MY WORKSTATION

Dell Precision 5820 Tower Workstation (for programming / design / copywriting / music composition)



(illuminated keyboard / *silent* mouse / daylight lamps)

SOFTWARE

BROWSERS

● Firefox Developer + LiveReload
Google Chrome

EMAIL

● Thunderbird
Thunderbird extensions e.g. Auto Zip Attachments, Enigmail for secure email encryption

PROGRAMMING

● Visual Studio Code AI code editor, extensions: Codex, Five Server, MySQL, Smart FTP
Laragon (local Apache webserver with Python, PHP, MySQL, node.js
Code Visual to Flowchart (quite useful to visualize PHP programs)
ScreenRec (to record program demo videos directly from the screen)

DATABASE WORK

● HeidiSQL (database admin tool, I prefer this over Navicat)
MySQL Workbench (sometimes quite useful for structuring a database)
Access2MySQL (must have to convert those client Access databases)

DESIGN

● Affinity (Bitmap / Vector / Photo)
Cinema4D XL (to model and render 3D objects)
VideoPad (to edit videos in an efficient way)

TEXT

● WPS Office Docs (word processor with AI functions))

MUSIC COMPOSITION

DAW: ● Fender Studio Pro
Audio interface: Tascam US
Studio headphones: AKG K702
Studio monitors: Alesis MKII

Keyboard: M-Audio
Virtual piano: Pianoteq 9 Studio Bundle
Virtual Rhodes: LFO Rhodes MKII
Virtual B3 organ: CollaB3

E-guitars: Variax JTV-69, PRS, Godin etc.
Virtual guitars: Sketch Nylon (acoustic), OTS Rock Standard (rhythm / lead)

Virtual saxophone: VHorns Tenor Saxophone
Virtual crossflute: Simple Flute
Virtual brass: SINE Factory Rotary
Virtual strings: OT Strings, NFO Chamber Strings

Virtual bass: Efimov Modern Bass

Virtual drumkit: AD2 (ADpak 'Studio Pop' with Ludwig 20's Brass Snare) + BopPad
Virtual congas: NI Discovery Cuba

Sampler: Kontakt

Mixing + mastering: Sonible Smart Bundle

NOTEBOOK

HP Pavilion: 17 inch display, full-size Keyboard, BlueRay, "good" sounding speakers, Windows 64bit, XAMPP as a service

MOBILE