Conducting, Producing & Recording
Composing, Arranging & Orchestration | Fee Schedule
Derek Williams Studio (Edinburgh CBD)
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
Equipment list | Software | Back to top
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 |
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iMac G4 * |
800MHz for Office and Mac OS 9 applications |
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Mac Plus * |
Server for Kurzweil K250 |
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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 |
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Medion |
Pentium 4 3GHz Pentium 4 Linux Server with 2.5GB RAM |
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Tablets |
Apple |
iPad Pro (5th Gen) |
12.9" display, 512GB |
iPad 3 |
9.7" display, 16GB |
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Mobile |
iPhone 13 Pro Max |
6.7" display, 1TB |
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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 |
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Network |
Huawei |
CPE Pro 3 |
5G dual band router |
Netgear |
GS108 |
Gigabit switch 8 port Ethernet 1000 BaseT star hub with Cat 6 cabling |
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Apple |
Airport Extreme |
Hardware base station |
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Printers |
Xerox |
Versalink C7020 |
A3 laser colour printer/scanner with 3 output trays |
HP |
LaserJet 5000N * |
A3 laser printer with 4 output trays |
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Canon |
TS8050 |
CD, Photo and A4 paper duplex inkjet printer |
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i80 |
Portable battery USB colour inkjet A4 printer |
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+ Scanners |
Canon |
N1240U |
Canoscan - A4 scanner |
Webcam |
Logitech |
Brio Premium 4k |
High-speed USB webcam |
9000 Pro |
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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 |
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Hard drives |
Western Digital |
MyBook Studio |
2TB external Firewire disk drives |
LaCie |
Big Disk Extreme Plus |
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Blu-Ray/DVD burner |
Archgon |
MD-8107P-U3YC-UHDB-S |
UHD External 4K-Ultra HD BD Burner/Player |
CD Burners |
Que ! Fire |
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12x Firewire recordable rewritable external CD burner |
Yamaha |
4260 * |
4x SCSI recordable rewritable external CD burner |
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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 |
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JX-8P * |
61 note keyboard analog synthesiser |
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M-Audio |
ProKeys Sono 88 |
88 note weighted keyboard |
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Korg |
Kontrol 49 * |
MIDI controllers |
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Nanopad |
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Nanokeys |
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Kurzweil |
K250 * |
Keyboard digital sampling sequencing synthesiser with SuperRAM™, sound blocks A, B, C, D, SW900 block cartridge. & SCSI hard disk interface. |
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Racks |
K250R * |
Digital sampling sequencing synthesiser with SuperRAM™, sound blocks A, B, C, D |
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K2500R |
Digital sampling sequencing synthesiser with 32 Meg RAM, 2GB HD with Contemporary ROM & Orchestral ROM & extended PRAM |
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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 |
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2 x 04 |
2 way 4" studio monitors |
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Headphones |
Beyer |
DT250 Dynamic |
Stereo headphones |
Controllers |
Steinberg |
CC121 |
Advanced Integration Controller for Cubase Pro |
Contour |
2 x Shuttle Pro2 |
USB transport controller |
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Shuttle Xpress |
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Wacom |
Intuos3 PTZ-630 |
A5 USB graphics tablet |
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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 |
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MIDI |
2 x MIDI TimePieces AV |
8 port I/O USB SMPTE/MIDI/wordclock interfaces |
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FastLane |
2 port I/O USB MIDI interface |
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ESi |
2 x M8U-XL |
8 port I/O USB MIDI interfaces |
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Microphones |
Beyer |
2 x M500N(C) |
Dynamic microphones with stands |
Shure |
3 x SHR-16AM |
Condenser microphones with stands |
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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
- Music Sequencers, MIDI & Audio DAW’s
- Scorewriters
- Sample Players, Sound Libraries, Rewire
- Other Plugins
- Transcription
- Office
- Video
Operating Systems (Back to list)
Apple |
Macintosh |
Version 10.13 'High Sierra' (Intel Mac Pro desktop) |
Version 9.2 (G4 and iMac desktop) |
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Version 8 (MacPlus Kurzweil K250 server) |
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iPad Pro (Gen 5) |
iOS Version 16 |
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iPhone 13 Pro Max |
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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 |
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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 |
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VI Pro |
Virtual instruments player for Vienna Instruments |
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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 |
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VSL Orchestral Cube Pro |
For GigaStudio 4 and G-Player – complete libraries for Strings, Woodwind, Brass and Percussion |
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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 |
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MOTU |
MachFive |
Version 3 |
MSI |
Symphonic Instruments sample player |
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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 |
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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
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Dragon Dictate |
Version 5 (Macintosh), voice recognition and transcription |
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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 |
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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 |
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Compressor |
Version X |
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MainStage 3 |
Version X |
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iLife |
Version ‘11 |