Are Potentiometers are “turny roundy jobs”?

I’ve been of long time fan of Rupert Brown’s DSP Project series. His series does an excellent job of providing tutorials and explanations of concepts in simple terms– great for simple laymen like me. This week he explains midi. From the description: “This week I cover the basic concept of MIDI and Controllers as I [...]

I’m not dead(somethings you should have seen already)

Sorry I’ve been absent for the last six months. I’ve been busy finishing degree requirements. I also have a site redesign in the works(no clue when it will be finished). In the mean time, here are some cool things you should have seen already: mlrv 2.0–an open source program(hypersampler) for grid controllers. Featuring HUGE TEXT [...]

Tristan Perich wants you to buy his 1-bit symphony

1-Bit Symphony is an upcoming release by Tristan Perich. Tristan Perich: 1-Bit Symphony (Part 1: Overview) from Tristan Perich on Vimeo. Released on a circuit, that’s plugs into an 1/8 inch jack makes this performance piece somewhat hard to describe. It’s not a conventional sound recording because the oscillations are not reproductions of an original [...]

Fairlight IIL in video

Here’s a demo video of the Fairlight IIL from the early eighties. A time when the word, “Digitize” still meant something and samplers presented a bold new world of possibilities. If someone can point to a draw your own waveform softsynth, like the one in the video, I would be quite greatful.