The Soundsmith - Equipment List
A 24-bit, all-digital environment.
Gigastudio 3 Software Sampler
Gigastudio Orchestra v.3.1 Environment
Sleekline 1800 P4 1.7 GHz, 40GB system drive, 120GB sample drive 1GB RAM, updated w/USB 2.0, Echo Layla24
eMachines T2200 Athlon 1800+, 100GB, 512 MB RAM, Echo Gina
PowerPro IV:6 Laptop, 2.53GHz P4 Northwood, 40G 5400 RPM drive, USB 2.0, IEEE1394, Echo Indigo
Intel 3G 925X computer w/2G RAM, 160+160+500G SATA drives
Hewlett Packard Media Center 3.0G, 2G RAM 250G SATA
Libraries (no warez or pirated disks)
- Art Vista Virtual Piano
- Bardstown Bosendorfer Imperial 290
- Bardstown Vintage Guitars & Tenor Banjos (thanks, Kip!)
- Big Fish Digeridoo
- Bigga Orchestral Brass
- Bolder Sounds Best of Bolder
- Boris' D6 Clavinet
- Chicken Systems Translator Pro
- Clone Ensemble
- Conextant GM 500
- Dan Dean Solo Strings
- Digital Complete( AttitudeI) Beat the Bushes
- Digital Complete AttitudeI) Exotic Percussion
- Diva, Diva Extended, Diva by Design
- Donnie Christian's Djembe (thank you,, Donnie)
- Donnie Christian's Harp (thanks again, Donnie)
- EastWest QL Silver Orchestra
- Emu Vol 6 World Percussion Ensemble
- Ethnoworld Complete
- Garritan JABB (Jazz and Big Band)
- Garritan Personal Orchestra
- Garritan Stradivari
- Gigapiano
- Jeff Baxter Skunkworks
- Kirk Hunter Solo Strings
- Kontact 2
- Lounge Lizard 3
- Maarten Sprujit's SAM Trumpet Section (thanks, Maarten!)
- Maarten Sprujit's SAM Timpani (thanks AGAIN, Maarten!)
- Maarten Sprujit's SAM Solo French Horn (paid for this one, but thanks anyway, Maarten...)
- Memphis Horns
- Phantom Horns
- Post Grandioso Bosendorfer 290 (thanks, Michiel)
- Post Orchestral Instruments
- Post Prepared Piano
- ProSamples Choirs
- ProSamples Classic Orchestra
- ProSamples Guitar & Bass
- ProSamples Orchestral Brass
- ProSamples Percussive Loops
- ProSamples Pop Brass
- ProSamples Pop and Rock Drum Loops (Steve Smith)
- ProSamples World Instruments
- Prosamples XSamples Solo Strings
- Prosamples XSamples Session Instruments
- Pure Tabla
- Purgatory Creek Rhodes
- Rennaissance Flutes
- RePhrase
- Scarbee R.S.P. '73 Rhodes
- Sonic Implants Afro-Cuban Percussion
- QL '56 Stratocaster
- Sonic Implants Amps & Pickups
- Sounds-UK Exotic Instruments
- Sounds-UK Temple gongs and bells
- Sounds-UK Exotic Wind and Reed
- Soundware Demo CD 1 and 2
- Spectrasonics Atmosphere
- Spectrasonics Stylus
- Spectrasonics Stylus RMX
- ____S.A.G.E., Expander - Backbeat
- ____S.A.G.E. Expander - Burning Grooves
- ____S.A.G.E. Expander - Liquid Grooves
- ____S.A.G.E. Expander - Metamorphosis
- ____S.A.G.E. Expander - Retro Funk
- ____REX Lib: Brazilian Beats
- ____REX Lib: Brush Artistry
- ____REX Lib: Drums on Demand Jazz/Latin collection
- ____REX Lib: Junkyard Sessions
- ____REX Lib: Legend of China
- ____REX Lib: New Orleans Strut
- ____REX Lib: Pure Tabla
- ____REX Lib: TS Tabla
- ____REX Lib: Indian Traditions
- ____REX Lib: BMJE Brush Lib
- ____REX Lib: Chopped Guitars
- ____REX Lib: Downtempo Guitars 2
- ____REX Lib: Textural Guitars 1+2
- ____REX Lib: Tuva: Khoomei
- Spectrasonics Trilogy
- Vintaudio Clean Electric Guitars
- Vintaudio Upright Piano
- Vintaudio Yamaha C7
- VR Sounds Alto Saxophone (thanks, Franz)
- VR Sounds Marimba
- VR Sounds Gigapack
- VR Sounds Jazz Gita
- VR Sounds Vibraphone
- VSL Demo Cube Orchestral Library
- A number of free Gigs from Worra's Place (thank you, Worra and samplists!)
- A number of free SoundFonts from various sources
- Wormhole 2
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FX plugins
- Altiverb 5
- Waves Native Gold
Hardware
Keyboards, Modules, acoustic instruments
- Yamaha G3 6-foot grand piano, optional Barcus Berry pickup
- Hammond A-102 organ (that's a B-3 plus internal speakers)
- Leslie 147 w/ Bob Schleicher solid state relay for quiet switching 3-position - off/slow/fast
- Alesis Quadrasynth Plus
- Alesis S4 Plus
- Digitech Vocalist Workstation
- Hammond/Suzuki XC-1/XM-1 Organ Module
- Kurzweil 2500X
- Kurzweil 2600S
- Korg 01W-FD
- M-Audio Audiophile
- M-Audio Axiom 61 controller
- M-Audio ProKeys88sx
- Oxygen8 USB keyboard
- Roland XP-80 w/Session and Keyboards of the 60s and 70s Expansion Boards
- Roland XP-30
- Roland SC-88
- Roland MKS20
- Roland U-220
- Voce V3 Organ Module w/Drawbar unit
- Yamaha DX7II-FD
- Yamaha RX-11 Drum Machine
- Yamaha VL-70m Physical Modeling synth with BC-3 breath controller
- Santur, 25 course, Indian style (Shata-tantri veena)
- Tamboura, Rikhi Ram, male vocal style
- Sarod, JHemen
- Sitar (cheap import Rikhi Ram)
- Tabla
- BulBul Tarang
- Gopichand
- Rainstick
Mixers, Recorders and Auxiliary Equipment
- Mackie d8b 56-input digital console with 2 MFX, 1 UFX cards and Analog Alt I/O, V5 software, Celeron 300, 256M RAM
- Mackie HDR24/96 24-track, 24-bit Hard Disk Recorder/Editor with Remote24
- Alesis ADAT XT-20 x 1
- Mackie1202VLZ mixer
- Oz Audio Q-Mix Headphone matrix mixer
- Tascam DA-30 DAT recorder
- Sony PCM-553 F1-style digital recorder
- Teac W-520R Cassette Recorder
- JVC XL-V450 CD Player
- Sony STR-AV550 Amplifier/Receiver
- Behringer DSP 8000 Ultra-Curve Equalizer/RT Analyzer
- Z-Systems Digital Detangler 8x8
- Frontier Apache patchbay (lightpipe)
- 196-point patchbays (12x16)
- Stewart PA-1000 Amplifier
- Stewart PA-200 Amplifier
- Apple iPod 10GB
Computer and MIDI Equipment
- Macintosh G5 Dual 2.7 GHz, 4.5 Gig Ram, Superdrive, 250G and 250G drives
- Macintosh G4 Dual 1.25 GHz, 2Gig Ram, Superdrive, 120G and 80G drives
- PCI-424 w/ 2408 mkIII
- PCI-324 w/ 2408
- Nexdisk 128MB USB keychain disk drive + 4G USB Solid Disk
- Hewlett-Packard 6122 Inkjet printer (full duplex)
- High-speed internet connection via3 Mb/384K DSL modem
- Netgear and Linksys wired Gigabit network
- MOTU Midi Time Piece AV/USB multiport MIDI interface
- MOTU Midi Time Piece multiport MIDI interface
- (2) MOTU PC Midi Flyer
- MOTU Micro Express
- MIDI I/O switchers (Roland MPU-104s mostly) and MIDI mults
- D-Link 8-port KVM (for PCs)
- IOGear 2-port KVM (for Macs)
- 16-port IOGear Gigabit Switcher
Speakers
- Mackie HR824 Monitors
- JBL 4311 main room monitors
- Yamaha NS-10M Studio Near-field monitors
- Auratone 5C crackerboxes
- GC Controller II speaker switching matrix
- A variety of headphones for monitoring
- cables, stands, yada yada, etc.
Effects
- Alesis Quadraverb w/Plus upgrade Multi-effects
- Digitech GNX2 Effect unit
- Lexicon JamMan loop delay
- Lexicon LXP1 Reverb
Microphones
- Neumann TLM 103
- Neumann KM184 (2)
- Audio-Technica 4033
- CAD Equitek E-100 (2)
- AKG D-112
- AKG C1000S (2)
- Shure SM-57 (3)
- bunch of cheap mikes not worth discussing, but VERY unusual sounding!
Software
Sequencer
- Mark of the Unicorn Digital Performer 4.61
Keyboard, Module and Sample Editing
- Mark of the Unicorn Unisyn editor for all supported products
- Alesis Sound Bridge sample support for Quadrasynth/P4
- Kurzweil Object Mover for KW P1000EX
- CZ Librarian 3.0 for CZ-101
- Masterworks MasterWriter
Scoring Software
Multimedia and Graphic Software
- Sony Vegas
- Sony DVD Architect
- Photoshop
- RealAudio Encoder
