Junkie XL

At 4:17 Junkie XL introduces his Yamaha REV5 Reverberators

"These controllers give me options to talk directs into Cubase. That is very hard to do with any other touch service program because they're made by Steinberg, so you can access certain parameters which you cannot with key switches or touch screens," says Junkie XL, about his Steinberg CMC-CHs at 5:02 in this video about his workstation setup.

"These controllers give me options to talk directs into Cubase. That is very hard to do with any other touch service program because they're made by Steinberg, so you can access certain parameters which you cannot with key switches or touch screens," says Junkie XL, about his Steinberg CMC-CHs at 5:02 in this video about his workstation setup.

"It's a weighted keyboard, 88 keys. It's a lovely keyboard," says Junkie XL, at 1:40 in this video.

"It's a very nice fader service with just 8 faders. I've got them standard assigned to mod wheel, expression, volume, cc 16 controller, filter control and then here we see close, room, surround," says Junkie XL, about his JLCooper Fademaster Pro, at 2:28.

At 8:54 Junkie XL introduces his drums computer, which includes the DrumTraks

At 8:58 Junkie XL shows his Drumulator

At 9:02 Junkie XL shows his Oberheim DX

At 9:06 Junkie XL shows his Yamaha RX7

The TR-909 a very fun box to play with.

"Then I did this other project last year which was a documentary for Red Bull. It's called Distance Between Dreams with Ian Walsh, the star surfer. That was a very soft, ambient electronic score. I did everything live with MIDI and just mixed it on the board and that was the end result. I used the Jupiter-8 for that, the Jupiter-6, the Juno-6 with the sequencer, the MSQ, the Roland 60, the 106, also the GB4, Roland VP-03, the vocoder. I used a Roland S-770 sampler, which has a really great tone to it. A couple of Yamaha synthesizers, the CS-60, the CS-70M—all pretty rare machines to have. But for that kind of stuff they sound so fantastic."

"Then, I have a massive collection of samplers going back to one of the very first ones that came out, which was the Mirage. I'm working now on a movie with Peter Jackson—I can't tell anything about the movie at this point—but I'm using a lot of these older samplers because they give me a lot of quality. I'm using the ASR-10, Ensoniq, the Mirage. I'm using the Emulator II. It's all really good for that stuff."

"Then, I have a massive collection of samplers going back to one of the very first ones that came out, which was the Mirage. I'm working now on a movie with Peter Jackson—I can't tell anything about the movie at this point—but I'm using a lot of these older samplers because they give me a lot of quality. I'm using the ASR-10, Ensoniq, the Mirage. I'm using the Emulator II. It's all really good for that stuff."

Junkie XL posted to twitter, "But the waves api bundle plus cubase own eq are really warm and great too!!!" while showing a screenshot of the Waves API.

Junkie XL tweeted about his 3,800 track template by saying, "Homemade libraries for Kontakt... Together roughly 1 TB in Sound design instruments... #iFilmscoring"

"Here's the FX page... Over 120 unique reverbs, delays, compression, and eq for 48 separate quad outputs! #iFilmscoring"

In this image you can see the FabFilter Timeless under Altiverb.

"With Massive, we are able to produce insane basslines, soundscapes and other freaky stuff that is hard to make with any other machine. Again the bar has been raised for synths for your DAW..." says Junkie XL, on Massive's artist page.

Here he is using predator to remix Cities in Dust

While scrolling theough his template, at 6:32 there's a folder section labelled "CS Strings 1 Old Library...". The initials "CS" (which stands for Cinematic Strings) and he's using the old library rather than using the lastest one known as Cinematic Strings 2.

The Nexus is a FANTASTIC SOUNDING plugin that is very versatile in it sounds and expansion packs. Great sounding basses, pads and leads and drums! A GO TO INSTRUMENT and a must if you make electronic dance music. But interestingly as well, I find this instrument EXTREMELY USEFUL in creating film-scores. From true Analogue sounding on one spectrum and very Digital on the other side of the spectrum, Nexus offers it all!

“This bundle is absolutely fantastic! Many of these plugins I have been using from very early on when I was still on ProTools instead of Cubase.”

-Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL)

On February 2nd 2015, Junkie XL Tweets "I will post a series of pictures later of my new cubase 8 template! #iFilmscoring". Late on, Tom tweets this photo with the same hashtag.

Throughout this video, Pro Tools can be seen on the screen in the far right of what appears to be Junkie XL's studio.

Cubase Pro 9 can be seen the whole time

In this image of Junkie XL's studio, we can see two Dynaudio AIR25s mounted to the wall.

Junkie XL mentions his Boomstars at 3:32 in this video, one of which an be seen to be an SE 80.