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Tokyo end of year traffic’s like Level 5 on a vertical scrolling shoot-em-up; so much crap flying around that your brain overloads.
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Having started to get into Logic in a big way, I’m almost glad to have a vacation to pursue that before the other bits of the modular arrive
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The Korg nanokey is terrific. Iffy keytouch, but after a bit you adjust. Kneetop twiddling no longer ltd to grid+trackpad = Good Thing.
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Jazz soloing as, effectively, random noise: I saw a quartet comprising Jack Bruce, Vernon Reid, John Medeski and Cindy Brown play at the Blue Note in Tokyo last night. Main thought, among many others, was that the output of Reid’s lightning digits shares a few similarities with the kind of sound that a Chimera bc8 synthesizer will produce if prodded. Random noise, in other words. A lifetime of study or a 50-quid synthesizer and some experimentation? You decide.
Jazz soloing as, effectively, random noise: I saw a quartet comprising Jack Bruce, Vernon Reid, John Medeski and Cindy Brown play at the Blue Note in Tokyo last night. Main thought, among many others, was that the output of Reid’s lightning digits shares a few similarities with the kind of sound that a Chimera bc8 synthesizer will produce if prodded. Random noise, in other words. A lifetime of study or a 50-quid synthesizer and some experimentation? You decide.

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Two hours of music at the Blue Note, in which Vernon Reid broke the world record for notes played per second. Not necessarily a good thing.
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Who knew that kinmedai (fish, tonight’s menu) in English was “alfonsino”? Sounds like a Brooklyn kid destined for the Mafia.
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Every few weeks my iPod screws with me by playing two different versions of the same track back-to-back. Wish it would desist.
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My cat’s purr at its most excitable goes into what in a filter you’d call self-oscillation. The Q control is under his chin, I think.
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Top of the UK’s Google Zeitgeist: “Facebook”. Folks, does typing it into your address bar with “.com” on the end just not occur?
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This 303-mod x0xb0x arrived the other day. I notice that the product site is now back up after, apparently, some discussions with Roland. There’s a notable difference between the Bassline now pictured on the site and the one above, which should be immediately obvious. Would be nice if Roland would give a thought to producing analogue stuff again instead of punishing homages like this. Ironically, I didn’t notice at first that a power supply was included and tried it with a standard Roland PSA-100, with which it would barely utter a squeak…

This 303-mod x0xb0x arrived the other day. I notice that the product site is now back up after, apparently, some discussions with Roland. There’s a notable difference between the Bassline now pictured on the site and the one above, which should be immediately obvious.

Would be nice if Roland would give a thought to producing analogue stuff again instead of punishing homages like this.

Ironically, I didn’t notice at first that a power supply was included and tried it with a standard Roland PSA-100, with which it would barely utter a squeak…


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