A Picture of my Home Studio from 12 Years ago.

Analog-X64 · Post by **Analog-X64** » 05/03/2006 - 14:16

I was doing some cleaning around the house when I found this picture of what used to be my little home studio back in 1994.

Here is a list of the equipment.

- Top Left Alesis 16 track studio series mixing console.
- Bottom Keyboard is a Roland W-30 Workstation (Sampler, Sequencer etc.)
- Top of Rackmount, Pyramid DJ Mixing Console.
- Below that Roland Planet-S (MKS-30) analogue synth with PG-200 Programmer not shown in photo. This is the rack-mount (2U) module version of the JX-3P, but with greatly enhanced MIDI.
-Below that Kawai XD-5 Digital percussion synthesiser.
- Below that Roland SE-50 Effects processor and missing from picture SEH-50 Stereo Enhancer.
- Below that Midiverb II.
- Roland SH-101 (not shown in photo)
Also not shown in picture is the Atari 1040STE running edit track gold for MIDI Sequencing. You can see the mouse/pad ontop of the keyboard.

As far as sampling power all I had was the Roland W30 with 512MB Ram and two options 15khz 12bit (14.4 Seconds) or 30khz 12bit (28.8 Seconds)

With the exception of the Midiverb II I still own all the equipment shown in the photo however they are currently collecting dust.

I will resurrect them once I settle on a Sequencer on my PC and will intergrate the Virtual Synths and Hardware Synths for a unique sound.

Jax · Post by **Jax** » 06/03/2006 - 5:19

Heh - still looks pretty space-age to me!

Whereabouts in Canada are you, BTW?

Jax

Analog-X64 · Post by **Analog-X64** » 06/03/2006 - 11:58

Jax wrote:Heh - still looks pretty space-age to me!
Whereabouts in Canada are you, BTW?
Jax

I'm currently living in Brampton a 25 minute drive from Downtown Toronto.

Very busy with a project flying back and forth from Chicago and Michigan and no time at all to record anyting.

I'm still up in the air as to what sequencer to use.

Post by **LMan** » 06/03/2006 - 13:29

Impressive setup for a home studio. In 1994, I was happy to own an Amiga with Protracker.

Analog-X64 · Post by **Analog-X64** » 07/03/2006 - 4:31

LMan / Remix64 wrote:Impressive setup for a home studio. In 1994, I was happy to own an Amiga with Protracker.

Ahhh...to be 24 again with all that disposable income!!!

that stuff was not cheap.

For sampling I did purchase a Yamaha TX16W sampler rackmounted, I had it for about 1 month before I re-sold it. it had a 2 Line LED Display and was very...very...very...very hard to program. Even remember reading about Jean Michel Jarre complaining how hard it was to program it.

I would have loved to own an Akai S1000 series samplers or the Kertzweil S2000 but I just couldnt afford the $4000-$8000 Price tag.

Jax · Post by **Jax** » 07/03/2006 - 6:10

I'm currently living in Brampton a 25 minute drive from Downtown Toronto.

Very busy with a project flying back and forth from Chicago and Michigan and no time at all to record anyting.

Brr.... cold, cold and cold.

It might be wet out here on the pacific coast, but MAN, the summer and the ladies...