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 & TransWaves & GeoBlend & Spectral… oh My!
Wavetables A wavetable is a set of fixed length single cycle audio waveforms of equal frequency held in a table. Multiple complex sounds can be generated from a single table…
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 impressive…
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
(Cleaning and rewriting 2026). Synthesis was once a desire to hear new sounds, make new music, go places that hadn’t been heard before. That creative stance started to die with…
Virtual Wood – emulations of the past
Although some may include recent techniques such as wavetables, these are instruments that in the main emulate traditional forms of synthesis. ADAM SZABO ViperADAM SZABO AirwaveAIR HypeAIR FabricAIR OPx-4AIR Vacuum…