Coding is coding, er, it's limited to coding, it's the same activity all the time no mater what you're designing Something like an Oramics machine is a mixture of all different types of skills and engineering, metalwork, woodwork, electrical engineering and electronics, and artistic skills. And if ...

No one is forcing you to do or be a part of anything you do not want to in terms of the tech in music or listening habits. That's not quite true. There is a form of coercion involved in that one must submit, willingly or not, to the march of progress, such as it is. It is manifestly impossible to ...

Exactly! And not only that but not obsessing about using the best gear the right way and just get the thing recorded. Took me a few years to get to the point where the performance is the thing, not a perfect recording of it. A bit of noise, an el cheapo mic, an imperfect room? I don’t care. I’ll do ...

Wasn’t that on the Fairlight too? Then there’s this which is not quite the same as drawing waveforms but is music created by drawing. https://www.binaura.net/apps/soundbow/#:~:text=SoundBow%20is%20a%20drawing%20based,string%2C%20a%20sound%20is%20produced. A visual method to make sound may have been ...

Hugh Robjohns wrote: ↑Sun Feb 01, 2026 5:02 pm Lovely....

Everything's lovely.

Once music used to be a special experience we looked forward to, now it's everywhere, absolutely everywhere, and you can have it, anywhere. I couldn't give a damn, there's nothing we can do about the technology, and I'm not interested in what others want to listen to and how they want to listen to ...

Sorry - pre-morning coffee meanderings. I was trying to say that some people have the gift of being able to go beyond the boom boom etc with any tools - traditional or not. Yes, but you can do that with anything, and they are! I just don't understand it, if I all of a sudden wanted to produce EDM ...

I’ve seen a few items about her and apart from using oscillators plus tape manipulation I can’t think of anything that’s unique to her that’s not being done now. Oramics was unique to her, and no one else did it or is doing it now. Her machine was in the science museum, I think it's still there now.

Tony, your post made me wonder what is the most I ever paid for a piece of hardware, given that most of my stuff is second-hand. I think the prize goes to the Novation Summit - the S/H value of £1350 was secured with a PX of a Peak, SH-201 and a System-8. Summit is a ‘dream big synth’, capable of pr ...

Last night I was about a millionth of a hairs breadth away from ordering g a Prophet 5 from Andertons, the reason? I was playing around with my Arturia Pro 5, playing some of my own sounds, I haven't used it for quite some time, and the sounds are very beautiful, in that basic "organy" "reedy" type ...

ManFromGlass wrote: ↑Fri Jan 30, 2026 11:01 pm Being able to say something different with that difference is a rare skillset.
Being able to say something different with a non-different is as well.

I think the trouble here is that we have words looking for a meaning.

Daphne Oram occupies part of that 0.5%, her work going back to the 1940s. No, we’ve done that with sampler technology, that’s just the modern version of cutting and splicing tape and speeding up and slowing down ‘found sounds’. Daphne Oram's work goes way beyond standard Musique Concrete techniques, ...

Hugh Robjohns wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 12:50 pm Jeez... what a world we've made for ourselves.

Sorry,

You can find out more about Driftworks at https://driftworks.uk/ I don't know about a specific connection, but the Woodbridge Ambient Music Festival does acknowledge that Brian and his brother grew up there. https://woodbridgeambientmusicfestival.com/ And yes, ambient CAN be disturbing - Dark ...

Maybe we've explored 99.5% of the ways to generate and torture sound... Daphne Oram occupies part of that 0.5%, her work going back to the 1940s. Very true. we have reached a situation where we are becoming way to obsessed with the minutia of sound, it's not important, if I want to convey say, the ...

When I was a teenager a friend had all sorts of pedals, I went round there one day, I used his Wah-Wah pedal as a tone control, leaving it in a fixed position, he said "you can't do that!" and snatched it away, I then picked up a treble recorder played it into a mic which I put through his MXR ...

I offer the 1U brush panel! Place it immediately below the patch panel, and shove any drooping cable loops into the brushes to keep them out of the way, but instantly accessible. Handy for bringing cables through from the back to connections on the fronts of gear, too. Thanks, never seen these but ...

With all my sample libraries and soft synths, I have access to about 50,000 sounds. I don't think that's at all abnormal these days. But it's not just about the sounds we have. Trying something new can be very creative and help people generate ideas they wouldn't previously have had. On the other ...

OK, this Magnolia, I like the look of it, a lot, the sound is nice and gnarly if required, that's good, but, I'm thinking, is it worth it? a Prophet 5 could cover what I've heard so far for me anyway, if I was going to have to spend this type off money I'd go for a Pro 10, and a decent pedal, but ...

I haven't owned a DX7 for some years, but had my previous one for about fifteen years, made loads of sounds. I bought one about three years ago as I thought it would be good to ave one again, I just didn't connect with it, I transferred all my sounds into FM8 which does the job. What I miss form the ...

I installed the MK11 expansion chip in mine, gave me more Midi options, plus Function editing per voice, not global.

Yes, also, its so easy now, and many electronic sounds are very familiar, to the general public, they aren't mysterious or special anymore they are generic electronic. No one cares if its analogue digital FM computer or what not, you can get them anywhere. The days of the first Moogs people were ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxnEjur ... rt_radio=1

Sorry chaps, but how much more stuff do we need?
Every time I log in to YouTube there are yet more emperors new clothes, sounding exactly the same as the 80's and the 90's.

In other words, how to completely destroy the Buchla paradigm in one fowl swoop. Don took pride in releasing his stuff from the bonds of rigid musical structures, so where are we now? Boom Boom Boom Boom 1 2 3 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8SoKRmkYzg People seem to be just trying way too hard ...

Thanks for that link Tony, which is very timely, as I subscribed to Driftworks just a couple of days ago, and yesterday as a result received a complementary ambient album from Andrew Heath, which was VERY listenable. I've since found that Andrew has contributed to many albums released by the ...