The Tiny Studio Corner Thread

andrewhuang · November 7, 2020, 5:32pm

great design! what’s in the top row there?

LazyCircuits · November 7, 2020, 5:58pm

What is the wooden box with the arcade buttons?

casualdecay · November 7, 2020, 6:35pm

That is a Paradise MIDI MIDI controller!

zuliani · November 7, 2020, 6:45pm

It’s a prototype Blue Lantern Synthx! Found it on Craigslist, fell in love with the pink and gold faceplate. It’s got kind of a Serge vibe — two oscillators, two envelopes, a filter, a VCA, and an LFO, all very squelchy and unpredictable and wild.

LazyCircuits · November 7, 2020, 7:33pm

I like the look of those.

NoraCodes · November 7, 2020, 9:20pm

I spent some time reorganizing and realized that the Beatstep Pro isn’t really meeting my needs at the moment. I have no real need for a mobile workstation due to the 'rona, so my Thinkpad T480 has been repurposed as a dedicated ORCA/JACK/ReNoise/Audacity machine, with the vanilla KeyStep for note entry - and, of course, the 16n for maximum control of my teeny tiny Mutable clones!

andrewhuang · November 7, 2020, 9:51pm

so cool! funnily enough my first impression was “custom serge??” i guess because of the lines on the panel and 1900h knobs. i hear good things about blue lantern though. and those colors are amazing.

zuliani · November 7, 2020, 10:43pm

Here’s my little corner sound station nearly finished — added the desktop today, as well as enclosed the little cabinet space to the right of the Palette case. (It’s currently holding the Little Red Book, a French-English dictionary, and, last but not least, @shellfritsch & Rob Moss Wilson’s “Big Lunch.”

What’s left is adding some euro rails to the spot next to the 16n to hold some control modules I’ve been missing — a Soundmachines Lightplane and the Doepfer theremin module — and then sewing a nice canvas cable organizer to hang off that back crossbeam.

I am so so so, so happy with how this turned out; it’s one of those projects where it feels even better than how it was in my head!

jkile9 · November 8, 2020, 12:49am

Damn this is really cool! Well done it seems like a really nice space to be at!

zuliani · November 8, 2020, 12:55am

Thank you so much! I have the Sketchup plans if you or anyone else wants to make their own

Zeke_B · November 8, 2020, 2:56am

Here’s a shot of my small studio—my guitar rig is out of shot… I’ll add it below. I finally got some new monitors in today and listening to my patches is a new experience (was previously just listening through my computer), and was so exciting I called my wife in to experience it. I feel so fortunate to have the ability to play with sound!

On a side note, I’m trying to figure out a better way to have access to my racks on my desk, so hopefully by early 2021 I’ll have that sorted. My two cases currently sit on a stand my brother custom-made for me, which is pretty awesome.

shellfritsch · November 8, 2020, 2:58am

Love this stand design! Like a painter’s easel.
Also so happy to see a 16n with color caps NEXT to a copy of Big Lunch

zuliani · November 8, 2020, 3:07am

Thank you, @shellfritsch! If I were to put my OP-Z on that shelf as well, the trinity would be complete, and you’d climb out of my little bookcase like in the video for “Take On Me.”