Equipment
Excerpt of mostly used equipment (to date: 2024-02-06)
There might be more equipment used in my music, which is not listed here like FL Studio (which I used for 15 years), WIVI Instruments, Samplemodeling instruments and so on; especially in older tracks. This is mainly a list of tools I like to use "at the very moment". (-;
Hardware
Workstation
- OS: Win 10 64 bit
- CPU: i9 9900K, 8x 3.60 - 5.00 Ghz
- GPU: AMD Radeon RX 580
- RAM: 16 GB DDR4-3200
- HDD: 1TB M.2 SSD + 2x 500 GB SSDs
- Audio: RME Babyface
- Monitoring: Yamaha HS7
Recording
- Neumann TLM102
- Rode NTG-3
- Zoom H5
- Rode Pistolgrip + Boom
- Beyerdynamics Custom One Pro
Instruments
- Stagg western guitar
- Yamaha concert guitar
- Epiphone SG e-guitar
- Harley Benton bass guitar
- Hohner accordeon
- Yanagisawa alto sax
- M-Audio Keystation 88es MKII
Software
Main software
- Reaper
- MuseScore
- Resonic Pro
- MP3 Tag
Woodwinds
- Aaron Venture Infinite Woodwinds
Brass
- Aaron Venture Infinite Brass
Percussion
- Soniccharge Microtonic
- PercX
- Fracture Sounds Box Factory
- NI Studio Drummer
- ProjectSAM True Strike
- Pianoteq (Vibes, Xylo)
Keys
- Pianoteq (U4, Hohner Collection, Celeste)
- u-he Zebra
- Soniccharge Synplant
Voice
- Performance Samples Oceania 1
Strings
- MusicalSampling Soaring Strings
- MusicalSampling Adventure Strings
- (partly still SampleModeling Solo & Ensemble Strings)
- Pianoteq Harp
- Ample Sound Ample Bass Upright 2
- IK Multimedia MODO Bass
Effects
- FabFilter Pro-Q 3, Pro-C 2, Pro-L 2, Saturn 2, Timeless 3, Volcano 3
- Devious Machines Infiltrator 2
- Valhalla Room|Plate|Delay
- V-Clip (fast little helpful clipper!)
- Overloud TH-U Full
Typical setups
Big Band
- Aaron Venture Infinite Woodwinds
- (Yanagisawa alto sax)
- Aaron Venture Infinite Brass
- Pianoteq (piano)
- Epihone + Overloud TH-U Full
- Ample Sound Ample Bass Upright 2
- NI Studio Drummer
Orchestra
- Aaron Venture Infinite Woodwinds
- Aaron Venture Infinite Brass
- ProjectSAM True Strike
- PercX
- Fracture Sounds Box Factory
- Pianoteq (piano, harp, xylo, etc.)
- MusicalSampling Soaring Strings
- MusicalSampling Adventure Strings
- (Zebra, Synplant + Microtonic for hybrid score)