After a successful return to in-person live performance in October, I’ve been planning out a new travel/gigging/live performance modular case. The two main goals is that it legally fit into more airplane overhead luggage spaces, and that it interfaces nicely with a...
These recent weeks have been full of personal landmarks: On August 27, I was allowed to starting putting weight back on my broken leg (in other words, I started learning how to walk again). On October 9, I played my first live in-person gig since the pandemic started,...
I’ve long felt that if an artist truly believes in what they’re doing, they should honor their own work as well as their audience by crafting their pieces to the highest standards they’re capable of. Putting my money where my mouth is, I’ve recently rewired both the...
In the featured article this month, I take a historical look at the use of filters in electronic music instruments. In the pre-“synthesizer” days, most electronic instruments had non-enveloped multi-band resonators and formant filters to shape their crude waveforms...
Last month I was complaining about minor inconveniences like waiting for new equipment to arrive for my studio, while planning a number of “post Covid” performances and trips. Then life decided to show me what a real inconvenience looked like: In early July I had a...
The best-laid plans…they rarely work out as intended, do they? I planned to re-wire the studio in June, but that has been delayed waiting on critical components. I did get the power supply moved out of the Monster and into the equipment closet, and although that had...
