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I’ve been using–as opposed to constructing–my modular synthesizer lately. I think I’ve had more cables plugged into it at once than at any other time in the past, so I grabbed a photo of it. Tweet

I kept waking up last night and thinking, “he did it. We did it.” What a relief. I’m feeling fairly proud of my country today, for the first time in years. Record numbers of us got up off of our collective ass and voted in this election. That in itself is something to be proud [...]

Let me state up front that I find this more amusing than anything else. One of my old cohorts at Cycling ’74, Gregory Taylor, brought this video to my attention: I don’t speak Spanish(?) so I can only guess at what’s being said, but it appears to be an excerpt from a Peruvian television show [...]

I was pleased to learn today that Raymond Scott’s son is producing a documentary film about his father. Here’s the trailer: I’m happy to say that Audio Damage contributed to the funding of this project as soon as we learned of it. If you’re thinking “who’s Raymond Scott?” that’s exactly why it’s important that this [...]

Not long ago Chris posted a photo on his blog of his current workspace, which generated some amount of interest and a thread of comments about why people find it interesting to look at other people’s gear and stuff. This included at least one query about my workspace. (Hi, Jeff.) So, here are a few [...]

I’m sort of rethinking and reorganizing bits of my studio, and I’ve decided that I no longer need my Expressionist MIDI/CV converter. I’ve never really used the LFOs and stuff in it, and I recently purchased an Omega8 poly analog synth, so the Expressionist is more or less overkill for how I use my modular [...]

I’ve got a nice little MIDI keyboard/audio interface up for sale on eBay. Please, someone take this off my hands and give it a new home. It’s in great shape; the only reason I’m selling it is that I decided I needed a 4-octave keyboard to sit in front of my computer. I used this [...]

Sigh. Another electronic music icon has died. Allen Strange died on Feb. 20. He somewhat literally wrote the book on analog synthesizers, back before we differentiated analog synths from digital ones because there weren’t any digital synths to speak of. His book, titled simply Electronic Music, one of the best references on both modular synthesizer [...]

I recently added an expansion panel to one of the MOTM-480 filters in my modular synthesizer. Click here to read about the project and see photos. (The link takes you to a permanent page in the Synth DIY section of this website.) Tweet

I found myself doing this the other day, and realized that there are some merits to the smaller modular formats that I hadn’t previously considered: Yes, this photo is staged; I took it with my camera’s timer. However, I really was doing this before I realized how silly it is (and how silly it must [...]