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Derek Williams Studio (Edinburgh CBD)

Equipment list | Software

Derek Williams is available as:

  • Composer, arranger, orchestrator
  • Conductor for orchestral and choral recording sessions and live performances
  • Record producer for recording sessions demos, albums, film, television
  • Recording engineer for works recorded at Derek Williams private studio
  • Pianist/keyboardist for sessions and live performance
  • Lecturer for seminars and workshops

For samples of Derek Williams' work please visit the Portfolio

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Computers & Accessories (Back to list)

Desktops

Apple

Mac Pro (2019)

4.4 GHz turbo-boost Intel 16 Core Xeon W with 96GB RAM and AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 32GB graphics card; internal drives: 4TB SSD (macOS) + 8TB SSD (Home) + 4TB SSD (Data). External drives: 16TB HD x 2 (Time Machine)

Mac G4

800MHz Dual Core for Mac OS 9 applications

iMac G4 *

800MHz for Office and Mac OS 9 applications

Mac Plus *

Server for Kurzweil K250

Windows

Asus

P6T Intel X58 i7 930 Quad Core 2.8GHz 6.4GT/s processor VSL server with 24GB RAM and MOTU PCI-424 audio card, 1x2TB 2x1TB+2x500GB HDs

Medion

Pentium 4 3GHz Pentium 4 Linux Server with 2.5GB RAM

Tablets

Apple

iPad Pro (5th Gen)

12.9" display, 512GB

iPad 3

9.7" display, 16GB

Mobile

iPhone 13 Pro Max

6.7" display, 1TB

Monitors

Philips

2 x BDM4065UC/00

40" 4K Ultra High Definition LCD displays powered by NVIDIA GTX960 4GB graphics card

AOS

U2879VF

28" 4K Ultra High Definition LCD display powered by ADM Radeon Sapphire RX460 2GB graphics card

Network

Huawei

CPE Pro 3

5G dual band router

Netgear

GS108

Gigabit switch 8 port Ethernet 1000 BaseT star hub with Cat 6 cabling

Apple

Airport Extreme

Hardware base station

Printers

Xerox

Versalink C7020

A3 laser colour printer/scanner with 3 output trays

HP

LaserJet 5000N *

A3 laser printer with 4 output trays

Canon

TS8050

CD, Photo and A4 paper duplex inkjet printer

i80

Portable battery USB colour inkjet A4 printer

+ Scanners

Canon

N1240U

Canoscan - A4 scanner

Webcam

Logitech

Brio Premium 4k

High-speed USB webcam

9000 Pro

USB

Konig

3 x CMP-USB2HUB15

7 port hubs

OXoqo

SuperSpeed Mini

USB 3.0 Card Reader Hub 3xUSB Slots High Speed External Memory Card Reader for MS, Micro SD, M2,TF

Hard drives

Western Digital

MyBook Studio

2TB external Firewire disk drives

LaCie

Big Disk Extreme Plus

Blu-Ray/DVD burner

Archgon

MD-8107P-U3YC-UHDB-S

 UHD External 4K-Ultra HD BD Burner/Player

CD Burners

Que ! Fire

*

12x Firewire recordable rewritable external CD burner

Yamaha

4260 *

4x SCSI recordable rewritable external CD burner

Floppy

Imation

D353FUE

USB external floppy disk drive

Teac

FD-05PUB

USB external floppy disk drive

 

Instruments (Back to list)

Keyboards

Kawai

GL10

Grand Piano

Roland

RD-300X

88 note weighted keyboard

JX-8P *

61 note keyboard analog synthesiser

M-Audio

ProKeys Sono 88

88 note weighted keyboard

Korg

Kontrol 49 *

MIDI controllers

Nanopad

Nanokeys

Kurzweil

K250 *

Keyboard digital sampling sequencing synthesiser with SuperRAM™, sound blocks A, B, C, D, SW900 block cartridge. & SCSI hard disk interface.

Racks

K250R *

Digital sampling sequencing synthesiser with SuperRAM™, sound blocks A, B, C, D

K2500R

Digital sampling sequencing synthesiser with 32 Meg RAM, 2GB HD with Contemporary ROM & Orchestral ROM & extended PRAM

Korg

M3R

Synthesiser unit

 

Studio Gear (Back to list)

Mixer

Behringer

DDX3216

Automated 24 bit 32 channel digital mixing console with dual ADAT option

Speakers

Yamaha

2 x NS20

3 way 8" studio monitors

ESI uniK

2 x 05

2 way 5" studio monitors

2 x 04

2 way 4" studio monitors

Headphones

Beyer

DT250 Dynamic

Stereo headphones

Controllers

Steinberg

CC121

Advanced Integration Controller for Cubase Pro

Contour

2 x Shuttle Pro2

USB transport controller

Shuttle Xpress

Wacom

Intuos3 PTZ-630

A5 USB graphics tablet

Video

LG

BP736

SMART 4K Ultra HD 3D Blu-ray player

Audio

MOTU

2 x 2048 Mk 3

24 channel PCI audio interfaces 

2 x PCI-424

24 bit audio cards

MIDI

2 x MIDI TimePieces AV

8 port I/O USB SMPTE/MIDI/wordclock interfaces

FastLane

2 port I/O USB MIDI interface

ESi

2 x M8U-XL

8 port I/O USB MIDI interfaces

Microphones

Beyer

2 x M500N(C)

Dynamic microphones with stands

Shure

3 x SHR-16AM

Condenser microphones with stands

Reverb

Yamaha

SPX90

Reverberation unit

Compressor

Akai

70C*

Monophonic compressor

Patch bay

Behringer

Ultrapatch Pro PX2000

48 point multifunctional patch bay

* Items marked '*' are stored in Australia


Software | Equipment list | Back to top
Operating Systems (Back to list)

Apple

Macintosh

Version 10.13 'High Sierra' (Intel Mac Pro desktop)

Version 9.2 (G4 and iMac desktop)

Version 8 (MacPlus Kurzweil K250 server)

iPad Pro (Gen 5)

iOS Version 16

iPhone 13 Pro Max

Microsoft

Windows

Version 10

Linux

Linux

Version 2.6 (32 bit) development server

 

Music Sequencers, MIDI & Audio DAW Applications (Back to list)

Steinberg

Cubase

Version 10

Avid

ProTools

Version 2021

MOTU

Digital Performer

Version 10

Unisyn

Version 2.1 - MIDI interface manager and patch librarian

Cycling ‘74

Max7 + Gen

music, sound, video and 3D interactive graphical media programming environment

Apple

Logic Pro X

Version 10

 
Scorewriters (Back to list)

Steinberg

Dorico

Version 5

Avid

Sibelius

Version 2023

Makemusic

Finale

Version 26

MuseScore

MuseScore

Version 5

MOTU

Composers’ Mosaic

Version 1.58

 

Sample Players, Sound Libraries & Rewire (Back to list)

Vienna Symphonic Library

VE Pro

Mixing and Host Software exclusively for Vienna Instruments

MIR Pro

Holistic mixing and reverberation engine for Mac and PC, based on revolutionary Multi Impulse Response convolution

VI Pro

Virtual instruments player for Vienna Instruments

VSL Symphonic Cube

Complete Orchestral Libraries:  Solo Strings 1&2, Chamber Strings1&2, Orchestral Strings 1&2, Appassionata Strings 1&2, Harps, Woodwinds 1&2, Saxophones, Brass 1&2, Vienna Dimension Brass, Fanfare Trumpets, Trumpet (Bb), Flugelhorn, Percussion, Vienna Choir

VSL Orchestral Cube Pro

For GigaStudio 4 and G-Player – complete libraries for Strings, Woodwind, Brass and Percussion

Native Instruments

Kontakt

Version 5 (64 bit)

Garritan

Personal Orchestra

Version 4 – sample player for SIbelius

Jazz & Big Band

Version 3 – sample player for SIbelius

MOTU

MachFive

Version 3

MSI

Symphonic Instruments sample player

Steinberg

Halion

Version 3

Propellerheads

Reason

Version 10 - Rewire

Tascam

Gigastudio

Version 4 (64 bit) – on standalone Windows server

Soundlib

G-Player

Version 2 - GigaStudio sample player

 

Other Plugins (Back to list)

Celemony

Melodyne

Version 4 DNA Editor

Antares

Auto-Tune

Version 8 - automatic pitch correction plugin

Waves

Diamond Bundle

Version 11 plugins - AudioTrack, C1 & C4 Multiband Compressors, Center, Cobalt Saphira, DeEsser, Doppler, Doubler, Eddie Kramer Drum Channel, Electric Grand 80 Piano, eMo F2 Filter, eMo Generator, eMo Q4 Equalizer, Enigma, Greg Wells ToneCentric, GTR3 Amps, GTR3 Stomps, GTR3 ToolRack, GTR3 Tuner, H-Comp Hybrid Compressor, H-Delay Hybrid Delay, IR-L Convolution Reverb, L3 & L3-LL Multimaximizers, L1 & L2 & L3 & L3-LL UltraMaximizers, Linear Phase EQ, Linear Phase Multiband Compressor, MaxxBass, MaxxVolume, MetaFilter, MetaFlanger, MondoMod, Morphoder, MV2, NLS Non-Linear Summer, OneKnob Driver, OneKnob Filter, OneKnob Pumper, PAZ Analyzer, PS22 Stereo Maker, PuigTec EQs, Q10 Equalizer, Q-Clone, Renaissance Axx, Renaissance Bass, Renaissance Channel, Renaissance Compressor, Renaissance DeEsser, Renaissance Equalizer, Renaissance Reverb, Renaissance Vox, S1 Stereo Imager, Sibilance, SoundShifter, SuperTap, Trans-X, TrueVerb, UltraPitch, V-Comp, V-EQ3, V-EQ4, Vitamin Sonic Enhancer, VU Meter, Waves Tune LT, WLM Plus Loudness Meter, X-Click, X-Crackle, X-Hum, X-Noise, Z-Noise.

Izotope

RX7

Standard - audio repair plug-in

Music Essentials Bundle

Neutron Elements - Nectar, Ozone 8, Trash 2, DDLY, Mobius Filter

 

Transcription (Back to list)

Neuratron

PhotoScore Ultimate

Version 8 – score recognition and transcription

Audio Score Ultimate

Version 8 – audio>MIDI transcription

Irislink

Readiris Pro

Version 15 – text scanning and transcription

Myriad

PDFtoMusic

OCR score reader

Nuance

Dragon Naturally Speaking

Version 13, Premium Edition (Windows), voice recognition and transcription

Dragon Dictate

Version 5 (Macintosh), voice recognition and transcription

Roxio

Toast Titanium

Version 14 – CD, DVD, Blu-ray and web video and audio capturing, copying, converting, sharing, disk burning

 

Office (Back to list)

Microsoft

Office 365

Mac Version 2023

Windows Version 2023

Apple

iWork

Version ‘09

Adobe

Creative Cloud 

Version CC2023 (complete suite including Acrobat, PhotoShop, Premiere, InDesign, DreamWeaver)

 

Video (Back to list)

Adobe

Premiere Pro

Creative Cloud 2023

Apple

Final Cut Pro

Version X

Motion

Version X

Compressor

Version X

MainStage 3

Version X

iLife

Version ‘11

 

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