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It has been a few days that I wrote something here. I know :) I have been extremely busy, especially at work. Well that happens sometimes. M...

A little update on the progress on the ASM-2. I nearly finished mounting the components on the PCB that I got so far. I got some wrong compo...

The 3rd of May 2008 I will be at a little electronic music festival called Ambient Experience. There will be several artists performing like...

I bough ta pocket pod last week. It was very cheap and it looked like fun. And yes I know I already have a Pod Pro XT, but that one I use wi...

E-day was very nice. I was home at 2:00 AM last night. As you can see I had my own stall, where I sold some CD's and the new T-shirts. I...

Today I also started working on the ASM-2. Most of the components arrived. You can see the stack of components in the picture on the left. Y...

Finally the Cwejman S1 MK2 arrived. I ordered it a long time ago and this is my first serious go at modular synthesizers. Actually the S1 is...

I bought an extra pair of monitoring headphones next to my Sennheiser 650. I really love the sound of the Sennheiser but they are open headp...

I will be present at E-day in Eindhoven on the 13th of April. E-day and E-live are two very nice event that is organized by Groove Unlimited...

In the previous posts I focussed mainly on the input side of my audio PC, but off course it is also quite nice to hear the output somewhere....

I added an UAD1e PCI Express card to my audio PC. It is a DSP card that offloads the CPU of the audio PC. I use it to run special VST effect...

The trip to London was great. Me and my wife had a great time. Off course for me the Jarre concert was the highlight of the trip. Directly a...

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...