Demo Studio

This studio is based around Pro Tools 4.0 and Peak running on a Power Macintosh G4 computer. As with most MIDI studios there is quite a variety of analog and digital equipment, allowing for a wide variety of applications and purposes.

For help with setting up and configuring your MIDI studio, how to program and use different types of electronic musical equipment and an extensive FAQ for when things go wrong visit our Studio Help department.

Computer Hardware:

Power Mac G4
Dual processor 500MHz PowerPC G4
512MB SDRAM
60GB Ultra SCSI drive array
DVD-RW drive
RAGE 128 AGP card - 16MB SDRAM
Gigabit Ethernet
Pro keyboard & optical mouse

Apple Cinema Display
22 inches (diagonal viewable image size) thin film transistor (TFT) active-matrix liquid crystal display
Wide-format design with 1600 by 1024 pixels
Extra-wide (160 degrees) viewing angle

Analog/Digital Audio Card:
Audiomedia III - Digidesign

Computer Software:

Pro Tools 4.0 - Opcode
Gold Native - Waves
Peak - Bias

Effects Processing:

Lexicon 480L
Sony DRE2OOOa
Yamaha SPX1OOO
Yamaha SPX90
Lexicon PCM 42
Eventide H3000SE
TC 2290 Sampler Delay

MIDI Interface:

MIDI Timepiece AV - Mark of the Unicorn

Sound Modules:

E-mu ESI-4000 Turbo Zip
Akai S-3000 Sampler
Emu Proteus

Console:

Mackie's Digital Desk

Tape Machines:

24 Track Alesis Adat w/BRC
Studer A820 1/2" 2 Track
Panasonic SV-3700 Dat
Tascam122MkII cassette.

Monitors:

2x System 215 DMT II's - Tannoy
2x Auratones

Amplifiers:

2x FR Series M·1400 Professional Power Amplifiers - Mackie

Compressors:

2 x DBX165a
2 x DBX 160
4 x Drawmer DS-201 Gates
2 x DBX 902 De-essers

Equalizers:

4 x Focusrite ISA151
2 x Pultec EQP1A
Pultec MEQ-5

Keyboard:

STUDIOLOGIC SL-161 Keyboard

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