DJ’ing with Ableton & Akai AMX
So, I accepted my first DJ gig – can’t be that hard can it?! With Ableton it really isn’t actually, I collected tunes over a few months; learned how to set the cue point and BPM,… read on…
So, I accepted my first DJ gig – can’t be that hard can it?! With Ableton it really isn’t actually, I collected tunes over a few months; learned how to set the cue point and BPM,… read on…
This was the first album since moving into the modern world with Cubase SX on a PC. A collection of 30 tunes written over 3 years, Polymath contains many unfinished works and untidy moments, but… read on…
This short album was a farewell to my faithful Atari ST before moving to PC. The Atari is the perfect midi machine really; rock solid under any conditions, it crashed occasionally as everything does but… read on…
Don’t take this too seriously 😉 Occasionally one of these tunes comes out and one shouldn’t suppress it! The melodies & bassline in Electric Cosak are played on the Juno-60 and Pulse synths, the shouting… read on…
This was my first digitally recorded CD, mastering onto Philips DCC (digital compact cassette) which is essentially the same as DAT, thus the sound quality is much higher than the previous two CDs. I think… read on…
This was never a CD at the time, but put together a few years later from tunes that deserved a home. Particularly on here I really love Supanova, making full use of timed delays to… read on…
My second full album, starting to get cleaner and tidier but still having fun. If you look at the artwork you’ll see its actually a screengrab of the desktop of my Acorn Archimedes computer with… read on…
Wow, we can now burn CD’s at home! But unfortunately at the time all the tunes were mastered to TDK SA90 chrome cassettes as you will hear from the tape hiss. You will also notice… read on…
My friend has had his Simmons SDS9 for years but we had never fully worked out the MIDIÂ functions due to not having a complete manual. Now, thanks to a member of the vintage-synth forums, we… read on…
A very spontaneous purchase, I picked up a Roland Pad-5 midi controller which I didn’t know existed before seeing it listed on eBay. It’s halfway between a toy pad, such as the Yamaha DD series,… read on…