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

Modrwy Jam

Close-up of a modular synthesizer panel with multiple knobs and colorful patch cables (blue, orange, yellow) plugged into inputs labeled X In, Depth, and Emphasis; a green LED is lit.

Featuring the Modrwy module from Dwyfor Tech, a magical wavefolding ring modulator! This jam is with my Klee sequencer, sine and triangle waves into Modrwy, then to Thomas White low pass gate. I am using two quantizers here – the Tip Top Quantizer which is greatr for live stuff and alsol an Addac quantizer for […]

More Sequencer Adventures

Rear panel labeled 'Dual LPG' with CV IN jack and Mix Out jack connected by multiple colorful cables.

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 […]

Don’t You Just Love Sequencers?

Erica Synths Black Sequencer

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 […]

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 – New Album

Release date: July 25th – CD in digipack + Bandcamp downloads and streaming services I first came across the phrase Patience And Shuffle The Cards in the diaries of Sir Walter Scott, although I later learned that it originates in Don Quixote.  It is a sort of resigned ‘well, let’s see what happens’ where the […]

Stone Soup

Often tracks begin with a simple sequence which only gradually takes form with the addition of other elements – the title refers to the folk tale where a traveller arrives in a village with no food but just a cooking pot and a stone.  Villages intrigued as to what dish he would produce simply boiling […]

Creeping Thanatos

Just one week to go to the release of my new album – available for pre-order here: Patience And Shuffle The Cards I don’t like this ‘getting old’ business . . . when mortality comes into sharper focus and you realise that things that you remember clearly, actually happened decades ago . . . and […]