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Learning Modular/Alias Zone March 2025 Newsletter: Presets and Modular Synths

Learning Modular/Alias Zone March 2025 Newsletter: Presets and Modular Synths

by Chris Meyer | Mar 1, 2025 | Newsletters | 0 comments

Hi – my name is Chris, and I’m addicted to live performance. It’s been two weeks since my last gig…but before you congratulate me, I have another one coming up in two weeks. Which is kind of ironic, on a historical modular synthesis level. One of the reasons modulars...
Learning Modular/Alias Zone December 2024 Newsletter: Bob Moog Foundation Modular Raffle

Learning Modular/Alias Zone December 2024 Newsletter: Bob Moog Foundation Modular Raffle

by Chris Meyer | Dec 2, 2024 | Newsletters | 0 comments

In addition to setting up my new studio, for the past seven months I’ve been involved in helping the Bob Moog Foundation put together a very cool Eurorack modular system to raffle away for a fundraiser (tickets are available December 2nd through the 20th – make sure...
Learning Modular/Alias Zone October 2024 Newsletter: Moving VCAs Around

Learning Modular/Alias Zone October 2024 Newsletter: Moving VCAs Around

by Chris Meyer | Sep 30, 2024 | Newsletters | 0 comments

Any thoughts on how someone can clone themselves? I used to think I was good at multitasking; I now admit I was just fooling myself. I need one version of me setting up the new studio I just moved into, another version working on my set for upcoming gigs, another...
Learning Modular/Alias Zone July 2024 Newsletter: Should Making Music Be Hard?

Learning Modular/Alias Zone July 2024 Newsletter: Should Making Music Be Hard?

by Chris Meyer | Jul 4, 2024 | Newsletters | 0 comments

Remember in my last newsletter when I said I should be able to move into my studio before the end of June? Not so fast: We discovered a problem where the crew finishing the walls cut several expensive, high speed data cables embedded in those walls (and the floor)....
Learning Modular/Alias Zone May 2024 Newsletter: Why I Use Samples

Learning Modular/Alias Zone May 2024 Newsletter: Why I Use Samples

by Chris Meyer | May 1, 2024 | Newsletters | 0 comments

“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...
Learning Modular/Alias Zone March 2024 Newsletter: A Bit of History

Learning Modular/Alias Zone March 2024 Newsletter: A Bit of History

by Chris Meyer | Feb 28, 2024 | Newsletters | 0 comments

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...
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