Happy 2016! Amidst the over indulgence and reverie, I managed to find the time to finish some tracks over the Christmas break. They are now up on the Music page. Most of these were composed in Ableton and then mixed in Logic, using LANDR to master. I quite liked this approach. I bounced down each […]
I often find myself searching for information on how other artists put together their live performances. Whether others are cautious about sharing their secrets, or they just don’t consider it interesting, I’m not sure, but information seems reasonably thin on the ground. I thought I’d document my experiences, hopefully someone will find it useful! When I […]
It works! I had made a couple of foolish errors, due to looking at the wrong pin schematic for the TEENSY (I have 3.2 not 2). But I now have a working, single pot controller. With this mastered I’m hoping that adding more pots should be straight forward. I’d also like to include an LED […]
I’ve just put together a very simple prototype for a USB MIDI controller. I’m using Teensy, which is a programmable circuit board, which lets you code small programs in C, and upload them to the board. Very much like Arduino, but smaller, and easier to setup MIDI on. I’ve just prototyped it on some breadboard. […]
When I began to prepare to play live, earlier this year, I was amazed how few decent USB MIDI footpedals were available. Especially ones small enough to fit in my gig bag. As an aside, after spending ages in previous bands, lugging and setting up gear, one of the tenets of Cutlasses was to have a live […]
So, 3 gigs down and I’m already blogging about it. My aim at the moment is to try and document my experience of creating some of my compositions, and the fun and frustration along the way. I’ll probably waffle a little bit about field recording, and discuss some of the tech I’m using, and hopefully provide […]