So in December of last year I decided it was time to upgrade everything in my studio.
On December 1st I bought my first Simmons SD350 electronic drum kit. I chose it for its compact size as Ive already taken over the guest room and it was the only one that would fit without getting rid of the bed and you all no Cathy isn’t going to let that happen. Yes I know what a Murphy bed is and so does she, it just isn’t going to happen. I’m not a drummer but I figure Les Fisher or Alex Giesmear can handle everything I need so here I sit looking at it smiling.
On December 2nd I decided I would need some real drums sound to go with that kit so I installed the Steven Slate Drums 5 software with the Chris Lord Alge expansion pack and they are fantastic. Studio quality drums sounds in my bedroom.
On December 3rd I switched from Mixcraft Pro Studio 8 to a much needed crossover to Steinburg Cubase 10. After a six hour installation little did I know how much more was to come.
I bought the Slate Raven Dual Core Station on December 8th. I put the desk together in 6 hours only to decide I’d need a fresh new operating system to run it. So the plan was to abandon all other music software I use keeping the UAD DSP accelerator card and my 12 terabytes of storage and calling in Joe Gandal to help me out.
December 16th Joe installed the new operating system and then the hard part began of reinstalling all the music software one by one and talking to tech support for the next couple of weeks.
December 16 I got the Apollo Twin software up and running.
December 17 spent all morning on phone with Steinburg Tech support.
December 18th Installed the Raven software and found out one of the monitors isn’t working. Have to send it back, thank goodness I bought two of them.
January 8th 2019 my Softube Console 1MKii arrived although 5 days late.
More manuals to read.
January 11 1 Terrabyte V-Nand 970 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD drive arrives with PCIe 3.0 Adapter, another install.
January 12th Behringer XTouch and Softube Console 1 installed to Cubase 10 Pro.
January 13 second Raven monitor shipped back to California.
January 16th New replacement Raven arrives and is working.
January 17 Cubase Lessons from Brian Lee, 8 hours worth.
January 20 received new Apollo UAD2 Duo 8 input interface and a UAD2 Satellite dsp accelerator. More installs.
January 23 Slate remote in helping with Raven software issues
January 24 PCie Firewire arrives for new Apollo.
January 27 bought Ipad for use with Cubase IC Pro, more learning.
January 6th six hours of training with Brian Lee.
February 8th got the Raven Multi Toch software figured out.
February 17 started learning VST Connect to link our studios together.
February 21 bought MX Ergo Plust trackball for more control.
So all this took place in the last two months and I still have a long way to go but we are gaining ground now.
You have to keep moving.
I also built this website over the last three days and this is my first blog.
I’ll keep you posted.
Darrell
House of Dragoo
