Sampling in the 20’s
I’d like to put forward three major eras in the cultural development of digital sound sampling. You can slice it many other ways but this trio will be useful here.…
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About me
My name is Tom Ellard and my first synthesiser the Kawai 100F, for which I swapped a tape recorder and $250 in 1979. I thought it was a normal instrument…
WaveTables and TransWaves and GeoBlend… oh My!
A wavetable is a sequence of fixed length single cycle audio waveforms of equal frequency. Multiple complex sounds can be generated from a single table by playing through the waves…
Toptastic Listicle
Updated September 2023 – always being refreshed Suppose yourself miniaturised and on a submarine mission to save a top scientist from certain death. Which ten synthesisers would you bring? I…
A completely biased guide to DAWs
Your DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) is a matter of taste. As you have appalling taste, you are lucky that I have found time to instruct you in the matter. Ableton…
How Irate
🧻🧻🧻🧻🧻 FIVE TOILET ROLLS – nothing is perfect, but much joy comes from this object. There is little difficulty in learning it. It has some special feature or ability that’s…
MIDI Quest (and Sound Diver)
Do you remember the days when you actually wanted all your hardware to be controllable from a computer screen? Be able to save patches to a hard drive, have all…
Fleacore
Fleacore is the principle that most interesting and exciting electronic music is created by people early in their careers, using extremely cheap and shit equipment (from flea markets). The most…
You can’t hear wood
(Cleaned and updated Sept. ’21) For some years I’ve been collecting and writing about electronic music hardware on this site – some good, not so good, and utter garbage. I’ve…
Virtual Wood – emulations of the past
ADAM SZABO ViperAIR HypeAIR Fabric and OPx-4BRAINWORX Knifonium versus AIR VacuumAPPLIED ACOUSTIC SYSTEMSARTURIA MiniBrute VARTURIA V Collection 5-8 / KeylabARTURIA V Collection 9+ARTURIA PigmentsARTURIA SQ80 VCHERRY AUDIO OriginalsCHERRY AUDIO Various…