I taught myself to play the piano as a teenager, then eventually ended up studying jazz piano at the conservatory in The Hague. When sending it random voltages it makes some wonderful, glitchy bursts, all with a bit different flavour, depending on what output you use. I had to switch it off/on to convince myself it wasn’t due to some old input still stuck in there. I recently found that the mystic circuits vert can make sound without any input, which surprised me, since it’s basically an AD converter. Most surprising tip/trick/technique that you’ve discovered about a bit of kit? So I can’t really think of any piece of gear I have that annoys me.ĩ. I have a very brutal attitude towards annoying gear, to the point that I’d rather change my workflow, than live with something that annoys me. What’s the most annoying piece of gear you have, that you just can’t live without? I’d get a modular and an acoustic piano! Night time modular lightsĨ. If you had to start over, what would you get first? With modular there’s no way around it, just finish the patch, record it, pull the cables and then move on. When using software I often had a hard time finishing anything, there was always this feeling of unrealized potential in every track. I’ve become much more productive since I got into modular, maybe it is because you can’t make anything new before you pull the cables. What gear has inspired you to produce the most music? I had a Yamaha SY77 some years back, it was an amazing synth, not really sure why I sold it.Ħ. Is there anything you regret selling… or regret buying? I think software and hardware have their strengths and weaknesses, and the power of Reaper to me is the extreme flexibility, which I don’t think would carry over to hardware.ĥ. The only software I use on a daily basis is Reaper, I’m not sure I’d like to have that in hardware. A friend of mine has madeĪ module for himself from a raspberry pi, that kind of is that, but it’s too much DIY for my skills and it’s also a bit rough around the edges. ![]() The ORCΛ “sequencer” would be great to have in modular format, just a screen, connections for USB keyboard and a bunch of trigger and CV I/O. What software do you wish was hardware and vice versa? I mostly use it to generate batches of samples with slight or drastic variations for later use in the ER-301. Last time I was on an exceptionally long and boring train trip, I brought the computer and took the opportunity to work with csound. Currently I’m reading Schoenbergs “Theory of Harmony”, which contrary to what many people believe, is not at all about 12-tone technique, but rather sums up and marks his departure from tonal music. I prefer to take time off, do nothing, maybe read a book. I actually stopped bringing stuff on holiday and trips. What setup do you bring on holiday/tour/commute etc.? I’m hoping they’ll change that in a new firmware soon! Secondly, it’s quite a shame that it doesn’t have CV in, but I’m not sure they can fix that with a firmware update □ Arturia Microfreakģ. Most importantly: it always powers on on preset 1, something I hate so much that I sold modules, I otherwise liked because of them not remembering their state between powercycles. There are, however, two things that annoy me. It has a few quirks, for instance although the engine is polyphonic, everything runs through a monophonic filter, but for me it just adds to it’s charm. I was a bit skeptical about the Buchla-style keyboard, but it feels great and the polyphonic aftertouch is very nice. It has a quite simple synth engine, but the modulation matrix opens it up and makes it easy to get organic and dynamic sounds. I recently got a 2nd hand MicroFreak, that I’ve fallen in love with. Do you have an ‘almost’ perfect bit of kit? What would you change? To cater for the muscle memory I mostly have it patched up the same way: X controls “skipping of something” (left is no skip, right is more skip) and Y is “brightness of something” (up is bright, down is mellow, middle is neutral). It feels really good and the gestural nature of if makes it such a joy to “play”. I removed the spring from it, to keep it from returning to center position, it makes much more sense to me, that it stays where it’s left. ![]() ![]() I just love my Horstronic joystick! I’ve been trying out a few different touch/grab/turn modules and somehow didn’t gel with most. Favourite knob/fader/switch on a piece of gear and why?
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