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CLAVIA NORD MODULAR G2 [2010 – ]

Wow. I can’t say Wow enough. The original NM’s younger as well as bigger brother, having everything the original one lacked (MIDI modules, decent keyboard). This simply is an incredible piece of machinery. Functionally it builds on the original, only makes it better. I can’t understand why they abandoned this concept, nothing out there comes […]

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MOOG VX-351 [2010 – 2015]

An expander module for the Voyager, making it more modular that without it. I put this up for sale after Judgment Day and ended up selling it. The Voyager was also up for grabs, but nobody bought it. Had I known that, I would have kept this one as well. Oh well…

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KORG WAVEDRUM [2010 – 2019]

A machine drum, I guess you could call it. A responsive drum skin, and the plastic body also acts as user interface. The drum brain inside it generates the sounds depending on how you interact with its surface, and it’s actually quite impressive. I thought I would sit in the sofa drumming away and getting […]

Moving Up in the World: 2009

Once we had an actual floor upstairs to put things on, the bed could move up there, and the gear could move from the basement to the to-be-studio room, which was partially pulled apart, plus it also served as storage space for uninstalled floorboards and such. So everything was still pretty raw, but somehow it […]

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JOMOX XBASE 888 [2009 – 2015]

I may have mentioned that I love drum machines. I got this to lay down some serious beats. But I just don’t work that way. This ended up becoming just a sound module, so in the end I sold it as it really didn’t give me anything unique. Solid piece of gear, though.

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NOVATION REMOTE SL 25 [2008 – 2013]

While in the basement with all my keyboards tucked away too far from the DAW, I needed something to control them with. I was also interested in trying out how a generic MIDI controller would work for me, both for controlling external synths as well as . I mean, it should be handy to have 

The Basement: 2008

Time for a new house. Also time to rip it apart and rebuild it pretty much from scratch. So my gear got to spend the first year in the basement, distributed over three rooms and connected with long cables. It was actually quite a good year: I also spent a lot of time in the […]

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LINE 6 VARIAX 500 [2008 – ]

This thing is something quite extraordinary. Looks like an electric guitar, but contains a bunch of modeled guitars that you can select with a switch. When you play the string, the quitar samples the sound in real time and runs it through the converter, as it were, and the sound that actually comes out of […]

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BEHRINGER ADA-8000 [2008 – ]

This one provides more physical input/output ports to the RME over an optical connection. I have three of these, but one is slightly defective: there’s a persistent clicking sound which is quite annoying, meaning i can’t use it for recording. Other than that, it has been a solid device.