Ever since I packed up my Atari ST and bought a PC, I’ve had this nagging feeling that the midi on my PC/Mac/DAW has been sloppy. I packed up that Atari over 10 years ago, and I’ve owned many PCs and Macs since then, not to mention many different midi interfaces and external synthesizers, drum machines, samplers and sequencers. They ALL exhibited the same custard-like timing. Read more…

Months ago, my good friend Oli from Groove Criminals sent me this rather charming circuit bent Realistic Reverb unit. I completely forgot to post it here, and it serves as a good tester for embedding youtube clips into the blog, which I’m amazed I haven’t done before. Read more…

It arrived!

I haven’t had a great deal of time to play yet, but initial thoughts are that it oozes analogue character. The oscillators have an insane range (something like 15 octaves). The filters are clean, but very nice sounding. The envelopes could be a little longer, and I can’t for the life of me work out how you reset LFOs, but hell – I’m on a learning curve and it’s all good. Read more…