How do you store your equipment?

[EpsilonExordium]

I want to be able to perform soon, and I need some way to carry my equipment around. I was thinking maybe a Flight Case, and some foam that I could use to custom fit all my gear inside?

Ideally I'd like to fit (in one box):
MPC1000
Electribe EMX-1
Korg KP3
Virus TI Desktop

What you guys use? Pictures of similar setups?

[wrong1]

Ive used these, pretty good!

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-ATA-CASE-for-KO ... dZViewItem

[Ruso]

it sounds like it would all fit into one of these:



I use one... all you gotta do is get some foam, tear out the cross sectioning boards and pack your gear in there. result:




and my homie novatron's rig(his is a custom case tho so it's expensive)

[EpsilonExordium]

Thanks guys!

[MagpieIndustries]

I wrap mine in a towel and stuff it in my bag

[Setsonics]

I use a nice laptop bag to store my ESX-1 in, it works great.

I put all my patch cords in it, my mic, and any other crap that can fit.

I use an old keyboard bag for my microkorg. Its crap but, whatever.

That laptop bag works wonders, easy to load and unload, slings over your shoulder easy and keeps everything nice and safe.

I bought it for about 60 bucks at an electronic store here in Canada.

[Damij]

same i use a laptop bag for my emx, a mixer case for my mc808, a smaller mixer bag for my mixer and audio interface and lug my midi controller keyboard around in the box it came in, since i can't afford a bag or case for it at the moment.

i've been thinking about just buying (or building) a coffin, since ultimately i think that would be the best way to go.

[4NDRW]

yeh i want to do something similar
re-doing my setup.
ditchin my karma, and keeping my ms2000 at home

want to use my micro-x
and looking to buy a virus ti snow, electribe sx and a kaosspad3
and some sort of mixer
(looking at the behringer xenyx 1204fx as i could connect the kp3 to the alt 3-4 bus outputs, and then change which instruments get kaossified and which dont on the fly)
(and the behringer mixers are relatively cheap)

all in some sort of case, sitting on a keyboard stand

and maybe taking a controller keyboard on a separate stand at right angles to all this
and the behringer fcb1010 midi foot pedal looks appetising too
(specially as its relatively cheap)


this is me working it all out in my head
i havn't done a live electronic set yet
and havn't bought most of this stuff yet

how do you guys wire your s**t together?

[Setsonics]

Microkorg MIDI'd and Patched to the ESX-1, thats it.

At home I use a shitty, shitty mixer to wire my s**t through. Like my poly-800 and anything else I want.

But my live setup is just 1 ESX and 1 Microkorg.

=)

[4NDRW]

sounds cool

maybe i'm going over the top with all of this

but it'll be brutal!

[Setsonics]

I am still learning my ESX (and microkorg) , had it for 7 months now and I am on it every day.

[4NDRW]

at home i have a shitty big behringer mixer that i dont use
that i remember having not working gain knobs on 2 channels last time i used it

and i have an 8 input soundcard i use as a mixer, which is more convienient
because my computers on most of the time anyway

[4NDRW]

cool

i've had my ms2000 a few years (my first synth)
and i feel right at home with it
it has its strengths but also many limitations.
atm my live setup with harpy is my ms2000, micro-x on the floor with a 5octave controller driving it.
and praetorian is an old xp-30 and the karma

(i've grown to dislike the karma, on paper it can do everything, but i found it time consuming and impractical in practice, the micro-x is more limited but way more fun)

i've been mostly using reason for my tracks for the last while
want to get back to using hardware
i really like programming beats in ReDrum
so i'm really after a hardware drum machine, i can load my own samples into, and program/trigger crazy drum patterns off, and maybe program some synth parts too

probably wont use it with the bands (tho might use it to trigger samples? Praetorian uses some Airraid sirens etc on the album,
could use it to make crazy soundfx for harpy?
i'll see... but thats not what i'm getting it for)

rather than collecting random bits of gear over time as i have been, then trying to make it all work together while missing important bits, or realising i should have got the bigger or smaller version of something.
and having a tangled inefficient mess

after ages of talking about it, ive saved up the money working in a supermarket over the christmas holidays, and am gonna import just about everything from the US rather than buying it here in AUS
where everything is horrendously priced
so the time is now

i want to basically get all this stuff at once
sell off some gear i dont use
set up everything in a really cool efficient productive way
and practise working this setup till i know it backwards and i'm confident i can do kick ass live sets with it.

so thats my plan


(blah time to sleeepp, i'm rambling again)

[musikmachine]

I got a novation gigbag for me live setup(which will happen one day ) and it sounds like it would be ideal for some of you with a minimal setup, you could fit everything in the one bag.It's well made and has padding in all the right places to protect your gear.The laptop compartment is the perfect size for an emx/esx...There's a 61 key version as well and a holdall.

[AmigaHeretic]

I've got just the EMX so I use a laptop bag. You can get some pretty nice ones with extra room for the power supple, cables, headphones etc for a pretty good deal. Even watch like BestBuy when they are giving them away cheap when they have laptop sales.

They have laptop bags that look like back packs too. Those are nice as well. More room. They have lots of padding, straps to hold in the tribe. It's a perfect fit!