To fill your audio needs and budget considerations, the Hopkins recording studio has the knowledge to engineer the highest quality audio available in a variety of output formats.

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Among the advantages we can provide:

• Any audio format up to 5.1 Dolby Surround at 24 bit / 192 kHz Sampling rate

• Any genre of music, though we specialize in full symphonic scores

• Symphonic scores recorded with top LA session players and/ or with the latest sample libraries and software tools

• Live recording of up to 5 soloists (full symphonic scores require scoring stage rental)

• Total automation of digital audio playback (at any frame rate)

• Thousands of sounds unique to this recording studio

• Expert recording, engineering and mastering experience

The Hopkins recording studio utilizes the following 3rd party Sample Libraries and Audio Units Library Plug-ins:

Vienna Symphonic Library
Full/Extended Vienna Instruments

Spectrasonics
Omnisphere
Tillian
Stylus plug-in w/ SAGE expansion libraries & 14 third party expansion sets

Quantum Leap
Platinum Plus Symphonic Orchestra
Full/Extended Symphonic Choirs
Stormdrum II
Voices of Passion
Stormdrum II
RA
Ministry of Rock
Goliath
Fab Four

Synthogy
Ivory (Bosendorfer Imperial grand, 9 ft. German Steinway & Yamaha C7)
Ivory Italian Grand (Fazioli 10 ft.)
Ivory Uprights

Arturia
Modular Moog
MiniMoog
Roland Jupiter 8
SCI Prophet 5 / VS
ARP 2600
Yamaha CS-80

Toontrack
Superior Drummer 
EZ Drummer (w 7 expansion libraries)
Drums From Hell

Native Instruments
Kontakt 4

Ubershall
Liquid Score FX

Visual Arts
Plectrum plug-in

Apple EXS24 sampler
Garritan Stradivarius Strings
Sonic Implants Symphonic Library
A 475 Gb sound FX library

The Hopkins recording studio utilizes the following hardware:

Computers:
8 core Mac Pro Tower w/ three internal TB Hard Drives and 16 Gb Ram
Intel Pentium 4 - 3.2 Gigahertz Windows XP PC

Digital Firewire I/O:
MOTU 896 HD

5.1 Surround sound playback system:
5 Mackie HR824 speakers - Low frequency crossover with 2 Ramsa subs
Carver PT1250 Amp, Carver PT900 Amp

The Hopkins recording studio utilizes the following software:

Digital Audio Workstation Software:
Logic Studio 9 (includes 37 virtual Instruments and 124 inboard DSP effects)
Pro Tools 8

DSP effects plug-ins:
Waves Gold bundle FX

Audio/Music Software Utilities:
Redmatica  - ExsManager, Keymap, Autosampler
Celemony  - Melodyne 3
Chicken Systems – Translator, Constructor
Apple – Waveburner, Main Stage 2, Soundtrack Pro 2
Propellerheads  - Recycle 2

The Hopkins recording studio also includes the following:

MIDI Interface:
Unitor 8X8 MIDI USB interface

Microphones:
Sennheiser 421
AKG C 414 B-XLS
Rode NT2000

Mixing:
Mackie Onyx 1620

MIDI Keyboard Controller:
Kurzweil K2600XS

External MIDI Sound Modules:
Yamaha TX-816
Kurzweil K2600RS
Roland XV-5050

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