Steinberg Jones ADAT Interface
The Steinberg Jones ADAT Interface will allow you to stripe an ADAT tape with SMPTE time code without using up any of the 8 audio tracks. Computer Sequencer programs can then be sync'ed to the ADAT.
Kurzweil K2000sr
The Kurzweil K2000sr is a rack-mounted powerhouse Synthesizer and Sampler. See reviews in Keyboard, March 92 and June 93; Mix, April 92; Electronic Musician, March 92.
As a synthesizer it has up to 24Mb of internal ROM samples, 60 processing functions to vary those samples, 24 voice polyphonic/16 part multitimbral, and 8 outputs.
As a sampler it supports either analog or digital inputs and will support SCSI transfers from the Macintosh. It will initially have 10Mb of Ram which will allow for about 3.5 minutes of samples at 44.1khz.
Digitech TSR24
The Digitech TSR24 (reviewed in the Electronic Musician, April 94) is an extremely versatile Effects Unit. Seventy-one different effect modules can be chained together in groups as large as six to form an algorithm. All the module parameters are controllable in real time via MIDI.
Roland SE70
The Roland SE70 (reviewed in Electronic Musician, Jan. 94) has 45 preset algorithms including all the standard effects along with some not so standard ones such as a vocoder, specialized guitar effects, ring modulation, and de-essing.
Mackie Otto
The Mackie 1604 Mixer in Studio 3 will sprout a new appendage with MIDI inputs and outputs. This little box, hereafter known as Otto (reviewed in Electronic Musician Jan. 94), will enable you to automate the 16 mixer input faders and mutes, four aux returns, the Alt 3/4 buss, and the main outputs, all through MIDI. The box comes bundled with "Ottomix" software in the form of a MAX patch.
Gateway 2000
Some of you may have noticed that our Macintosh haven has been infiltrated by that "other machine". In Studio 3 there now sits a Gateway 2000 IBM compatible computer donated to us by Timara Alumni Greg Hendershott. Greg is the developer of the most widely used sequencer program for the IBM, Cakewalk, which just happens to be loaded onto our own Gateway Hard Disk.
The Gateway 2000 carries an Intel 486DX processor running at a speedy 66Mhz. The computer includes 16Mb of Ram and a 424 Mb Hard Disk. It also has a single speed CDRom drive and a PC MIDI interface with Midi in and out on the back of the machine.
The Gateway has the latest DOS 6.2 system along with Microsoft Windows 3.1. Other software loaded onto the Hard Disk includes Visual Basic v2.0, Quick C for Windows v1.00 and Microsoft Excel v4.0. And, of course, be sure to check out Professional Cakewalk for Windows v2.0 (see a review in the March 94 issue of Electronic Musician or the Jan/Feb 94 issue of MIDI).
IBM compatibles are in such wide use, it would definitely be to your advantage to become familiar with the Windows and DOS operating system. The Gateway automatically comes up in Windows 3.1 (the power switch is on the right hand side, and don`t forget the monitor switch). There is a CD Rom in the drive which includes, among other things, a Windows Tutor. To start up the Tutor click on the "Main" program group in Windows and then click on the HyperGuide Icon.
Manuals for the Gateway, DOS, Windows, and Cakewalk are on the table. Please sign them out in the log if you want to take them out for the night. Manuals for the programming languages are in John Talbert's office. Midi In and Out are marked on the back of the machine. On the desk there should be a long double Midi cable for connecting to one of the room's synthesizers. Audio out from the CD Rom drive is connected to the patch bay.