First things first: the release date for the album with the working title An Ambient Manifold has been set to be January 16th of 2020. About This is the last projected album to remain from the loads of MoinSound Studio Sessions recordings. It will be an album comprised of recordings from one full week of […]
Read more "“An Ambient Manifold” – there’s a release date!"One day, I took a recently recorded compact cassette from a cassette deck, wrote something on the J-card and called that my first album release.
That was exactly 30 years ago.
Time to look back at the story of 30-odd Moinlabs releases (which is also linked with the technology behind it, but mainly with my musical development), and at the future of it.
Read more "It’s been a Ride – 30 Years of Moinlabs"The growth path of Spielsachen: what do you do if you don’t want your system to actually get larger?
In the second of two articles, it’s about growing smaller, or an offspring if you will. A compact, portable setup that retains some (but not all) of the original Spielsachen principles.
Read more "Tech Thoughts: “Spielsachen” – growing smaller"The growth path of Spielsachen: what do you do if you don’t want your system to actually get larger?
In this first of two articles, it’s about sideways growth. Making things different, more efficient.
Read more "Tech Thoughts: “Spielsachen” – growing sideways"September of 2017 saw me get my first two Eurorack modules. Since then, my system has grown – and I learned a few things along the way. Let’s go over the most important ones.
Read more "Synth Thoughts: Lessons from the Eurorack Universe"Being able to assemble everything to your liking is one of the key advantages of modular synths. If your newly assembled wavetable synth gets a ladder filter, a lowpass gate, a six-pole opto-FET design or something else is entirely up to you. With that comes the necessity to do just that. To assemble a simple […]
Read more "Review: MFB Nanozwerg Pro"This is a tricky one. Do I like it, or rather not? I’m not so sure. To find out why that is, you’ll have to read on.
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