Studio Tour November 2024

[@AlexBallMusic]

Really interesting to see how you work. Beautiful space(s) you have there!

[@lukemillionmusic]

Thanks Alex. Come visit sometime 😁

[@j.maxell3030]

That study smells like history 👍

[@alfredoguerra4606]

When i started to look your videos i have always wanted to see all your synths, thank you for sharing with us. That studio is really a dream come true

[@gonz0fist]

What a setup!

[@brettwayne8103]

thanks for the tour!

[@riloh58]

Thank you Luke. Been waiting for this. edit - I bought my first analog synth from my music teacher too (well, my mother did) back in the day, mid 80s. Juno106. I still have it. Special place because it was the first.

[@lukemillionmusic]

The first is always special 😊

[@ruk2023--]

I have the VSTs of most of these and I WISH I had the real things. Very jealous. Amazing setup and love the sounds you make with it.

[@lukemillionmusic]

Thank you 😊🙏

[@canecreek00]

Gorgeous studio

[@samireivinen]

Thanks. Really waiting for more ❤

[@tto0508]

This room should be a museum in the future

[@markjupiter4]

Thanks Luke, More on the JP4 please :)

[@Da-Freaks]

Hey Luke amazing Studio - amazing floor Lamp - amazing Luke - thank you for the Tour

[@davebreakwell9754]

Wow 🤩… just wow 🤩 ❤ What a great setup 🤓☺️

[@xfolkanx]

Thanks Luke you made me cry, ❤ love your grandmother

[@hotdubtm]

this was great luke!!

[@joshc.3911]

i fully enjoyed this breakdown of your studio. I think the part I was intrigued with the most (aside from the synths themselves) was the patch bay. what an efficient way to be able to have everything up and work quickly with the option to route through outboard gear. very professional setup and satisfying to watch. thank you!

[@lukemillionmusic]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@DonzCoolVids]

Wow! What amazing talent and keyboard equipment you have.

[@edglue6138]

Boss studio and cool guy Thanks for the tour

[@K.Reimann]

I love all that good old 70s-90s Synth Stuff. I´m always looking for Gear for my little Home Studio. But i can only afford the cheaper ones like Korg M1, Yamaha TX81Z. and the clones of Arp2600, 303, 909, a.s.o. You have so much Synth´s from the golden era of good Synth-Music. Would be proud having some of that highly expensive Stuff you have. I think you must smile every day you come into your museum-like studio, Luke

[@lukemillionmusic]

It does feel nice walking into my studio. The gear is like family and friends 😁

[@mcpu40]

So many keys!

[@NicolasMelis]

great video Luke! thank you 🎹

[@BorderlandVideo]

That's an awesome setup you have there 👌

[@DonSolaris]

I have exact same absorbers as yours and in exact configuration / height, even the corners except mine are white. As of JP-8 the trick is in layering. You can create everything, even proper snare drums (not just white noise swoosh). I got many of the big polys, OB-X, OB-8, JP8, P5, Xpander, Trident, MKS80 etc I still get surprised how versatile JP8 stands among them. If you decide to pass it, grab the Xpander, they are IMO best buy on the vintage poly market nowadays. There's one in Oz for 4.3k EUR if you walk to the guy with 4k I'm sure he'll give it to you.

[@lukemillionmusic]

Layering on the JP8 is definitely the key! Even just duplicating the same sound in Dual mode creates the most awesome delicious wide sound. I do have an Xpander on my wishlist! Thanks for the heads up 😀

[@nicholasbinder5593]

I discovered you, your music and channel way too late. Awesome stuff man

[@timothydahlin5321]

What would I like to see? The Multimoog Deep Dive

[@budgetkeyboardist]

It's like you built my DREAM studio.

[@starsky101]

Truly blessed to have all that gear. Spoilt for choice which I bet is a curse on some occasions. I have a Grandmother which dominates my tiny home studio but looks like a toy in your setup 🤣🤣 great work Luke

[@Musicsharmony]

Great studio setup 💐💯

[@judgedread-q4t]

Very cool cave Luke! Especially like the Emulator sound and story.

[@BOMBPHONICS]

Just wanna pop in and say thanks for your vintage minifreak presets, just picked up both earlier today. The Moog stuff is so good!!!!

[@lukemillionmusic]

That’s great! Thank you 🙏

[@AsteroidKiller]

Very nice! ❤

[@stevomtb1]

Wowsers 😮

[@DaveMcGarry]

Wow great setup and didn't know you were from Adelaide! I live in Glenelg, but from Manchester UK.

[@xsm5525]

this is the dude that beat you on all those Ebay bids

[@SamuelKaruta]

Very good... I liked the 3 separate rooms, especially the one with the window used for creating sounds. Any time you can explain the patchbay better, how you configured it with the synthesizers, especially when the synthesizer is in stereo, how everything is connected at the same time through the patchbay.

[@lukemillionmusic]

The patchbays are Normalled. So the synth outputs on the left side of my room are connected to the back of the patchbay and then cables go to the individual inputs of the Apollo 16 audio interface. If a synth is stereo then you simply allocate 2 channels. On the right side of my room, the cables go from the patchbay to a mixer so I can hear everything and then just patch to a mono DI or the available stereo channel on my Apollo interface.

[@SamuelKaruta]

​@@lukemillionmusic right, which patchbay do you use and recommend?

[@Anamnesia]

20:56 *_"You can NEVER have enough KeyTar"_* !!! 😆😂🤣✌

[@MicaiahLaCross777]

Imagine this dudes power bill 🤣 Love it!

[@graymanmedia]

This is what I live for. Also, What's with Garfield?

[@lukemillionmusic]

It’s actually a digital clock! And I was a big fan of Garfield growing up 😅

[@TheJesterboy1969]

This is so great!❤

[@graymanmedia]

@@lukemillionmusic Bill or Lorenzo?

[@wilkopiano]

I went down the individual patch channel route for clarity and no synth audio cross bleed when recording audio stems. But in order to have all keyboard tracks rec armed for all instruments you would need 3 apollo 16s stacked for 24 stereo inputs and aggregated interfaces or adat chained. That’s way too expensive, so i use a pre input mixer instead and feed into multiple armed audio tracks from single input channel 3/4 into one interface. Live looping is easy then. Can’t do live looping if you have to stop in between phrases and patch in a keyboard for the chorus part of the song, thats not live looping at all.

[@ccmp23]

Thanks for this share, Luke, interesting stuff! I got your 2 Minifreak banks and think they're superb; I love the category layout and I can usually find something I want fast with a couple of tweaks. I'd love to get something similar from you for the Roland JD-XA (which I think is criminally under-appreciated btw!); any chance of JD-XA sounds??

[@lukemillionmusic]

I’m so happy you are enjoying the MiniFreak banks! I haven’t considered a JD-XA one but I have made a lot of patches for my live shows on there so maybe I could dive in sometime in the future 😊

[@paulsarodh5460]

SuprB

[@oblitafier]

Thank you for the tour. The Muse looks great and I would love to hear your thoughts on it. A reliable polyphonic Moog would be very nice.

[@lukemillionmusic]

I think the Muse is a great Polysynth. Covers a lot of territory and you can go pretty deep with it or just pull up the classic tones.

[@bradleywright7066]

OMG!!! Adelaide! new Sub

[@Behnan]

You should do a Tutorial for the Muse. Starting with the a init Sound and Go through the functions

[@lukemillionmusic]

I’ve done something like that - Exploring the Moog Muse kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3W8f4drZbd4nMk

[@Behnan]

@@lukemillionmusic going to watch that..thx

[@helisoma]

clapping for the Juno-6 👍🏻 and as far as the Jupiter-8 is concerned the Juno-6 shares a lot with it plus the DCOs and makes 80% (or more) of the kind of sounds the Jupiter-8 makes ...there's a youtube vid of a comparison between a Juno-60 and Jupiter-8 that shows just how similar they are

[@lukemillionmusic]

I love the Juno 6. It definitely does cover all the classic Roland Polysynth sounds. If that’s what you are after then it’s all you need! The Jupiter 8 is like the Rolls Royce edition with increased polyphony, an extra detunable oscillator, an additional envelope, cross modulation, oscillator sync, an extra LFO, unison and solo modes, portamento, the ability to layer or split sounds and a wide stereo image when using the stacking modes. Those features take it into a new sound design world not possible on the Juno. But sometimes a basic approach is all you need and that’s why I will always have a special place for the Juno 😊

[@helisoma]

@@lukemillionmusic very true on the extra features particularly the layering...along with the Juno-6 I have a Roland JX-10 so that's my (much less expensive) layering setup haha 😁 Of course the Jupiter-8 is a big part of 80s music history and nothing can get past that, plus I think it will only appreciate more in value as years go by. By the way I've taken single audio tracks from the Juno-6, duplicate them, move them to L/R stereo fields and shift them very slightly in time to create a more lush effect.

[@timothydahlin5321]

Run out of inputs ==> Time to Upgrade ;-) These instruments are fortunate to have you as their current operator.

[@витяпупкин-ч7с]

What a setup 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍👍👍

[@kimzim2001]

Thanks for your generousity, taking time to show us your studio. I have a question: do you think it is worthwhile to use an old EII when there are alternatives like the TAL sampler software for example. I think the EII looks and sounds great and is kind of mythic. But do you really prefer it to modern sampling in the box considering all the limitations of the old machine? Do you think it sounds more unique or is there something about the workflow that you prefer? Would the Emax be a worthy substitute to the EII? Thanks again.

[@lukemillionmusic]

The EII is a wonderful machine and can produce great sounds. It certainly takes a lot more time than a software sampler to design sounds though. If I'm writing music and want a classic EII sound, I just go with the TAL sampler or the Arturia Emulator II V to keep the creative flow rolling. Later on once the track is fully arranged I will most likely load the same sound on the EII and record it. The Emax is great and has a lot of the same sound banks available. The only downside is that the Emax takes a bit longer to edit as there is only 1 data slider. The sound on the Emax is actually a lot more low-fi. Overall the Hardware can be cumbersome but the sound sits much better in a mix than the software. It just sounds more pleasant and you don't need to do as much work in the mix.

[@kimzim2001]

@@lukemillionmusic Great explanation. I've got an Emax that I haven´t used very much yet and this made me inspired to explore it more. Many thanks and especially for all the great music on your channel. I love it when you play Prince...

[@mathumphreys]

Oh man, I wish you didn't show the B room. Now I think I need a B room.

[@Anamnesia]

I didn't realise you had a YT channel... 👍👌✌

[@Anamnesia]

... this video appeared in my YT recommendations!

[@asdfjkl227]

How do you wire up the big synths from the spare room in the main room? Like if you wanted to use the jdxa because it has a specific patch. Do you find the physical effect boxes and stomp box effects on the shelf cumbersome? How do you weigh your use of physical effect boxes vs using the daw digital effect plug ins? When you spend a long time designing a patch for a synth that doesn't have presets... Well, what do you do if you need to re record a section or need that patch again?

[@lukemillionmusic]

I just take synths from the spare room and pop them on a single stand in the main room when I need to use them. I have a bunch of spare stands and then just plug the synth into the patch bay to record. I mainly use digital effects but when I need a specific effect sound I can easily patch in one of the physical units. And I'm not too fussed about not being able to save patches on those preset less synths. But it can be handy to take a photo or video of the settings for reference 😀

[@klinkske]

So you forgot the 808 909 but not the SDS :) - i'd like to see you use seperate outputs on drums and have fx on each.

[@lukemillionmusic]

I usually use multiple outputs when recording the drum machines as it sounds better than taking the stereo output. Stay tuned!

[@ReznaQay]

Veddy Naice! I Like! 👍

[@jjhcw]

Wow!!

[@bernyboss]

Great studio. What’s the sound diffrernce between the DX7 mki and mkii? 🙏🙏🙏

[@lukemillionmusic]

Thanks. The mkii is a bit cleaner with less digital noise. You can also split and layer sounds on it which gives you more sound design possibilities.

[@bernyboss]

@ thanks for the answer. i have a mki and i love it. Can you make a video on the Multimoog? 🙏🙏🙏

[@guido_cicholas]

Do you generally capture your stereo synths in mono (like the Prophet through the Space Echo in the video)?

[@lukemillionmusic]

The majority of the synths are mono. I tend to prefer recording in mono unless there is a particular effect like the chorus on the Juno or I'm panning voices on the OB8.

[@guido_cicholas]

@@lukemillionmusic Thanks for the answer! May your synths stay healthy for a long time 🙂

[@Anamnesia]

I saw a Jupiter-8 in Australia for sale for AU$26,000...

[@davidhayes8883]

We need a Studio B only track!

[@AllenMichael]

cool beans my frien :)

[@blaster3744]

Nice setup. How do you deal with dust ?

[@lukemillionmusic]

The main studio is a room built inside a room so not much dust actually comes in. I still will give everything a tickle with a soft paint brush every Monday morning to keep any surface dust away.

[@blaster3744]

@ makes total sense. 👍

[@RhysOlwyn]

No studio is complete without a Stylophone!

[@thomasdietz579]

What screen are you using in the mail studio ? 🙂

[@lukemillionmusic]

It’s a LG full HD monitor 😊

[@thomasdietz579]

@@lukemillionmusic 27 or 32 and thanks :-)

[@gilo7171]

Lucky !

[@darryldouglas6004]

Keytar review please! 😃

[@graymanmedia]

My god @lukemillionmusic, seeing that piano and that set up on top leads me to ask another question. Have you ever met Joe Jackson?

[@lukemillionmusic]

I have not!

[@PramodDissa]

Would love to see the sound of each. Small sample

[@lukemillionmusic]

There’s plenty of videos on my channel to hear them in action 😊 But I also will be making a video series soon that will feature each one individually.

[@PramodDissa]

@lukemillionmusic thanks mate. Cheers from fellow Adeladian!

[@frontline2010]

Behringer Bros are somewhere smiling in the dark.

[@arakaneuman]

Nice setup but youre obviously not a big PPG and sequential fan, 😀. Especially missing a PPG wave 2.3/Groove 3rd wave and the Prophet VS. Also a nice Mini moog/Voyager wouldnt hurt.

[@lukemillionmusic]

A PPG would be nice! For now I just use the Waldorf software emulation which is great. I do love Minimoogs but the Matriarch and Grandmother are covering that territory until one pops up for the right price 😊

[@RaffRobinson]

Nice, but no SH-101, so this studio is incomplet for me 😁

[@lukemillionmusic]

I prefer the SH-2 but I have access to one anytime I want to use it 😊

[@Mark-ec3lp]

Where is your Yamaha CS 40M?

[@lukemillionmusic]

It’s gone. It wasn’t getting used enough so it needed to go to a new home

[@Mark-ec3lp]

@@lukemillionmusic I do the same, if it starts to collect dust it gets sold. Your setup is fantastic anyway, really enjoyed the tour, and glad to see you are finally getting the views you deserve.

[@paulsarodh5460]

RoCKN🎹🎸🎼🎶🤗💞

[@monotonehell]

Oh sure, today it's a "studio tour", but last time is was all "Who are you and what are you doing in my house?!"

[@IncorrectDisposal]

Crows or Power?

[@lukemillionmusic]

The Cats! But then Crows

[@IncorrectDisposal]

@@lukemillionmusic 'Pro Harmonic' for gear repair?

[@bradleywright7066]

@@IncorrectDisposal Robs a Legend

[@michaelmitchell8218]

Question, can I come and live with you lol.

[@lukemillionmusic]

lol… my studio is not at my house. So that would be even more awkward 😂

[@michaelmitchell8218]

@ can I live in your studio then. Sorry just remember when I was a kid I use to watch the tv and see the Jupiter 8, dx7 and emulator and drool over them wishing I could have them. A kids dream back then and still love all these classics synths today.

[@markszili2577]

If you ever want to part with that TB-303 that needs some work for a third of market price let me know 🤞🤞

[@lukemillionmusic]

It will be repaired and I’ll hold onto that one 😁

[@markszili2577]

@@lukemillionmusic Oh well it was worth a try. :) If you know anyone in Melbourne willing to part with one at a bargin let me know.

[@neworder80]

Jupiter 8

[@HARJEN-we4gg]

Hey Luke, i give you 100$ per synth!

[@lukemillionmusic]

Haha, everything right now is a keeper and you might need a 0 or two more per synth 😂

[@danielstartek9729]

Really only 20 cents!