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…