My Kit List

I call my current music production workstation version 3.0, and it’s finally in a place where it all just works right and in harmony with each other.  After all, these are merely tools to help us producer/musicians realize musical ideas and quickly flow through the creative process.  My music production workstation version 1.0 had many changes over a few years (1.2, 1.4.2, 2.0, etc) as I tested hardware and software and put a lot of gear I didn’t like on eBay.  Read my post My Home Music Production Station 2.0 for more info on my previous PC based system.

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COMPUTER:
iMac 27-inch.  2.93Ghz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD (Solid State)  Drive, 1TB Serial ATA Drive, Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

Previous Systems:
Gateway FX7026 Desktop.  Quad core, 8GB RAM, Windows 7 64 bit
Dell XPS 1330 Laptop.  Core2Duo, 2GB RAM, Windows 7 32 bit – networked

AUDIO INTERFACE:
Steinberg UR 824 - Audio Interface with DSP FX

MIDI SYNTHS / CONTROLLERS:
Korg Kronos-61 Music Workstation
Roland Jupiter 80 Synthesizer
Akai EWI-4000s Electronic Wind Instrument

iPad – Lemur App for iOS, V-Control Pro, touchAble

STUDIO MONITORS
M-Audio Studiophile BX5a
M-Audio Studiophile AV40
Sony MDR-7506 Headphones

DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATION (DAW)
Apple Logic Express 9
Steinberg Cubase 6 (Primary DAW)
Avid Pro Tools M-Powered 8
Ableton Live 8
PreSonus Studio One Pro

PIANO
Synthogy Ivory II Grand Pianos
Galaxy Pianos Vintage D

SAMPLER
Native Instruments Kontakt 5 (Komplete 8 )

DRUMS
Native Instruments MASCHINE Mikro
Spectrasonics Stylus RMX
Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0

BASS
Spectrasonics Trilian

GUITARS
MusicLab RealGuitar
MusicLab RealStrat
MusicLab RealLPC (Les Paul Custom)
Native Instruments Guitar Rig 5 (Komplete 8 )

SYNTHS
Spectrasonics Omnisphere
Native Instruments Komplete 8 (FM8, Absynth 5, Massive)

WINDS / STRINGS (controlled by Akai EWI)
Sample Modeling (The Trumpet, Mr. Sax T, Mr. Sax A, Mr. Sax B, Ms. Sax S)
Retro Flute – Bela D Media
Solo Strings Advanced – Dan Dean

WORLD
EastWest Ra
EastWest Silk
EastWest Symphonic Choirs
EastWest Voices of Passion
MOTU Ethno 2

EFFECTS PROCESSORS
FreqAnalyst Pro – Blue Cat Audio (spectrum analyzer)
MB-7 Mixer – Blue Cat Audio (channel mixer & spectrum analyzer)
Alloy -  iZotope (mixing channel strip suite)
Ozone – iZotope (mastering suite)
EastWest Spaces (convolution reverb)
Elephant – Voxengo (mastering limiter / maximizer)
LF Max Punch – Voxengo (low frequency enhancement)

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