What does your studio looks like ??

[spacef]

Thanks for all the pic posters, I find it insipiring to see people's studios

[Eanna]

It's a treat to own a quality guitar. Me, I'm more of a bassist - the guitar comes out only when it has to
Dead chuffed with my basses - the Aria from 1985 is my trustee steed (it was 4 years old when I got it), the Fenix Jazz Fretless is a wonderful ripoff, and my Schecter 5-string is the nuts! Schecter isn't in those photos... All very very playable basses...

Yep the Tetra editor sucks! I had a Tetra once - I didn't get on with it.. I just do not enjoy learning deep menus! I can never seem to learn them enough to be fluent... The Minitaur editor does work, once you get it working...
For me, a knobby synth with fewer features is always going to win out over a menu-driven synth with lots of features.... If I want a synth with lots of flexibility, mod slots, osc types, etc. etc., it'll be a Scope synth/Modular patch, something like a MaxForLive patcher, or the lovely, visual FXpansion SynthSquad, all the way...

Yes there is inspiration in the photos, and in the stories behind the photos...

[hubird]

I understand your little disappointment, Spacef

But it's not always smart to show off what you have at home...

Some years ago someone here on Planetz (who didn't like me) knew to google and find my private name and addres, and posted it even here in public.
John had to come in action to remove it.

Another time someone asked me to remove a (privately) shared pic of his garden which I modified in Photoshop and put it back on Planetz for fun.

We are an open forum, guest are welcom, so the whole world can see it, also bad guys.
You never know who's fishing here

Btw, in the past we had a similar thread, with more pics.

[Eanna]

Thanks Hubird, but I wonder what a picture of your setup has to do with privacy? It's no more telling than a screenshot?

[hubird]

physical addres + expensive gear + bad intentions of someone = risk
Obviously my name and addres were google-able.

call it my suspicious mind

[Eanna]

OK I got you...
Well, I'd be surprised if I had more expensive gear than other Scopers here! Think it's the nature of this community - there's a lot of Xite owners here - an Xite individually costs maybe 30-40% of my entire lot! And some folk talk about how much they have, and it would seem that others talk a big setup!

So, point taken, but I'm happy to put my a few shots, in the same way I'm happy to talk about that same gear... Hope some others might feel the same...

[spacef]

There are better studios than ours, i'm sure
looking at people's photos here, they will go for budweiser collector setup, that's mostly certain
nb: i live just next to a police station too, that's not an "attractive area" beleive me

[Bud Weiser]

Yep, the Minitaur is a lovely synth. Yep, v2 firmware has 100 presets, accessible by program change messages. There's no doubting the amount the bass out of it! Thunderous! ... So, this synth is a bass synth for more reasons than sound - it can't be anything but a bass synth!

Thx for your answer Eanna.
Yes, I want a bass synth replacing the Moog Taurus 1 I sold.
I have a Minimoog D,- but it´s CV/oct and not V/Hz which has some advantages for bass sounds.
I don´t need the pedals of the Taurus,- just only the synth engine.

I´ll have to pick one up and test.
Because I had 3 Minimoogs and the original Taurus and played Moog Voyager, Phattys, I know the new Moogs aren´t the same like the old, so I´m not sure about Minitaur will nail the sound of a Taurus 1,- but I hope for.
It woud be too cool because it´s so tiny.

B.t.w., my friend Gunnar E. owns Minitaur and offers actually 39 patches and several controller templates for free.
http://www.memorymoon.com/downloads.htm
Scroll down the download section to it´s end,- there´s all.

Bud

[Bud Weiser]

NB: mintaur presets ? presets ? what is presets ?
I wonder if that's useful at all, becausethere are few knobs. I have firmware v2 but haven't used it at all. the app is flakey.
The only thing i would like to achieve, is to switch it on without the "release" engaged.
for the rest, i could make a midi device with midi CC but i haven't had the time to look at that neither.

In the studio, I´d never need presets.
I worked in studios as a session artist already late 70s and when I got my 1st Prophet 5 after it was released,- it was very welcome because of polyphony.
Even it had a preset system,- in the studios I programmed from scratch at that time, but it was also very welcome to store the creations.

Same rules for Minitaur.
It´s easy to program, I know,- but sometimes I want to recall stuff in realtime by MIDI Prg.Changes because I have a multi keyboard rig and I want to be prepared for gigs too.

I didn´t post pics here,- my gear from last year is here ...
http://www.hitfoundry.com/issue_15/mus_mst.htm

Actually there are some changes in the works ...

Bud

[Eanna]

Oh my word Bud!
Amazing collection!
And stories stretching back to mid-late 70's, when I was listening to my brother's JM Jarre, Vangelis and Isao Tomita records...

I think you'll find the Minitaur to be an exciting little beast!
There's more 'synth' in there than a Taurus 1 - dual osc shapes, mode modulation capabilites - but I don't know if it might match the power of a Taurus...
But presets, size, knobiness, well-implemented midi spec, osc shapes and modulation, as well as audio input, the headphone-jack-filter-overdrive trick, and freely-routable CV/Gate in, make it a good bet.

It certainly is more "bass synth" than anything I've heard.

Great to see an ST take up residence and be used there in your studio. I learned to program on an ST, and programming my day job now... Only once was my old ST used to sequence a synth - brought mine down to my friend's house while his Dad had a loan of a Juno 106 and a shiny new D50 - had one sequencer from the PD (Public Domain - remember?!) off a magazine coverdisk - that was a very cool day, even tho we barely knew what we were doing...
Bought an ST last year with a 2.5MB RAM upgrade, played a few games, sent some Midi notes off to a synth, and put it away again. As you have probably seen, space, for me, is tight! But I may slide out the EX800, and slide the ST in its place, and get me a stable Midi clock... Altho the Silent Way trick relieves the whole Midi timing thing - which is why CV/Gate in a Minitaur is kinda cool for very fast sequences... What software you running on the ST? I guess you know the active Atari Midi yahoo group (Dr. T is still active there), and Tim Conrardy's Atari Midi site: http://tamw.atari-users.net/timidi.htm

Neutron's Cirklon is goregous too. Such a wonderful instrument..

[Bud Weiser]

What software you running on the ST? I guess you know the active Atari Midi yahoo group (Dr. T is still active there), and Tim Conrardy's Atari Midi site: http://tamw.atari-users.net/timidi.htm

Yes I know these sites.
I have several ATARI setups, but started selling programs and hardware.
Most Steinberg ATARI software and hardware is gone now,- 4 Synthworks programs left (DX/TX / D50 / Proteus / SY77).
These are for sale now and the Digidesign apps and hardware too.

The Mega STe w/ Emagic Log3, Combiner and Unitor II will be the one I keep w/ a 100MB SCSI harddrive in addition which house all my files.
I run Emagic Notator SL3.21, Logic ATARI 2.5, Polyframe 1.2 and X-alyzer on that ATARI rig.
I have too many songs and MIDI patterns/sequences in Notator format, I did for released productions, commercials as also unreleased (demo) songs/compositions we did w/ help of the 8-track MTR in the past.
As long as I have some of the old hardware instruments we used, it´s easy to replicate/remix old songs and less time consuming than doing conversions of DD floppy disks for import into other DAWs,- which won´t be accurate anyway and requires much editing.
In the past,- we had guitars and vocals on the tape MTR, the ATARI reading SMPTE and fired MIDI directly into the mix,- so I need the old MIDI tracks as they were to redo stuff.

Last week I´ve set up a 22HU retro rack w/ AKAI DD-1000, S-1100 and 19" racked SCSI harddrives just because both AKAI units read SMPTE.
Since I stocked all the old AKAI setup files for the old songs as well as sysex banks for the synths and ROMPlers, I´m able to load, press play and re-record in SCOPE VDat or DAW.
For every song from the past I have a sheet w/ MIDI routings we did on the Sycologic MIDI matrix switchers and there are the program changes for the MIDI-modules in the Notator tracks,- so it´s all about a find>load>play process.
When done, I replace some instrument tracks by SCOPE devices and VSTis and play some parts in addition.
For me, it´s an easy way to deliver some archive music and make money even I don´t have to compose all new.

Neutron's Cirklon is goregous too. Such a wonderful instrument..

Link ?
Don´t know it.

Bud

[Eanna]

Dude you really have it going on...
Very cool. Great planning, great foresight...

The Cirklon comment comes from a tab in that ScopeRise hitfoundry.com article you posted above...

http://www.sequentix.com/cirklon.htm

Beautiful construction and wonderful implementation... The demo vids are great too.
It's worth reading Neutron's comments about his unit on that ScopeRise article...

[Bud Weiser]

Dude you really have it going on...
Very cool. Great planning, great foresight...

The Cirklon comment comes from a tab in that ScopeRise hitfoundry.com article you posted above...

http://www.sequentix.com/cirklon.htm

Beautiful construction and wonderful implementation... The demo vids are great too.
It's worth reading Neutron's comments about his unit on that ScopeRise article...

Thx for the link,- I had never seen it before.
Just watched the vid,- cool box !

Bud

[katano]

it's not a studio, it's a luftschutzkeller

[Bud Weiser]

it's not a studio, it's a luftschutzkeller

Cool,- I like "Luftschutzkeller".

When I recorded in Jim Foxx´ studio in Berlin in the 90s,- it looked similar.
Jim was member of "Skew Siskin" and his studio was a cellar w/ carpets on the walls and floor,- candelights, guitar gear all over the place,- WEM Copycat, Publison harmonizers, Marshall stacks and such,- very unsusual console and monitor speakers.
He used PA speakers ...
But recording drums and guitars there sounded killer !!!

Well, I like the "Freak" studios,- mostly very innovative.

Bud

[valis]

Personal workspace, bit messy as I sit here everyday:



Guy on the left is our MC, the one on the right is my bud (taught him to DJ and he's been a friend for almost 10 years now).

Oh and the piece that's visible in the pic, well it's legal here now in WA state (USA)!

[Mr Arkadin]

My small London set-up (I have a bigger set-up in France which I will photograph when it's finished):

[Eanna]

Hi Mr arkadin, how you find the bass pod xt? Tried any software bass amp sims- - waves gtr, celmo's device, that kinda thing?

[Mr Arkadin]

Actually the 'bean' on top of the Line 6 Low Down bass amp is the newer POD HD, so that's more for guitar as it only has two bass amp sims. I quite like the Ampeg model but that's it apart from the Fender Bassman which was used more by guitarists anyway. The Low Down head has only four models but I like the Marshall Super Bass on there. I also like the Dynatube Bass models in Scope. I have never used any native ones - that route doesn't appeal to me for some reason.

[ShogunSpy]

Fizmo ! Would love to have one