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 […]
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.
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
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 […]
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 […]
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.
The year pretty much continued as the previous had ended. I was by now an eBay regular. Noteworthy acquisitions for the beginning of the year would be the Waldorf Microwave I, which I bought by accident. I put in an low bid, and ended up winning. I really should do that more often, since every […]
I set out to get a decent audio interface, and this is it. Plenty of ins and outs, and solid as a rock. The way this works, as opposed to an analog mixer, is this: when the analog mixer sums all, say, 12 inputs to a stereo pair (= two outputs), these are then sent […]
Yeah! Drumming again! This is just what the Octapad should have been. The mechanical noise is about the same as the DTXPress pads, so this is quite drummable even late in the evening, and it’s really compact. 9 pads, plus two trigger inputs. It turned out I could patch my modular synth in such a […]
I need a mic. I’m not picky. My brother said this was good, and I keep seeing it everywhere. And it’s been great. It still is. I would not want to be this microphone. The stuff it has been forced to listen to…