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Here is a list of my – now searchable – posts – newest to oldest. Some have audio and a few have video
More Sequencer Adventures

eaturing Eurorack – using a range of modules including Verbos Harmonic Oscillator, Bastl Timber, Thos White Low Pass Gate and Black Sequencer plus AJH oscillators and filters, O-Coast and Instruo Seashell. Recorded as usual into Pro tools with various effects including Wellspring and Nightverb reverbs.
Don’t You Just Love Sequencers – 2

Another Black Sequencer-based track! This one is all from my Eurorack set up. Features AJH Synths oscillators and filters (MiniMod and Sonic XV) plus Verbos Harmonic Oscillator. For one pass a sequential switch moves through three different oscillator/filter configurations. Outboard/plugin effects include Wellspring and Nightverb reverbs, Sound Toys EchoBoy, 112db’s Mikron Cascade and Delay and […]
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 from my latest acquisition – the Instruo Seashell Got quite carried away with […]
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 […]
