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In the past I used only software sounds effects like reverbs, filters and delays. While mastering my first album at Groove though I heard ho...

I bought an RE-20 boss pedal last week. It was one of the things I toyed around with at the Musik Messe in Frankfurt. It is an emulation of ...

Coming sunday (30th of March) I will be going with my wife to the Royal Albert Hall in London to see my all time hero Jean-Michel Jarre live...

My next DIY synthesizer project just arrived in the mail. Always nice to get such a package. I really got the taste now for soldering, so yo...

Another very important thing in my studio is the Midi protocol. Midi is used to transfer the notes you play on a synthesizer to the computer...

Recently I bought a Juno 60 on eBay. Unfortunately it wasn't completely in order. The arp select button was broken and also the buttons ...

I talked a lot about hardware already on this blog, but I also use a lot of software stuff. Especially for drums, since that is very timing ...

I got some questions in my E-mail about the equipment I used to build the PAIA 9700S. So I though lets make a post about that. In the pictur...

Recently I stumbled across a great website. It is called Last.FM. It is kind of a interactive radio station. You can install a plugin for yo...

I started the calibration and tuning process. This surely takes some patience and I can't imagine how to do it without proper equipment....

Just back from the Musik Messe. We had a great time and have seen lots of nice stuff. I was really pleased to see that Arturia has almost fi...

This week I'm going to the Musik Messe in Frankfurt with 3 friends that are also musicians. We will leave Thursday morning from my home...

After finishing all the modules I soldered the power leads to them. The connectors and wire come separate and putting the wire on the connec...

From the beginning of this year my label Groove Unlimited started their own radio show. It is called 'Dreamscape Radio' and the host...

I talked before about all the digital equipment running on 48 Khz in my new studio. When you transfer digital signals at this rate it is ver...

Today I made some changes to the design and content of my main website http://www.synth.nl/ . I was getting difficult in the old setup to pu...

My track 'AeroDynamics' was played this week on the Robo Cast Radio podcast. This is a very nice podcast radio show about Electroni...

I have always been a fan of Commodore computers. And I even repaired them for a couple of years for my day job when I worked at an electroni...

Another fine addition to my studio. I bought a Walforf Blofeld. The first time I played with this little synthesizer was at the Musik Messe ...

I completely finished building the 9710 VCA/Mixer module as well now. This module is normally the final stage of the audio output. I describ...