Dennis Cortés

Designer and Musician based in Nashville, TN

Issue #88 September 19, 2021

About

Dennis Cortés is the Head of Design at Northstar. He also makes music that is great for getting into a flow while working. Check out this hour-long mix of chill lofi beats.

Photos

3 images

Gear

21 items

Computer Macbook Pro M1 13"

Mouse Logitech Vertical Mouse

Headphones Apple AirPods Pro

Keyboard Apple Magic Keyboard

Monitor LG 4K 31.5” Monitor

Tablet 11" iPad Pro w/ Apple Pencil 2

Tablet reMarkable 2

Accessories Supreme Pelican Case

Accessories Gather

Speakers Sonos One Speaker

Lighting IKEA Holmo Floor Lamp (x2)

Desk IKEA Säljan Desk

Accessories IKEA Skadis Pegboard (x2)

Accessories OP-1

Accessories OP-Z

Accessories PO-33

Accessories Elektron Digitone

Microphone Blue Yeti

Phone iPhone 12 Mini

Accessories Apple Watch Series 4

Accessories Incase City Backpack

The census

Only 4% of the desks we’ve published have Dennis’s Blue Yeti.

Ranked across all 516 setups that list their gear.

MacBook Pro 64%

Apple Magic Keyboard 26%

iPad Pro 17%

Blue Yeti 4%

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Interview

1 questions

› What software do you use for both your design work and your life as a musician?

For day-to-day work I mainly use Franz, Figma, Alfred, Spark, Bartender, Things, Notion, Spotify, and Chrome. For music I use Ableton Live 10 along with plugins such as Arcade, Portal, API-2500 Compressor, and J37 Tape. For videos I use Premiere Pro and iMovie.