Hint, Hint, Hint….
It’s that time of year again, and time to think about what to get your favorite electronic musician for the holidays. In this video, Daniel Fisher from Sweetwater gives a quick overview of seven affordable options – most of these are under U$400, and all are under U$600. It should be noted that I have…
A Music Manufacturer Finally Gave Us What We Actually Asked For — Mostly!
As part of their 2021 NAMM livestream, the good folks at Arturia released the version 3 firmware for their ground-breaking Microfreak (and version 4 came just a few months later, in October of 2021). As part of the roll-out, they did a really great live stream and solicited input from the masses as to what…
When Things Go Away
I don’t like change much. And, I especially don’t like changes that deprive me (and others) of creative tools and options. Twenty-two years ago, when I was first seriously starting to use software synthesizers, my creative partner and I were doing a lot of work with products from Native Instruments (specifically Reaktor, B4, and Traktor).…
Adding Video To My Music With VS Visual Synthesizer
Today, a test of VS Visual Synthesizer on my little laptop. This was made in Ableton Live 11 Suite using the VS Visual Synthesizer plug-in, which is currently on sale for about 60% off, so I figured I should try it out to see if it would be useful as a part of my plan for world domina… er … future live performances.
Korgs I’ve Owned Part 8 — Opsix: A New Approach to FM
This is post 8 of 8 in the series “Korgs I've Owned” On numerous occasions, I’ve alluded to having a love/hate relationship with Korg keyboards. With the exception of a few scant hours with a modular Moog in college, and some experimentation designing various circuitry of my own shortly after, my synthesis adventures in general,…
Lemondrop, Very Pretty …
The newest addition to my studio … er … collection of music creation gear is the nanobox|lemondrop from 1010Music. It’s a very portable granular synthesizer that I initially mentioned in passing in a post back in March. So, just what is granular synthesis? Wikipedia has a good general explanation: Granular synthesis is a sound synthesis…
How A Russian Composer And An Australian Inventor Created The Most Iconic Sound In Popular Music
This is post 13 of 13 in the series “Synth Pioneers” This series highlights pioneers in electronic music. It is not intended to be a deep dive, but rather a jumping off point for further exploration. I welcome your comments and insights on any of the posts, and welcome any additional information you might come…