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The Fruit Company to the Rescue: 2013

During the first five years of making and then tweaking Don’t Kill Me More Than Twice I had serious problems with my DAW, Sonar Producer. It would crash without warning several times per evening and more often than not autosave hadn’t had the time to autosave anything. Plus Windows absolutely refused to kill the process […]

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CLAVIA NORD DRUM [2012 – 2015]

I have a soft spot for drum machines. I have a soft spot for Clavia. My entire studio could be red. Nice enough, but had that thin plastic Clavia sound, so it became the victim of Judgment Day, as did many other items. Haven’t missed it. Or any of them, actually. Except Frank.

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DSI MONOEVOLVER KEYS [2012 – 2015]

I was lusting for a PolyEvolver Keys for years, but it always felt like a bit of overkill. I think that I had come to realize just how much of a monosynth guy I really am. So when Dave Smith announced that he would be discontinuing the MEK, people started buying them from wherever they […]

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KORG MONOTRIBE [2011 – 2015]

Another one of those ”small boxes” Korg put out during this time. I got a MIDI kit for this as well, and had it well-integrated into my setup, but didn’t really used it for anything else than mucking around. Again, nothing wrong with it, just not my cup of tea. Sold it after Judgment Day.

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HARLEY BENTON HBV 840BK 4/4 [2011 – ]

Got this because I wanted to make a cover of Ultravox’ Mr X, so a violin was needed. Not an easy instrument; I ended up playing the violin parts one to three notes at a time, and then doing some cutting and pasting and creative editing. End result is quite nice though. Did Vienna later […]

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OBERHEIM SEM PATCH PANEL [2011 – ]

This one is easy to waste hours at a time with. A really hands-on synth, and patchpoints always makes things more fun. Plays nicely with the modular. I always thought combined D/R-stages in the envelopes are a bit weird. True for this one as well. On the other hand, that partly contributes to what it sounds […]