NEW MUSIC: Flying With Floyd
An ambient live jam recorded August 12, 2024 during my regular Monday night live stream on YouTube. Flying With Floyd features my Polybrute Noir (proving that, even with the shiny new version out, the…
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REPLAY: We Be Jammin' Live From The Disaster Room
Jammin' first this week, then chatter! Simple as that. Musically, the Polybrute and Take 5 ended up taking center stage, along with the Wavestate Native plugin and a little bit of OpSix for some…
REPLAY: Disaster Room Studio Updates!
Wow! So much has happened since we last talked! I've addressed a few of the issues that have been plaguing the disaster room by refining the room layout and workflow, and upgrading the computer (…
REPLAY: Gallimaufry Collective JamTaba Live Synth Jam
Yesterday, we had another live jam using ninjam to connect four musicians from around the globe to make some live music. As usual, it was great fun! Unfortunately, though, a glitch caused the first te…
REPLAY: Colors of Sound -- Ambient Adventures with Pigments Presets (and more)
Using only presets for Pigments and other Arturia plug-ins, I embark on an ambient adventure and get started on a complete ambient track. There are also some thoughts on streamlining and the evolving…
REPLAY: Jams and Rants from Yours Truly
A video wherein I grumble and groan about a problem in Ableton Live 12, and other things go oddly wrong, I press wrong buttons, and Ableton crashes on me and I have to reboot the PC (at least I wasn&#…
REPLAY: Take 5 Deeper Dive
I'm back making some noises with the Take 5 this time around, and also talking about things like new music and recentering -- getting back on track with making the music I'm feel I'm suppo…
REPLAY: The Droning Hour v2.0 - Return of the Worldwide Internet Synth Jam
Ooops, we did it again! It's a world-wide live jam with participants from all over the world! (well, that was one from the Department of Redundancy Department, wasn't it...) Anything could ha…
REPLAY: Designing Sounds on Hardware Synths
A fun evening messing around with the Sequential Take 5 (including an explanation on why the Take 5 is NOT a Prophet) and the Arturia PolyBrute. The sounds made on the stream will figure into the next…
REPLAY: The Droning Hour - Worldwide Internet Synth Jam
I've been off in uncharted territory frequently lately, and today was about as far into the weeds as I possibly could possibly go: a live jam with five musicians on a Jamtaba NinJam server, with f…
REPLAY: Back From Vegas, Baby, and Ready to JAM!
It's uncharted territory again this time! I've been on the road, but I'm back and ready to jam! Dawesome Myth was lightly explored, along with the controversial Behringer Vintage. I obvi…
REPLAY: No Plan! Space Ambient Mind Meld Jam (and stuff)
It's uncharted territory this time around! No plan, just a Space Ambient Mind Meld Jam and chat. The skinny: It was a fun time! Behringer's new Vintage VST was mentioned and at least shown br…