“Hurry up and wait” would be a good description of the construction of my new studio, which I discussed back in the January newsletter. (So would “two steps forward, one step back” – except the backwards steps have been thankfully small, so far.) But it seems that a...
Hi! I hope you’ve been having a good 2024 so far. I started it by attending the most recent NAMM show (as well as the parallel Buchla & Friends modular-focused show), and just two weeks ago construction started on my new studio. Indeed, as I write this, there is...
Imagine trying to anticipate everything you might want to do in your recording studio over the next ten or so years – and then trying to design a new studio to accommodate that, down to the last table, patchbay, and wall jack. That is what I’ve been doing the last...
It’s been a fun couple of months since the previous newsletter. I played a series of gigs, had the chance to patch vintage Moog and Polyfusion modular synths, raised some money for the Moogseum, attended Knobcon where I demonstrated my Osiris WavPak with a new idea...
One of the most maddening things about using a modular synth is how few oscillators track accurately – or at least each other – fresh out of the box. It’s something you think manufacturers would have mastered by now, but they haven’t (partially because so many other...
