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Adventures in Modular - Exploring VCV on the Mac

One of the best ways to explore and learn VCV rack, is to play around with patches available online or in this case, one I’ve downloaded via a Patreon membership

The AuV3 Guide

UPDATE 12th November 2025 I am in the process of updating this index article and adding some new plugins to this Guide, which is going to become a kind of Almanac

July 16th - Meetup opportunity

I’m putting this out there as an opportunity to meetup on the back of another cool event that’s coming up. 16th July - West End Centre, Aldershot, I’ll be joining

Saturday jazzy jam

I’m back in more ways than one after what I’m starting to believe might have been a bit of a mild case of depression. It was fed by some bad energy and that killed

Ableton Push 3, Max for Live

Next week I’ll finally order my Ableton Push 3 to complete my little desktop studio setup a bit. I set aside some money for it ages ago, then things happened (the

Koala sampler update is the best thing!

In the above video I recorded a quick demonstration of this new feature and it’s brilliant. If you’ve not come across the app, check out their site, it’s as cheap

Summer tunes

Since today has been such a summery day, I decided to put something with an Afro beat together using the great Apple Loops pack that comes with Logic Pro and this

Testing 3speak Ecency videos

I’m not sure if I’ve posted this one before or not. I wanted to try out 3speak embeds in posts made using Ecency as there was an issue with the direct ratio. I think

Beta testing: Sessions

I recently bought Sessions, a versatile app available for both iOS and Mac. This means you can explore VST plugins or AUv3 on your mobile devices. While it’s not

The Krell

Last night I purchased B00GA by Hainbach and Audiothing, which has been out for a little while now and on my list of sound generators to get at some point. It is

Daily musical beats and personal updates

This week has been an interesting one on a personal level, one minute fucking terrifying. Sorry for the F bomb but last Friday we thought we were on the brink of

Logic Pro Synth Players

In one of the last updates for Logic Pro I was particularly excited to try out the new “players” that open up some new options for synth bass and keyboard styles.

Getting back into the swing of things

Welcome back to my music technology posts and sharing some ideas that I’ve come up with on the iPad and the brilliant apps, AUM, Super J8 and Euclidean sequencer.

Otoo

Otoo, Beepstreets brilliant new groovebox I’ve been playing with this little beauty quite a bit this past week. Laying down some fairly random beats, then processing

Getting into MIDI with the Akai MPK Mini IV

When it comes to making music I tend to be fairly 'old school' in that I play traditional instruments like guitar and drums. I appreciate that a lot of music these

The Grid - Bitwig's modular system

I must thank Polarity, the lovely German chap who runs both a YouTube channel and Patreon dedicated to Bitwig, this patch is freely available from by the way, so

Mirack walkthrough #1

This is a cross post of @nicklewis/yrapmuugvu by @nicklewis.When uploading video to 3speak via the app, there is no field for community any more, not sure whether

Sound design journal #1

I’ve just uploaded a bunch of recordings to Samply from tonight’s modular synth experimentation with MiRack on the iPad. I’ll improve these particular posts a lot

Aube 2 - My tool for tracking audio (AUv3) plugins

This year I’m going to return to writing about the music plugins I enjoy working with on my iPad, a type of app/plugin called AUv3 which is based on the AU standard

Music Technology Update

Hello my lovely Hivian people and a quick update from me to say that this community will spring back into action more again in January with perhaps a post or two