with all your goodies old and new.

 

(You know, as penance to the synth gods for selling your 101 back in the day )

 

It was only to pay rent! I regretted selling the SH-101. The Doepfer A-100 is the only thing I've had that surpassed it.

 

Old:

 

 

New:

 

 

This is my half of the studio. (The Concussor modules are still missing as I need to remind myself which way to plug them in first so I don't blow them up!) To the left is Nina's workbench, where she's working on Stepper Acid, but she won't let me show you that for some reason, even though I think the latest prototype looks really cool, held up by its own wires. So here's a video we made of it a short while ago instead. We've only improved it a little bit since then.

 

 

Hey, you quote Leonardo da Vinci in your .sig! Have you seen The Life of Leonardo da Vinci? It's a great documentary series, I think.

 

 

I love it. That break in the video is ace as heck too. ZoeB, you're one of my favorite WATMMers, keep up ze good work!

[ZoeB]

I love it. That break in the video is ace as heck too. ZoeB, you're one of my favorite WATMMers, keep up ze good work!

 

Aww, thanks! ^.^

 

I'm pretty sure that breakbeat's from the Planet of the Breaks series. Zero-G made a ReFill of all four sample CDs which is fantastic value, so I got that and use it all over the place. Whenever you hear a breakbeat in one of my tracks (mostly in the 8-Bit Generation soundtrack and the unreleased Above the Clouds, if memory serves), it's more than likely from that.

 

But finding a breakbeat's the easy part. The tricky part (aside from having the good fortune to be lovers with someone who knows how to design and build hardware) was writing the firmware together to that step sequencer. The "ECL" on the display is the External CLock input, meaning the DAW's sending the clock to the MCV-24, which in turn is sending it to the Stepper Acid prototype, so the acidline is in perfect sync with the breakbeat. It was really neat to hear it in a real use type situation, working flawlessly!

 

[tokn]

i'm getting really jealous

[Guest The Bro]

My latest set up. Not fully complete but getting there. ;-)

[Guest The Bro]

the bro - you seem to have the volca bass that trip is missing hehe.

 

love the super jv, such a powerful little box for insanely cheap at the moment. I use it for pads and strings all the time

 

Yeah I've hardly delved into the power the JV1080. Loads of good presets and of course editing is vast too.

[psn]

Winter exterior studio shot.

[Guest]

Winter exterior studio shot.

 

Looks like a lot of snow got into your studio.

[psn]

It's just frost on the glass.

[delet...]

Norway

[ryancolecreate]

nice PSN. How big's the space inside?

 

I would ask about how safe you feel with all your gear in there, but .... norway.

[psn]

I'm not on the ground floor, plus the area is pretty safe. I have about 30 square meters.