my "dream studio"-setup right now is:
(and I know it's alot of stuff and unfortunately this dream will never come true...
)
* a large studio room, divided in 2 compartiments (a soundproof room for recording vocals and acoustic instruments)
* only once a year - a sound engineer who will have to check if the studio is sound-proof and has 100% good sound acoustics
* 2x a 19'' rack ± 2 meters height
* synth stands as many as required, design mixing & computer desk (it's still a dream !!), quality cables
*
Roland A-37 midi controller
*
Roland XV-88 also as midi controller + for the hammer-keys (I'm a piano-player) + sound expansion board SR-JV80-03 "Piano"
* Roland XV-5080
with SR-JV80-04 "Vintage Synthesizer", SR-JV80-08 " '60's & '70's Keyboards", SR-JV80-10 "Bass & Drums", SR-
JV80-19 "House Collection", and SRX-01 "Dynamic Drum Kits", SRX-02 "Concert Piano", SRX-04 "Symphonic Strings", SRX-05 "Supreme Dance"
* another
Roland XV-5080
with SR-JV80-13 "Vocal" Collection, SR-JV80-14 "World Collection - Asia", SR-JV80-15 Special Effects Collection, SR-JV80-18 "World Collection - Latin"
* EMU Mo'Phatt
*
EMU Proteus 2500
*
Yamaha A5000 sampler
*
Akai S5000/S6000 sampler
*
Roland JP-8000
* Novation Supernova II rack
* Access Virus B / Indigo
*
Nordlead 3
* 2x
a Sherman Filterbank V2
* some good mics (I have
a Rode NT-2 and that's OK)
* Roland V-series mixing systems
* an excellent compressor, exciter (aphex 104/204 aural exciter), feedback destroyer
*
Genelec 1032A or S30D or ... monitors
* an excellent 8x in 8x out MIDI interface
vintage synths:
*
Roland TB-303 (midified)
* Roland Juno 106 and
Juno 60 (midified)
*
Roland Jupiter 8 + programmer
*
Roland TR-808 rhythm composer (midified)
*
Roland TR-909 rhythm composer
*
Roland VP-330 vocoder
*
Moog Minimoog
*
Yamaha DX-7
*
Yamaha CS-80
*
ARP 2600 or 2500
*
ARP Odyssey
* a PC Pentium4 - 2 Ghz with 1024 MB RAM or Mac G4
* Digi001 soundcard (?)
software:
* Steinberg's Cubase 5.0
* Steinberg's Wavelab 3.1
* Steinberg's LM-4
* Propellerhead's Rebirth 2.01
*
NI Pro-52
*
NI FM-7
*
NI Battery (never tried but seems to be good)
* Waves Native Gold bundle plugins
* Sonic Timeworks' plugins
* bunch of other VST/DX plugins
Peace
ooops... I forgot
the TC Finalizer 96K (mastering),
TC Fireworx (multi-fx),
TC M-3000 (reverb), and
Waves L2 Ultramaximizer ...