Uses

My name is Adam Schwartz and I’m a designer, software developer, musician and composer. Below are some of the tools I use to design software and make music.

Music / Sound

Musical instruments

• Yamaha U3 upright piano with QRS PNO3 system
• Fender Rhodes Mark I piano
• Roland RD 700 keyboard
• Gretsch Catalina Club drumset

Controllers

• Studiologic SL88 Grand keyboard
• Korg nanKEY2
• PreSonus FaderPort controller
• AMC3 MIDI controller

Music software

• Logic Pro X
• GarageBand
• Finale
• Kontakt Player
• EWQL Play
• Spitfire LABS

Sound libraries

I use a lot of different sound libraries. Here are just a few of my favorites.

• Spitfire LABS
  • Soft Piano
• Embertone
  • Friedlander Violin
  • Blakus Cello
  • Leonid Bass
• Native Instruments
  • Alicia’s Keys
  • Una Korda
• EastWest Quantum Leap
  • QL Pianos
  • Gypsy
  • Hollywood Strings

Design / Software

Design

• Sketch
• Frank DeLoupe
• Paper & pencil
  • Edward Tufte’s archival graph paper
  • Blackwing pencils

Software development

• iTerm 2
• Sublime Text 3
  • Package Control
  • Soda Dark theme
• Github
• GitX
• Google Chrome
  • Vimium
  • New Tab
  • Desaturate Favicons
  • Style
  • Merge Windows
  • Incognito This Tab

Hosting

• I Want My Name
• Github Pages

I hope that was helpful!