Thursday, October 26, 2023
I’ve started to learn to play piano. I’ve been playing the guitar for years, and I’m pretty good at it, but the keyboard is way better for electronic music than trying to send MIDI from a guitar. Plus, there’s all that sweet stuff that you can’t do on a guitar, like playing basslines and melodies together, and the huge octave range. One thing that struck me is how much easier it is to get started on the piano.Monday, August 1, 2022
There are a zillion samplers and recorders out there, so why do almost none of them work like we want them to?
Recently, I’ve been checking out the OP-1 Field, the new update to Teenage Engineering’s stone-cold classic OP-1, a sampler, synthesizer, sequencer, and digital tape recorder, all packed into one little battery-powered box. The Field is pretty much the same device, but with way better sound quality, stereo, Bluetooth MIDI, plus a few tweaks that make it easier and nicer to use.
The Field is essentially the same as the original, and yet still, eleven years after launch, there’s no other device that’s as immediate, or as easy and fun to use.
Friday, April 3, 2020
I started this song during the lockdown. No surprise that it’s even darker than usual.Saturday, March 28, 2020
My second song-a-week release. This one was started on a trip to the Bavarian Alps late last year, but most of the work was done in Berlin. The photo shows the Königssee lake. All the drums are done on the OP-Z, guitar is a guitar, and the trumpet is a fake trumpet. Any more questions, ask!Friday, March 27, 2020
I’m kicking off a song-a-week project with a song that has sat almost-finished for a few months now.