Facilities and Hardware

Incontri's fmsbw studios currently comprise an eight-channel teaching studio, a 5.1-channel multimedia laboratory, and a large collection of portable equipment for concerts, recordings, and site-specific installations.

fmsbw's hardware features high-spec computers, loudspeakers, audio interfaces, and digital mixers, supported with the latest versions of the most important audio software, as well as an extensive collection of digital controllers, interfaces, microphones, and both digital and historical analog instruments (including a 1974 Moog synthesizer). Our collection includes cutting-edge, professional-level hardware from Genelec, Neumann, Schoeps, dpa, AKG, Yamaha, QSC, beyerdynamic, Native Instruments, Akai, RME, and Apple, among others.

 

Studio I — 8-channel studio

Incontri's primary studio is used for individual lessons and group seminars in electronic music. Hardware highlights include:

  • Klein+Hummel O 110 studio monitors (x8)
  • Klein+Hummel O 800 subwoofer
  • Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra, 20-Core Processor, 64GB RAM, 2TB SSD, 48-Core GPU
  • RME Fireface 802 audio interface
  • Yamaha TF-1 digital mixer
  • M-Audio Axiom 49 keyboard
  • patchbay
  • acoustic treatment on walls & ceilings

Additionally, fmsbw maintains a collection of hardware that is available to students for their own composition and performance projects, including for example:

  • various MIDI instruments (keyboards, controllers, pedals, etc.) and an Audiofront MIDI Expression Quattro interface
  • audio interfaces (Tascam US 20x20, 16x08, 4x4, 2x2; Presonus 1818, 24C; RME UC, UCX, Fireface 400)
  • portable mixers (Mackie, Behringer, Yamaha)
  • small loudspeakers (including 6 Genelec 8010 and 8 Yamaha MSP-5 monitors)
  • microphones (various, see below)
  • video cameras and video projectors
  • a collection of Mac and Linux laptops

Studio II — 5.1-channel multimedia studio

Incontri's newest studio, the multimedia studio is part of a major ongoing modernization and expansion of fmsbw's studio network. Hardware highlights include:

  • Genelec 8030 studio monitors with Genelec Z8000-409B Floor Stands (x5)
  • Genelec 7050CPM subwoofer
  • Apple Mac Studio M2 Max, 12‑Core CPU, 30‑Core GPU, 16‑Core Neural Engine, 32 GB RAM, 2 TB SSD, with Apple Magic Keyboard & Apple Magic Trackpad
  • Dell 27" 4K UHD Monitor
  • Yamaha DM3 (Dante) Digital Mixer
  • Native Instruments KOMPLETE KONTROL A49 keyboard
  • Sennheiser HD 600 headphones
  • height-adjustable standing desk

fmsbw's 1974 Moog synthesizer is also housed in Studio II.

 

Studio III — stereo mixing and quadraphonic studio

Studio III is designed for high-level stereo reference listening and mixing, and also holds an additional quadraphonic setup. (Note that Studio III is currently inaccessible due to changes in the fire safety code. The studio equipment will soon be relocated as part of Incontri's studio modernization project.)

  • Genelec 8050 studio monitors (x2)
  • Genelec 8040 studio monitors (x4)
  • Mackie 1604 VLZ analog mixer
  • Mac Pro (2019)
  • RME Fireface 802
  • Akai MPK 88 keyboard
  • EMS Vocoder 
  • EMS Synthi (x2)
  • Doepfer A-100, Korg MS-20 Mini, & Behringer Deep Mind 12 synthesizers

An additional small stereo workspace with Neumann KH 120 studio monitors and playback equipment is also available.

Concert equipment

fmsbw and Incontri maintain a large collection of portable equipment for concerts, installations, recordings, and site-specific projects. These are used both for Incontri's own concerts and events, both on campus and across the city of Hannover, and periodically for touring/traveling productions, including for example the Traiect project of the Hannoversche Gesellschaft für Neue Musik (hgnm) and other institutional partnerships.

This portable hardware includes:

  • 8 QSC K 12.2 loudspeakers
  • 2 QSC KS 112 subwoofers
  • 4 Genelec 8050 loudspeakers
  • 4 Genelec 8040 loudspeakers
  • Yamaha TF-1 digital mixer, with Yamaha NY64-D Dante insert
  • Yamaha Tio 1608-D Dante-I/O-Rack
  • RME Fireface UCX audio interface
  • Apple MacBook Pro laptop
  • beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro 80 Ohm headphones
  • video camera and video projectors

as well as an extensive microphone collection, which includes:

  • 2 Neumann km 183
  • 4 Neumann km 184
  • 2 Neumann km 185
  • 2 Schoeps MK2 matched stereo pair
  • 2 DPA 4061
  • 1 DPA 4099
  • 3 DPA Headsets
  • 2 AKG 414
  • 4 AKG 391
  • 5 Shure SM58/SM58 Beta
  • 1 Røde Richtmikrofon
  • 1 Sennheiser EW 100 G3 wireless

Additionally the recording studio of the university can be used for recordings, and Incontri's hardware can be supplemented with the equipment of the university's Richard Jakoby Saal.


 

Last modified: 2024-08-01

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