Temporary dining room Rack development setup
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plus big programming skillz 
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My āstudioā is actually the back half of my lounge and Iām still trying to organise everything to be within an armās reach via swivel chair. Got a cheap folding table from Amazon and a 10 way USB 3 hub yesterday and it has helped move a lot of gear off my desk. Still work needed and I need a big clear out, but happy with progress so far.
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Nice 
What bass is this btw ?
Just a cheap Ibanez GSR 200 I picked up for Ā£100 in a guitar storeās closing down sale a few years ago. Itās pretty good actually and even has an active circuit (which I never use).
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My āstudioā is actually a card table set up in a guest room in the basement, but ācard table in the middle of the roomā actually has pretty nice acoustic properties!
I like to keep my gear very minimal (and Iām sure my wife appreciates it!). The laptop is a Dell XPS-15 (which wasnāt chosen for its audio capabilities, but itās a nice laptop) running Arch. Ardour is my main DAW.
I have Alesis M1Active 520USB studio monitors, which are compact but quite nice. I also have a Focusrite Scarlet (the good one: Rev 2 is class-compliant, which is an important consideration for a Linux user). I donāt often use the Scarlet, though. The audio interface in the speakers is usually sufficient.
Lastly I have the Arturia Keystep which is also rarely used.
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Bit of a re-arrange since the last post. After many dramas which I wonāt go into, I finally got my dedicated VCV Rack laptop stable and integrated with the physical modular. Time for some hybrid hi-jinks!
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Finally you got completely rid of the window.
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Find it amusing that your main controller for all that is what looks like a bog standard M-Audio Keystation rather than an Osmose or the like.
I think your studio is the anti-studio of mine, and vice versa.
I hope they never collideā¦
I finally got my dedicated VCV Rack laptop stable and integrated with the physical modular
Do you use an Expert Sleeper module? That seems to be the way most folks do that.
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Re antistudio: Same here. My studio is an old Optiplex 9010 with a bunch of controllers hooked up and fed to an amp. I have a few other boxes on the net and a few more controllers to enlist if I get weird ideas.
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Iām getting serious studio envy here ā¦
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Donāt on my account. All of my fast-ish computers are 2nd hand 2013-2014 era Dell biz boxes I picked up on the cheap or free except for a i7 box I built from parts in 2013. Even the 48 port GigE switch that strings all this garbage together was something a trash picker friend found when scrounging dumpsters.
I said this before.
Serious studio envy without the wallet envy! Re-arranging my studio involves moving stuff to dust.
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Proper Boss
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Yep, ES-9 with an ES-5 expander.
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The keystation is connected to my studio mac and serves only as a controller for playing stuff in for Logic.
I donāt really use controllers on the modular but I do have a couple of Roland 100m keyboards if want to play it traditionally.
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Kind sir,
Are you a gazzilionare? 
i regret selling my k5000s. very underrated. i dont think many people bought them.
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The guy in Journey endorsed those. There used to be a Kawai promo poster of him playing one, and sitting in front of my sequencer.
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