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REPLAY: MONDAY MUSIC - Music, Musings and More - October 21, 2024 - Messin' With Synths, Among Other Things

It's Monday, and time for another Live Stream from the Disaster Room. This week, is all about experimenting -- audibly and visibly. For sounds, we'll dive some into Porphyra and also Synthx V (and whatever else catches my eye) as I work on new sounds for the

REPLAY: MONDAY MUSIC - Music, Musings and More - October 14, 2024 - Porphyra, Video, Move, and more!

It's Monday, and time for another Live Stream from the Disaster Room. Continuing on with Porphyra and also with a few video developments, and we'll talk a little bit about the new Ableton Move. Rough timeline: 0:00 Begin transmission 0:00 Opening Jam 11:00

REPLAY: MONDAY MUSIC - Music, Musings and More - October 7, 2024 - Kontakt 8 + Porphyra, Video Synthesis, and more!

It's Monday, and time for another Live Stream from the Disaster Room. I picked up a new Kontakt 8 instrument called Porphyra which is the first third-party instrument designed specifically for Kontakt 8. In addition to sounding great, it goes a long way to opening up Kontakt

REPLAY: MONDAY MUSIC - Music, Musings and More - September 23, 2024 - Live Jam, Wavea Flite, and More!

It's Monday, and time for another Live Stream from the Disaster Room. But wait, there's more! Here we go again with another "workstation" VST. During last week's stream ‪@krazywabbit‬ brought up Flite by Wavea. This one also has some interesting features, so

REPLAY: MONDAY MUSIC - Music, Musings, and More - September 16, 2024 - Yet Another Wavetable Synth: Babylon 2 VSTi, and More!

Monday night, and time for another Live Stream from the Disaster Room. But wait, there's more! * Yet another wavetable VST has popped up, this time it's Babylon 2, the sequel to Babylon from WA Production. This one does have a unique angle, so we take a

REPLAY: We Be Jammin' Live From The Disaster Room

Jammin' first this week, then chatter! Simple as that. Musically, the Polybrute and Take 5 ended up taking center stage, along with the Wavestate Native plugin and a little bit of OpSix for some fun synth jams. And I talked a little more about the Kontrol S custom user

REPLAY: Monday Music Mania?

The best laid plans, and all that rot. A heavy thunderstorm wrought some level of havoc with MIDI in the studio and put some dampers on getting any actual music going the way I wanted. So, instead, we chattered some more about polyphony/paraphony. And, we also chatted a bit

REPLAY: Colors of Sound -- Ambient Adventures with Pigments Presets (and more)

Using only presets for Pigments and other Arturia plug-ins, I embark on an ambient adventure and get started on a complete ambient track. There are also some thoughts on streamlining and the evolving studio configuration, as well as taming a MIDI issue of sorts with the Take 5. Join

NEW MUSIC: The Inner Workings of Leonid Podolski

I remastered and officially released this song today. I'd planned to go back and rework it a little -- it was a work in progress made when testing a new plug-in late last year -- but decided that remastering, an "improved" name, finalized artwork, and a corny

REPLAY: Tempted by the Synth of Another

There was a sale. It was tempting. But, why? United Audio put their Opal Morphing Wavetable Synth on sale. Aside from granular synthesis, morphing is one of the other things that really grabs my attention. The ability to smoothly transition back and forth between sounds or elements of sounds is