The Planet Mir Station

We have a small room dedicated to our musical work. In this studio we got our idea for the name 'Planet Mir. It´s because the setup is nearly as damaged as the real Mir space station was. We continuesly have to fight with broken or not properly working things. If there was no Gaffa tape, I guess the whole studio would tear apart. Therefore we feel like those forgotten astronauts in the Mir space station hoping the scrap will keep together.

Below is a list of the equipment used by Planet Mir. It all began with the Yamaha CS1x, and over the years the studio evolved quite chaotical into what it is today. Not all the toys are constantly in Planet Mir Station (depends also on what friends borrow us), in fact we realized you can make good music with very basic setups. In our opinion the synths complement another very well while the mixer and recording side could be better. One big analog mixing desk and a harddiskrecorder would help in that department. Suggestions and money welcome :-)

Computers

• Atari Mega STE/4 with 400MB Harddisk
  Our Sequencer - the best Midi computer ever IMO, equipped with 16MHz Motorola CPU
  Best thing is that it is so stable we can take it with us on stage also :P
• Steinberg Midex+ Multichannel Midiinterface
  
• C-Lab Export Midiinterface (yes, it works with Cubase Atari)
  
• Steinberg Cubase Atari 3.1
• Amiga 500
  For playing Silkworm, what else?!
• P1/133 PC
  Used as Recorder and storage space for samples.

Recording & Mixers

• Soundcraft Spirit 12/2
• Mackie whatever analog mixer
• no-name Patchbay
• Sharp Portable MiniDisk
• Turtle Beach Pinnacle Recording card inside a PC
• For monitoring we have an old but powerful PA and standard Hi-Fi speakers

Effects & Dynamics

• Behringer Composer Pro MDX 2200
• MUO 16-band Equalizer
• Behringer Modulizer (away now)
• Lexicon Reflexx
• MAM Resonator
• and some guitar stomp boxes

Synthesizer

• Yamaha CS1x
• Yamaha DJX
• Roland JP-8000 (away now)
• Roland MC-303 Groovebox
• Korg Prophecy
• Doepfer MS-404 analog module
• Waldorf Pulse+ analog synth

Sampler

• Ensoniq ASR-X with 6MB Ram, 24MB Rom-Boards and SCSI (away now)
  This box sounds soooo good, if only the hardware quality were like the sound quality...
• Yamaha TX16W with Typhoon 2000 OS, 3MB Ram
  Can´t tell you why, but I love the 12bit 32kHz sound of the TX (really!). I hate floppy disks, however...
  If you have an TX yourself, take a look at the program sox in our software section. It's a sound converter with support for txw sample formats.   

Other equipment

• Red Sound Voyager 1
  This is an Audio-to-Midi clock converter, great for live sessions with a DJ
• Kawai MAV-8 Midi patchbay
  I can only recommend that one. A great problem solver in every bigger midi setup.
• Nordmende multiband radio
  Actually a great tone module ;-))
• Guitars
  Did I mention we started years back as a Punk band? Of course we still have the guitars...
• Yamaha DD ??
  A drumpad with bad internal sounds but a midi-out. Sometimes used for playing mididrums.