Lilburn Electroacoustic Music Studios

Douglas Lilburn (pictured) first developed electronic music studios at Victoria University of Wellington in 1963. These studios, situated in the basement of the Hunter Building, were to produce the first generation of electroacoustic composers in New Zealand (Jack Body, Ross Harris, John Rimmer, John Cousins, Denis Smalley, etc). When the new facilities for the School of Music were opened in 1980, two custom-designed spaces were created for electronic music composition. Since then two other dedicated spaces have also been developed. This section details the facilities available in the four Lilburn Electroacoustic Music Studios.

Electroacoustic Music Studio 1

The primary composition studio, a fully soundproofed, air-conditioned environment with superb monitoring, mixing and processing facilities. The studio has been substantially upgraded recently, offering state-of-the-art facilities for electroacoustic composition.

Mixing and monitoring

• Pro Tools HD-2 Accel hardware/Pro Tools 7 software
• Focusrite Control 24
• Digidesign 192 I/O digital interface
• Digidesign 888/24 digital interface
• Genelec 5.1 Surround Monitoring with Sub
• Tannoy FSM loudspeakers/Perreaux 6000B power amplifier
• 8-channel studio expansion, with additional Tannoy CPA.15 monitors

Computer

• 1 x Apple G5-2.3GHz Dual Processor
• 2 Cinema Displays (24" Dell LCD Monitor and 32" Viewsonic LCD TV)

Storage/backup

• HD SATA 400Gb Seagate SATA Drive
• External 300G FW Drive

Signal processing/synthesis

• NI Reaktor, NI Spektral Delay, Metasynth Pro, Max/MSP, GRM Tools Classic/ST, Hyperprism Gold, Waves IR-1, Pitch'N'Time, TC Works Megaverb, Focusrite d2/d3, Drawmer Dynamics, Digidesign D-Verb, Digidesign DPP-1 pitch, Peak, SoundMagic AU, processor, and more!

Recorders

• Tascam DVRA-1000Digital Recorder
• Alesis XT20 ADAT
• Panasonic SV-3800 DAT
• Fostex Digital Field Recorder
• Tascam DP-1 portable DAT
• Studer A807 1/4 inch 2 track recorder
• Revox B 215 cassette deck
• Fostex E-16 Track recorder

MIDI

• Kawai MDK 64 keyboard
• JL ooper Fadermaster Pro

Video

• Datavideo DAC-100 DV Converter
• Panasonic SHVS video deck
• 2 x Sony DVPN-930 DVD Player c/w 5.1 Analogue Outputs

Microphones

• AKG C-414XLS Stereo Pair
• AKG C414 B-ULS Stereo Pair
• AKG SE 300B Stereo Pair (field recorder)
• SENNHEISER MD421 II Stereo Pair
• SENNHEISER 44P
• Sennheiser MKH-815 Shotgun
• Others available on request

Other Equipment includes:

• ENSONIQ DP/4 Parallel Effects Processor
• FAIRLIGHT Series III
• ROLAND SVC-350 Vocoder
• ROLAND S-770 Digital Sampler
• YAMAHA TX 81Z FM Tone Generator
• YAMAHA SPX50D Digital sound Processor
• YAMAHA Rev 5 Digital Reverb
• EVENTIDE Harmoniser 3000e

Electroacoustic Music Studio 2

Smaller teaching studio, a fully soundproofed, air-conditioned environment with excellent monitoring, mixing and processing facilities

Mixing and monitoring

• Pro Tools LE 7, Digi 002
• Dynaudio BM6A
• Mackie 1604-VLZ Pro Mixer

Computer

• 1 x Apple G5 Dual 2GHz, 1.5G RAM
• Apple 20" Cinema Display

Storage/backup

• 150G SATA Drive

Signal processing/synthesis

• NI Reaktor, NI Spektral Delay, Peak, Max/MSP, Metasynth Pro, GRM Tools, Hyperprism Gold and more.

Recorders

• Fostex D5 DAT Recorder
• Tascam 8-track analogue recorder
• TEAC cassette deck
• Sony CD plyer

MIDI

• Roland PC-200 keyboard
• CM Labs Motomix

Microphones

• AKG C-414XLS (Stereo Pair)
• AKG 460B condenser (Stereo Pair)

Other equipment

• Roland 100 Modular Synth
• AKS Synthi-A
• Putney VCS-3

Electroacoustic Music Studio 3

Small, high-performance studio for live electronics performance research

Mixing and monitoring

• Pro Tools 7LE software
• Tannoy Reveal loudspeakers
• Mackie 1604 mixer
• Digi002 Control Surface and Digital interface

Computer

• Apple G4 17" Powerbook 1.67GHz
• HP 19" LCD Monitor

Storage/backup

• 300Gb External FW

Signal processing/synthesis

• GRM Tools Classic/ST, NI Reaktor, Max/MSP, Ableton Live, Reason, and more.

MIDI

• Roland PC-200 MKII keyboard
• 10Control MIDI control surface
• iCube MIDI digitiser
• Selection of VC sensors

Microphones

• 2 Sennheiser MD424 dynamic and additional as required.

Turntable Workstation

• 2 Technics SL-1210 Turntables
• Vestax PCV-275 Mixer
• Technics Headphones and a selection of Shure and Ortofon needles

Electroacoustic Music Studio 4

This the newest addition to our suite of studios, is primarily for use at entry level, and is equipped with 6 desktop studio workstations, designed to develop skills in audio and MIDI composition, signal processing, acoustics and sound design.

Mixing and monitoring

• Pro Tools 7LE
• Mbox 2 USB I/O digital interface
• Sony MDR-7506 Headphones

Computers

• 6 x Apple iMac G5 20" 2.1GHZ Superdrive

Storage/backup

• 250GB internal
• DVD writer

Software

• ProTools 7LE, Max/MSP, Ableton Live, Reason, and more

MIDI

• M-Audio 49e USB Keystation
  

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