Post Your Music & Gear Place Picture !

There's a Roland A-80 off to the side that didn't make it into the frame...

21" LG CRT, Juno-G+SRX-07, 2.1 sound system, M-Audio 2496 sound card... And lot's of fun!

Maverick wins the "Studio of teh fantomized" award. :=D


Wait, i'll post pics of my studio. Then yall will see. :-O



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Hey Sam!

I've got a little Roland equipment myself! : ) (Page 1 of this thread)

I want an award too!! I don't care which one! Just whatever you have left over is fine, although I would prefer not to be given one of those plastic trophies with the gold painted figures with the bendable arms !! LOL

http://www.piaknow.com

beautiful studio piaknow! you get the award the coveted "Roland junkie" award! Congrats!

Hmm..actually, Cloud and you share that award. So, congrats both of yall. Meanwhile, i'm working on finding my camera cable, so watch out!

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The top is indeed the Dave Smith, bottom is a Yamaha S80, and I now have the Fantom X7 as well.

What we record in life, echoes in eternity.

Here's my very recent, new setup:
















And for the finish...something i drew a couple of years ago :





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Great setup, great complex music sheet !!!

Roland Fantom X8

Event TR8 Studio Monitors

It only looks complicated because you're looking at it far away. Zoom in, and you'll see its not that complicated because i've managed to cleverly disguise some ants as musical notes. Hee hee. :=D



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... I also noticed a CD of Illayaraja (GOD). in one of your boxes.

Where (in the US) are you currently? Do you play in a band? I play guitar for a Boston, MA based band. We play Indian film music, and the keyboardist and I have been exploring the possibilities for fusion origninals.

Have been listening to Illayaraja's compositions for a while now, but had to recently pick up some of his songs for a show. I was helping sequencing the rhythms. The complexity of his rhythms and the his genius in simplicity, amazed me.

Im just getting into the MIDI/synth thing, and Im hooked.

Just thought Id put a note out to you.

BTW, what do you use the novation for? I've been planning to get one of them for some sequencing/controlling ease.

Ta,

-Manish

Hi manish,
Glad to see another IR fan around here. Zoom in on that pic a little closer and you'll also see a jacket of ARRahman's CD. infact, i have TONS of CDs and cassettes (geesh, i still use those. ) of IR and ARR. Avid fans of both.

I'm currently in Austin. I moved to U.S. 3 years ago. In India, i used to play in a band called "sruthilaya". We did a lot of shows, toured sometimes, and even played for greats such as S.P.B., P.Susheela, Chitra, M.S.V., Vidyasagar, Tippu, etc. When I came to U.S., i did a couple of shows solo and a couple of shows in another indian bands. Recently relocated to Austin (only a month now), so I'm hitting up contacts to set up gigs in this area.

Agreed, IR's arrangement is simply brilliant. When our band took notes on songs, we used to LOVE and at the same time, DREAD learning Illayaraja songs because his BGMs took some analyzing to do before we could write the notes. For ARR and harris, etc. it was quite simple, but the rhtyhm section had to work hard because of the fancy programming ARR does. Still, those two are the best composers of India if you dont take into account the trinity of classical music, imo ofcourse.

The Novation I use for controlling the Kawai K5kW. The knobs replace the function of the K5KS. So, its like having a K5KS. Also, the velocity curve of the Remote is MUCHO different from that of the Kawai, so a lot of times i discover new sounds in the same patch.

BTW, Starting from next friday, I have an entire week off (spring break). Hit me up if you want a keyboardist for a show.



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Yes, I agree with you, definitely dread (and love) picking up IR music. We're a band called AAROH (Very average skills for now, but getting there slowly !!).
We might do Ae Zindagi (Sadma), which is an IR composition (Along with other all time favourites such as Vande Maataram-Not ARR, some classics and some new numbers), Im supporting the keyboardist (who has his hands full with all the switching from Flute to sax, and santoor and so on ...), or at least planning to.
Sax, flute and violin are so much easier to play on the guitar because of all the legato/vibrato which comes naturally to a guitar player.

Man, if you played for greats such as SPB, Vidyasagar, you're definitely too good for a little band like us !! But yes, it would be fun to just jam sometime (Dont see how that's possible with you in Austin, and me here in Boston). Maybe we could exchange MIDIs or something. Im just getting into the art of recording and using MIDI to sequence and create interesting soundscapes for impromptu jams.

Which school do you go to? Maybe that's a bad assumption, you could be a professor also (In which case please forgive me !!). We have a show on April the 28th this year.

In the process of setting up a website for our band, will send you a link. Planning to post some stuff from our shows and some originals that we did.

But you can write me at manish.kurup@verizon.net.

Take care ...

-Manish

Diametro,
How do you like your Fusion?

.... with all these complex and gear-rich setups !!! Nice setup hallifax!!

Is the mixing console Firewire enabled? I think that's a great idea, and If I hadn't invested in the MOTU 828 MkII, that's what I would have got.

But with the MOTU, I can fit my whole gig into a 4-slot rack box, and cart it around for practises, and gigs alike.

But still, would have liked to have the individual control of a mixer, with the flexibility of routing the inputs thereof, into my powerbook over FW. When Im all grown up and have the luxury of having my own recording studio, that's what Im going to get definitiely !!!

Is that a MACKIE console, by the way?

-Manish