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Old 10-09-2021, 11:17 AM
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Default Help me set up this Daw and Townsend Sphere L22?

Farther and farther down the rabbit hole I go!

Here’s what I’ve got happening so far,

Soon to be arriving Townsend Sphere L22
Into a SSL SiX direct out to
Metric Halo ULN-2d +dsp
(Possible directly into the ULN)

Into a modeled MicPre that I haven’t picked out yet (help?)
Into a Daw that I haven’t chosen yet (help?)
Possibly to be processed by the waves Abbey road bundle (whadda you think?)

Out to the SSL SiX
with a SSL Fusion on the main bus
out to iLoud Mtm monitors or Headphones
Possibly sent to a lexicon pcm 80 for reverb and efx and
RNC for added bus compression

I’m running an upgraded MacBook Pro 13” with 16gb ram and 1tb SSD on macOS Mojave

There is also the matter of the Moog Grandmother..
Right now the synth and the acoustics live in two different realms musically and I treat the moog like a science experiment more that a musical instrument but I would like the daw I choose to do midi as well as audio.

A daw that can handle cv I/o is also interesting but probably outside of the standard AGF user’s interests.

I’m planning on upgrading to a newer MBP an Apollo x4 in the years to come but in the meantime I’m sticking with the MH and my old Mac as they both work great and sound great.

I know this is a long post and I thank you for your advice.

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Old 10-09-2021, 11:39 AM
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Farther and farther down the rabbit hole I go!

Here’s what I’ve got happening so far,

Soon to be arriving Townsend Sphere L22
I have a Townsend and a 2nd arriving soon. Glad to compare notes on that. But it really sounds like you're looking for advice on your whole studio setup, not sure what the mic has to do with the rest of that? I don't have any experienced with the rest of the gear you list.
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Old 10-09-2021, 12:35 PM
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Well I wanted to know which daw/plugin combinations that people are using with the L22..

But fair enough,
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Old 10-09-2021, 01:11 PM
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Plan all the work first, then work the plan.
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Old 10-09-2021, 01:13 PM
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Well I wanted to know which daw/plugin combinations that people are using with the L22..

But fair enough,
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I use Logic, and either the UAD Townsend plugin or the native one. Everything else is the same as with any mic, whatever plugins and effects are called for on the track. I have a bunch of different reverbs, some compressors, EQs, etc. I use a lot of UAD plugins, but others as well. They seem to multiply when I'm not looking :-) You might check out the sticky thread on recording at the top of the Record forum, which has a huge list of what everyone is using, from DAWs to Mics to interfaces.
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Old 10-09-2021, 01:50 PM
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UAD now owns the Townsend mic so any plugins will be coming from them and that's not an inexpensive road to go down since in order to use their plugins, you'll have to own a piece of their hardware as well. If you don't go with a UA interface, then the other option is a UA satellite. Currently, the quad satellite which contains four dsp chips retails for $999, while the octo satellite with contains eight dsp chips retails for $1299.

UA plugins require those dsp chips because they do not run natively on your computer. The UAD Instance Chart will give you some idea as to how many instances of any given plugin can run at the same time.
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There is currently a free native plugin for the L22 that works identically to the UA one. It could conceivably get dropped in the future now that UA owns them, but that's not the case at the moment.
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