I'm super excited to share that I did the sound design for a brand new game called Knoblins! It's a unique game where you hatch musical creatures and create your own tunes. It's user-friendly and perfect for anyone, whether you're a music pro or just love fun and creative games. The game has a lot of cool features like different stages, customizable knobs for each creature, and even an autoplay mode for endless music. Check it out and support our work. Your feedback is honestly, the biggest benefit for us.
Something a little different, part of my retro music tech collection. This is the Yamaha QY10 and it's honestly a beast. It's a full featured MIDI workstation that runs on AA cells and just about fits in your pocket. For an idea of its power, this introductory video is an hour long and doesn't give you time to follow along:
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I used mine for a while as the centre of my dawless setup, controlling a Commodore 64 (via MSSIAH), a Yamaha DX 7, and a Korg Wavestation. Now I mostly carry it as a music sketchpad.
It came from Japan and still had a truly awful piece of music on it from the original owner that I will never delete.
An earlier iteration of my studio, circa early 2021 if the file date is to be believed. Basically the first iteration of my DAWless setup. If I recall correctly, this is essentially the setup I used to record my Oneirogen Codex album. Pretty sure this was the photo I took to commemorate this edition of the studio, and the album recorded with it, right before I rebuilt it.
Novation Circuit and Arturia Beatstep Pro (both since sold) handled sequencing and synching the whole thing. Korg Monologue monosynth (now sold); Arturia MicroFreak and MiniBrute 2s are both still in the collection, as is the Korg Volca Drum propped up in the middle there. Various modular stuff and a Koma Field Kit FX (all still part of the studio, minus maybe a few modules). You can just make out a vintage Akai tape deck on the right there; I used that to master that album. Still have it and use it all the time.
my amazing housemates took note of my recent korg emx-1 hyperfixation, and they dug up one of these grooveboxes from like 2003 and actually fucking got hold of it... I suppose now's a good time to find out how tumblr's audio uploads fare :3c
Small sound station.
Roland SC-88, E-mu Proteus 1 and Korg NTS-1 all sequenced by a Pioneer TORAIZ squid. Housed in a Native Instruments case, mixed with a Yamaha Audiogram 6. Looking forward to using the MIDI side of the Squid more for CC sequencing. It’s taking q fair bit of setup, but I’m not rushing it and when it’s done it’ll be a cute “little” groovebox I can slide on up to and blip out some blops.
Upcoming from Twisted Electrons, Blast Beats! FM Synthesis made easy. Tons of motion control and outputs. Slots for over 100 compositions. Serious GAS AF.