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Minifreak 3.0 Walkthrough

Samples! Granular! Etc! The new Minifreak update makes a great synth great-ier. Here's my video on the new engines.

Update here: https://ww...

Early Access: A Pair of Modular Videos

Hi all,

Next week I have two biggish modular videos on the second channel, one on the new Qubit Stardust cosmic tape looper, and the other on the Dnipro (pronounced dan-EE-pro) Radiant multi-effect module.

Both are cool and I had a lot...

Introducing COLORCOMA, Sounds for Syntakt

Hi all,

Today I released the first of MANY sound packs for the various synths I own. This is going to be a major focus of 2025 for me.

This first pack is for Syntakt.

You can get it here: 2024-11-23 20:50:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Audio: New CC Music Project: Chorus Somnia

Hi all,

New music for the itcho.io free music project, this time around vocals: https://jjbbllkk.itch.io...

Premiere: Deconstructing the Elden Ring Open-World Music

Come join us at 9 AM PST (about 10 minutes) for what will be the last big video project I do for the next year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl4XwlWLLV0<...

Audio: Elden Ring - Open World Music: Remade

The falling leaves tell a story: it's slippery.

This is the fruit of the project I've been working on for two months: a dive into the open-world music of Elden Ring: the compositional techniques, the methods, the instruments, and the lore. 2024-11-11 23:57:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Monthly production video: Slight Delay! Sorry!

Hey ya'll,

I usually knock out my Patreon exclusive production tips/explainer video this first week of the month but I'm working my ass off trying to get the next video finished. The last two have done terribly and I'm hoping this one will d...

Happy Halloween

Made a 30-minute semi-generative spooky patch! Audio attached.

https://youtu.be/hUlzdG8IWtE?si=7QBSlQnnFm3XG2wZ
2024-10-31 22:30:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Early Access: Audio Convolution and ModeAudio Airspace

Here's Sunday's video: A history of convolution in audio processing and a demo of ModeAudio Airspace. I like this plugin, it's nothing completely revolutionary, but the IR library is clever and the delay is well-conceived.

2024-10-30 17:27:43 +0000 UTC View Post

Early Access: The Art and Science of Spectral Synthesis

Steinberg asked me to do presets and a video for their free spectral synthesizer, X-Stream, and I turned it into a bit of a history lesson. Here's the history of spectral synthesis and more!

Get the free Spectral Synthesizer X-Stream here: ...

Transcript and Sources: Spectral Synthesis

This is the script and sources for my video on Spectral Synthesis and X-Stream by Steinberg.

THIS VIDEO WILL BE PATREON ONLY UNTIL THE VIDEO IS LIVE THIS COMING WEEK.

Video here: 2024-10-20 23:43:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Early Access: What Is The Perfect Instrument?

This is tomorrow's video. It's sponsored by Expressive E and it's a giveaway at Perfect Circuit for an Osmose. Osmose is the perfect instrument. Nothing else is. There is only Osmose.

2024-10-15 18:06:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Early Access: Intellijel Cascadia Videos

Hi all,

This is what I've been working on for the last two weeks. Big video on a big synth. Cascadia felt like it deserved a lot of attention, and that's what I gave it.

There are two videos part of this project:

Walkthrough vi...

Monthly Patreon Exclusive: Ear Candy!

Hi all,

Here's the monthly Patreon exclusive video on music production. We've done compression, delay, and making music from scratch. This time we're talking about ear candy: effects, risers, drops, swells, lasers, and more.

We'll go o...

Audio: New CC Music - Spectral Landscapes

Hi all,

One of my two big videos for this month is a video commissioned by Steinberg on X-Stream, their free spectral synthesis plugin. The video is mostly about the history and method of spectral synthesis with a quick walkthrough of the v...

please stop entering the raffle

it ended yesterday morning

please

please stop

please I beg you

I cannot take the continued entering

please

my soul screams for release

I am in a hell of my own making

bougainvillea

Audio: 120 BPM Poncho Session One

Hi, I'm using Poncho as the name for my improvised techno stuff. Here's session one (the first was session zero), which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/wat...

45 Minutes of (Mostly) Chill 120 BPM Techno

Minimal? Electro? Ambient? Electronica? I dunno, I just work here.

This is a new rack I've put together around the Tubbutec Brainstep. It's fun. I'll be doing another video on it soon. I'll also be performing with it live soon. I'll keep you...

Quick Update

Hi y'all,

I feel like I haven't uploaded a new video in forever when in truth it's been two weeks tops. That said there's going to be a delay before any new stuff comes out. Everything I'm working on now is a time consuming project and it w...

Patreon Exclusive: Intro to Delay and Echo

Hi all!

Here's this month's video on a tool or technique for music production. For this one, we tackle the effects of delay and echo: how they work, what they do, how they sound, and when to use them.

As with the compression video befo...

WINNER PICKED: Giveaway: Donner Bass and Drum Hardware Things

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

Hey there,

I just ran a random number generator on the 30 entries we got to pick the winner for this, and I've reached out to them via email.

If I do not hear from them within 24 hours, I wil...

Early Access: 4MS Meta Demo and Review

I do not think this is a good module

I did not enjoy reviewing this module

I am only putting this out and speaking with a slightly positive voice for political reasons

I do not know if I will work with 4MS again after this

...

Early Access: Fundamentals of Rhythm for Electronic Music

Here's the next video, out Friday probably.

I've posted the transcript and sources too.

If you have any resources you think are cool for learning rhythm, leave a comment and let me know!

Transcript and Sources: Fundamentals of Rhythm for Electronic Music

THIS IS SET TO PRIVATE NOW AND WILL BE PUBLIC ON FRIDAY WHEN THE VIDEO RELEASES.

From this video: 2024-08-21 15:25:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Early Access: Befaco Oneiroi

Hi all! Here's the next set of videos for both channels:

Befaco Oneiroi Review (Main Channel): https://youtu.be/kfVfHdVKwfc

Befaco Oneiroi Sonic Showcase (Second Cha...

Intro to Compression Part 2: Answering Questions

Hi, here's the follow up to this video and post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109511790

I answer questions left by ya'll in the comments. I like this format a...

Early Access: Inspired by Furries to Make Free Music

Hi all,

I just finished this up. It will be published on Sunday.

By now you (probably?) know about my project on itch.io to make royalty-free music for people to us...

Patreon Exclusive: Intro to Compression

Video here: https://vimeo.com/994568696/02b5707ee3?share=copy

I am going to be doing, on average, one of these a month for ya'll. We'll do some educat...

Premiere today: A History of Techno

Feel like just getting this out and might as well do it as a premiere.

See you today at 9am PST (about an hour and 15 minutes from now): https://youtu.be/7fx0JvKeLrA

A History of Techno - Transcript and Sources

Transcript and sources for this video: https://youtu.be/7fx0JvKeLrA
Many of the t...