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I love using wire frame shelving for gear. and I’ve often thought of converting some of mine from flat to tilted, like yours. in the meantime, I often will jam wood or books underneath synths, to tilt them towards me. funny to see that with the tilted shelves, you’re doing the same, but from the front 
what I’d really like to get would be wire frame shelves that are on rollers, so each shelf can slide independently in and out, like drawers. I did at one point locate and order some, but they arrived damaged and - even besides that - I wasn’t impressed with the build quality for the price. maybe some day…
it was either pay 200+ for some modular keyboard stands of £50 for some grocery store wireframe. this stuff should have fruit and veg in, makes me smile 
yeah if the shelves were slidable would be lush.
battery only setup, hope to do some jamuary with this
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yeah I love the price and flexibility. when I bought the two I have, they were $50 (USD) each for a five-shelf unit (18"x36", and about six-foot-high posts). that was over a decade ago, and I’ve worked and re-worked them through countless iterations of my setup, using every type of synth, drum machine, mixer, modular, etc that I can think of. they’re a little pricier now. but for sliding shelves… they’re about $40 per shelf. 
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wow what haha, are you me?
casio pk-1, olympus vn721, korg nts-1, white headphones, etc…
how are you finding the qy70? it was recently recommended to me for midi, but i was turned off of it by the programming nature/workflow…how are you using it, in this setup or otherwise?
i’m you once every jamuary.
i’ve had it since 2000 when i bought it for £60 in GAK. the sale guy pumped some synth bass really loud through the stores PA while tweaking the filter resonance, as a naive 19 year old i was sold.
was about to sell it recently but in the process of opening her up and refurbishing got quite attached again.
it’s pretty great as a comprehensive midi sequencer, and fun as a portable sketchpad, the sounds and preset patterns are wonderfully dated.
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What apps are you using?
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Honestly I’m shuffling thru em; mainly looking for granulators loopers and effects but it’s an amazing box
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new year, new home, new room, new view, less kit (apart from all the guitar pedals which are hidden in a cupboard)
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Cool!
Curious: How do you use AUM with ableton.
i use AUM mainly to process guitar and other sounds before they go into the octatrack. then everything is recorded to computer via the MOTU sitting under the desk (it’s Pro Tools on the screen BTW, i still sometimes use ableton for sketching ideas but I tend to work more in PT now to capture live performance gestures)
Sometimes i work entirely inside aum (using drambo), it’s so easy to record track stems while messing with ideas annd then i just transfer them to PT for editing .
i think of it like the small desk is for performing and the large desk is for editing/mixing
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Aah i see. Thanks!
Yeah that little desk looks very useful
How are you liking the snap-together midi controller?
What is that MIDI controller in the bottom left?
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I’m really liking them, programmming is a ‘little’ fiddly if you want to do anything weird/customised (i.e. make encoders fixed range). There are some features which could be reallly useful to some but are a pain for the way i work (e.g. if you move the layout of modules the CC numbers/channels change… ) but brilliant support from the makers
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are those microphone stands holding the MTMs?
always wanted to put mine on stands since they’re taking valuable space on the desk
Great spot! Especially love how you have the small desk setup - manufacturer on that little one?