Show us your studio!

[RiK]

Instead of a 'show us your desk' thread, how about a show us your studio...

Whether it's a lappy and a controller keyboard, or a spare room full of toys, let's have a look.

Here's the current incarnation of my little nerd cave:

[barry_island]

[RiK]

<3 the VL-tone.. :-)

[barry_island]

Ta

Can you do a pic of yours with the lights off?

[Neon360]

All I see is "image" with no actual picture. I can see barry_island's though? Strange...

[RiK]

Can you do a pic of yours with the lights off?

Ask and ye shall receive..


Nerd Cave by Richard Olpin, on Flickr

and a slightly different angle:


Nerd Cave 2 by Richard Olpin, on Flickr

The light strip in on the back of the Aira rig is one of those RGB colour changing strips, on slow fade mode, hence the two different looks.

[RiK]

... eagerly awaiting Gaz getting his stands set up to get a glimpse of the full Elektron rig in all it's glory..

[gravy]

I got the stands now but my place is a pit I need to build them along with a massive tidy over the weekend

[barry_island]

MAN it looks RAD at night! <3 Amazing job dude!

[Neon360]

I could easily spend far more time than I have in a room like that! Love it...

[RiK]

Laptop stand is flexible in the setup. It's works well on the right, just above the Micron too.

Don't need it for live jams, everything is good to go, but it can be brought into play for Ableton/Main Stage duties with a single usb cable as and when needed.

Both the Akai and the Prophecy on the left stand are midi in to the Mac, plus the little Novation controller in front of the A4, there also a Launchpad (currently in less than ideal position to the left of the TR8 and out of sight under the stands are both a Korg pad control and another little Arturia minilab controller which I just tend to use on my lap as and when needed.

[RiK]

It's kind of mad how quick you the stuff builds up again, because years ago I had a traditional studio set up but as computers got faster and I was off busy doing other things that got stripped right back down over time to mostly just fitting around with a laptop and a controller keyboard. Then in the past 12 months or so I've rekindled an interest in the immediacy of hardware again, mostly fuelled by watching people on YouTube doing live synth jams.

My original plan was simply to get a better controller keyboard, which I did in the form of the Akai Max 49 (gumtree bargain!), but when I was looking around locally to get one I spotted the Korg prophecy. I had one of those brand-new about 20 years ago and as that was just about the only thing I'd really regretted selling over the years I took the opportunity to get one again.

I was planning on just getting one more mini keyboard for laptop duties on my office desk, but you know how these things go, I had a chance to have a play with the Roland Aira gear which got me all nostalgic about my early 90s ravey student days so I had that on my wish list, but the one thing I'd really been interested in was the Elektron gear, and having seen it had been quite prominent in the set up of a couple of people I was watching on YouTube, and then hearing some first-hand reports from when Gaz bought the octatrack I decided it was time to jump back in properly I bought the A4 and all the Aira gear in the space or a fortnight, and the rest is history..

[phattslagg]

What's the secret to sharing imgur pics on a mobile device? All I'm getting in post preview is the little "image" box :/

[Neon360]

What's the secret to sharing imgur pics on a mobile device? All I'm getting in post preview is the little "image" box :/

Ditto and I'm not even on a mobile device, I'm on a full blown Windows 7 desktop. Who knows wtf is really going on...

[Baggypants]

Tip of the day

IMG_20160715_202110 by Baggypants12000, on Flickr

edit:not pictured, the midi controller I have, the weird old Yamaha CS2X and the monotron Duo.