Studio history/object
Studio goals;
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"Sleeping"- loftbed(sheetPillowPillowPillowRackcaselid=baseboard;dellinspiron3650
Logitechwirelessreceiver;Wirelesskeyboard
'mousekeys';dellinspiron3650Kramervp8x8a;Gatewayfpd1530;dellinspiron3650Blue10ft35mmtrs
Keystone35mmtrsGreen10ft35mmtrsKeystone35mmtrsPurple10ft35mmtrs;Wiredheadphones;
cyberpowercpq1512rmsTotalhome8ftextcord;Usbccharger(powerbankUsbatousbccable)'Samsunga15'),
(axcessables12uAxcessables22u)laskodeskfanNecc500;
"Refrigerateddrinks"- (axcessables12uAxcessables22uMiddleatlanticshelf2u)antarcticstarCokecherry;
"Muslimgauze"-Acoustic percussion and european electronica facets;
"Videojockey"- video signal manipulation, character generation, multiplexing, digital capture;
"Movies/television"-"VCR""DVD"rcatvtuner;
"Mortician"- bossdr550 + digitechgsp21pro + portastudio;
"Telephony"- handset audio recording, phoneline simulation, faxing;
"Webhosting"- server w/ apache, network infrastructure;
"Manufacturing"- Laser printer B/W, cassette labels, c60 cassettes, 8.5x11in copy paper J-Card,
cass jewel cases, cassette dubbing, polypropylene CD cases, 8.5x11in copy paper CD case insert, booklet, CD thermal printer, CD burner;
"Godflesh"- alesishr16 + dodfx7 + hddmultitrackrecorder;
"Audiospecnalysis"- klarkteknikdn6000 + epsonfx890;
"Induspercussionist"- rolandtr4 + akaime35t + akais2000;
"Scornplotkin"- rolandgk3 + rolandgi10 + emuproteus1poprock;
"Sarahbellereid"- behringerub1202;
"Lastdaysofhumanity"- contemporarypc(OnemotionCockosreaper) + line6podpro(adamicrocab) + digitechvocal300;
Preliminary radical idea 260317; 1u panel(s) containing a breakout of every connection on a device with a switch to
select between it or a subsequent routing of each of these connections from this panel to infrastructure at the
rear of the racks. (Allowing user to have a preset route, which is the one defined elsewhere-think patchbay- and
a liberated one, where the preset is reversibly defeated (bypassed, lifted) and inputs and outputs can be interfaced
with at that locale (in proximity to the device).) Downside - materials are doubled or quadroupled; for every connection
on the device, you'll have two to four couplers on the panels. Challenge - Keeping this tenable and accessible in a
rack; solution is to individually house every device to which this treatment is applied; custom wood rack shells for
every device which would follow a language so to make organizing the devices somewhat easier than it is presently.
This would afford you absolute modularity.
It is my goal with the studio I've grown to the extent at which it is at to be able to autonomously maneuver through
production styles and seamlessly jump from genre to genre using the same environment but potentially drastically
dissimilar signal chains, but not be bogged down by needing to tear down and set up anything.
To provide an example of the phenomenon I'm describing; I have been a metal-oriented person since the very beginning
of my studio efforts; until recently, metal was the only genre of music which the equipment was oriented toward.
2024 saw a disruption to this with the discovery of Scarab and tribal instruments were desired; the flirtations
with things falling outside guitar, bass, vocals and drum VST had been escalating for some time, really since 2021
when hip hop encroached in on my considerations and synthesis entered the fold.
Worth mentioning all the same is that metal itself as a genre accounts for great equipment variance on its own;
to migrate from doom metal to death metal, a change in equipment is necessary on the instrument side, preamp side,
drum facilitation methods end, everything really. And this isn't some confession of my own ethics, rather its informed
by collaborators expressing the assemblage of traits they value in a sound, and tailoring the enlisted articles to that
blueprint; I am of a personal belief that genres with somewhat anachronistic equipment selections would be interesting
if not traditional in aesthetic.
Obtaining the Yamaha TX81Z and Boss DR5 (as well as the Yamaha EMT10) were when I began to feel connected to hardware;
I didn't emerge from my interactions with MIDI via USB and FL Studio VSTs with a positive opinion of modern emulation -
latency and a scarcity of straightforward sounds irritated me - I installed some Microsoft store free VSTs and had
brief success fiddling with a MS Wavetable GS Synth until that became unselectable from the menu at which it needed
to be accessed. Soon thereafter, I noticed a halfrack unit at my local guitar/music store. It was a Yamaha EMT10 and
it completely sated my cravings for something with intuit. It doesn't contain any riveting patches, but it was a
totally worthwhile and satisfying get; having been only at the earliest vestibule of acquaintance with electronic
music genres like Jungle, imitating those styles through vibe and competence with multitracking in Cockos Reaper,
as well as pitch/speed manipulation, yeilded some impressive and convincingly asian-sounding beats. I had been
interested in SoundFonts at the time, having some nostalgic affinity for sound from games during the Nintendo 64
era, and with a keen rotational anchor placed in Memphis style trap music. The lifestyle dissimilarities between
current day folk as myself and the fledgeling but influential all the same crunk producers of early-mid 90s
Memphis was helpful in illustrating differences in music technology which were crucial to grasp before I could
closer approach competency with entire worlds of sound and devices. Finally getting the memo that samplers were
standalone utilities and not PC peripherals; I had spun my wheels for too long attempting to interface an E-MU
ESI 2000 and then an AKAI CD3000 with a computer - briefly a contemporary Windows 10 machine and imaging software
(ChickenSys' competitors) to burn media recognizable by the ESI 2000 and then AKAI CD3000 (failing), then a Windows XP
SP2 machine by way of procuring an Adaptec PCI SCSI card, making these connections (I have a picture somewhere from
this era of incessant head thrashing into a brick wall with the samplers I owned at the time sat atop the Dell
Optiplex GX110 I was abusing, and in return it was abusing me with a grotesquely loud PSU fan I never remedied).
Somewhat prejudicially, I epiphanically realized after an inordinate amount of time of research and fruitless
experimentation with writing floppies, wasting CD-RWs that this evidently wasn't the path taken by 80 IQ penal
warriors then a quarter century prior. I felt defeated and silly for a time, offloading motionless frustration
in journals of the time, being imaginative about the potentials and intrinsic advantages sampling extended from
any musical perspective, whether it be metal in the state I was actively entrenched in producing/performing live
with a Brutal Death Metal band leveraging software sampler emulation (Cockos' ReaSamploMatic5000) for percussion,
or the genres of music which were more heavily dependent upon it, like Memphis trap, Chopped and Screwed hip hop,
or Industrial music (industrial metal, industrial rock, electronic body music) - the latter three were becoming ever
the more dominant in the Earthworm Jim 3D-esque cognitive corridors of my consciousness.
A brief aside to discuss primitives; I had discussed the Yamaha EMT-10, which was the first MIDI tone generator
I came into possession of (in late 2021). I discovered about it that the sounds individually were quite dull,
mundane, not flashy or impressive or stimulating. But, when combined by way of multitrack and layering the
sounds atop one another (thinking now about how I used samples from an Alesis SR16, the only hardware drum machine
in my possession at the time - to obtain the surely unimpressive drum ROMpler Yamaha released tangentially to the
EMT10 (the EMR1) in the same line of products would be a neat way to complete and package this "primitives" concept into
something interfaceable in future; picture a very utilitarian setup consisting of;
rackshell_8u(powerconditioner_1uFostexrm1_1uRollsrm81_1uFostexd108_3uFostex3010_1uYamahaemr1Yamahaemt1_1uAlesisdatadisk_1u.
