It’s been a busy week! I’ve been continuing with audio system upgrades, adding Arturia Minifuse 2 interfaces for the Mac minis and there have been updates to synths from A to Z — Absynth is updated to version 6.1, and the Zebra 3 final beta is out. We’ll play a little with both.
UPDATE: ZEBRA 3 OFFICIAL RELEASE APRIL 20, 2026. LAST DATE FOR PRE-ORDER DISCOUNT APRIL 19, 2026
TIMELINE:
00:00 Begin transmission
00:00 The Opening Jam
10:25 Welcome, and how’s it sound? (needs to be a little louder overall) Some Knobcon travel chitchat, airline stuff, and … stuff
14:00 What’s in The Jam (and some more road-trip travel chatter)
27:55 Where’s the mic clipping coming from?
28:45 Drivin’ from Baltimore to Chicago (seems to be a running theme this week)
31:40 Knobcon 2026 dates
33:00 Some Bitwig observations compared to Ableton Live
36:10 Horns
37:35 Back to Bitwig
38:15 More OBS kvetching and how chat is supposed to work here
44:10 Both Mac minis now have Arturia MiniFuse 2 interfaces. On sale at Amazon. And some discussion of iPad USB adapters with power capability
48:15 ADAM Audio studio backpack coming in May
49:25 The Apple Camera Connection Kit (I’ve got at least one of all the things — I should have shown them)
50:40 New studio computer monitor. And, where does the time go? (looks good in playback on my MacBook Pro)
54:10 Ultra.audio saving/sharing individual patches
58:54 Reverb.com rant, what’s sold, what’s still for sale, and what’s coming up for sale, and PiKorgs
1:09:05 XY Pads for Korg need additional CC data
1:09:50 Donna sends a text and
1:09:50 Plan to upgrade the Keystep37 to the mkII and sell the original
1:10:40 Another Reverb gripe/surprise
1:14:25 Telescopes? Yeah, we chatter about everything (@paganjava makes some fantastic astrophotography images)
1:17:38 A Facebook story. TLDR: I’m banned for life! What the f*ck, Zuck?
1:23:45 Playing with new VSTs pushed to next week….
1:24:54 Absynth 6.1 update features
1:28:15 Zebra 3 in final beta intended to ship in May (SEE UPDATE ABOVE)
1:30:15 I never gelled with Synthmaster
1:31:00 Thanks everyone for coming. No closing jam. See y’all next time.
1:32:24 End transmission
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LINKS:
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Native Instruments Absynth 6: https://www.native-instruments.com/en…
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