Santosh Nair: A complete musician
Santosh Nair, is one of the most affable music creators on the circuit with a pedigree in composing, arranging and programming some of the finest innovative music across genres.Taking off as a teenager Santosh got noticed with his zany recreation of the world-wide hit Hakuna Matata from Lion King. The legendary Asha Bhosle went on to lend her inimitable vocals to Santosh’s theme composition for the film Chand Grahan penned by KaifiAzmi. The Indo Canadian film Taj Mahal had Santosh collaborating with greats like Jagjit Singh, KK, Roop Kumar Rathod & Sunidhi Chauhan. Santosh also is the mind behind a slew of theme songs for television shows ranging from devotional mega serials like Darshan Do Bhagwan- India’s first daily devotional series. The mind behind Signature tunes for Star one, ETV Marathi and BIG TV along with several others. Santosh has also won the Promax award for composing the music of Classic Legends hosted by the much lauded Javed Akhtar.
Santosh’s AmazzinggGearrr has seen a series of upgrades from a the earliest PSR 400 keyboard to a:
Synthesizer &Sequencer
JV1000 a combination of the super successful sequencer MC50 Mk2 and the D-50
A synth module by Korg, EMU proteus sound module, EMU Sampler E5000 ultra,
S-760 sampler,JV 1080/2080 & XV 5000,XP 30 by Roland And a Mackie 12 channel mixer.
Cubase, which still remains his main DAWupgraded to version 14.
Speakers
Genelec 8250 & Focal CMS65
Soundcards
THE RME BABYFACE & FIREFACE Soundcards.
Keyboards
Controller keyboards KKorg mini 37,
Keyboard controllers:
iRig keys i/o 25, Roland A49, Edirol PCR 50, Korg mini-37.
SoundCards
RME Baby face, RME Fireface and ArturiaMinifuse 4.
Headphones
Beyerdynamic DT 770 pro-headphones
Microphones
Neumann TLM 103,
Audio Technica AT 4050
Headphones and Laptop
An Arturiaminifuse4headphones
An i7 (11th gen, 32gb RAM,2TB internal ssd plus 4TB external ssd) laptop fully loaded with Vsti’s.