Groove Experiments...
During the course of testing products, I often end up with more-or-less full patches. It is important to test everything in context; you can't just listen to something by itself and expect to just know how it sits in a…
2016
28 posts. All years
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Oscillator Breach...
Oscillator Breach by Chris Randall As some of you may know, I dropped a new album on Detroit Underground™ two weeks ago. It is unusual for me not to self-release, as has been my habit for the last 15 years or so, but I…
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ADM17 Proton Now Shipping...
Pleased to report that our Karplus-Strong (or, well, "Karplus-Wrong," amirite?) voice module, Proton, is now shipping to retailers! It is a complete synth voice in a single module, with some AD Secret Sauce™, and is…
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Hands, With Occasional Beard...
In order to do the overview video for our Proton module, I needed to multi-track and clear a patch I've been playing with for the last couple days. Before I did that, I thought I'd do a quick live performance video of…
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Using External Effects And Modules In Live: Tech Time 009...
A couple people have asked me to do some more basic videos, so I thought I'd give that a whirl. This one is a quick-ish demonstration of using external effects and modules in a Live session, and the hidden gotchas of…
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Musical Stylings...
Although I don't actually make music to pay the rent any more (and thank all the various Gods and wildland færies and whatever for that !) it is still rather important to my personal well-being and understanding of the…
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Sound Experiments 001 - DIY Noise Box...
Just a fun little Saturday afternoon project. My only comment not covered in the video is that, like all piezo-based projects, you need an amplifier of some sort to bring it up to modular levels. I use a Circuit Abbey…
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Yo Dawg I Herd U Like Random, So I Randomed Ur Random: Tech Time 008
To do this video, I went through a bunch of the techniques I use in normal production to add indeterminism to tracks over the course of a couple days. I then sat down to edit it and realized I had over an hour of…
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The Weekly No. 006: Milestones...
I didn't realize it until I'd rendered and uploaded the video, but this week's quasi-philosophical meandering actually has a theme, and that theme is "milestones." In the first half, I ramble for a couple minutes about…
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Tech Time No. 007: Voltage-Controlled Cassette Deck...
Like the subject line says... I was curious as to how the Onde Magnétique OM-1 worked. Originally, I thought that these super cheap little decks might be powered directly from the sequencer. I went out and hit a few…
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Tech Time No. 006: Fun With Contact Mics...
Part of the problem with having been in this business so long is that some of this stuff seems really self-evident to me. Someone in one of the Facebook groups I follow asked about this contact mic shit, and several…
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The Weekly No. 005: The Road Less Travelled...
A nice trip to Oregon last week; visited my mom on the Coast, did an event at Control Voltage in Portland, and visited my 90-yr-old grandparents in Eastern Oregon. A lot of driving, but good fun overall. Side note…
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The Weekly No. 004: Techumenical...
Wherein your humble narrator opines on the merits, or lack thereof, of free shit on Craigslist. Also, a lengthy tirade on This Gear versus That Gear.
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Full Of Techno: Push 2 And Simpler...
This week's Tech Time is a more sophisticated version of something I touched on in the last Push 2 / Modular video, making polysynth patches from a mono analog. I show my whole workflow, from initial sample to laying it…
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Four Chords The Hard Way: Tech Talk No. 003...
Step 1: Plan out a cool video. Buy gear from eBay to shoot video about. Gear arrives broken. Step 2: Plan out another cool video to replace it. Buy gear to shoot video about. Idea turns out to be stupid and not-working…
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AI Weekly No. 003 - Battery Acid...
Super busy this week shipping the restock of Sequencer 1, the initial stock of Shapes, and generally moving cardboard around my living room. So just a shorty. Note that I will be in PDX on August 6th at 2:30pm at…
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Tech_Time No. 002: Using the Eurorack and Push 2 together...
A slightly less esoteric Tech\ Talk this week. My own personal workflow for dumping Eurorack tracks to Live for further production. This is kind of quasi-basic, I think, but I do get a lot of people asking me how I do…
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AI Weekly No. 002 - Maple-Bacon Donuts...
The new Weekly is up. Trying out a more comfortable camera-dialogue style. (This actually closely matches my internal dialogue that is going on 100% of the day in my head; this was my intent.) Let me know if you like /…
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Tech_Time No. 001: Tape looping with a Nagra III...
Someone asked in the comments of the last video if I could do a quick demo of how I loop with a Nagra III, and I wanted to do a second weekly that was just anachronistic tech shit, so the stars aligned. Here's a video…
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AI Weekly No. 001 - Purr Louder...
The first AI YouTube vlog is up! Subject matter includes cats, field recording, bribing Mexican cops. Comments and criticisms (other than the frame rate mismatch jitters, which I'm aware of) are welcome. Type below…
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Addendum To The Previous...
Naturally, since I've spent most of the last week lying on a beach in Mexico, I'm totally amped to get home and get back to work. Item, like, three or something on my List Of Shit To Do is get my YouTube channel…
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Broodcast Journalism...
So Sonic State hit me up about doing a little tutorial video about Karplus-Strong when I was at SuperBooth in Berlin, the which I happily did. I totally forgot about it, to be honest, until Nick put it up on his site…
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Berlin Debrief...
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last few whiles, you are perfectly aware of last week's Superbooth 16 in Berlin. Schneidersburo is one of the largest Eurorack retailers (and via their Alex4 subsidiary…
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Upcoming Events And Stuff...
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lax at blogging. Sue me. I'm busy. Speaking to that, if you're in the PHX area on Saturday, March 26th, we have a synth meet at Phoenix College you should probably attend. I'll be there with the latest…
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Sync 01 Today!
If you're in the Bay Area today, come down to Sync 01, presented by Audio Damage. Free to attend, all ages, at Codeword (917 Folsom St @ 5th). Demo systems from the following manufacturers: Audio Damage WMD Dave Smith…
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Sync 01 and stylus...
Audio Damage is sponsoring a manufacturer's event in San Francisco on March 5th, at Codeword (917 Folsom at 5th st). I'll be making a website and promo materials next week, as we finalize who, exactly, is attending…
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The New Style...
Day One of NAMM is in the books, and we've unveiled our four new hardware products. First up is ADM14 BoomTschak (or "BT," as we call it. We're hip to brevity at AD.) This is our first 100% analog product. Not a single…
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Different Drummer...
Whelp, I just have a bit more welding to do, and a couple prototype panels to silkscreen, and we're ready for NAMM. 2015 was a big year for Audio Damage as we got further in to our Pivot™, and 2016 will be bigger still…