EEMS Studios

A Closeup of the sliders on a mixing board
EEMS is among the most extensive and technologically advanced studios in the country.

EEMS offers a laboratory environment with a community of professors and scholars, excellent hardware and software resources. All together, they create a dynamic space of investigation for new compositional projects.

EEMS offers five different studios, including: a recording studio, two mixing studios, an intermedia lab room, and an electronic instruments studio. All house high-quality equipment and software. These spaces allow excellent working conditions for students to develop their personal works, make recordings, conduct rehearsals, and more.

Below is a detailed look at our studios, including equipment lists. 
 

A studio mixing desk with lots of electronic music equipment in studio lined with acoustic tiling

EDITION STUDIO I

Edition Studio I is a single user facility reserved for students in the introductory courses (MUS 329E and 329G). It has a Mac Pro with an RME Fireface UFX audio interface and a Mackie MCU Pro control surface, a Yamaha Disklavier Upright, an Oxygen 8 Keystation and Oxygen 88 keyboard controller, and a variety of audio software and sample libraries.

HARDWARE

  • 4 speakers BM12
  • Subwoofer Genelec 7040
  • iMac
  • Piano with
  • Mackie control

SOFTWARE

  • Ableton live
  • Max Msp
  • Logic pro
  • Reaper
  • Ircam Forum complete

PLUGINS

  • Grm tools 
  • Arturia
  • Komplete 8
  • Kontakt
  • Ircam Tools
  • Uvi plugins
  • Ircam instruments 2
  • Ircam prepared Piano
  • Swam instruments 2
  • Wave Gold
  • RX 8
A desk with electronic music equipment

Studio II

Intermedia Lab

HARDWARE

  • 5 speaker Genelec 8340
  • 2 speaker Dynaudio BM15
  • 1 Subwoofer big bag
  • 5 Tannoy DM12
  • 3 Amplifiers ….
  • Microphone Pre-Amp
  • Audio control
  • Mackie Control
  • Microphone

SOFTWARE

  • Ableton live
  • Max Msp
  • Logic pro
  • Reaper
  • Ircam Forum complete

PLUGINS

  • Grm tools Complete
  • Arturia
  • Komplete 8
  • Kontakt
  • Ircam Tools
  • Uvi plugins 
  • Ircam instruments 2
  • Swam instruments 2
  • Ircam prepared piano
  • Wave gold
  • Reverb
  • Forum Ircam
  • RX

 

A room with acoustic tiles and a large electronic music workstation

Edition Studio III

Edition Studio III contains essentially the same hardware and software as Studio II, but is a smaller project studio designed for advanced users. Like Studio II, it is easy to connect a laptop to the audio playback system, keyboards, and control surfaces. Studio III can also serve as the control room for recording sessions in Studio IV, using a Yamaha DM-1000 mixer and tie lines that connect the two studios.

HARDWARE 

  • 2 speaker Genelec 8330
  • 1 Subwoofer Genelec 7040
  • 4 Tannoy DM10
  • Amplifier
  • Microphone Pre-Amp
  • Audio control
  • Mackie Control

SOFTWARE

  • Ableton live
  • Max Msp
  • Logic pro
  • Reaper
  • Ircam forum softwares

PLUGINS

  • Grm tools [plugins]
  • Arturia
  • Komplete 8
  • Kontakt
  • Ircam Tools
  • Uvi plugins
  • Ircam instruments 2
  • Swam instruments 2
  • Ircam prepared piano
  • Wave Gold
Studio space with a grand piano and recording equipment

Studio IV

Recording & Multichannel Studio

Studio IV functions primarily as a recording studio, using tie lines that connect it to the Yamaha DM-1000 mixer and patch bay in Studio III. When not being used for recording, Studio IV is designed to be used as a stand-alone quad mixing studio. It has a baby grand (C3 model) Yamaha Disklavier, RME Fireface UFX audio interface, and a Yamaha O2R Mixer. 

HARDWARE

  • 8 Genelec 8330
  • 1 Subwoofer Genelec 7060
  • G3 Yamaha Grand Piano with
  • Mixer Yamaha OR2
  • Rme UFX
A large room lined with acoustic tiles, with an extensive amount of electronic equipment.

Studio V

Studio V is a large lab space dedicated to real-time performance and multichannel projects. It has an antique Serge modular synthesizer that has recently been refurbished and is in excellent working condition. It also has a quad playback system (Tannoy System 12 DMTs), as well as stereo Genelec nearfield monitors with a subwoofer.

 


 

EMS Live Performance Equipment  

The department has up to 14 sets of speakers for live performances along with a wide variety of microphones for amplification and recording. 

Additional Equipment 

Microphone 

Mixer 

Audio station  

Camera 

Projector 

Sensor