That you’re scoring feature films with KRK, Presonus, Art Pres, and Softube stuff in your setup is encouraging for people with small budgets that want to get into this work.
@Michael Wiegand I was just thinking how cool it is he’s using 4 ARTs. Although to be fair, many producers, composers, studio owners will tell you they spend ridiculous money on high end or rare gear not for themselves, but to attract clients who don’t know any better and are impressed by brands.
@Jedidiah Alejandro yeah, my girlfriend is a film junkie and I think she has Flixzone as well as all these crazy underground Russian web sites & FTP servers bookmarked on her iPad. She’s always watching some film that no one else seems to have access to.
Don't forget.. that this is also one of very rare professional musician's studios which don't use Herman Miller chair (or wannabe/alike) haha.. Instead, he uses what seems like an ordinary house chair.. I love that.. (despite the fact that I know how ergonomic and good for health is Herman Miller chair, which is the fact that I like about them. Only the price tag is... very high.. haha)
@@yunussh5385 I wouldn't call that a commerical recording studio. Tom's role is quite different from the traditional music industry as he works in the Film and T.V field as a Film Score Composer not a Record Producer / Engineer in a traditional studio setting working with Writers, Musiciams and Singers etc. Film Score Composers rarely are involved in the mixing process as the Film Production Comany that they are hired by has their own Post Production guys that handles all the Mixing, Editing and Mastering. That's what Post Production is for in the film industry.
@@russell_szabados I wouldn't say to impress. Some gear has a certain signature sonic that Pros look for. It's not uncommon to see budget stuff like Warm Audio mixed up with high end stuff from Universal Audio, Focusrite, AMS/Neve Rupert Neve Designs etc. I have a Focusrite ISA pre amp and a Black Lion Audio Seventeen compressor. The real High end stuff tends to hold its resale vaule over the budget clone stuff.
Thanks, Tom for sharing this video. Not only is it informative but it's simply entertaining too. This was a Garden Tour for me. "Here I've planted petunias, but they have to be in this type of soil...." Really it's so lovely of you to let us come in and be treated to the workings behind the curtain. Your awesome. Don't ever change. Great video.
Now I'm curious about your backup strategy and data management...with all those sample libraries and huge scoring projects must be petabytes of storage and networked drives all over the facility I guess...
Another jewel of studio information- whether you know you're stuff or not it's so good for Tom to lift the veil off his rig for us to see how he's doing things. First rate from a first rate composer. Mandatory viewing for all studio nerds! Big thanks.
What a brilliant and well thought out studio. Brava to yourself, and those that designed this with you. I will return to this video for inspiration. Congratulations!
Thanks Tom for this tour! I bought one of your ART Pres shown at 10:39 it just arrived yesterday! So excited to own something from you and out of your studio!
Wow!!! That was a brilliant, concise tour. Your logical presentation should become a model for anyone trying to explain the complexity of modern music making. Thanks!!!
I love how you give credits to the camera man when you are 'stealing' his camera. Small gesture but it shows you are empathic besides a great musician!
So amazing that someone at your level is so willing to sacrifice so much of his time to make all these informative educational videos for free!! Thank you! And also love that you use the word budget both unironically and ironically hahahaha 😆
cool :) you simplify a lot the studio :) with more modern stuff!! i have also a presonus it's very cool too have a lot of inputs for a fair price !! about modular i use erm multiclock (record all transient in place) + big FH-2 from expert sleepers it's a very cool device for CV
My questions: 1. What video player do you use on Mac mini to sync video to MTC? VidPlayMTC? 2. Why don't you use MIDI over LAN for sending MIDI from computer to computer? 3. How is your woofer connected? 4. From my experience, MIDI over USB on modern synths has looser timing than using same synth connected to real MIDI ports with decent MIDI interface on your PC. Did you maybe do some tests? Cheers! S
If more than a few metres long, USB cables start getting unreliable. One can use something like a CAT5 USB (USB to Ethernet cable to USB) extender to overcome this.
Thanks for this highly informative, detailed walk-through of your new setup, Tom! As a long-time follower, I was fascinated with your previous setup and am now equally interested in how you have evolved in your tastes and approach to your workflow, as well as the more technical aspects of the connectivity among all of your devices. What a playground of sound! Sending you warm regards up the 5 from Carlsbad. Cheers.
H9000 LOVE!! I got the 2nd H9000R that Sweetwater got, but I had a lot of issues with it and ended up sending it back and upgrading to the H9000 w/front face and a PT HD I/O Expansion card. LOVE this beast :)!! I use the PT HD expansion for 32x32 I/o in Pro Tools, but ADAT for Cubase. You should use that ADAT for 8x8!
Thanks a lot for giving us this very thorough tour, Tom! It's one thing to have the skills to create the music and soundtracks you do but a bit overwhelming to see your studio setup and all it entails. Man - that's a lot of tech! Very impressive.
Awesome to watch you demystify a complex industry. I've been building my studio about 5 years now selecting the best gear for my budget. So happy to see that I'm on the right track. Inspiring. Much to learn from you. I want to see it all.
Awesome! I see a Studio Electronics Code and Midimoog in the top right too! A few months ago my Code was at Studio Electronics in LA getting a tune up, and the guy said they were making a special white color version for Junkie XL and there it is! 😎
Console 1 Mkii and the way it integrates with my Daw has been a game-changer by me. The fact you can do 2 things at once, like adjusting a low shelf and gain is great.
Wow! Incredible set-up! With your experience and knowledge, I have a question: I have a 90's era Technics KN1000 keyboard. The sounds are PCM, and for the most part very "dated". However, this keyboard has a step sequencer that is a composer's dream! In step mode, the screen shows every beat segmented in *. You use a toggle to choose your note value - dotted 32nd triplet - all the way to whole note X3 - and everything in between. With that time-length selected, you simply play the chosen instrument at the velocity you want. The cursor will move to the next "spot" where you'll choose another time-event value and play the next note. SO - is it at all possible to connect this keyboard to my computer, or interface, and use this sequencer to trigger instruments in my DAW? Good Lord, that would be AMAZING! Thanks!
Great walkthrough, thanks Tom. Inspiring to see a top level composer with an, albeit supercharged, studio similar to that which anyone might have at home.
A couple of unanswered questions... 1) How is your sub connected, since you said you use 4 outputs for the speakers? 2) How are the ART preamps connected to Cubase? Are you using the convertors in the ARTs to get digital, or a better convertor externally? To what are those connected? 3) Do you use the ART preamps for synths? Thanks!
usually you can go stereo into the sub, and the sub has a crossover for instance at or around 80hz. it sums mono below 80 hz to go to the sub and sends the rest of the stereo pair to the main speakers. so you still only need to outputs for it.
The Sub of the Dynaudio Air system is connected to the main speaker (L) via ethernet, just like the other speaker (R). You feed the Main speaker with digital or analog stereo mix, and the distribution of the signal is done by the DSP of the main speaker. There you have a menu to do crossover, levels etc. To balance the whole setup. It acts as a whole; the listening volume of the speakers can be adjusted via the ethernet remote, a little box with volume knob, presets and muting individual speakers in the system.
21:41 ...Yeahh LOL.fastforward 2 years in the futire( present now ) and you have Two buchla's 200 E and a huge wall of eurorack ( again ) SOftware will never replace it
Thank you for sharing! How do you clean all this gear? These knobs aren't cleaner friendly. And how do you manage power? How many power sockets do you have? Do you use power conditioners? Do you have any noise?
This was absolutely amazing to watch! That's a lot of gear! By any chance you could make a video about a budget setup for someone who wants to get started producing music for film? That would be awesome! :)
Hi, Tom! Have you tried MADI? It can handle like 128 channels in/128 out, so every tiny little piece of gear could have its own track in DAW. (And it's not that expensive as it may seem)
Hi Tom, thanks for the great episode. I've got a question: How do you handle the acoustics in your new room? I see you have lots of daylight - which is great - but that means a lot of glass which usually reflects waves pretty hard. Also, I almost see no treatment around, is it not needed in your case? I remember you mentioning, that you mix yourself. I'm really curious.
The USB-Port at the GRP A4 is for maintenance and updates! The both Midi-Ports are the standard MIDI connection. I hope there is an firmware update in the near future available.
VCV Rack is amazing and infinite. Got my first sound design/score gig for a horror film with it from a little stupid jam;) Unfortunately, the Art preamps aren't as cheap as stated. Not super expensive either but around €435 discounted on Thomann right now here in Europe. Good preamps are never cheap, though.
did you agregate the sound card with the appolo & the different audio interface from the keyboards ? so you do it on a mac ? or the main cubase is on windows ?
How are you handling the number of USB connections? The problem I hit most often is that I hit the limits of my USB ports. I run three 12-port USB3 hubs, but I have to make sure I balance out the connections or I can get resource overloads.
Awesome that's great studio tour, most people never take the time to explain the how and why they use what they do and how its connected. I agree USB midi and audio is great I've got one keyboard that supports it, just wish more companies added it as standard.
Thank you for that amazing studio tour about your studio. Well in germany we say to that" Da kann man sich davon eine Scheibe abschneiden" it means in english, that your modern studio is an example for other people to do it like yours, when it comes to the technical stuff an their connections, booth software an hardware. For the future for my studio, i can take an example and do it like yours. For example a hardware synth with booth in the us b cable audio an midi.
Just an addendum about the Console 1: Its default channel strip is an SSL 4000 E emulation. And yes, it's a superb product, except for its OSD software (not the plugin in Cubase but the one that runs in WIndows/OSX) which lacks ways to save position and size through regular means (i.e. via it's notification area menu). There's a config file you can edit, but it's deleted every time the OSD software is closed/run.
Man I'm watching through these videos of yours and now I intensely want to see a real scary horror movie scored with your brain, fingers, gear. There's an even darker side to you that peeps through every now and then.
@Jonathan Brooker I bought VEPro 7 in February and I just finally installed it and I’m sitting down with the manual today, Monday May 10th. Life got in the way for awhile.
This is very clean and simple. I like the idea of a secondary machine for video playback vs using the main daw. And synching thru midi or Steinbewrg asio sync is super intuitive. Gives me clear ideas!
MOTU is top quality stuff. Seems like a lot pros in the Film and TV uses MOTU hardware and software. I have their 828ES AVB interface with phenomenal converters as my work horse.
And no more Pro Tools for the picture, then, but I suppose you still use it for delivering to the dub? Or have you removed it from your setup altogether??
Congratulations on downsizing, very zen..... Would love to see the hub you use to connect all of your USB instruments. I have a similar setup with synths and a few midi controllers, right now im just using a generic usb breakout box. thnx...!!!!
You mentioned that you have several setups that all need to run the same software so they all need to be in sync (which is why you didn't buy several of the softube consoles). What are these setups and what are they used for? e.g. do you have assistants who program/record parts while you work on other things?
@Junkie XL I know usb cables are not long. How do you connect all your hardware synths to your Cubase computer? I have heard that some people have problems when connecting more usb midi controllers or hardware synths to a computer through a usb hub. Thanks!
research "active usb extenders" for greater length. there are also limitations to how many usb hubs (in a row) you can have plugged-in, but most people won't hit that limit.
main question is how do you find the sync performs when using midi over USB across all those synths? does not having a dedicated syncing device cause issues if your sequencing them from your daw via usb?
I LOVED this episode. But I have an important question for you... for the synths that send audio via usb (essentially being an audio interface), how are you bringing those into Cubase? Because as soon as your Apollo Audio Driver is set in Cubase's Studio Setup, you can't select more than that. Did you aggregate your sound cards (i.e. Apollo + USB-Audio-Synths)? If so, how does the UAD Console behave then?
How you keep all of your computers mirrored and compatible with each other? Every time you update or install anything, you have to do on all computers?
Thomas, thank you for sharing all of this with us. I have a lot of questions but I’m hoping you might be able to answer just this one: What software do you use to control your studio lights and are you using dmx to connect them? Thank you sir!
That you’re scoring feature films with KRK, Presonus, Art Pres, and Softube stuff in your setup is encouraging for people with small budgets that want to get into this work.
@Michael Wiegand I was just thinking how cool it is he’s using 4 ARTs. Although to be fair, many producers, composers, studio owners will tell you they spend ridiculous money on high end or rare gear not for themselves, but to attract clients who don’t know any better and are impressed by brands.
@Jedidiah Alejandro yeah, my girlfriend is a film junkie and I think she has Flixzone as well as all these crazy underground Russian web sites & FTP servers bookmarked on her iPad. She’s always watching some film that no one else seems to have access to.
Don't forget.. that this is also one of very rare professional musician's studios which don't use Herman Miller chair (or wannabe/alike) haha.. Instead, he uses what seems like an ordinary house chair..
I love that..
(despite the fact that I know how ergonomic and good for health is Herman Miller chair, which is the fact that I like about them. Only the price tag is... very high.. haha)
@@yunussh5385 I wouldn't call that a commerical recording studio. Tom's role is quite different from the traditional music industry as he works in the Film and T.V field as a Film Score Composer not a Record Producer / Engineer in a traditional studio setting working with Writers, Musiciams and Singers etc. Film Score Composers rarely are involved in the mixing process as the Film Production Comany that they are hired by has their own Post Production guys that handles all the Mixing, Editing and Mastering. That's what Post Production is for in the film industry.
@@russell_szabados I wouldn't say to impress. Some gear has a certain signature sonic that Pros look for. It's not uncommon to see budget stuff like Warm Audio mixed up with high end stuff from Universal Audio, Focusrite, AMS/Neve Rupert Neve Designs etc. I have a Focusrite ISA pre amp and a Black Lion Audio Seventeen compressor. The real High end stuff tends to hold its resale vaule over the budget clone stuff.
DUDE!!!!! yo room is FIRE!!!!!
your cables are worth more than my entire setup 😂
I really love the way you share your knowledge with everyone interested! Admirable!
Tom Holkenborg is a kind Heart and he is the best.
Thanks, Tom for sharing this video. Not only is it informative but it's simply entertaining too. This was a Garden Tour for me. "Here I've planted petunias, but they have to be in this type of soil...." Really it's so lovely of you to let us come in and be treated to the workings behind the curtain. Your awesome. Don't ever change. Great video.
Now I'm curious about your backup strategy and data management...with all those sample libraries and huge scoring projects must be petabytes of storage and networked drives all over the facility I guess...
Another jewel of studio information- whether you know you're stuff or not it's so good for Tom to lift the veil off his rig for us to see how he's doing things. First rate from a first rate composer. Mandatory viewing for all studio nerds! Big thanks.
This studio has a lot of things to remember. At least Junkie XL can go back and watch this video if he forgets something.
Thanks for sharing!!
i like that junkie is frantically explaining stuff while J-Dog is just chillin in the background
What a brilliant and well thought out studio. Brava to yourself, and those that designed this with you.
I will return to this video for inspiration.
Congratulations!
Super nice set up, and it's an honour to see a 002 amongst the things you keep and enjoy (wonderful sound by the way).
The one thing I want to see more in the future is VST's with dedicated controllers. Like what the Maschine was for samplers
Maschine is not really a sampler....
@@ArthurElectric It's more now, but started as a digitalization of the Akai MPC sampler series
you could hook up the 32R via USB to your main computer, so you had 32 inputs directly into cubase. and free up 2 inputs of your apollo ;)
Thanks Tom for this tour! I bought one of your ART Pres shown at 10:39 it just arrived yesterday! So excited to own something from you and out of your studio!
Wow!!! That was a brilliant, concise tour. Your logical presentation should become a model for anyone trying to explain the complexity of modern music making. Thanks!!!
Best masterclass on the net 🏆
I love how you give credits to the camera man when you are 'stealing' his camera. Small gesture but it shows you are empathic besides a great musician!
So amazing that someone at your level is so willing to sacrifice so much of his time to make all these informative educational videos for free!! Thank you! And also love that you use the word budget both unironically and ironically hahahaha 😆
cool :) you simplify a lot the studio :) with more modern stuff!! i have also a presonus it's very cool too have a lot of inputs for a fair price !!
about modular i use erm multiclock (record all transient in place) + big FH-2 from expert sleepers it's a very cool device for CV
My questions:
1. What video player do you use on Mac mini to sync video to MTC? VidPlayMTC?
2. Why don't you use MIDI over LAN for sending MIDI from computer to computer?
3. How is your woofer connected?
4. From my experience, MIDI over USB on modern synths has looser timing than using same synth connected to real MIDI ports with decent MIDI interface on your PC. Did you maybe do some tests?
Cheers! S
How do you connect all the USB equipped synths to the computer? Do you have some special kind of USB hub?
If more than a few metres long, USB cables start getting unreliable. One can use something like a CAT5 USB (USB to Ethernet cable to USB) extender to overcome this.
Thanks for this highly informative, detailed walk-through of your new setup, Tom! As a long-time follower, I was fascinated with your previous setup and am now equally interested in how you have evolved in your tastes and approach to your workflow, as well as the more technical aspects of the connectivity among all of your devices. What a playground of sound! Sending you warm regards up the 5 from Carlsbad. Cheers.
The usb on my synths is the least used port. I m amazed you are happy with this new setup. I would miss all the oldies dayly, just for looks alone.
cannot wait for the synth tour
Heavy Digital Audio Big DAWg PC @ 3:04.! R.I.P. Bruce Berman.
H9000 LOVE!! I got the 2nd H9000R that Sweetwater got, but I had a lot of issues with it and ended up sending it back and upgrading to the H9000 w/front face and a PT HD I/O Expansion card. LOVE this beast :)!! I use the PT HD expansion for 32x32 I/o in Pro Tools, but ADAT for Cubase. You should use that ADAT for 8x8!
Thanks a lot for giving us this very thorough tour, Tom! It's one thing to have the skills to create the music and soundtracks you do but a bit overwhelming to see your studio setup and all it entails. Man - that's a lot of tech! Very impressive.
Thanks for taking the time to do this!
A very unique setup. I can see how creative urgency warrants it. I wonder how often issues come up with so many parts connected.
great summary at 27:53
Awesome to watch you demystify a complex industry. I've been building my studio about 5 years now selecting the best gear for my budget. So happy to see that I'm on the right track. Inspiring. Much to learn from you. I want to see it all.
Thanks for the clear and concise description of your workflow. The hands on, play anywhere in the room aspect is fantastic.
Awesome! I see a Studio Electronics Code and Midimoog in the top right too! A few months ago my Code was at Studio Electronics in LA getting a tune up, and the guy said they were making a special white color version for Junkie XL and there it is! 😎
Console 1 Mkii and the way it integrates with my Daw has been a game-changer by me. The fact you can do 2 things at once, like adjusting a low shelf and gain is great.
Thanks for taking so much time to walk us through your studio. Great insights.
Wow! The mental map of that setup would completely melt my brain.
Junkie XL's setup is so advanced! I love it!
Wow! Incredible set-up! With your experience and knowledge, I have a question: I have a 90's era Technics KN1000 keyboard. The sounds are PCM, and for the most part very "dated". However, this keyboard has a step sequencer that is a composer's dream! In step mode, the screen shows every beat segmented in *. You use a toggle to choose your note value - dotted 32nd triplet - all the way to whole note X3 - and everything in between. With that time-length selected, you simply play the chosen instrument at the velocity you want. The cursor will move to the next "spot" where you'll choose another time-event value and play the next note. SO - is it at all possible to connect this keyboard to my computer, or interface, and use this sequencer to trigger instruments in my DAW? Good Lord, that would be AMAZING! Thanks!
Great walkthrough, thanks Tom. Inspiring to see a top level composer with an, albeit supercharged, studio similar to that which anyone might have at home.
the wires...hurt my brain. amazing studio tour and his work is amazing too lol
Amazing studio and setup.Thanks for breaking down the way you route everything!!!
Thank you so much Junkie!
A couple of unanswered questions...
1) How is your sub connected, since you said you use 4 outputs for the speakers?
2) How are the ART preamps connected to Cubase? Are you using the convertors in the ARTs to get digital, or a better convertor externally? To what are those connected?
3) Do you use the ART preamps for synths?
Thanks!
usually you can go stereo into the sub, and the sub has a crossover for instance at or around 80hz. it sums mono below 80 hz to go to the sub and sends the rest of the stereo pair to the main speakers. so you still only need to outputs for it.
The Sub of the Dynaudio Air system is connected to the main speaker (L) via ethernet, just like the other speaker (R). You feed the Main speaker with digital or analog stereo mix, and the distribution of the signal is done by the DSP of the main speaker. There you have a menu to do crossover, levels etc. To balance the whole setup. It acts as a whole; the listening volume of the speakers can be adjusted via the ethernet remote, a little box with volume knob, presets and muting individual speakers in the system.
21:41 ...Yeahh LOL.fastforward 2 years in the futire( present now ) and you have Two buchla's 200 E and a huge wall of eurorack ( again )
SOftware will never replace it
Thank you for sharing! How do you clean all this gear? These knobs aren't cleaner friendly.
And how do you manage power? How many power sockets do you have? Do you use power conditioners? Do you have any noise?
This was absolutely amazing to watch! That's a lot of gear! By any chance you could make a video about a budget setup for someone who wants to get started producing music for film? That would be awesome! :)
Nice one Tom, when are you back over? I'll treat ya to a broodje frikandel. Greets Luc
Jo zvučení nastrojů takhle v rácmi softbube je fajn - ale těším se na Yamaha Digital mix s novým protokolem a stylem Nuage
Thank you so much Tom! you are a Living Legend!
Hi, Tom! Have you tried MADI? It can handle like 128 channels in/128 out, so every tiny little piece of gear could have its own track in DAW. (And it's not that expensive as it may seem)
Hi Tom, thanks for the great episode. I've got a question:
How do you handle the acoustics in your new room? I see you have lots of daylight - which is great - but that means a lot of glass which usually reflects waves pretty hard. Also, I almost see no treatment around, is it not needed in your case? I remember you mentioning, that you mix yourself. I'm really curious.
I love this studio. Seems so much more usable than your previous space. I work better when I can reach everything quickly
You have some really nice equipment but your talent paid for it.
The USB-Port at the GRP A4 is for maintenance and updates! The both Midi-Ports are the standard MIDI connection. I hope there is an firmware update in the near future available.
Very interesting, thank you. What about backups ?
Are you using VST SystemLink between your laptop and your main Cubase rig or just MIDI Time Code and MMC?
Great video, thank you Tom for taking the time showing and explaining!
VCV Rack is amazing and infinite. Got my first sound design/score gig for a horror film with it from a little stupid jam;)
Unfortunately, the Art preamps aren't as cheap as stated. Not super expensive either but around €435 discounted on Thomann right now here in Europe. Good preamps are never cheap, though.
I think your studio needs a complete change, whenever you want I can change it for mine
did you agregate the sound card with the appolo & the different audio interface from the keyboards ? so you do it on a mac ? or the main cubase is on windows ?
Thanks for showing your stuff... You are an inspiration!
put the screw in to the bottom rack hole. angling like that with one in the top and one in the bottom warps things.
Wow what a studio, love the tours bring on the synths
I feel better about my ART dmpa2 frontend now :)
How are you handling the number of USB connections? The problem I hit most often is that I hit the limits of my USB ports. I run three 12-port USB3 hubs, but I have to make sure I balance out the connections or I can get resource overloads.
Do you ever shut down your computers or they always run? Except when changing something in them?
Awesome that's great studio tour, most people never take the time to explain the how and why they use what they do and how its connected. I agree USB midi and audio is great I've got one keyboard that supports it, just wish more companies added it as standard.
Thank you for that amazing studio tour about your studio. Well in germany we say to that" Da kann man sich davon eine Scheibe abschneiden" it means in english, that your modern studio is an example for other people to do it like yours, when it comes to the technical stuff an their connections, booth software an hardware.
For the future for my studio, i can take an example and do it like yours. For example a hardware synth with booth in the us b cable audio an midi.
Just an addendum about the Console 1: Its default channel strip is an SSL 4000 E emulation. And yes, it's a superb product, except for its OSD software (not the plugin in Cubase but the one that runs in WIndows/OSX) which lacks ways to save position and size through regular means (i.e. via it's notification area menu). There's a config file you can edit, but it's deleted every time the OSD software is closed/run.
Man I'm watching through these videos of yours and now I intensely want to see a real scary horror movie scored with your brain, fingers, gear.
There's an even darker side to you that peeps through every now and then.
That is amazing Tom, Congratulations. Thank you for taking the time to explain it all. wow
How is all your USB connected?
What is the program the dell touchscreen is running?
Another informative vid Tom.
Great work fella.
Wow. Would have expected more VEPro servers. We have 12 VEPro servers!!
Good to see your latest setup Tom 👍
@Jonathan Brooker I bought VEPro 7 in February and I just finally installed it and I’m sitting down with the manual today, Monday May 10th. Life got in the way for awhile.
Hi Tom, have you ever played the ondes Martenot? Is it an instrument you would like to add to your studio?
Very nice rig run down. How do you sync your computers.
For people who are looking into MIDI switches, the Motu ones that Tom has are not yet Mac OSX Big Sur compatible (writing this mid May 2021)
This is very clean and simple. I like the idea of a secondary machine for video playback vs using the main daw. And synching thru midi or Steinbewrg asio sync is super intuitive. Gives me clear ideas!
OMG, this is such a great environment to work.
Bedankt voor de rondleiding zeker de moeite waard , was altijd al benieuwd naar jou setup... groeten uit Holland
Awwww...the low-key Enzo cameo at @11:30.
Tom, I'm kind of surprised you don't use SMPTE for sync to picture, seeing as it's more stable.
What is “picture” computer?
MOTU is top quality stuff. Seems like a lot pros in the Film and TV uses MOTU hardware and software. I have their 828ES AVB interface with phenomenal converters as my work horse.
And no more Pro Tools for the picture, then, but I suppose you still use it for delivering to the dub? Or have you removed it from your setup altogether??
I now finally understand Vienna Ensemble! Very helpful!
So using synths over usb means you essentially have midi 2.0 . Increased resolution and recognition of the synths.
Congratulations on downsizing, very zen.....
Would love to see the hub you use to connect all of your USB instruments.
I have a similar setup with synths and a few midi controllers, right now im just using a generic usb breakout box.
thnx...!!!!
How do you manage to mix there with no accoustic room treatment? How does the room sound?
Can you go through your hardware synthesizers?
You mentioned that you have several setups that all need to run the same software so they all need to be in sync (which is why you didn't buy several of the softube consoles). What are these setups and what are they used for? e.g. do you have assistants who program/record parts while you work on other things?
@Junkie XL I know usb cables are not long. How do you connect all your hardware synths to your Cubase computer? I have heard that some people have problems when connecting more usb midi controllers or hardware synths to a computer through a usb hub. Thanks!
research "active usb extenders" for greater length. there are also limitations to how many usb hubs (in a row) you can have plugged-in, but most people won't hit that limit.
main question is how do you find the sync performs when using midi over USB across all those synths? does not having a dedicated syncing device cause issues if your sequencing them from your daw via usb?
usb only travel from komplete master keyboard and cubase to midi box motu. from motu to synth the signal it's pure midi on midi cable.
Thanks for the tour!
I'm sea sick though, the margin for improvement of the filming is enormous.
That is some setup
Great video! Thank you!
I LOVED this episode. But I have an important question for you... for the synths that send audio via usb (essentially being an audio interface), how are you bringing those into Cubase? Because as soon as your Apollo Audio Driver is set in Cubase's Studio Setup, you can't select more than that. Did you aggregate your sound cards (i.e. Apollo + USB-Audio-Synths)? If so, how does the UAD Console behave then?
Exactly, you can select only 1 ASIO interface in Windows daw’s. Perhaps some special vst plugin which comes with the synth?
How you keep all of your computers mirrored and compatible with each other? Every time you update or install anything, you have to do on all computers?
This video it's just GOLD! Thanks for share your knowledge and talent with us Tom. Appreciate it.
Thomas, thank you for sharing all of this with us. I have a lot of questions but I’m hoping you might be able to answer just this one: What software do you use to control your studio lights and are you using dmx to connect them?
Thank you sir!
I also want to know.