09/27/2025
This week's edition of Morning Cup of Calm is now available via Bandcamp. We've been making a lot of positive changes both to the Skroink rig and to the workflow. It's complex, but well worth it!
Are you curious? Here you go...
The Skroink rig is four MIDI controllers: ROLI Seaboard, Arturia Keylab 61, M-Audio Keystation 88, and a JG3 keyboard pedal -- all connected via USB MIDI into an iPad running AUM.
In AUM, I'm adding various AU compliant patches, including iSymphonic, Pianoteq, Xynthesizer, and several (many!) others, including vocal harmonizers and a number of audio processing inserts.
All of that then goes out to a Yamaha Music USA TF-Rack for multitracking (we didn't know we could do that from AUM until recently!). The TF is controlled across our internal network, and is also set up to support Dante/AES67 (we're currently using Dante, but hope to move to AES67 soon to slide all the way into production on Linux machines rather than Mac).
Via the Dante mappings, we are multitracking into a DAW. Currently that's Logic Pro in Mac, but once we get the Linux universe tested and solid, it will go into Blackmagic Design's -- but in the meantime, the multitrack editing and production *is* all done in via DaVinci Resolve.
We did the first live production using all of these pieces this morning, and _Sustain_ is the result, now available at https://skroink.bandcamp.com/album/sustain
