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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

Lovely bells

Another iPad based modular patch which is nice and chill. Uploaded using 3Speak Mobile App ▶️ 3Speak

Saturday 17th January 2026 #jamuary

Let’s do #jamuary because that’s a big thing on YouTube, are we doing it here on 3Speak? In this electronic jam, I’m using Hammerhead for my drum machine, Lattice

Lattice and OneShot sampler - let’s get drumming

Testing out a new plugin for sequencing drums, which turns out to be very playable and experimental, with endless experimentation to be enjoyed. Uploaded using 3Speak

AUv3 Guide: Fauve

Welcome back to the AUv3 Guide that I started about a year ago with the aim of documenting/curating these fantastic IOS plugins for iPhone and iPad. Developers have

Time for a little recap

I was hoping to put together some new stuff this week but haven’t had the chance just yet. I’ve decided to do a bit of s recap instead. Gathering together some favourite

Max MSP Programming

I am trying to write a post daily this month, have got off to a good start and then on certain days, it gets tougher, time is often a problem but thankfully I have

App: Dronage (Beta)

I’ve got access to this new app via TestFlight today and it’s a machine for making drone sound textures, it’s very pretty looking and you can create some really

Drum loops - lets start with one and build from there

Building drum loops on the iPad is a lot of fun and there is just as much, if not more scope here than with traditional drum machines. So today I’m kicking off a

A collection of sounds - we find a home for the Hive Sound Library

I hope you are all keeping well and I wanted to post something to this community to one say, I am still alive and so is this community project. In fact one of the

Plugin guide (AUv3) - Ova synth

Welcome back to the hive Sound library and I’m kicking off a new series on plug-ins, that will cover those for the iPad and also for the desktop. Ova synth is a

Reinventing your samples

This started off on Substack where I asked people to send me their samples or recordings and I’ll transform them into something new. In this case I took a rhythmic

Sonic log 080825

There have been a whole load of great things coming out this year, including a new streaming app for the iPad called Camo studio. I recorded this using the iPad

Audio recording - AKG D 11 C as crotch mic on my drums

ENG Exploring the power of the crotch mic! In this short video, I’m using the AKG D 11 C placed between the kick and snare. We go from a no-FX mix to the raw sound

Atomic blip-box

Getting back to some more sound design today and took Baby Audio’s plugin Atoms for a spin with this track being the result of my experimentation. Listen on Soundcloud:

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

Drambo

Experiments YouTube Also featured MidiStep GlitchStep Download details Get Drambo from App Store -

GlitchStep

Making a return to my project that explores the plethora of plugins available on the iPad auV3 platform, we take a look at GlitchStep that came out this week (at

#hivesoundlibrary | MIDIStep

I am in the process of resuming the #hivesoundlibrary project and compiling an #auv3 guide and something off a structured index under the article, so that all of

Journal - August 19th 2024 - Music collabs, photography and other updates

August is proving to be rather busy on the personal front as much as it is on the work side of things. Two projects at work are proving to be quite heavy on the