Your Ideal Workspace

[LunchBagMusic]

So I had a great shower idea:

If you had unlimited funds and space, what would your ideal workspace be?

How would you manage your workflow?
What would be where?
Would it be minimal, or stuff EVERYWHERE?
Would you have a giant mural of Pinkie Pie on the ceiling?

Here's mine:

Just a desk, PC, Nord Electro Piano and a hugearse whiteboard for my ideas.

Your turn. You can be as artistic (or not) as you like.

[bartekko]

Four Monitors:
One for Ableton Session view, One for Ableton Arrangment View, One For FLS, One for VST's.

A GOOD sound card with A LOT of inputs

Virus TI, a doepfer modular synth system, electric guitar, DX7.

Akai APC40 also.

Some studio monitors

Sennheiser HD-280 (Oh wait, I already have them) for recording stuff with an audio technica microphone ( I don't have)
Sennheiser HD-595
Sennheiser HD-202 x2 (so my mates don't complain on not having enough bass while they're at my studio)

A drumset.

that's more or less my wet dream

[SoaringFlight]

Powerful laptop with a good external soundcard and a widescreen sort of hanging above the laptop screen. Then two big and freqflat monitors on left and right side of screens, combined with some good studio headphones, don't even know which ones, just as long as they are there.

Uhm what else.. Midi keyboard i guess. And id probably get hardware stuff later on, starting with Virus.. and probably some FX units or whatever.

That would be it probably.

[natsukashi]

IT AIN'T FUN IF YOU AIN'T DRAW SO HAVE THIS



Though I'd rather have a circular desk but I realized that later and I was too lazy to fix. And this isn't everything I'd use. I'd also record using midi guitar, real guitar and blaha blaha but this is only 2 walls of 4 so I may fill out with the rest.

I like colours and aestethics. It is crucial!

[Big AppleDoom]

[Whitetail]

I would buy SO freaking many random ethnic instruments I'd only ever use like once
I'd just love a messy, hard to navigate room full wall to wall with various synths and acoustic instruments

[the4thImpulse]

For work flow a huge deep V desk pointing into one side of a long rectangular room, muliple levels for monitors (both vieo and audio). The computer and speakers all at the center of the V and I would have controllers immediantly around me and synths beyond those. It would be similar to Deadmau5's old studio.

My current studio has a corner desk (right angle) and its has really helped my workflow, I have my speakers and computer screens raised at ear level and my controllers and synth all right infront of my wraping around the desk. Its just too small if I ever get anymore equipment and it points into a corner which changes the bass response.

[Alecrazer]

An amazing microphone, my guitar, and a PC. I can't imagine the perfect studio. :p

[MatthewMosierMusic]

Sound proofed and tuned room, with a built PC w/ a solid graphics and video card plus an external hard drive. Dual monitors. Logic Pro. My guitars plus a Martin koa 12-string and Gibson SG or something similar. Two condenser mics and three amp/instrument mics with a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, Kustom, and Orange amps. A midi keyboard and some way to plug my mixer board into the computer using midi, if possible, or usb.

Go big or go home.

[CommandSpry]

Flying in a private jet, front view somehow like the pilot's cabin but without the flying equipment and the pilots, a huge round desk around the edges of the plane, of course a full glass pane on the airplane all around, dark blue LED lighting, 2 screens and a laptop, great, huge speakers and HD800 headphones, PC with 4 x GTX580's and the fastest i7 out there, 5TB of space, a 200mb/s internet connection, HDTV in the corner, great, big keyboard, nice mouse with a big pad, lots of juice and water, loads of hamburgers and pizzas, a few midi keyboards and an actual tuned piano in the other corner, Air Conditioning, loads of fresh air, and the plane has to be flying over a town with spectacular lights at sundown, Paris or Las Vegas.

SEE, I HAVE IMAGINATION TOO (:

[Kromium]

Instead of spending big on stuff I would buy the smaller things then gradually increase on my studio size until I can fully learn all the hardware I have. Buying all the latest gen things would be devastating to the creative workflow as it is putting you in a whole new environment, even after 3 months I'm still trying to adapt to the sound of my Monitors and am frustrated because I can mix better on my HD280's which I used before hand for mixing... sure you can buy all the latest things, the question is can you use it properly and manipulate it to your own advantage.

Reminds me of this quote from the Dance Music Manual:

"It's ridiculous to think that you're music will sound better if you go out and buy the latest keyboard. People tend to crave more equipment when they don't know what they want from their music..."- A guy called Gerald.

[LunchBagMusic]

Keyboard with Keyboard

I found this really funny. More than I should have.

[Versilaryan]

A soundproofed room with a LARGE desk complete with little compartment for my desktop. Two screens with studio monitors placed at ear level, an Optimus Maximus computer keyboard, some model of Korg workstation, and another smaller keyboard somewhere else. Also, some manner of gaming mouse with a couple extra buttons programmable to different effects. If it's even possible to have room for more stuff, a dock for my laptop and a small number of hardware effects (the preamp, power amp for the monitors, hardware compressor, etc).

Elsewhere in the room would be a cabinet for my microphones; stands for/with my trumpet, guitars, and EWI; a miniature grand piano... This would have to be a large room.

I'd also need to be making A LOT of money. >.>

[LunchBagMusic]

Optimus Maximus computer keyboard

Holy Jesus on a Fun Bus.

Want.

a miniature grand piano

I can't believe I forgot this.

[Sinn Ick]

I personally would love being on like a space station floating around earth as i (try) to make music.