Karl Bartos

studio vocalist is visible in the rack.

"The rack is basically my vocal station, so I have everything wired in from my live room through a Tube-Tech PB-1B EQ. I have three Tube-Techs so we sometimes have three different bass synths going through them and a BSS DPR-402 compressor just to warm everything up."

A MOTU 2408 MKIII interface can be seen in Karl's studio (sixth photo, right side of rack, fifth from bottom).

A Mackie D8B mixer can be seen in Karl's studio (first photo).

A MOTU 2408 MKII can be seen in Karl's studio (sixth photo, right side of rack, sixth from bottom).

"I used to use the ARP sequencer but now there's apage in Logic's ES2 where I can pre-program algorithms to change a sequence. You can randomise the amount of tonal pitch changes, then alter it and compose over what it gives you."

"It's a small rack but I still have the DAT and cassette machines rack-mounted because of this record. They're not usually there but I had to get in touch with my past! Normally there's a Sony F1 digital recorder sitting in the space where they are."

"I use Logic, but only as a recorder, not for running soft synths. All my sounds are in Akai S3000 sample format, and sometimes I sample another instruments like the Minimoog. With the Akai samplers I have learned the system, so now I don't have to think about it - when you are working long hours in the studio, that's important. And they are very cheap now, so I would prefer to have a whole bank of Akai samplers than to try to make my computer play samples and soft synths. You would really need four or five computers to achieve the same capacity and to avoid any playback delays, so I just don't think computers have reached that stage yet."

A pair of Lexicon PCM 70s can be seen in Karl's studio (sixth photo, right side of rack, third and fourth from bottom).

Two EQP-1As are visible in the right rack.

120XP is visible at the bottom of the right rack.

2290 is visible in the right rack.

1176LN is visible in the right rack.

The H3000 Ultra Harmonizer is visible in the rack.

A PE 1C is visible in the rack.

karl bartos can be seen using a macbook at 2:49