Small Home Studio

[silver fox]

Hi all,

I want to start a small home studio for producing EDM (house/hardstlye)
and i was wondering what some essential components would be

I have a MacBook Pro, M Audio Firewire 410, Pro Tools and Ableton (soon to be 8)

im assuming ill need a decent MIDI keyboard, maybe some synths and VST's

i dunno really lol

any advice would be much appreciated

[Kaon]

sweet desk, big ass speakers, amp, couch and beer fridge.

Done!

+obvious comp and controllers

[silver fox]

haha well i got the beer covered lol
and the couch

but totally lagged on the desk haha

i was thinking getting some near field truth monitors

[Kaon]

me and midifidler are startin to put together a studio at the mo too. hopefully i get a few ideas of things ive missed here...
just need a few more things, and for the space to become available

so far, off the top of my head we got:
2xBig Desks
2xVCI-100
1xmac lappy
1xnon-mac lappy
2xbig speakers + 1xamp
1xfirebox
1xmidi keyboard
2xbig extra monitors

then ill prolly get the novation SL25 or 49 also and hopefully midifidler get the parts for my midifighter at some stage too. arcade button awesome

chur

[silver fox]

sounds pretty good dude

wat kind of software are u running?

[Kaon]

ableton for production
hopefully have traktor pro set up to run both vcis at the same time when we get the 1.2 firmware

[silver fox]

that would be pro

i am getting traktor pro soon and a Xone 4D chyea
and im thinking of getting 2 1D's as well so 1 1D for each deck
a bit exy i know but it would be worth it lol

[Kaon]

that would be pro

i am getting traktor pro soon and a Xone 4D chyea
and im thinking of getting 2 1D's as well so 1 1D for each deck
a bit exy i know but it would be worth it lol

lol thats pretty chur. a bit exy? as in too many exes?

[silver fox]

haha sorry must be an aussie thing lol
exy = expensive

[BentoSan]

The bare essentials are a pc and a mouse - infact you will find yourself behind the mouse most of the time.

A midi keyboard is really nice to have, for a studio work i wouldnt get anything less than a keyboard with 5 octaves.

Go slow, start out with a copy of Ableton studio and learn the plugins that it comes with going out and purchasing synths and more effects. By mastering what you have as opposed to learning everything under the sun at once you will much better off.

I wouldnt be using a traktor pro in the studio, just stick to Ableton soley.

If have a pair of half decent speakers in the house use them to start with, but as you get more experienced you are going to want to look at monitoring speakers - theres no need to go out and buy monitors right away when your just learning the ropes.

You dont need Pro Tools either, you can do everything you want inside of Ableton - a really good reason for doing everything in Ableton is that the skills that you learn producing will GREATLY improve what you can do inside of Ableton when performing live. Using protools and Ableton together is overkill and will only serve to distract you from learning as you will have to learn 2 sets of programs and 2 sets of plugins at once.