Something like a BOSS GT1000 Core works great on keyboards. I use it all the time. Especially the guitar multifx pedals with a stereo return (that's at line level) and freely assignable in the FX Chain are great for keyboard. Just put your line level keyboard outputs in the FX return of the pedal ...

Quite interesting listening to the interview and how "radical" Chris and Cosey thought the music was, because I can remember when I heard it, I thought it fitted exactly into all the other not quite pop electronic artists of the time like Vice Versa and Fad Gadget. It's also probably the best ...

Maybe try arm bands or rubber rings and float them in the basement? Hard to press the buttons if they are floating though. 😊 I could fit them with outriggers to give them more stability. (I think a picture of me actually doing this and playing them in the water could potentially be SOS picture of th ...

Kwackman wrote: ↑Sun Feb 08, 2026 11:36 am

Arpangel wrote: ↑Sun Feb 08, 2026 9:36 amand the colours of the plug-in's are nice

It's a shock that this is never mentioned in reviews....

It is, and to people like me it could be a deal breaker.

BillB wrote: ↑Sun Feb 08, 2026 10:54 am In that case, you could pick up an old Alesis SR16 for £50 somewhere and process the heck out of it.

Yeah, I thought about getting any old drum machine, in fact, that could be an idea, putting it through the modular would give me lots of options.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DerYDbsvbOA Some very interesting things being said in this interview, especially about not lending their gear, they wanted Leer and Rental to stay themselves, they were scared that if they lent them their equipment they might start to sound like Throbbing Gristle ...

“Also need lots of preprogrammed beats” I think the goalposts just moved… Still, if talking around it helps to get you where you want to be, that’s OK. Yes, I mean, I like to mangle preprogrammed beats, it’s quicker than making my own, plus, you won’t know what they are after I’ve mangled them, so w ...

Or how I unwittingly got pulled into a side alley and started using Boss GT pedals for no other reason than they were free. But then yesterday I woke up and thought, why have you got a whole desk with three huge pedals on it that you only use about one quarter of the facilities of each one, I’m not a ...

I don’t have Logic at all, can I download a previous version? I thought you already had a copy of Logic. Unfortunately you can't buy Logic or any other Apple app unless the Mac you are purchasing it from is capable of running the latest version. There are ways around this but they involve either a ...

https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/korg-drumlogue This is one of those situations that always comes up, but never gets sorted, I always get put off, by complicated machines, that will obviously require loads time to learn, I’m currently thinking modular, I already use my MicroGranny through my m ...

I used my 6 without the chorus many times, but only for noise based effects, it had a lovely rich noise generator. At the time I had been using my DX7 for years, I was just given a Juno 6 by a local studio owner who preferred his DX7, I imediatly liked the Juno, it gave me back my much missed ...

Looks like Behringer's recreation of the Juno-60 is arriving - the JN-80. Looks fine, and sounds accurate from what little I can tell over YT (those 'plastic twang' DCOs sound authentic), though I hope Behringer have properly understood the chorus this time around. Their pedal recreation of the ...

BillB wrote: ↑Sat Feb 07, 2026 9:43 amhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lHCIZyD8aEs

This is an interesting review of polyrhythms on the Impact, and looks at randomisation (per track) about half way through.

Not bad, getting there, just need something with built in patterns, didn’t think the actual sounds were that good, though.

I have no direct experience but Arturia Dumbrute / Drumbrute impact have pattern randomisation options, and it seems they can have different amounts of randomisation on each voice e.g. more on hats, less on kick. Worth looking into. Yes, seems a simple thing, but not that easy, I have one in ...

See he has the Marconi AXBT, he refurbished two of them for me, can’t praise him enough.

I’m trying to respond to my other musical half, he said can we do some random beats? Not as easy as it sounds, with what I’ve got. I’ve got some stuff in Reaktor but most of the elements are too "pitched" I need something with more basic drum type sounds. I need to randomise the actual beat, timing, ...

Albatross wrote: ↑Fri Feb 06, 2026 12:50 pm Another thing that makes vinyl magical is that no two records are ever the same, they all have their own different pops and crackles. My copy of (looking around) Some Girls, is unique.

There would have been minute variations in the cut too, so more uniqueness.

Oh, the recordings we could make with the gear we leave behind. I’ve been testing mikes on my piano - not by any means ideal but I’ve already decided to use my DAV pres into the Zoom recorders. And bought a BG2 to add to the BG1 I started with. At this rate I’ll lose all the benefits of using zoom r ...

I had a Dansette for awhile, there’s something about those old machines that just makes things sound "right" somehow you don’t notice you don’t have any bass, or real top end, it doesn’t seem to make any difference, when I got a Philco valve stereogram with two 8 inch speakers in it I thought I’d di ...

YMMV I've been 100% in the box for some years now. I find it far more convenient, and can get much closer to what I want. I am heading that way, except for my keyboard is a Yamaha MOXF, which works as a controller and synth, and being a sort of virtual VSTi, all the settings are preserved when I ...

If there's a demand for the older sound, true analogue, then maybe they might like my voice, it's old, and it's analogue, mind you, so is a Dansette I loved my Dansette. Not withstanding the fact that it was all I could afford back in 70s I got so used to the sound that when I finally had the ...

I have an urge "just for a change" to get a new Mac, only because my other two Mac's can’t run Logic, I can’t update the OS on them as the software running on them won’t run on later versions required for Logic, so it’s a bit of a awkward situation. If you've already paid for Logic X or later then y ...

I've only ever owned Macs. I bought my first one in the early 90s when they were still unfashionable oddities in the computing world, but as has been mentioned earlier in this thread back then there was no serious alternative to Quark XPress for page layout and that was a Mac-only program. I bought ...

Went down to the studio last night, had a mess around, a piece came out, I wasn’t thinking in the box or out the box, I was just enjoying myself, a little voice inside my head was saying "what are you doing? why are you becoming so concerned with how things are plugged in you’re making music what’s t ...

Soundwise, I would be very much interested if you would be able to tell the difference in a blind test. Your analog set-up vs. direct into the box with plug-ins to recreate the set-up. I don't think there will be much in it. I’d be interested in whether I could hear a difference! But, all I know, ...