[BOOM TOOLS] DAW of MICHAEL SCHWENDLER

Michael is one of our sound designers and a lot of BOOM Libraries and great SFX projects bear his mark. His track-record includes famous games such as “Alan Wake”/Microsoft, “Blade & Soul”/NC Soft, “KINECT Rush”/Disney•Pixar and many more. To ensure a trouble-free and straight-forward workflow, Michael customized his workstation to fit his specific needs. Read on to see which components Michael put into this tower of power.

• • Desktop Housing
    Michael uses an ultrasilent tower desktop housing with rubber-sprung HD frames to absorb any noise that may come from the storage hard drives. Inside the housing there are ultra-silent 120mm fans.

• • Operating System
    Windows 7 64-bit

• • Processor & RAM
    Sandy-Bridge Intel® Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz (6 CPUs)
    16GB DDR3 1600MHZ G.SKILL RAM

• • Input Device
    Wacom Intuos 5 – Michael uses this touch sensitive tablet to have a better control over automations and intuitive sound design.

• • Hard Drives
    HDD 1 (system) : 256GB Samsung SSD 830 | read speed 520MB, write speed 400MB
    HDD 2 (storage): 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM
    HDD 3 (storage): 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM
    HDD 4 (storage): 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM

• • Audio Interface
    RME Fireface UC

• • Monitoring System
    2 x EVENT OPAL
    1 x ADAM SUB 12

• • DAW Software
    Cubase 7

• Current Favourite Plug-Ins
  Abbey Road TG2412
  Abbey Road TG2414
  Acustica Audio Nebula 3 Pro
  Audio Damage Kombinat Diva
  Audio Ease Altiverb 7
  Brainworx Control V2
  Brainworx Stereo Maker
  Brainworx VSC-2
  Camel Audio Camel Phat3
  Dada Life Sausage Fattener
  FabFilter Pro-Q
  INA-GRM GRM Complete
  iZotope RX 2 Declicker
  iZotope RX 2 Declipper
  iZotope RX 2 Decrackler
  iZotope RX 2 Denoiser
  iZotope RX 2 Hum Removal
  Lexcion LXP
  Native Instruments Reaktor
  Nugen Audio Stereo Pack
  PSP Mix Pack
  PSP Neon
  PSP Vintage Warmer 2
  Slate Digital FGX
  Softube CL 1B
  Sonalksis CQ-1
  Sonalksis DQ-1
  Soundhack pvoc kit
  SPL Deverb
  SPL Vitalizer MK2-T
  Sugarbytes Effectrix
  Sugarbytes Turnado
  U-He Ubik Bundle
  Voxengo Elephant
  Waves Doppler
  Waves LoAir
  Waves RBass