the “built into walls” set ups in studios are actually soffit mounted and those are built out from the actual wall w/bass traps or foam insulation around them and behind them. those are typically “mains” and then the nearfields sit on the console. but many smaller studios just do the soffit mounted mid/near filed monitors.
there’s some good build info on line if you are looking to soffit mount monitors. so, there’s like a false wall.
I’m using Reaper as an ITB mixer and FX racks. Thinking of grabbing a MF Twister to control sends and fx params, but I’m pretty much maxed for room (look at my poor Geode perched up on his side). Basically down to to that little strip where the MM2 is sitting for my J rolling area
My wife and I have been working from home (office jobs) for over a year now, so we had to dedicate a room upstairs to that. I had my music setup downstairs in a corner of the living room, but it wasn’t very comfortable sitting on the arm of a sofa to use it, plus I only had by 13" MacBook screen to work on.
Got a new 27" monitor for upstairs, for work but also for photography, so I decided to move the Mac and the music setup up there too. I can switch between my work Windows laptop and my MacBook for music/photography. I built a very rough angled shelf for the M:S, M:C and the LaunchKey Mini out of MDF. I think I’ll build a better one out of oak. I’ve a Logitech Craft typing keyboard on the way, which will help with switching between the PC and Mac. I’m interested to see if the dial thing on it is any use in Logic.
The table is very narrow, and I’m sitting in a tight alcove, so there’s not much room, and I’ve had to temporarily sacrifice a Skulpt and a MiniBrute 2 order to fit this much on the desk. Plan is to move house later this year, so hopefully I’ll have a bit more space for a proper desk and full setup then.
Forgot to mention. I didn’t do this before because with all the work setup in that room, there wasn’t enough power sockets for the Mac and the synth setup. But the new monitor delivers power over USB-C to my MacBook, and it has a USB hub, which I’ve got the M:S and M:C powered off using barrel jack to USB cables. The Audfuse is connected directly to the MacBook and running on USB power. The LaunchKey Mini, M:S and M:C are then all connected by USB to the Audiofuse. So I was able to add the Mac, audio interface, both Models and the midi keyboard without using any extra power sockets at all.
I’ve just connected them with brackets to two bits of wood. The whole thing (MD, OT and planks of wood) fit neatly inside an old case I had. Nothing fancy really.
Thinking of building a version 2.0 sometime, I might use aluminum instead of wood.
why the tape on the screens to block the names of the machines? is it distracting on stage or something? also what’s happening with the lower half of your OT screen? looks broken or glitched out or something… (hope not!)
OT screen is fine, thankfully! iphone camera must have caused some interference.
I’ve blocked a few things with tape. First to go were those constantly blinking BPM lights… As for the names, not seeing them somehow makes me feel the boxes are more like “instruments” and less like “products”