Music Technology Facilities

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Computer Lab - This is the classroom for Music Technology courses and the gathering place for musical collaboration. This lab is staffed by student monitors and available during open hours to all students taking courses in the Department of Music. The Computer Lab houses both Macs and PCs with Digidesign MBox audio interfaces and MIDI keyboards, an additional Korg keyboard synthesizer, and printers.

The "bread and butter" music software programs used in the first-year Music Technology sequence are: Digidesign Pro Tools LE, Steinberg Cubase Studio, Propellerheads Reason, BIAS Peak LE (Mac), Sony Sound Forge (PC), and Finale notation software.

Also available in the lab: Apple Logic, Sibelius, Transcribe!, SoundHack, Ableton Live Lite, GarageBand, iLife (iTunes, iDVD, iMovie), Garritan Personal Orchestra, MacGAMUT ear-training software, and more.

Big MONSTER Studio - See "The Birth of a MONSTER!" for details.

This room is the primary individual workspace for upper-level Music Technology students. Hardware available includes: 5.1 Dynaudio monitoring system, Soundcraft mixing board, Digidesign and Tascam audio interfaces, keyboard synths, and a wide array of microphones. Mac Pro software includes all of the "bread and butter" programs from the Computer Lab (Pro Tools LE, Cubase Studio, Reason, Peak LE, and Finale), plus Reaktor, MetaSynth, Logic, Waves Native Power Pack, Final Cut Studio, Toast, Adobe After Effects, and more.

Little MONSTER Studios

These rooms, currently under construction, will add additional individual workspace for upper-level Music Technology students. The first Little MONSTER studio currently doubles as a workspace for the Technical Coordinator and assistants. Macintosh software duplicates the Big MONSTER Studio. Hardware includes: Digidesign Mbox audio interface, Event studio monitors, Mackie mixing board, and keyboard synth (TBD).

Reynolds Recital Hall and Recording Booth - Reynolds Recital Hall is the main performance space for the Department of Music and home of the Sunday Night Multimedia Series, our new concert series combining electronic music, multichannel audio and sound diffusion, video, animation, and live performance. The Sunday Night Multimedia Series was founded by Kristi McGarity in the fall of 2006, and regularly features an international selection of multimedia works including compositions by MSU students. The Multimedia Series features a multi-speaker sound diffusion system with Dynaudio and Event speakers, MOTU Traveler audio interface, and an Allen & Heath mixing board for live diffusion.

Major upgrades to Reynolds Recital Hall were completed in the summer of 2007, including a smart podium and built-in projector for large lecture classes and an upgraded built-in sound system including JBL AM6215 speakers, QSC amplifiers, and a BSS Audio Soundweb DSP unit, with BSS Soundweb Designer software running on a Mac Pro via Parallels. (Special thanks to Music Tech teaching assistant Justin Gannon for making the audio upgrades possible!)

 

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