Music

  • Halfway through

    Halfway through

    Going full steam ahead with making the second installment of my Phi Mu Labs – the FM-based timbres library for Korg wavestate. Cherry-picking or dialling up the timbres are fun, adapting them for the synth – much less so. Basically I render 14-16 .WAV files – two per octave (C and G notes). Some timbres…

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  • Going live tonight

    Going live tonight

    Will improvise some dark ambient with my #blacksidedsun project later tonight. If I get lucky, I’ll be able to record some stuff too. Not sure yet, though.

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  • FM adventures

    FM adventures

    I’ve owned Yamaha DX7 for many years. Got it second-hand in a working, but cosmetically drastic condition. For a time being it was one of the keyboards I used religiously both on stage and in studio, considering it much more of an ‘honest’ synthesizer than any ROMplers I owned aside from that. However, since discovering…

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  • Fourth of a kind

    Fourth of a kind

    Korg have released a new synth called ‘Multi/Poly‘, and it appears to be a way different thing than the name suggests: it’s not a new version of their venerable Mono/Poly (which had been reimagined in software more than once, and eventually had been cloned-n-reintroduced by Behringer). MusicRadar states that it doesn’t feel nor sound like…

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