Sandbolloxed...
As you no doubt know, especially if you are a Logic user, there are Big Changes coming down the pike, in the form of a sandboxed version of Logic, most likely before the middle of 2014. Developers have been given a…
2013
50 posts. All years
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Insert Pun On The Name SEM...
A few months back, I was at my family reunion in Oregon, and I borrowed a barely-working original SEM from my good friend Jeremy. I trundled it back to SandLand in my carry-on, and a while later dropped it off at Five…
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The Synth Nerd Holiday Gift Guide...
I present to you the guaranteed-to-please good for all budgets Synth Nerd Gift Guide. You're here because someone you know is a Synth Nerd, and they have given you a link to this article, and said "anything off this…
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Changeable Moods...
While I was spending the last 7 days building modules, packing modules, shipping modules, and delivering modules, all kinds of fun things happened in the music tech industry, as it turns out. 1\. Elektron Analog Keys …
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It's The New Style...
Yay! A new module in our simple effect line-up, Freqshift. As the name implies, it is a frequency shifter. Originally coded by Sean Costello (ValhallaDSP) for us, and then extended by Adam, there is a ludicrous amount…
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Two Steps Forward...
I got a Maschine Studio last week, and let's just state right now that it's a pretty nice piece of kit. In a nutshell, they've taken the original Maschine controller and broken out all the shift buttons to direct…
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Cycles...
When I first began releasing instrumental music in, what, 98? (I think that was the first Micronaut record, but I'm sure about 85 people will correct me...) most of the instrumental music I made had one purpose: to…
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You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin...
Spent an entertaining morning sniping at the Apple Mavericks announcement yesterday. Right up until the point where Craig Federighi said "Free. Today." Once I got done wiping the orange juice off my MacBook Pro, I…
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I'm Givin' Her All She's Got, Captain...
This post initially was just a quote of the complete St. Crispin's Day speech from King Henry V. But I thought that might be a bit opaque. So, in the interests of providing a pop culture touchstone, I'll say "Houston…
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The Next Episode...
The first production run of Audio Damage modules is officially sold out, at least as far as we're concerned. We've sold the entire production run to Analogue Haven, Alex4 (which is a European distro company started by…
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Flipping The Script...
I think that picture tells far more than a thousand words could. After two years of R&D (a sentence fragment that in no way conveys the experience we've just been through), and coincidentally during the week of Audio…
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In Memoriam: Kid Baltan...
When MusicThing was a going concern, before Tom Whitwell got his job with the Times, he had a regular feature called "Music Thing Heros," which was a source of much awesomeness. I've never done that here, because it was…
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Omnibus...
I have a blessed day off from renovating our new house today. Unfortunately, this wondrous event occurred only because I stepped on some exercise gear in the dark last night, and lacerated my right foot to the point…
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Let's Talk About Reel-To-Reel Decks...
I know this is a painful subject for the more modern amongst us, but feel free to step aside and let the old fogies go at it for a little while. It is going to be a year or more before I can begin tilting at windmills…
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And The Baby Jesus Wept...
Okay, no apologies for the lack of posting. I told you in the last post but one that we had bought a house, and that, coupled with some Big News coming on the Audio Damage front in a short while, is currently demanding…
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The Depths Of My Bits And The Rates Of My Samples...
Once I got past this dude's beard and the ImageLine logo that they splashed on someone else's video (the original isn't embeddable), I quickly realized that this is the single best explanation of bit depth, sample rate…
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Hands, With Occasional Face...
Fun with the Analog Four, driving an original Oberheim SEM and the Eurorack jank with its CV outputs. No DAW, no plug-ins, no computer. Everything is sequenced from, and mixed in, the A4. It's worth noting, if you're…
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Man Of La Mancha...
Okay, here's the deal: I'm not a millionaire. Or even a ten-thousandaire. But I was always told "dream big!" And I do have a big dream. I've had this dream for a while, but I've only told two people about it, because I…
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Hit That Perfect Beat, Boy...
As anyone that follows me on Twitter knows, I'm currently in Hood River, Oregon at my family reunion. I spent a chunk of time earlier in the week at J-Hi's studio recording the rhythm parts for what will be the next…
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Let's Go Ahead And Kill Your Dream Early...
I typed up a fairly lengthy rant on the current state of Kickstarter that was largely triggered by this article. I think the author, while perhaps not exactly clear on how capitalism works, makes some very good points…
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Mangleverb Overview Video...
One of my major failings is that I assume everybody else is as fluent with music software as I am. That's a bad assumption, given that I live, eat, breath, and sleep music software, and have for a decade. But there you…
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Meet Mangleverb...
Hey, want a new plug-in? Why, yes. You do. And we happen to have one right here. Let me introduce you to Mangleverb. It's a reverb! It's a filter! It's a floor wax! It's a dessert topping! In all seriousness, it's a…
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If At First You Don't Succeed...
As all regular readers of AI know, I've spent the better part of a year (and gone through two fairly expensive touchscreen monitors) trying to come up with a touch-based app for songwriting and live performance. I've…
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Audio Damage Summer Sale...
When I was a little tyke, we went to visit my grandparents who lived in San Diego once. While we were there, I saw a television commercial (once, natch) that was so powerful in its delivery that I remember it verbatim…
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Wicked Cool...
We had a fun week at both Audio Damage facilities. (For some reason that word gives me the gigglesnorts. I can't explain it.) While Adam largely spent the week swearing at our next product, I worked on an Audio Damage…
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The Room In The Elephant...
Audio Damage is a month in to its 9th year of operation, and throughout the history of the company, there are some constants. I regularly receive letters that essentially say "your products look great, but no demo = no…
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Fresh Coat Of Paint...
As you can plainly see, Analog Industries got a site-wide redesign courtesy of my lovely and talented wife. We also moved the site from the Audio Damage box to a grid server (i.e. The Cloud) because that's what all the…
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There Might Be Something There...
My job, such as it is, is about 50% mining pixels, and 50% researching new ideas (or, as my wife puts it, "watching YouTube videos.") I spend a lot of time hunting down interesting new methods for controlling or…
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At Long Last...
Only four short years in the making, the debut RT60 album is now available at Bandcamp, for pay-what-you-want, minimum $5. I'm not going to go at length in to the process of this album, because there are already about…
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D2...
Forgot to post this here. I put this up last Sunday, a bit of afternoon jamming. No DAW, no plug-ins. Just Analog Four and modular. I was trying to get a handle on the A4's CV outputs, and it turned in to a reasonable…
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Drive By Snark, Round 2...
So the big news of this morning is the trio of Korg Volca "analog loop synths" (their words, not mine) that further extrapolate the idea of the original Monotron in to its obvious conclusion. I'll be honest and say…
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Drive By Snark...
Musikmesse starts on Wednesday, so naturally all the pre-announcements are rolling out, like they do. I was strongly considering going to Messe this year, but then we decided to go to Hawaii instead, for reasons that…
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Say April Fools Again, Motherfucker...
Just breath through it. It'll be over soon. In other news, here's the deal: I generally work on about three or four things at once. Usually one Audio Damage thing, one thing for myself, and one contract job. The reason…
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Home Again...
Back at the Kompound again, after a fantastic week in Kauai. The only bad thing about the trip was the crying babies on the plane (both ways, natch) and that wasn't even that bad, honestly. Since I didn't take a laptop…
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aloha...
I'm going to be out of the office for a week starting on 3/14. I'll be enjoying the location pictured above in Kauai, Hawaii. (That's a picture of Tunnels, a few minutes walk from the house we rented.) This is the first…
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ripspace...
I've been busy as hell the last couple weeks; multiple plates are spinning here at the Audio Damage Marketing And User Interface Design Facility; I was in dire need of a headcleaner, and thankfully, an excuse presented…
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Samplefest...
I spent most of the week in L.A. on a business trip (and also: Karting, the which I have the bruises to prove), which will account for my relative silence the last few days. The next few months are going to be very…
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Out With The Old 'n' Busted, In With The New Hotness...
If you head over to AudioDamage.com, you'll be treated to a full ground-up re-design courtesy of my lovely wife, Elle Randall. To say that this is mainly a cosmetic update is to understate the matter quite a bit. The…
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To The Moon...
Waldorf surprised us all this morning with the announcement of the Rocket, a little hybrid monosynth (analog filter, digital everything else) that will retail for about $299 here in the US. The synth features some…
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And Again...
I'm working on several interesting things right now that would be excellent fodder for conversation here. Unfortunately, I can't talk about any of them. At all. So that leaves us with yet another Disembodied Hands…
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blinkerette...
Busted out a little jam with the Analog Four and Maschine. All the synthy stuff is coming from the Analog Four, of course.
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Analog Four...
After several days of slogging around NAMM, and experiencing so many product demos they kind of turned in to a blur of specs, connectors, and knob labels ("SAY iOS AGAIN, MOTHERFUCKER!!!"), when all was said and done…
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Audio Damage Bitcom Now Available...
To say that Bitcom took longer than expected would be to understate the matter in a somewhat ludicrous fashion. We decided to bang out a simple, fun sequencer-based bit-basher in August. It was supposed to take a couple…
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NAMM 2013 Day Three And Other Stuff...
Yesterday was my last day at NAMM (I don't go on Sunday, as the words "fucking ridiculous" can only be uttered so often before people start thinking I have Tourette syndrome) and my mobility was somewhat hindered by a…
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NAMM 2013 Day Two...
Okay, NAMM, we need to talk. It's time you put on your big boy pants and moved to a real convention center. Anaheim was fun and all (okay, well, not really), but you've grown too large. It's time to consider moving to a…
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NAMM 2013 Day One...
One long-ass day of wandering about and strained politeness in the bag. I took a few pictures, but it's early in the morning, and I don't feel like digging out my camera and dealing with that right now. Besides, Brandon…
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NAMM 2013: DSI Prophet 12. Fap Fap Fap Fap Fap...
And this, from a company that knows how to use "ph" in a word. I have no editorial comment, other than to say "want. Now." Product page, more pics, and a video here.
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Noink...
The Tweetscape was all abuzz today with the Moog Music announcement of Yet Another Two-Oscillator Monosynth. It is essentially a Source with Moar Knobs, because that's what the kids want these days, apparently. I look…
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Obvious...
One thing I learned back when I was semi-famous was that as soon as you have a little something, people that think they should have got a little something sue you. A lot. I've been sued for some stupid fucking shit…
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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back...
Late last week (or was it early this week?) I told Adam that I was gonna risk the Wrath of the Guy from high atop the Thing and put up the product page for Bitcom. In retrospect, there might have been a little bit of…