Set-Up Tour Part 1 - Past, Present and Future (2023)

My music set-up as in 2023. Chapters below...

A bit of background... After looking after elderly parents for the last few years, my lifelong home in Ickenham has now been sold and I am now in temporary accommodation while waiting for the estate to come back from HM Revenue and Customs before being divided between myself and three siblings (and their families). In the meantime, while I've been lucky enough to regain much work from playing for ballet classes at the Royal Academy of Dance, there are still gaps to be filled from other sources.

Needing therefore to save as much as I can in order to eventually buy a decent house, I am living on a budget and in no position to buy any expensive gear at this moment - hence why I'm still using older tech from 2015 (all of which still works very well even now).

The Set-Up is likely to be refreshed between 2024 and 2025 when I will post an update. In the meantime, I decided to go to town with this video, including taking the mickey out of myself for all the money spent in my previous set-up, giving audio demos of the software instruments I now use in this one, while also looking back at my previous home and my time there. But it's also about looking forward.

All music heard in this video is either mine or piano excerpts from famous composers... and all are public domain / free use.

Kawai VPC-1 (Controller Piano) https://www.kawai.co.uk/products/digi...
Samson G Track (USB Mic) https://www.andertons.co.uk/recording...
Rode SmartLav+ (Mic) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rode-Smartla...
Telestream Screenflow (Screen Recording) https://www.telestream.net/screenflow...
Apple Logic Pro (DAW) https://www.apple.com/uk/logic-pro/
Synthogy Ivory 2 (Piano) https://synthogy.com/index.php/produc...
Spectrasonics Keyscape (Piano / Keyboards) https://www.spectrasonics.net/product...
VSL Synchron D-274 (Piano) - https://www.vsl.co.at/en/Synchron_Pia...
Genelec M030 (Monitor Speakers) - https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/...

0:00 Disclaimer
0:06 Intro
0:43 Looking Back - Previous Set-Up 2005
2:30 Present Set-Up 2023
2:40 Piano Keyboard
3:51 USB Microphone
4:10 Smartphone / Tablet Mic
4:14 Computer
5:07 What I Use for Video Editing
5:21 What DAW I Use for Music Creating / Editing
5:56 DEMO Synthogy Ivory 2 Virtual Piano
6:32 DEMO VSL Synchron D-274 Standard Virtual Piano
7:00 DEMO Spectrasonics Keyscape Virtual Piano and Keyboards
8:02 DEMO Lunacy Audio CUBE / Air Vector Synth and Sampler
10:42 Mastering Software
10:54 Monitor Speakers
11:43 Walkaround
12:02 Present leading to
12:34 Final Goodbye to my Lifelong Home in Ickenham
13:14 Back to 2023 Continuing Walkaround
13:36 My Chosen Layout
14:05 and Demonstrating Why
15:30 Rounding Up and Why My Set-Up in Incomplete
16:10 Your Thoughts
16:18 and Mine
16:29 Final Conclusion

Thanks for watching