As my studio is in a shared space, we regularly use each others equipment, however my modular is still quite a specialised tool. With that in mind I started writing this guide with a view of anyone else wanting to use our space, they should be able to plugin in a few USBs and viola, the modular would be ready to go.
Radiohead’s Idioteque was released in October 2000 and is probably one of the clearest examples of what they were trying to achieve sonically with Kid A.
Recently a I completed a sample pack for Sample Magic with a good friend of mine titled Modular Electro. Readers of this blog know I am keen modular synth collector and I was in my element with this pack.
When I first started out in the world of modular synthesis, I was lucky to have a couple of friends that had dipped their toes into the eurorack world and they helped me out understanding various aspects such as power, cases and signal path.
Sidechain compression is a method whereby an external source is used to trigger a compressors, rather than the signal that’s being fed into its signal path.
It’s common place in electronic music and has been popularised by various french house producers. Hear
Right from the start, I knew I wanted to get my modular working with my computer. I imagined all the possibilities of running MIDI to a from my system, using Reaktor, Ableton Live, OSC… all that stuff.
If you caught our eurorack introduction and have the bug to start embarking on your own system, then you’re in the right place. If you didn’t, I do highly recommend reading it, as some of the terminology in this will be more properly explained in the first part.
A while back I started writing the following piece for Equipboard but for one reason or another it never came to be. Despite the click-bait-y subject matter it’s still a half decent list, so I thought I’d publish it here and adapt it slightly to fit more with what we do here at Zeros and Ones.
There have been countless words written about kick drum synthesis and layering kicks within Ableton and Logic (in these pages and elsewhere), so I thought I’d try and bring something new to the table.
Most people are familiar with the modern synthesisers. It’s likely if you’re reading this you’re a bedroom producer of sorts and have probably heard of most of the main plugins people use – Serum, Massive etc.