Alinea

Mission

Cultivate artistic innovation and foster new interdisciplinary approaches to the arts.

General Information

Alinea's current space houses specialized equipment for research involved in creating fixed and interactive electroacoustic music, scoring for film, gaming music, and experimenting with other arts technologies. Only a couple of classes meet in Alinea to ensure the space is left available for researchers and composition students to work on their own projects and collaborate with other departments.

9.1.4 Studio A

Mac Studio
- M1 Ultra with 20-core CPU, 48-core GPU, 32-core Neural Engine
- 128GB RAM
- 2TB storage
9.1.4 Audio System for 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, and Dolby Atmos 9.1.4
- (8) Dynaudio BM6A MII & (1) Lyd7 + (1) Genelec sub + (4) Genelec 8030
(2) Metric Halo ULN-8 with 3D cards (16 total analog i/o)
Mackie Control Universal Pro and Control Extender Pro
Doepfer LMK2+ keyboard
Steinway B Piano
Analog Synthesizers (links to manuals)
- Sequential Prophet-10
- Pittsburg Modular Taiga Keyboard
- Moog Grandmother
- Moog Subharmonicon
- Moog DFAM
- Moog Mother-32
- Make Noise Strega
- Make Noise O-COAST
- Make Noise O-CTRL
- Buchla Easel Command
- ARP 2600 (restored by Switched On Austin)
- ElectroComp EML 400/401 (restored by Switched On Austin)
Whisper Room (for recording samples)

Studio B

Mac Studio
- 10-core CPU, 24-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine
- 64GB RAM
- 2TB storage
(2) Metric Halo ULN-8 with 3D card (16 analog i/o)
Sennheiser HD 650

Software in Both Studios:

Commercial

Ableton Live Suite*
Max*
- Spat
  - requires ICST Ambisonics package (download from within Max's Package Manager)
Logic Pro*
Izotope Everything
Spitfire Abby Road One: The Collection
Dorico Pro*
MIOConsole (for Metric Halo interfaces)

Open Source

* software also installed in the computer lab in Moody Library (room 311 on the 3rd floor)

Other hardware:

two Macbook Pro (M5 Pro, 48GB RAM)

Resources

Baylor subscribes to Electrothèque (electroacoustic music database)