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Learning Modular March 2022 Newsletter: Overload!

Learning Modular March 2022 Newsletter: Overload!

by Chris Meyer | Feb 28, 2022 | Newsletters | 2 comments

I’m in the middle of a few projects right now, so I’m afraid this newsletter will be briefer than normal. Hopefully I can start to catch up next month. But in the meantime, here’s what’s been happening: featured article: The power system in new gigging case. Alias...
Learning Modular March 2022 Newsletter: Overload!

Learning Modular February 2022 Newsletter: Learning to Mix in Quad

by Chris Meyer | Jan 31, 2022 | Newsletters | 2 comments

I’m writing this newsletter while out in California, where I lived for over two decades before moving to my current home in New Mexico. While out here, I’ve played the Southern California Synth Society’s NAMMless JAMuary on January 22nd, spent two days at Richard...
Learning Modular March 2022 Newsletter: Overload!

Learning Modular September 2021 Newsletter: In Praise of Filters

by Chris Meyer | Aug 31, 2021 | Newsletters | 2 comments

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...
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