My subwoofer of choice to complement my monitors. I’m not entirely sure how neighbour-friendly this is in a block of flats. To be on the safe side, I made a timer trigged script on my Mac to change the bass EQ settings at night. And again in the morning. Viva l’automation!
Got these babies with some Frank money. These appear to be not for everyone, but they sound pretty solid to me.
A standard MIDI interface. Works with USB power. Had to get two of them when my MIDISport 8×8 died.
A really solid analog sequencer! 3 x 16 steps you can trigger in various ways. If you’re looking for an analog sequencer, you can’t really go wrong with this one. i sold it as part of Frank after Judgment Day, and I’m thinking maybe I shouldn’t have.
An expander module for the Voyager, making it more modular that without it. I put this up for sale after Judgment Day and ended up selling it. The Voyager was also up for grabs, but nobody bought it. Had I known that, I would have kept this one as well. Oh well…
While in the basement with all my keyboards tucked away too far from the DAW, I needed something to control them with. I was also interested in trying out how a generic MIDI controller would work for me, both for controlling external synths as well as . I mean, it should be handy to have
This one provides more physical input/output ports to the RME over an optical connection. I have three of these, but one is slightly defective: there’s a persistent clicking sound which is quite annoying, meaning i can’t use it for recording. Other than that, it has been a solid device.
I set out to get a decent audio interface, and this is it. Plenty of ins and outs, and solid as a rock.
The way this works, as opposed to an analog mixer, is this: when the analog mixer sums all, say, 12 inputs to a stereo pair (= two outputs), these are then sent to the computer’s left and right input channels (seen by the DAW as left and right, respectively), this one sends each input as a different output to the DAW software. So with a standard analog mixer I can only record one instrument at a time onto one stereo track, as mixing several synths in the mixer together wold result in several synths ending up on one and the same track, which is undesirable. The FireFace publishes all channels as individual audio ports to the DAW, meaning I can simultaneously record all my synths so that they end up on different tracks in the DAW. Moreover, I can have realtime effects on these tracks and monitor each synth live on its own track.
Wow.
Insanely flexible routing with hte accompanying mixer software. I stopped using the Yamaha when I got this. Highly recommended.
Got another one later as well…
I need a mic. I’m not picky. My brother said this was good, and I keep seeing it everywhere. And it’s been great. It still is.
I would not want to be this microphone. The stuff it has been forced to listen to…
Instead of having one Kenton Pro Solo per analog synth, I thought it would be wise to have only one MIDI-to-CV -converter to Rule Them All. So I got this, and it’s perfect for that: you can have up to 4 synths connected to it (or 12, if you’re not picky about pitch accuracy), or you can configure it for use with, say, a modular synth. Quite easy to use, and has worked really well. Still didn’t get rid of my Kenton’s, though.
Eventually the battery died, and it was the kind that required some heavy soldering work. That, and the fact that I really didn’t feel I had missed it while it sat there unused for several year, led me to part with it.