Overview of free MIDI editors I’m doing research for a MIDI sequencer project now that I’ve had on the back burner for ages. Over the years I’ve dug around the internet to find examples of small MIDI apps sort of like Seq24. I’m going to post a few things here that I’ve found mostly because I forget that I even…

Handy Recording I recently bought an all-in-one handheld recorder with built in x/y mics and several mic preamp inputs. The device I ended up with is the Zoom H6. I’d been thinking about buying something like this on and off for years as friends would set up their Zoom H4 recorders to capture jams and messing around in the studio.…

VR/XR Audio I dug my Oculus Quest 2 back out of the closet after Apple announced their Vision Pro headset. I had one of the original Oculus DK1 (Dev Kit 1) devices and never did much with it since you needed a pretty beefy PC rig at the time to really drive it. Later on a friend convinced me to…

VST Roundup Periodically I try out some new VSTs in my work. Sometimes I forget that I even tried something or I find a VST installed on my workstation and I can’t quite remember why I have it installed. This is an effort to document some of my experiments so I can re-trace the thread later. I’ve been interested in…

DAW Stuff I’ve never had a single DAW that I used for everything. It seems like certain projects just need certain things that I’m familiar with in one of the DAWs that I use. I’ve been using FL Studio since version 2 or something like that in the late 90s. It still isn’t great for audio recording though. I have…

Electronic Drum Setups I’m trying to comment here on some things I have tried recently with my electronic drum setup. I’m experimenting with playing bass notes using pedals. I’m starting with just two notes and it’s harder to play than I anticipated. I’m not sure if it’s just a matter of practice or not but it’s especially difficult to play…

Electronic Drums This is really going to be a pseudo-review of the Alesis Strike MultiPad. I need to fold this into a larger context arc of electronic drums for this blog though. I’m a drummer. I’m a decent drummer who cares about kits and sounds and the way things feel. I have built a few acoustic kits at this point…

Coming full-circle with native audio processing I wrote the following in 2012 and just found the draft. Did this come to pass? I think some hardware we are seeing now could be seen as general purpose computers repackaged as single-purpose audio devices. === I’ve been thinking about the divide between using general purpose computing platforms vs using dedicated hardware for…

Drum hardware digging I have been interested in drums for a long time. I’ve been playing for years and have had dozens of different setups over that time. In addition there are many setups that I play that don’t belong to me and I have adapted to many different idiosyncratic configurations over the years. That said, I’ve been playing around…

Guitar design I’ve been making some layouts for a few guitars I have in mind. There are a lot of different concerns that come up when designing the routing templates. I’m using OpenScad for most things, but then the shapes themselves are a more organic process involving Inkscape and hand drawing. A few of my designs have been inspired by…