The Astro Blog

Here is a track I made on Labor Day. I hope you like it. It is my attempt at PsyTekk.

Bob Dylan says, "It has sound all over it."

Here is my first recording with my "modular". It is just frakking around with sounds, but I had fun making it. Here is the song (or here for you mac people).

This is a pic of the setup I used:

I got an Electribe ESX a few weeks ago. I like it a lot. The arpeggiator is fun. This cured my GAS for the Elektron stuff. I do wish the Electribe had more sequences. I have been using it to control my Evolver and CZ-1 and syncing it to the Fat Controller so the modular can make noises on top.

It can take a long time to program in the sequences, but it isn't any more frustrating than using software. The Fat Controller is great because I can just tweak the notes in real time. It even slides while the sequence is playing. And I can move multiple steps by different amounts simultaneously. No software could do that.

Now I see the need for a bigger mixer on the horizon. It took me ten years to really get my guitar setup down. Now I can get most any sound that I am looking for pretty quickly. And most importantly it all works.

I should get back to my Warmoth and AX87 projects. I have a 5 day weekend. Time to breakout the soldering iron.