Posted in Music on May 29th, 2008 No Comments »
In addition to my last few synthesizer acquisitions I’ve picked up a Roland U-220 with two expansion cards and a Kawai K1m. I can’t take more than a few steps without tripping over a keyboard.
Posted in Music on May 18th, 2008 No Comments »
I just picked up two more synths — an Ensoniq ESQ-1 and an Ensoniq SQ-2. And I’ve been drooling over the MR-76, ZR-76, TS-10, and TS-12 by Ensoniq. They made some mighty fine gear. It’s a shame they were bought by idiots (CREAF.PK) and subsequently run into the ground.
Posted in Music on Apr 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Since spring’s happening and I’m once again motivated, I’ve started acquiring synthesizers again. In the past few weeks, the collection has acquired the following doohickeys:
Roland JV-880
Roland GM-70 Guitar Synthesizer
Roland MT-32
E-Mu Proteus/2
Korg DS-8
Yamaha EX7
Yamaha TX81Z
Ensoniq VFX
Part of it is that I want to make noises again. Part of it is that I want more […]
Posted in Music on Apr 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Not too long ago I put some of my older Bloodless Mushroom tunes on PodSafe. Looks like one found its way into a podcast:
http://jameserellogadgets.com/2008/03/29/geek-democracy-03282008-techcrunched/
Feels pretty neat to be making myself useful in some way.
Posted in Music on Apr 10th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve started playing bass with the.untermensch.denial.
http://www.myspace.com/utrband if you’re curious what it sounds like.
It looks like it has a lot of potential. We’ll see where it goes from here.
Posted in Music, Programming/Software on Oct 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Over the past year I’ve developed a utility that lets me trigger all of the sounds on a synthesizer or drum machine so that I can easily sample and record them without having to sit at the computer or fiddle with anything. Hours of sampling can be handled with the click of a button. […]
Posted in General, Music on May 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve made use of some more of the samples I’ve been gathering. There’s a great Linux-based drum machine called Hydrogen (it runs on Windows and MacOS too), and I’ve made two drumkits for it. One is based on the Yamaha TG-55 tone generator and the other is based on the Kawai XD-5 drum synthesizer. I’ve […]
Posted in General, Music on May 16th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve managed to offload almost all of my synthesizers via eBay. Only five remain of the original 20, and one of those will be leaving soon. The keepers: Ensoniq SQ-80, Yamaha TG-33, Yamaha TX81z, and Yamaha TG-77.
The last one to leave is going to be the Alesis Fusion 8HD. It’s very powerful, […]
Posted in Business Ideas, Financial, General, Music, Writing/Publishing on Mar 24th, 2007 No Comments »
In the past couple days I’ve read a huge amount of stories for All Possible Worlds. In fact, catch-up might not run too much beyond this submission period, which ends 4/15.
Speaking of 4/15, I’m going to have to do taxes pretty soon. It’ll be really ugly since my garage burnt down over the […]
Posted in General, Marketing, Music on Mar 21st, 2007 No Comments »
After much research I’ve signed up for an autoresponder service called Aweber. An autoresponder service is like a mailing list management service, but it lets you create automated sequences of emails and targeted email campaigns. There are a lot of bells and whistles in Aweber, including the ability to parse Paypal emails in order to […]