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.

More Adventures with Instruo Pocket Scion

Instruo Pocket Scion here playing with Korg Kaoss Pad (with a little help from Sinevibes). This track also features (in no particular order) Modwave, Eurorack modular, SyntrxII, Moog Subharmonicon and Korg APR2600M. Fx include Wellspring, Nightverb, GRM Delay, Sound Toys Spaceblender and Echoboy. This time I was touching the Pocket Scion – no plants involved!

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.

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!

The Fairlight and me . . . a little history from 1981

Fairlight CMI

I first heard about the Fairlight CMI at MIDEM – this magic machine that could sample sounds – but very little additional information was available. . . . . . I then spotted an ad in Studio Sound with a picture of the Fairlight and the strap line: ‘Fairlight C.M.I – Need We Say More?‘ […]

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 […]

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 […]

Just two weeks to go . . .

. . . until the release date of my album Patience And Shuffle The Cards – on CD, download and streaming – and available to pre-order. So, here is track seven: Sometimes it feels a little strange to be tucked away in my room surrounded by synths indulging myself in music production when there is […]

CD’s Arrived!

That feeling when the waiting is over and the physical product arrives! In this case patience is definitely rewarded! Great service from Alpha Duplication. Release date is just three weeks away – Friday July 25th but pre-orders can be made on the Willie Gibson Bandcamp page. In the meantime enjoy this teaser track . . […]