Author: thepatrickrichardson
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composition from Novation Circuit boot-glitch(es)
Last week, my Novation Circuit booted up in a rather worrisome state. It was generating a flurry of random notes, even while stopped, and the lights were going bananas. A quick search found this video of someone else experiencing the same problem.: I tried power cycling repeatedly, but it didn’t help. The comment-thread on…
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OctaTrack FIXED with NEW UI-board !
after trying to fix the faulty-switch myself, I settle for buying/installing a whole new a replacement PCB panel for my Elektron OctaTrack.
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Live Sound guest-lecture from AiPhilly alumni Jack Marron
Motivation: Occasionally I get alumni coming back to campus to show-and-tell what they’re up to in their professional word. Background Jack Marron was a student at the Art Institute of Philadelphia from Spring 2011 until graduating in 2013. While he was my one of my students at AiPh, Jack was regularly impressive in his capacity…
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Working with drum trigger godfather/innovator Dan Dauz to (try to) improve (one of) his products.
Motivation Since 2005-ish, I’ve had a frustrated love-hate relationship with electronic drum pads. This was even part of the passion for musical interfacing that carried me through grad school, but now I’m finally putting my ideas and tools to test a design that remains dynamic even under hard playing in loud-vibrating environments. Product Tech and…
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the amazing electronic drum kit of Jim “Mouth” Parole
A SoCal performer/comedian shows me his a kit somewhere between overkill and engineering marvel.
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Product Review for Future Artist’s MIDI Looper, part 1: “motivation”
German company Future Artists have been developing and advertising a an interesting product, their MIDI Looper. Let’s see what this bug-eyed brand is looking for in their progressive, minimal design. It is a new kind of MIDI sequencer (and cannot record sound directly), that records MIDI Notes and CCs from external gear, and plays it…
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exciting progress and prototype- demos of MIDI gear from German innovators Future Artist
Motivation The more I use and study MIDI (usually in that order), the more I enjoy it. A decade or so ago, it was THE way to streamline synthesis/processing/recording of music; not just because computers were too slow to do all that as raw audio, but also because working in symbolic performance data/notation allowed you new and…
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MicroSampler becomes a DB-90
…some people spend their Sunday “making beats,” I spend mine “making metronomes”
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Alesis DM Pro surgery 3; donor face-transplants
Motivation After my efforts to repair the (old) Alesis DM Pro drum-trigger module by solder-rework had Comparison my “old” unit had firmware V 1.06 Trigger inputs (all tested) Screen in good shape Buttons in good shape Audio Outputs all bad my “new” unit Firmware V 2.0, which fixes some bugs, allow for newer (Roland)…
