Robert Rich

"Here is my main studio setup these days: Macintosh computer, Otari 8-track and Soundcraft mixer, Yamaha DX7II and TX81Z, Ensoniq EPS16+, Korg Wavestation, Sequential Prophet 5 and SixTrack, Casio CZ101, Lexicon reverbs, Eventide H3000, delays and other procesors, steel guitar, bamboo and clay flutes, percussion, etc. etc."

"Here is my main studio setup these days: Macintosh computer, Otari 8-track and Soundcraft mixer, Yamaha DX7II and TX81Z, Ensoniq EPS16+, Korg Wavestation, Sequential Prophet 5 and SixTrack, Casio CZ101, Lexicon reverbs, Eventide H3000, delays and other procesors, steel guitar, bamboo and clay flutes, percussion, etc. etc."

"Here is my main studio setup these days: Macintosh computer, Otari 8-track and Soundcraft mixer, Yamaha DX7II and TX81Z, Ensoniq EPS16+, Korg Wavestation, Sequential Prophet 5 and SixTrack, Casio CZ101, Lexicon reverbs, Eventide H3000, delays and other procesors, steel guitar, bamboo and clay flutes, percussion, etc. etc."

Outboard: Eventide H3000SE, Eventide Eclipse, TC Electronics M3000 Digital Reverb, TC Electronics M-One XL, Sony DPS-V55 Reverb, Lexicon PCM70 reverb, Lexicon MPX400 reverb, Looperlative, Line 6 DL4, Digitech, various delay/loopers, Line 6 Pod, Metasonix, Sustainiac and other guitar accessories.

Microphones: (2) Josephson 606A-KA21 hypocardioid small condenser (2) AEA N22 active ribbon (2) Neumann KM130 omni small condenser (1) Blue Mouse cardoid large condenser (2) Blue Dragonfly cardoid large condenser (2) ADK TL-Au custom modified multipattern large condenser (1) ADK TL-Gk67 custom modified multipattern large condenser (2) ADK Sigma CHI small diaphragm condenser (4) ADK Sigma CHI large diaphragm (lollipop 47, 251 capsules) (2) Oktava MK012 w/ Red Replacement capsules (1) Audio Technica AT4050 multipattern large condensor (2) E/V NDym 408 dynamic (2) Shure SM57 dynamic (1) Sennheiser MD421mII dynamic (1) AKG D112 kick drum mic

"Here is my main studio setup these days: Macintosh computer, Otari 8-track and Soundcraft mixer, Yamaha DX7II and TX81Z, Ensoniq EPS16+, Korg Wavestation, Sequential Prophet 5 and SixTrack, Casio CZ101, Lexicon reverbs, Eventide H3000, delays and other procesors, steel guitar, bamboo and clay flutes, percussion, etc. etc."

"Here is my main studio setup these days: Macintosh computer, Otari 8-track and Soundcraft mixer, Yamaha DX7II and TX81Z, Ensoniq EPS16+, Korg Wavestation, Sequential Prophet 5 and SixTrack, Casio CZ101, Lexicon reverbs, Eventide H3000, delays and other procesors, steel guitar, bamboo and clay flutes, percussion, etc. etc."

"I still have the keyboards that I have been using for many years: Korg Wavestation, Yamaha DX7 and TG77, Sequential Prophet 5, Ensoniq ASR10 sampler."

"Mostly Eventide H3000, and Sony R7 reverb and D7 echo, TC Electronics M3000, and various old retro DDLs and flangers and stuff. I still have my old Delta Labs 1024, which is still one of the best flangers."

"Mostly Eventide H3000, and Sony R7 reverb and D7 echo, TC Electronics M3000, and various old retro DDLs and flangers and stuff. I still have my old Delta Labs 1024, which is still one of the best flangers."

"Mostly Eventide H3000, and Sony R7 reverb and D7 echo, TC Electronics M3000, and various old retro DDLs and flangers and stuff. I still have my old Delta Labs 1024, which is still one of the best flangers."

"As for software reverbs, I have made some of my own impulses for Space Designer in Logic, primarily trying to capture the very elusive sound of out-door spaces such as forests."

"I'm running Logic on a Mac Pro Xeon 8-core, using a Yamaha 02R96 as a front end. I still use outboard synths and processing, along with soft-synths and plug-ins. It's a hybrid studio for maximum flexibility."

In this interview, Robert Rich discusses 2CAudio Aether.

Available Instruments: Vintage ’25 A.B. Chase baby grand piano Synthesis Technology MOTM analog modular synthesizer DSI Prophet 12 DSI Prophet X DSI Sequential Prophet 6 Euro-Rack format modular system, various makers Haken Continuum fingerboard Korg M3 Workstation Korg Wavestation EX various lap steel and pedal steel guitars various acoustic & electric guitars and basses Various flutes and wind instruments Various string instruments (dulcimer, zithers, su gzheng, psaltry, etc.) Various percussion (djimbes, udu drums, dumbeks, talking drums, waterphone, cymbals, gongs, shakers, etc.)

Available Instruments: Vintage ’25 A.B. Chase baby grand piano Synthesis Technology MOTM analog modular synthesizer DSI Prophet 12 DSI Prophet X DSI Sequential Prophet 6 Euro-Rack format modular system, various makers Haken Continuum fingerboard Korg M3 Workstation Korg Wavestation EX various lap steel and pedal steel guitars various acoustic & electric guitars and basses Various flutes and wind instruments Various string instruments (dulcimer, zithers, su gzheng, psaltry, etc.) Various percussion (djimbes, udu drums, dumbeks, talking drums, waterphone, cymbals, gongs, shakers, etc.)

Microphones: (2) Josephson 606A-KA21 hypocardioid small condenser (2) AEA N22 active ribbon (2) Neumann KM130 omni small condenser (1) Blue Mouse cardoid large condenser (2) Blue Dragonfly cardoid large condenser (2) ADK TL-Au custom modified multipattern large condenser (1) ADK TL-Gk67 custom modified multipattern large condenser (2) ADK Sigma CHI small diaphragm condenser (4) ADK Sigma CHI large diaphragm (lollipop 47, 251 capsules) (2) Oktava MK012 w/ Red Replacement capsules (1) Audio Technica AT4050 multipattern large condensor (2) E/V NDym 408 dynamic (2) Shure SM57 dynamic (1) Sennheiser MD421mII dynamic (1) AKG D112 kick drum mic

Microphones: (2) Josephson 606A-KA21 hypocardioid small condenser (2) AEA N22 active ribbon (2) Neumann KM130 omni small condenser (1) Blue Mouse cardoid large condenser (2) Blue Dragonfly cardoid large condenser (2) ADK TL-Au custom modified multipattern large condenser (1) ADK TL-Gk67 custom modified multipattern large condenser (2) ADK Sigma CHI small diaphragm condenser (4) ADK Sigma CHI large diaphragm (lollipop 47, 251 capsules) (2) Oktava MK012 w/ Red Replacement capsules (1) Audio Technica AT4050 multipattern large condensor (2) E/V NDym 408 dynamic (2) Shure SM57 dynamic (1) Sennheiser MD421mII dynamic (1) AKG D112 kick drum mic

Rich and Schreiber's long friendship and collaboration most recently found Rich as head beta-tester for Schreiber's epic E370 Quad Morphing VCO.

"Here is my main studio setup these days: Macintosh computer, Otari 8-track and Soundcraft mixer, Yamaha DX7II and TX81Z, Ensoniq EPS16+, Korg Wavestation, Sequential Prophet 5 and SixTrack, Casio CZ101, Lexicon reverbs, Eventide H3000, delays and other procesors, steel guitar, bamboo and clay flutes, percussion, etc. etc."

"Here is my main studio setup these days: Macintosh computer, Otari 8-track and Soundcraft mixer, Yamaha DX7II and TX81Z, Ensoniq EPS16+, Korg Wavestation, Sequential Prophet 5 and SixTrack, Casio CZ101, Lexicon reverbs, Eventide H3000, delays and other procesors, steel guitar, bamboo and clay flutes, percussion, etc. etc."

"I still have the keyboards that I have been using for many years: Korg Wavestation, Yamaha DX7 and TG77, Sequential Prophet 5, Ensoniq ASR10 sampler."

"I have a nice private studio with good mics, a Mac G3 running CuBase (and older Mac running an old version of ProTools), Mackie d8b mixer, analog and digital synths including a nice new modular synth (MOTM by Synthesis Technologies), piano, etc."

"I have a nice private studio with good mics, a Mac G3 running CuBase (and older Mac running an old version of ProTools), Mackie d8b mixer, analog and digital synths including a nice new modular synth (MOTM by Synthesis Technologies), piano, etc."

"I have a nice private studio with good mics, a Mac G3 running CuBase (and older Mac running an old version of ProTools), Mackie d8b mixer, analog and digital synths including a nice new modular synth (MOTM by Synthesis Technologies), piano, etc."

"My live setup is mostly the sampler, Wavestation, sometimes the DX7, a small mixer, long looping delays, echoes and reverbs, homemade flutes and steel guitar. In the studio I have ProTools, a piano, a few additinal synth modules (rarely used), an Eventide H3000, some nice reverbs, good microphones, lots of percussion, odd stringed instruments, things like that."

"I have used long delays since my early beginnings in the late ’70s, using tape loops with twin reel-reel machines. I had an ElectroHarmonix 16 second delay since 1982, several Digitech 8 second delays, a JamMan with 32 seconds of memory, and recently I ordered a Boomerang pedal, which has not arrived yet. I tried for a year to buy an Oberheim Echoplex, but it never arrived. As you can see, I use these looping techniques a lot, as a way to create thick textures with the guitar or flutes, strange noises, or whatever I need. It’s a great way to build very dense layers quickly and intuitively."

"There’s a prototype World module there, because I did a lot of presets for the World module. A lot of the Proteus 3 samples are mine. In payment I got the prototype."

"Sometimes I would be patching away, and something inspiring would happen, and … I was trying to do the album entirely in 24-bit resolution, so I would just, I have a Tascam DA-78, so I would just roll tape, and then take excerpts from those tapes and edit them out into Cubase, using a Mackie D8B for conversion, bouncing back and forth between the tape and Cubase VST 5.0."

"I found that I couldn’t really make good music at CCRMA. I just could not think musically while writing computer programs to make the sounds. I got much better work done at home with my cheap modular synth, a Prophet 5 and a Revox B77. I’ve been a home-recordist at heart since the beginning, I guess."