Author Archives: Chris

Flite – Red Shift (2005)

Flite - Red Shift (2005)

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…

Flite – Model 760 EP (2002)

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…

Flite – Drifted (2002)

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…

Flite – Flite Music (2000)

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…

Simmons SDS9 – Manual

My friend has had his Simmons SDS9 for years but we had never fully worked out the MIDI functions due to not having a complete manual. Now, thanks to a member of the vintage-synth forums, we… read on…

Roland HandyPad (Pad-5)

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…