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Here is a list of my – now searchable – posts – newest to oldest. Some have audio and a few have video
ANS Synthesizer on iPad!
The ANS synthesizer was a photoelectronic musical instrument developed in Russia in the 1930’s. The ANS made it possible to draw music in the form of a spectrogram. This emulation was developed by Alexander Zolotov and more information may befound here: https://warmplace.ru/soft/ans/ For this track I used a section of a Fractal image with some […]
Don’t You Just Love Sequencers?
Of the many sequencers that I own I am mainly using Erica Synths Black Sequencer – although for this track there were elements where I simply used the Arturia Keystep 37. Most sounds are from my Eurorack modular synth with additional parts frommy latest acquisition – the Instruo Seashell Got quite carried away with effects […]
Instruo Seashell + Pocket Scion
More adventures with the amazing Instruo Seashell – this time with added Pocket Scion. All sounds are from the Seashell driven by my Erica Synths Black Sequencer. Effects include Teaching Machines Wellspring, Erica Synths Nightverb, Audiority Ursa Major Space Station and 112db Mikron Delay.
Seashell Jam
OK! Every part of this track is from the amazing hybrid desktop synth that is the Instruo Seashell . Reciorded into Pro Tools and featuring the Erica Synths Black Sequencer plus various fx – Wellspring and Nightverb reverbs and a little Mikron Delay Lots of fun to do – and the Seashell is definitely a […]
Instruo Seashell – wow!
Just wow! My first outing with the amazing analogue hybrid Instruo Seashell. Running Erica Synths Black Sequencer, several passes with the Seashell including triggering from Instruo Pocket Scion. Effects include Wellspring reverb, Mikron Delay, Sound Toys Spaceblender.
Meditation for Aeonium and synthesizers
My first outing with the Instruo Pocket Scion connected to an Aeonium succulent – Aeonium even sounds like a musical instrument! Here it is playing nicely with Mutable Insrtuments Rings in my modular rack plus Artutria Pigments and Waldorf Nave wavetable synth. Effects include Wellspring (of course!) and a touch of Sound Toys Spaceblender.
Folktronica – something a little different . . .
I had been working on some instrumentals based on Scottish folk tunes – just love pentatonic stuff! Then singer/ Songwriter Helen McCookerybook, with whom I had worked on The Cutty Wren heard these and volunteered to add vocals . . .but opted to sing these in Gaelic! So the genre ‘Synthecosse’ was born! The two […]
Lublin Pingable VCA
Really liking the Xaoc Devices Lublin pingable VCA. Here we have two passes of switched sequences, with the AJH/Tone Science Chance Delay and of coursed the wonderful Wellspring!
Patience And Shuffle The Cards – album reviews
Wonderful review from Neil Mason in Moonbuilding Weekly – Issue 74 (Substack): And also nice review in this month’s Electronic Sound: And here is a taster – the opening track: